Thornton Wilder contemplates ordinary life events (birth, family life, marriage, and death), mostly through one character, a young woman, Emily Webb, who leads an unexamined life until she encounters death.
Adaptations (2)
Our Town has been adapted into 2 television films, from 1961 to 2002. The most recent is The Big Time (2002).
The Big Time2002 · television film · 100 min · dir. Paris Barclay · IMDb ↗IMDb6.071%In 1948 Manhattan, a diverse group of people are committed to making the fledgling Empire Network a success. Among them: a naive young woman who's hired as a script girl; an idealistic programmer; and an aspiring director who hopes to make Empire "the network that takes risks and makes new stars." Then there's Empire's president, an eccentric scientist whose bride raises eyebrows at the network.
