ROUGHING IT

Movie Description:
Even success hasn`t made SamuelClemens a happy man. Instead ofdevoting his talent to "serious matters" he`s wasted them onyarns-as Mark Twain, a merehumorist. Now, asked to speak to Bryn Mawr`s graduating classof 1891, he`s filled with dread. His wife Livy has faith in him-as a loving husband, adevoted father, and an extraordinary writer. He needn`t have worried. In front of anenraptured crowd, the masterfulstoryteller unfolds the tale ofa politegreeenhorn from the East initiated into the rough-and-tumble society of the raw Westernfrontier.