Anyone watch this movie in school.

[Indigo]

It involved kids on a planet where it rained most of the time and one day the sun came out and some of the kids were trapped inside by mean kids and missed the sun.
Anyone know what this is?

[Bohemian]

That sounds vaguely familiar but it sounds like something I read.

[Bohemian]

This is what I read that reminded me of it, it's by Ray Bradbury and called All Summer in A Day. It looks like it was made into a PSB show for kids in 1982, maybe this is it and they changed it a bit from the book?

eta: forgot link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Summer_in_a_Day


That has to be it! :) I looked up the PSB show and it's about kids locking a girl in the closet on the only day of the year when the sun comes out for 15 minutes. In the book it's about elderly people doing this because they left the earth earlier and last saw the sun at age 2 and the little girls only been there a few years and still remembers the sun so they become jealous and lock her up on the day it comes out.

Link to the movie/show:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0195517/plotsummary

[SueDid]

I took a Science Fiction Literature class in high school and read the book.

We saw the movie "The Lottery" a couple of times. I don't remember the purpose of us watching it, it was pretty disturbing, though. A little town sacrificed one person per year, everyone in town had their name in the pot and they pulled a name and that person got stoned to death.

[MrsKitty]

The lottery had to do with having a scapegoat under the guise of hanging onto tradition. There are several parts in the story where it makes note of things like how this or that part of the tradition got lost, but that is not the important part, the important part is that you have to kill that member of society to ensure harvest or whatever it was. If they didn't kill this villager then they said all mayhem would break out, but as long as you kept up the lottery all the bad things were okay, because it could be put upon that person who won the lottery.

[jessiehannan]

I read the book, and if i remember correctly, they had to worry about floating away. (But this may have been from a totally different book)

[Indigo]

I don't recall the lotery death aspect at all, it was a school of kids and it had been raining for years, their whole lifetime and then many years and this 15 minutes of sunshine would be it for many years.

[Bohemian]

Was the PBS link the right movie then? It mentions the 15 minutes of sunshine. I think it must be it!

[SueDid]

Indigo, sorry, the lottery and the other one are two completely different stories.

I'm pretty sure in the book about the rainy planet it was kids that lock the child in the closet. That one really stuck with me because when I was in first grade I got closed in a closet by accident. It was a big closet with double doors and some of the hooks were wiggly and someone's coat fell down. The teacher had asked me to hang it on a different hook and I ended up going to the closed side to find one. They had restrooms out in the hallway and brought the whole class out a few times a day. She took the class out to the restrooms and on the way out someone shut the door not realizing I was still in there. I was stuck in that closet, crying and pounding on the thick wooden door the whole time it took all the kids to use the bathroom.

[Sameach]

The lottery had to do with having a scapegoat under the guise of hanging onto tradition. There are several parts in the story where it makes note of things like how this or that part of the tradition got lost, but that is not the important part, the important part is that you have to kill that member of society to ensure harvest or whatever it was. If they didn't kill this villager then they said all mayhem would break out, but as long as you kept up the lottery all the bad things were okay, because it could be put upon that person who won the lottery.


I taught The Lottery and I remember it always left my students speechless.

That was a powerful story.

[MrsKitty]

We did the lottery in eighth grade English and Advanced Eng Lit. and I was never disturbed by it.

[nicurn]

I have always found The Lottery disturbing. DH teaches it to his high school honors kids along with a lot of other "thought provoking" literature.

I've never heard of the rain/sun story. What is the outcome? Is there some sort of moral, or is everyone just sad at the end?