Lili Taylor
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English
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"On an island in the Great Massasauga Swamp--an area known as "The Waters" to the residents of nearby Whiteheart, Michigan--herbalist and eccentric Hermine "Herself" Zook has healed the local women of their ailments for generations. As stubborn as her tonics are powerful, Herself inspires reverence and fear in the people of Whiteheart, and even in her own three estranged daughters. The youngest--the beautiful, inscrutable, and lazy Rose Thorn--has...
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The debut novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge evokes a teenager's alienation from her distant mother, and a parent's rage at the discovery of her daughter's secrets.
“One of those rare, invigorating books that take an apparently familiar world and peer into it with ruthless intimacy, revealing a strange and startling place.”—The New York Times Book Review
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“One of those rare, invigorating books that take an apparently familiar world and peer into it with ruthless intimacy, revealing a strange and startling place.”—The New York Times Book Review
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English
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A nurse escapes her abusive husband, a New York policeman, taking their son with her to Florida. She assumes a new identity and even finds romance, but there is a price, the 10-year-old boy misses his father and she lives in constant fear the father will find them, which he does. The novel analyzes why abused women wait so long to make their break.
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English
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Before there was Amityville, there was Harrisville. Based on the true life story, it tells the tale of how world renowned paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren were called upon to help a family terrorized by a dark presence in a secluded farmhouse. Forced to confront a powerful demonic entity, the Warrens find themselves caught in the most horrifying case of their lives.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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They may have escaped the maze but Thomas and his fellow Gladers face their greatest challenge yet: searching for clues about the mysterious and powerful organization known as WCKD. Their journey takes them to the Scorch, a desolate landscape filled with unimaginable obstacles. Teaming up with resistance fighters, the Gladers take on WCKD's vastly superior forces and uncover its shocking plans for them all.
6) Say anything
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Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
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A young man, recently graduated from high school, wants only one thing: a date with a fellow graduate. The catch is she's beautiful, brilliant and headed to England to study, and all his friends and her father tell him she's way out of his league. When they fall in love anyway, the result is a funny, poignant and joyous celebration of first love.
7) Rudy
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English
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True story about a young man whose dream has always been to play football for Notre Dame University. Because of his blue-collar background, nobody believes that he can even gain admittance to the school, and his small size will rule out football. But he confounds them all by entering the school and becoming a walk-on player for the team.
9) Being Flynn
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A compelling exploration of the unbreakable yet fragile bonds between parent and child. Nick Flynn is a young writer seeking to define himself. His father Jonathan, however, scrapes through life on his own terms and has not seen his son in 18 years. Taking a job at a homeless shelter, Nick finds purpose in his own life and work until one night Jonathan arrives seeking a bed. To give the two of them a shot at a real future, Nick wrestles with the notion...
10) Mystic pizza
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English
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Three young women, waitresses at a pizza parlor in Mystic, Connecticut, spend a special summer discovering romance.
11) Anne Frank
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
(2001)
Language
English
Description
Based on the critically acclaimed book, the mini-series goes beyond the story you already know and paints the true picture of Anne both before and after she went into hiding. It shows the high-spirited and popular girl before the war and details the challenges of the brave people who risked their lives trying to keep her safe. It also explores the enduring mystery of who betrayed the Frank family and reveals what happened next.
12) High fidelity
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English
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Rob Gordon's semi-failing record store isn't the only thing in his life that's floundering. When his longtime girlfriend walks out on him, Rob's needle skips the love groove, and he is forced to examine his past romantic failures in his own unique way.
13) Say anything
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English
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"It's graduation and Lloyd Dobler has only one ambition -- to date Diane Court. She's beautiful, she's intelligent and to everyone's amazement, she actually agrees to go out with Lloyd. At first just 'friends with potential,' Lloyd and Diane quickly develop into something more. But when Diane's overprotective father convinces her to end the relationship, a brokenhearted Lloyd vows to try anything, do anything and say anything to win her back"--Container....
14) The haunting
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Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
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A professor lures three subjects to a mysterious mansion for an experiment which turns into a nightmare as the secrets of Hill House are revealed in this supernatural thriller.
Series
NVG volume 9602
Publisher
Docurama
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
In the early '70s, the radically enraged, bomb-planting fringe group called the Weathermen had the distinction of being as alienated from the anti-war counterculture as the counterculture movement was from the rest of America. The group planned to blow up an empty building, but on March 6, 1970, an explosive accidentally went off in the New York Greenwich Village area, killing three of its own members and turning the rest of its members into outlaws...
16) Factotum
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
This drama centers on Hank Chinaski, the fictional alter-ego of author Charles Bukowski, who wanders around Los Angeles, trying to live off jobs which don't interfere with his primary interest, which is writing.
17) About Cherry
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
18-year-old Angelica shuffles between school, a dead-end job, her exploitative boyfriend and home, where her life consists of cleaning up after her alcoholic mother and protecting her younger sister from their menacing stepfather. After arranging an escape to San Francisco with her best friend Andrew, she soon finds herself dating a coke-addicted attorney and becoming immersed in the local adult film industry.
19) Dogfight
Series
Criterion collection volume 1216
Language
English
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Description
River Phoenix and Lili Taylor star in a bittersweet story about losinginnocence and discovering love. In November 1963, four young marines inSan Francisco celebrate their last night before leaving to fight inVietnam with a "dogfight," a competition in which the man who brings theugliest date wins. Handsome Eddie Birdlace (Phoenix) convinces Rose(Taylor) to accompany him on a date--but he doesn't tell her she is partof the dogfight. Despite the pain...
20) Ransom
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
When the son of a wealthy businessman is kidnapped, he defies the experts and turns the tables on the kidnappers in a last-chance effort to rescue his boy.