My Own Country (TV Movie 1. Good depiction of the interaction diverse cultural groups I enjoyed seeing the portrayal of Southern rural culture, Indian_Americans, different social classes, gay vs straight, doctor vs patient, husband vs wife all together dealing with terminal illness (AIDS). Since I'm familiar with all of these I can vouch for their accuracy. One drawback was a bit too much softness and sentimentality especially by the primary character, the doctor.
A more hard- nosed approach, as shown by the ER TV show doctors, would have been more interesting.
my Own Country
1998 · 1hr 35min · Drama
· Kent police are looking for a gunman who allegedly walked onto a man’s driveway and shot him, saying “Go back to your own country.” The victim, a 39-year-old. Abraham Verghese, My Own Country: A Doctor’s Story of a Town and Its People in the Age of AIDS. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1994. 347 pp. Clothbound, $23.00. My Own Country. Nestled in the Smoky Mountains of eastern Tennessee, the town of Johnson City had always seemed exempt from the anxieties of modern American life. Part 1: Creating Your Country. Introduction. For this Project you are going to create your own country. You get to create a place from scratch, out of your own.
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