Hallmark Hall of Fame

Season 44

1994 · 3 episodes · 6h 0m in all

Episodes

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   1. Return of the Native

   4 Dec 1994 · 120 min

   Adaptation of the classic novel by Thomas Hardy. Eustacia Vye is a willful, passionate enchantress whose desire to escape her lonely rustic life thrusts her into two doomed relationships.

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   2. The Piano Lesson

   5 Feb 1995 · 120 min

   Adaptation of the stage play by August Wilson. Set in 1936 Pittsburgh, the story centers on an ornately carved 80-year-old upright piano, a family heirloom co-owned by a proud widow and her forceful brother, Boy Willie. Boy Willie's determination to trade the piano for Mississippi farmland triggers an emotional battle.

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   3. Redwood Curtain

   23 Apr 1995 · 120 min

   Adaptation of Wilson's stage play. Geri Riordan is a teenage concert pianist of Vietnamese-American heritage who has been trained by her adoptive father. Sudden personal and professional tumult prompts Geri to visit her understanding aunt, who lives amid a California redwood forest that is also home to a troubled Vietnam veteran.