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Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins CBE (born December 31, 1937) is a Welsh and American actor, film director, and film producer. He is the recipient of numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, four British Academy Film Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards and a British Academy Television Award. He has also received an honorary Golden Globe Award and the BAFTA Fellowship from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. In 1993, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his services to the arts, and in 2003, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his achievements in the motion picture industry. After graduating from the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama in 1957, Hopkins trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, and was then spotted by Laurence Olivier who invited him to join the Royal National Theatre in 1965. Productions at the National included King Lear, his favourite Shakespeare play. His last stage play was a West End production of M. Butterfly in 1989. In 1968, Hopkins achieved recognition in film, playing Richard the Lionheart in The Lion in Winter. In the mid-1970s, Richard Attenborough, who directed five Hopkins films, called him "the greatest actor of his generation." In 1991, he portrayed Hannibal Lecter in the psychological horror film The Silence of the Lambs, winning the Academy Award for Best Actor. He reprised the role in its sequel Hannibal and the prequel Red Dragon. Other notable films include The Elephant Man (1980), 84 Charing Cross Road (1987), Howards End (1992), Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), Shadowlands (1993), Legends of the Fall (1994), Meet Joe Black (1998), The Mask of Zorro (1998), Thor (2011), Thor: The Dark World (2013), Transformers: The Last Knight (2017), and Thor: Ragnarok (2017). He received four more Academy Award nominations for The Remains of the Day (1993), Nixon (1995), Amistad (1997) and The Two Popes (2019) before winning a fourth BAFTA Award and a second Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of an elderly man diagnosed with dementia in The Father (2020), becoming the oldest Best Actor Oscar winner to date. Since making his television debut with the BBC in 1967, Hopkins has continued to appear on television. In 1973 he received a British Academy Television Award for Best Actor for his performance in War and Peace. In 2015, he starred in the BBC film The Dresser alongside Ian McKellen. In 2018, he starred in King Lear opposite Emma Thompson. In 2016 and 2018, he starred in the HBO television series Westworld, for which he received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination.
Sam is a star musician, whose long career is fading, he has two daughters, Hannah and Dolly. They go on vacation to visit Grandma at the ranch where Sam grew up. Aaron, Sam's brother is also a great singer with a great past in country music. Another relative is Uncle Beau, who took care of the boys, taught them to be a Rancher, a man, a gentleman and a singer. And Sam's childhood best friend Roy. Sylvia, Sam's mother, is very much looking forward to seeing him again and even more to her granddaughters. When Sam returns to the ranch, he finds that it is not what he imagined, but it is even better. He missed work on the ranch, the horses, the cattle, the smell of hay, and most of all, his family. The daughters are not enthusiastic from the farm, but gradually they get used to it. An important moment occurs when Rebecca arrives at the ranch. Sam had many adventures with Becky as a child, and friendship grew into Love, but that was a long time ago. Rebecca once left the small town and went out into the world, but after 2 divorces, traveling and having a son, she decided to return home. Sam and Becky are different now than they were before, but they still have their young selves inside, and in the end, the two find their way back together in a film full of family atmosphere, nostalgia and romance. They fall in love again, Becky getting along great with his daughters, he with her son. His family cheers for them and even her parents are finally happy that they are together again.
