Joey Lauren Adams
1) The break-up
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Brooke calls it quits with her boyfriend Gary. Neither one is willing to move out of the condo they once shared. Taking the advice of their repsective friends and confidants, including a few complete strangers, they both engage in mental warfare designed to force the other person to flee the premises. But they might just realize that they might be fighting to keep their relationship alive.
2) Big daddy
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Thirty-two-year-old Sonny Koufax has spent his whole life avoiding responsibility. But when his girlfriend dumps him for an older man, he's got to find a way to prove he's ready to grow up. In a desperate last-ditch effort, Sonny adopts five-year-old Julian to impress her. She's not impressed and he can't return the kid.
Series
Criterion collection volume 336
Language
English
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Description
This critically acclaimed cult favorite, written and directed by Richard Linklater, explores the last day of school, and one wild night, in the lives of high school students in 1976.
4) Blue caprice
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Inspired by true events, investigates the notorious and horrific Beltway sniper attacks from the point of view of the two perpetrators, whose distorted father-son relationship facilitated their long and bloody journey across America. Recently abandoned by his mother, teenager Lee Malvo finds an unlikely father figure in John Allen Muhammad, who takes the boy in and shows him the moral decay of the society that declared him unfit to be a husband and...
6) Chasing Amy
Series
Criterion collection volume 75
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
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Description
"Cult comic-book artist Holden falls in love with fellow artist Alyssa, only to be thwarted by her sexuality, the disdain of his best friend Banky, and his own misgivings about himself in the third installment in the 'New Jersey Trilogy' from Kevin Smith"--Container.
7) Trucker
Publisher
Monterey Video
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A long-haul trucker living a carefree life is forced to take care of the son she hasn't seen since he was a baby when his father is in the hospital. Now the child and mother must learn to live together and leave their strained past behind.
Publisher
Distributed by Genius Products
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Lucy is a 30-something Southern woman who lives in a small town. She keeps waking up with a hangover and a stranger in her bed. The more she searches for love, the further she gets from it. When Cal moves to town, Lucy is finally able to break free of her old ways and find the love that she has been looking for.
9) Bio-dome
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Bud and Doyle, two goofball slackers, get more than they bargained for when they are unwittingly sealed for a year inside the "Bio-Dome," an environmentally controlled scientific community.
10) ExTerminators
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Alex finds herself in a court ordered rage-therapy group after a bad breakup with her boyfriend. There she meets Stella, the owner of an extermination business who might be killing more than bugs, and Nikki, a dental technician with the face of an angel and the mind of a sociopath. Together these women form their own "silent revolution," wreaking havoc on the men of Texas with their own brand of girl justice--Container.
11) Animal
Publisher
Scream Factory
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
When plans for a weekend vacation hit a dead end, a group of close-knit friends find themselves stranded in unfamiliar territory, pursued by a menacing, blood thirsty predator. Held up in an isolated cabin, tensions mount as long-buried secrets are revealed. As the body count rises, the group must put their differences aside and fight for survival.
Series
Criterion collection volume 336
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Language
English
Description
The high school students in a small Texas town celebrate the end of the 1976 school year, and the incoming senior class initiates the incoming freshman students.
13) Endure
Publisher
NFocus Pictures
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Detective Emory Lloyd must do everything in his power to identify and locate a woman whose photograph was found in a fatal car wreck.
14) Making the rules
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Abby, a workaholic sous chef works 60 hours a week in a busy kitchen, but after accidentally cutting her hand, she is forced to leave work for the summer. As the hottest summer in L.A. history reaches its peak, she faces an extreme challenge: doing nothing. But with the summer heat intensifying, she confronts the growing emotional gulf between herself and her husband, unsolicited advice from her prying girlfriend, and the temptation of an old flame....
15) Big daddy
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
"Thirty-two-year-old Sonny Koufax has spent his whole life avoiding responsibility. But when his girlfriend dumps him for an older man, he's got to find a way to prove he's ready to grow up. In a desperate last-ditch effort, Sonny adopts five-year-old Julian to impress her. She's not impressed and he can't return the kid"--Container.
16) In the shadows
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
A hitman is preparing to kill a Hollywood director, but finds himself drawn to stunt work and his target's daughter.
17) Bio-dome
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Bud and Doyle, two goofball slackers, get more than they bargained for when they are unwittingly sealed for a year inside the "Bio-Dome," an environmentally controlled scientific community.
18) Michael (DVD)
Publisher
Warner Archive
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
The story of a different kind of angel who has a zest for life, alcohol, women, and playing cupid.
19) Chasing Amy
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Cult comic book artist Holden falls in love with fellow artist Alyssa, only to be thwarted by her sexuality, the disdain of his best friend Banky and his own Misgivings about himself. Offers a thoughtful, funny look at how perceptions alter lives and how obsession and self-doubt skew reality.
20) She loves me not
Publisher
Monarch Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Brady is a reclusive novelist whose constant drinking undermines his plans to save his fading literary career and his over priced mansion. His story unfolds in three parts as beautiful, strong women (each with her own agenda) turn his lonely life into something far stranger than fiction.