Earl Poole Ball

A look at the grim woes that surrounded famed director Peter Bogdanovich and his 1981 romantic comedy, They All Laughed.

Jesse Hallam, an illiterate coal miner from Kentucky, moves to Cincinnati so that his daughter may receive spinal surgery. Determined to support his family in the city, he decides he must learn how to read and write as an adult, and resolves to graduate from high school.