Hamish Linklater
Language
English
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Description
"In 1946, Branch Rickey, ... owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, took a stand against Major League Baseball's infamous color line when he signed Jackie Robinson ... to the team. The deal put both men in the crosshairs of the public, the press and even other players. Facing unabashed racism from every side, Robinson was forced to demonstrate tremendous courage and let his talent on the field win over fans and his teammates"--Container.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A modern take on the Watergate scandal through the long-neglected lens of the lesser-known but no-less-key players involved in the downfall of America's 37th president -- from Nixon's bumbling, opportunistic subordinates, to the deranged zealots aiding and abetting their crimes, to the tragic whistleblowers who would eventually bring the whole rotten enterprise crashing to the ground. Former Attorney General John Mitchell and celebrity socialite...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Set in the 1920s, Stanley, an Englishman posing as an Asian magician, attempts to debunk fake spiritualists. He then travels to the south of France to unmask a supposed medium named Sophie as a good-looking fake, but he ends up falling for her real-world charms instead.
4) Fantastic 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
When an experimental space voyage goes awry, four people are changed by cosmic rays. Reed Richards is the inventor and leader of the group. He gains the ability to stretch his body. His girlfriend, Sue Storm, gains the ability to turn invisible and create force fields. Her younger brother Johnny Storm gains the ability to control fire, including covering his own body with flame. Pilot Ben Grimm is turned into a super-strong rock creature and is the...
5) Ithaca
Publisher
Momentum Pictures
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Homer Macauley is determined to be the best and fastest bicycle telegraph messenger anyone has ever seen. His older brother has gone to war, leaving Homer to look after his widowed mother, his older sister and his four-year-old brother, Ulysses. And so it is that as spring turns to summer, 1942, Homer Macauley delivers messages of love, hope, pain, and death, to the good people of Ithaca. And Homer Macauley will grapple with one...
Publisher
Vision Films
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Sparks fly when a self-sufficient single mom meets a magnetic perennial bachelor. On their first date, they collaborate--in jest--on the ultimate un-bucket list: ten things to do together before they break up. But when fate intervenes, this pair of cynics must embark on the most challenging journey of all, building a family together, and the chance to trade their cynicism for hope.
Publisher
Starz Digital/Anchor Bay
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Rattling around in his mansion in the Hamptons, faded Sinatra-esque crooner and notorious ladies man Paul Lombard stews over the acclaim that eluded him in his career and the trail of romantic wreckage he left in his wake. Matters are complicated when his punk rocker daughter Jude arrives in need of a place to stay and burdened with problems of her own, including a rivalry with her overachieving sister, her own ruinous love life, and, above all, a...
9) Lola versus
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"When 29-year-old Lola (Gerwig) is dumped by her fiancé Luke (Joel Kinnaman) just three weeks before the wedding, she embarks on an emotional, year-long adventure of self-discovery filled with love, loss, hilarity and heartache. Guided (and often misguided) by the well-meaning advice of her close friends and eccentric parents, Lola's chaotic journey en route to the big 3-0 proves that a single tumultuous year can yield the lessons of a lifetime"--Container....
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Single working mom Christine Campbell has just learned that her ex is dating a much younger woman with the same first name. To avoid any confusion, the new girlfriend is dubbed New Christine, which leaves her with the unfortunate nickname Old Christine. Christine struggles to hold it together as she adjusts to her new nickname, confronts the meanie moms at her son's private school, jumps back in the dating pool-- and gets laughs every misstep of the...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Emmy winner Julia Louis-Dreyfus stars as divorced working mother Christine Campbell, who attempts to juggle the daily stresses of motherhood and business -- which doesn't mean she isn't prone to taking NyQuil to get to sleep or leaving voice-mail messages to herself in the middle of the night. In the fifth season of this hilarious ensemble comedy, Christine goes to the Bahamas to sort out her best friend Barb's immigration issues, but finds that Barb's...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
The fourth season of this hilarious comedy finds Christine still enduring encounters with the 'meanie' moms at her son's posh private school and dealing as her charming ex-husband, Richard, asks for her ring back in order to propose to his girlfriend, also named Christine, the 'new' Christine. This, by default, makes Christine 'old' and still single. But could there be romance in the air?
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Single working mom Christine Campbell is getting along better with New Christine. Christine struggles to hold it together with various romances, her brother plans for a new focus in life, the meanies at school continue to harass Christine, and she gets a crush on her son's fourth grade teacher.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Based on Slate's "Slow Burn" podcast, Gaslit is a modern take on the Watergate scandal through the long-neglected lens of the lesser-known but no-less-key players involved in the downfall of America's 37th president from Nixon's bumbling, opportunistic subordinates, to the deranged zealots aiding and abetting their crimes, to the tragic whistleblowers who would eventually bring the whole rotten enterprise crashing to the ground.
Author
Publisher
Hear Music
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Formats
Description
An all-star cast recording of the musical Ghost brothers of Darkland County, from co-conspirators Stephen King, John Mellencamp, and T. Bone Burnett. Set in Lake Belle Reve, Mississippi, the story centers on two sets of brothers: the ghosts of Jack and Andy, dead in an apparent murder/suicide, and their nephews, the living Frank and Drake, who seem to be headed toward the same downward spiral as their uncles. CD includes all songs from the musical...