Jess Weixler
1) Disconnected
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
From #1 bestselling author Jennifer Weiner comes a haunting tale of addiction and obligation, secrets and redemption. Now available on CD and as an audio download for the first time!
Shannon Will is nearing thirty and has already made six trips to rehab (not that anyone's counting). But this time, she swears, will be different. She'll clean up her act, go to meetings, find a sponsor, and make a clean break with her past—starting with a new...
Shannon Will is nearing thirty and has already made six trips to rehab (not that anyone's counting). But this time, she swears, will be different. She'll clean up her act, go to meetings, find a sponsor, and make a clean break with her past—starting with a new...
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Five years after the death of her beloved husband Garrett (Ed Harris), Nikki (Annette Bening) meets Tom, a man who seems to be Garrett s exact duplicate. Not only does Tom possess the same physical characteristics, but he also shares Garrett's kindness, humor, and passion for art. And yet he is a stranger. As romance blossoms between Nikki and Tom, she finds she can't bring herself to tell him the truth about what drew her to him. But as their relationship...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Building on the promise of his hallucinogenic debut Go Down Death, filmmaker Aaron Schimberg delivers another brilliantly oddball, acerbically funny foray into gonzo surrealism. In a deft tragicomic performance, Jess Weixler (Teeth) plays Mabel, a movie star “slumming it” in an outré art-horror film being shot in a semi-abandoned hospital. Cast opposite her is Rosenthal (Under the Skin's Adam Pearson), a gentle-natured young man with a severe...
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Based on the novel of the same name, ''The Son'' is a sweeping family saga that spans 150 years and three generations of the McCullough family. The ten-episode, one-hour drama traces the story of Eli McCullough's transformation from good-natured innocence to calculated violence, as he loses everything on the wild frontier, setting him on the path to building a ranching-and-oil dynasty of unsurpassed wealth and privilege. ''The Son'' deftly explores...
Publisher
FilmRise
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Recently released from prison, Beth (Julianne Nicholson) is working with her public defender (Jimmy Smits) to get her son back from her sister, who was awarded legal custody while Beth was incarcerated. Soon after, Beth forms an unlikely alliance with Jess (Emma Roberts), an idealistic young protégé of the public defense team, who decides to take on Beth's cause whether she likes it or not. Official Selection at the **SXSW Film Festival** and the...
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
When their obnoxious and over-served best man, Lumpy, unexpectedly dies at their destination wedding in Phoenix, bride and groom Kristin and Scott are forced to cancel their honeymoon and fly home to the snowy Midwest to arrange for his funeral. But getting Lumpy's body back to Minneapolis is just the start of their adventure, as the well-intended sacrifice surprises at every turn.
Publisher
Strand Releasing Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A journey through the romantic beginnings and shaky turns that inevitably develop in a relationship. Peter is an insecure architect who falls for Vandy, a beautiful art gallery employee. Told out of order, it juxtopses Peter and Vandy's romantic beginnings with the twisted-manipulative-regular couple they become and find themselves asking 'How did we get this way?'
11) Today's special
Publisher
New Video Group
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Samir is a traditionally trained chef who works as the sous chef in an exclusive restaurant in Manhattan, but when he learns he's been turned down for an expected promotion, he leaves in a huff and isn't asked to return. Samir considers heading for Europe to attend a culinary academy, but his plans quickly change when he learns that his father has suffered a severe heart attack and someone needs to look after the family business, a dingy Indian restaurant...
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
With less than a month until the birth of their first child, Jackie and Elliot embark on a madcap mission of self-discovery in an attempt to rid themselves of the inherited baggage of their own childhoods. Fully Realized Humans or bust!
13) Lamb
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A chaste love story of sorts, about a couple of depressed outsiders who find each other: David, a divorced 47-year-old Chicagoan reeling from the death of his father, and eleven-year-old Tommie, who has little use for her sullen and neglectful parents and seems to spend her days wandering around acting wise beyond her years.
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Follows the story of two co-dependent roommates, Olivia and Nicole, who are not exactly sure how they're going to make it when they get evicted from their shoebox apartment in Manhattan by their landlord. The two flee to Los Angeles for the promise of sunshine. As one door slams shut, another opens -- one tarot card reading later, the duo decides to take their performance art sensibilities to the mainstream by auditioning for a reality TV talent show....
15) The lie
Publisher
Screen Media Films
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Once an idealistic young man with artistic aspirations, Lonnie is stuck and doesn't quite know it. Working at an unfulfilling job, he longs to realize his lifelong dream of becoming a musician. When his wife, Clover, is presented with a career opportunity that could provide them with the stability she craves, but one that goes against their beliefs, Lonnie cannot muster the resolve to endure another day at work, so he tells a lie, a life-altering...
16) Best man down
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
When their obnoxious and over-served best man, Lumpy, unexpectedly dies at their destination wedding in Phoenix, bride and groom Kristin and Scott are forced to cancel their honeymoon and fly home to the snowy Midwest to arrange for his funeral. But getting Lumpy's body back to Minneapolis is just the start of their adventure, as the well-intended sacrifice surprises at every turn.
17) Who are we now
Publisher
FilmRise
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Recently released from prison, Beth (Julianne Nicholson) is working with her public defender (Jimmy Smits) to get her son back from her sister, who was awarded legal custody while Beth was incarcerated for ten years. Soon after, Beth forms an unlikely alliance with Jess (Emma Roberts), an idealistic young protégé of the public defense team, who decides to take on Beth's cause whether she likes it or not"--Container.
18) Entanglement
Publisher
Dark Star Pictures
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"While searching for the meaning of his existence, Ben Layten uncovers a family secret that leads him to a woman named Hanna. But when he and Hanna inadvertently fall in love, his life becomes increasingly and strangely complicated. Ben starts to realize that everything is amazingly and incredibly connected and that the world might just be more inexplicable than he ever imagined"--
19) Money
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In this high-stakes, fast-action thriller, two pharmaceutical executives are about to get away with stealing five million dollars after selling trade secrets to the highest bidder. But a charismatic con artist shows up to derail their plans and holds them hostage at gunpoint during an all-night standoff where loyalties are tested and true motives revealed.
20) Free samples
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
A Stanford Law-school dropout named Jillian escapes to the anonymity of Los Angeles to figure out what she wants to do with her life. On the day of her college boyfriend's birthday, she finds herself stuck running an ice cream truck fending off locals and oddball friends alike. This one day spent on a truck on the streets of L.A. will wake Jillian from her aimless daze and make her see that life doesn't stop just because you want it to.