Based on the novel by best-selling author Terry McMillan DISAPPEARING ACTS takes a close look at what it takes to make love real. After the laughter and the love-making how hard must two people work and how much must they sacrifice to still be there the morning after. Construction worker Franklin Swift meets Zora Banks when she moves into her renovated brownstone. She's an aspiring singer/songwriter who teaches at a public school. He works construction while dreaming of having his own business. But not by himself. Franklin wants Zora by his side. It takes strength to build a life. It takes strength to keep love alive. Sometimes you can't do both. Franklin faces challenges at work and Zora faces the challenge of her chosen career and choosing Franklin. Together they will soon discover that it's easy to build a love affair and hard to make it last.
]]>Amazon.comHe's a semi-employed construction worker and she's a music teacher with ambitions for a singing career. But when they meet at her Brooklyn brownstone their socio-economic differences melt away--or do they? This is the question that drives this 112-minute HBO movie based on Terry McMillan's best-selling novel. Zora wears fabulous clothes?? decorates her hardwood-floored apartment with unusual furniture?? and dines with her girlfriends at chichi restaurants?? while Franklin can't even make regular child-support payments to his estranged wife. She's college educated; he doesn't have his GED. Sanaa Lathan (Love and Basketball) give