Promised Land (1987)

110 min · Coming Of Age, Marital Tragedy, drama film

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2025-09 to 2026-08

Directors

Michael Hoffman

Cast

Meg Ryan, Kiefer Sutherland, Jason Gedrick, Tracy Pollan, Googy Gress, Deborah Richter

The story

The film opens by following two American high school acquaintances, a few years after graduation. They are now suffering from deep anger and anguish, because they are less successful than they hoped to be. David Hancock is the high school basketball star who gets a college athletic scholarship only to lose it to a better player.

Catalogue themes and tags

Baseball, Career, Death of a friend, Drugs, Gewalt, Happy Childhood, Hold-Up Robbery, Homecoming, Jugendfreund, Lebenskrise, Life's Dream, Loser, Mittelstand, Polizeibeamter, Prom Night, Run Away, Sex Addiction

Genres

Coming Of Age, Marital Tragedy, drama film

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