Once and Again

Once and Again is an American television series that was produced from 1999 to 2002.

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Lily Manning, early 40s, lives as a single mother with her 14 -year-old insecure, anxious daughter Grace and the innocent 9- year-old daughter Zoe in Deerfield, Illinois. Since 8 months, she lives by her notoriously unfaithful husband Jake separated. Lily wanted to always feel safe and now has the impression that her family goes down the drain. Support it receives during this difficult time of her younger sister Judy Brooks, in their bookstore called My Sister's Bookstore she works. One day she met Rick Meet other collectors in the school management of Graces School Upton Sinclair High School office. Also Rick is a single father and co-owns an architectural firm collector / Cassilli Associates, which has its headquarters in Chicago. Rick had let himself three years before divorcing his wife Karen and now lives alone with their children son Eli, a 16 -year-old basketball player at Sinclair High who suffers from a learning disability and the sensitive 12 - year-old daughter Jessie, the time the longs before the separation of their parents.

After the first encounter both Rick and Lily have great interest in each other and begin to meet. Your incipient love affairs caused problems in their family. Jake, Lily's estranged husband, who continues to maintain a good relationship with Lily's parents Phil and Barbara, is have their Restaurant Phil 's, when she went to him in retirement and moved to Florida to leave in the middle of the conversion work and the re-opening. The intimate relationship that Lily's parents to Jake, keeps them from Lily's new relationship with Rick to accept. Also known as Jake puts them in a financial emergency, they can not be dissuaded from their enthusiasm for him.

Also, Grace refuses to accept Lily and Rick's relationship because she still hopes that her parents get back together. Judy supported her sister, but only for the reason that no one else seems to do. Rick's ex-wife Karen, a lawyer of the law firm of Harris, Riegert and collectors, fears the impact that can have Rick's relationship to the children, especially the shy and emotionally fragile Jessie. She also has to deal with her jealousy of Rick's relationship.

Once and Again shows the miraculous, but also the difficulties inherent in a second great love with it, and the motion in a family that is triggered by divorce with the following remarriage. Furthermore, the series focuses on parent-child relationships and self-discovery, and the search for love and personal satisfaction and fulfillment. A particular style in this context are the short reoccurring black / white sequences ( "Interviews " ) in which individual characters tell of themselves and their thoughts and feelings. This was also used in the final episode as the characters themselves thanked the audience for their support.

Awards

  • 2000: Q Award for Sela Ward in the category Best Actress in a Quality Drama Series
  • Prism Award in the category TV Prime Time Drama Series Episode for episode Outside Hearts
  • People's Choice Award for Bill Campbell in the category Favorite Male Performer in a New Television Series
  • Emmy for Sela Ward in the category Emmy Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series
  • 2001: Young Artist Award for Evan Rachel Wood, Julia Whelan and Meredith Deane in the category Best Ensemble in a TV Series ( Drama or Comedy )
  • Humanitas Prize for Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick in the category Category 60 minutes for follow- Food for Thought
  • Golden Globe for Sela Ward in the category of Best Performance by an Actress in a TV -Series - Drama
  • Primetime Drama Teleplay Competition Award
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