John Patrick Shanley
2) Defiance
Author
Publisher
Theatre Communications Group
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Defiance "is the very rich and satisfying "(The Village Voice)" second work in John Patrick Shanley s trilogy that began with "Doubt." The play is set in 1971 at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, where Lt. Col. Morgan Littlefield and his reluctant protégé Capt. Lee King a young African American officer clash over issues of race and authority within the Marine Corps, even as the civil rights movement and Vietnam War divide the world outside. In this...
Author
Publisher
Theatre Communications Group
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"In the work of John Patrick Shanley, the truth is as charming as it is painful, reality as touched with magic as it is factual, and existence as absolute as it is illusory."--BOMB magazineFor Anthony and Rosemary, introverted misfits straddling forty, love seems unlikely. In this very Irish story with a surprising depth of poetic passion, these yearning, eccentric souls fight their way towards solid ground and happiness. Their journey is heartbreaking,...
Author
Publisher
Theatre Communications Group
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Three new works by Pulitzer Prize—winning author John Patrick Shanley, one of our country's most politically current and theatrically elastic playwrights. In Dirty Story a couple of sadomasochistic writers fight over rights to their New York City loft, in this sexy satire of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that is “astonishing,” says Tony Kushner, “The analysis of the Middle East in this play is dead on, exactly perfectly pitched.” In his...
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Headstrong farmer Rosemary Muldoon has her heart set on winning her neighbor Anthony Reilly's love. The problem is, Anthony seems to have inherited a family curse, and remains oblivious to his beautiful admirer. Stung by his father's plans to sell the family farm to his American nephew, Anthony is jolted into pursuing his dreams.
8) Moonstruck
Language
English
Description
A superstitious Brooklyn widow is ready to get married again. Only this time, she plans on doing it right - even if she has to say "yes" to a man she doesn't really love. When she unexpectedly falls in love with her fiancé's estranged brother Ronny, what happens next is a wonderful romantic complication.
9) Doubt
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
1964, St. Nicholas in the Bronx. Father Flynn is a charismatic priest who is trying to upend the schools' strict customs, which have long been fiercely guarded by Sister Aloysius Beauvier. The Sister is the iron-gloved principal who believes in the power of fear and discipline. With the winds of political change, the school has just accepted its first black student, Donald Miller. But when Sister James shares with Sister Aloysius her suspicion that...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Follows the follies of a stressed-out guy in a dead-end job who is told he has a terminal "brain cloud." A zany jillionaire then makes him an offer that gives him a fleeting taste of the good life. In exchange, he must journey to a Pacific Island and leap into a volcano. Is Joe doomed to be the last of the red-hot lovers? Not if the forces of imagination, romantic comedy, and the charm of Ryan in 3 roles as the women in Joe's life have their way.
11) Alive
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Description
A team of rugby players survive a plane crash deep in the desolate, snow-covered Andes Mountains. Stranded there, they must overcome incredible odds to stay alive.
12) Congo
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
An expedition to return a gorilla to Africa and find the Lost City of Zinj and its diamond mines encounters a variety of dangers.
13) Five corners
Language
English
Description
Heinz has just returned to the neighborhood after serving time for attacking Linda, who was saved by young idealist Harry. As the world around them erupts in turmoil, the neighborhood of Five Corners has a battle of its own to face when these three personalities clash, and nothing will ever be the same again.
14) The rose tattoo
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook volume 1172
Publisher
New Directions Pub. Corp
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The tale of four huge but huggable dinos who visit New York City to make millions of children's dreams come true. With his IQ-boosting 'Brain Grain' cereal, the time-traveling Captain New Eyes transforms Rex, Elsa, Dweeb, and Woog into thinking, feeling, talking creatures. Produced by Steven Spielberg.
16) Congo
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
An expedition to return a gorilla to Africa and find the Lost City of Zinj and its diamond mines encounters a variety of dangers.
18) Moonstruck
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
An "unlucky in love" Italian-American widow just weeks away from her wedding falls for her fiance's younger brother.
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
In 1990, CNN was a 24-hour news network in search of a 24-hour story. They were about to find it in Baghdad. Up against the three big networks, Wiener, a veteran producer, along with his longtime producing partner and their team of rebels with a cause, take the biggest risks to get the biggest stories - unlike their rivals - live at a moment's notice.
Publisher
Binge Box
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Lord of war: Chronicles the rise and fall of Yuri Orlov, from his early days in the early 1980s in Little Odessa to selling guns to mobsters in his local neighbourhood, and through to his ascension through the decade of excess and indulgence into the early 90s. He is relentlessly pursued by a determined federal agent and his inner demons sway between his drive for success and the immorality of what he does.
Face/off: FBI Special Agent Sean Archer...