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Twenty years ago, "Erich" Hofmann volunteered to take his older brother's name after the other Erich committed suicide. "When Willy and Lorna Hofmann's seventeen-year-old son, Erich, commits suicide in 1969, his younger brother asks to be called by the dead boy's name. Already deeply affected by more than two years of separation and darkly comical disarray, his mother, father, and older sister accept the offer, setting in motion an unspoken conspiracy...

Follows the course of Theo Decker's life after his mother is killed in a bombing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, all the while holding on to a tangible reminder of the day that he took from the rubble.

A brilliant, moving portrayal of an aristocratic American family in what many critics consider a masterpiece equal to Citizen Kane. Based on a novel by Booth Tarkington, the drama begins in the 1870s when the Amberson family is at the height of its wealth and prestige. But the day arrives when all the Ambersons are stunned by the truth of their financial ruin. "Orson Welles's beautiful, nostalgia-suffused second feature--the subject of one of cinema's...