Hope Davis
Author
Description
"The acclaimed, bestselling author--winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize--tells the enthralling story of how an unexpected romantic encounter irrevocably changes two families' lives. One Sunday afternoon in Southern California, Bert Cousins shows up at Franny Keating's christening party uninvited. Before evening falls, he has kissed Franny's mother, Beverly--thus setting in motion the dissolution of their marriages and the joining...
Author
Description
Mary Beth Latham is first and foremost a mother, whose three teenaged children come first, before her career as a landscape gardener, or even her life as the wife of a doctor. Caring for her family and preserving their everyday life is paramount. And so, when one of her sons, Max, becomes depressed, Mary Beth becomes focused on him, and is blindsided by a shocking act of violence.
4) Stella Bain
Author
Description
"An epic story, set against the backdrop of World War I, from bestselling author Anita Shreve. When an American woman, Stella Bain, is found suffering from severe shell shock in an exclusive garden in London, surgeon August Bridge and his wife selflessly agree to take her in. A gesture of goodwill turns into something more as Bridge quickly develops a clinical interest in his houseguest. Stella had been working as a nurse's aide near the front, but...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1001
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Formats
Description
A woman enlists her dysfunctional family to help her discover the truth after she finds a love letter written to her husband.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Dave Spritz is a local weatherman in his home town of Chicago. His career is going well, but his personal life is spiraling downward. His relationship with his perfectionist writer father, his neurotic ex-wife, and his now-separated children have him feeling that his life is out of control. Despite being both loathed and loved by the local masses, Dave is a guy who just doesn't seem to have it all together. An attractive job offer from New York City...
9) Your honor
Publisher
Showtime
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (564 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
New Orleans judge Michael Desiato is forced to confront his own deepest convictions when his son is involved in a hit and run that embroils an organized crime family.
10) Arlington Road
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (117:19 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 scene index insert.
Description
Widowed when his FBI agent wife is killed by a right-wing group, college professor Michael Faraday becomes obsessed with the culture of these groups--especially when his new neighbors, the all-American Oliver and Cheryl Lang, start acting suspiciously.
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 91 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A powerful new look at the human side of iconic world leaders. In 1993, Tony Blair was a rising young star in British politics. Three years later he ran for Prime Minister, and began a 'special relationship' with U.S. President Bill Clinton that endured through triumph, conflict, and personal scandal. The behind-the-scenes story of two world leaders who forged a loyal, if tempestuous, friendship out of the crucible of political necessity:
Publisher
Showtime
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (535 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a respected New Orleans judge learns that his son is involved in a hit-and-run accident and the victim is the son of the local mafia boss, his life descends into a series of lies with tragic consequences.
13) The matador
Publisher
distributed by Genius Products
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Julian Noble is an unshaven, unnerved and unpredictable freelance assassin, who happens to encounter desperate businessman Danny Wright in the bar of a modern Mexico City hotel. Danny is intrigued when Julian reveals that he's a "facilitator of fatalities," and his wife becomes equally fascinated when Julian shows up unexpectedly, six months later, at Danny's home in Denver. Having lost his touch as a reliable hit-man, Julian needs Danny's help with...
14) Mumford
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a wanna-be psychologist comes to the idyllic town of the same name, he offers his talent for listening, and a disarming frankness as the town's quirkiest citizens scramble for a seat on his couch. As he lightens hearts darkened by old secrets, including those of the beautiful and troubled Sofie Crisp, no one realizes he's hiding a whopper of his own, or that he's fallen head over heels for one of his patients.
15) Charlie Bartlett
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment [distributor
Pub. Date
2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Wealthy teenager Charlie Bartlett is failing miserably at fitting in at his new public high school. The school is run by the world-weary Principal Gardner. As he begins to better understand the social hierarchy, Charlie's honest charm and likability gives him the position as the resident 'psychiatrist.' Along with his partner and fellow student, Murphy Bivens, Charlie dishes out advice and the occasional prescription to other students in need. Along...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
As a middle-aged man's friend dies, Bobby takes a look back at his childhood memories ... When mysterious out-of-towner, Ted, moves into the boarding house that 11-year-old Bobby shares with his self-involved mother, Bobby jumps at the chance to befriend an adult who talks to him straightforwardly. Ted enlists Bobby to read him the newspaper daily--and to keep an eye out for the "low men" bent on capturing Ted, who possesses a strange mind-reading...
17) Disconnect
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (115 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A couple is drawn into a dangerous situation when their secrets are exposed online. A widowed ex-cop struggles to raise a mischievous son who cyber-bullies a classmate. An ambitious journalist sees a career-making story in a teen that performs on an adult-only site. They are strangers, neighbors and colleagues and their stories collide in this riveting dramatic thriller about ordinary people struggling to connect in today's wired world.
18) The nines
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The lives of an actor, a television game show personality, and a videogame designer are intertwined, and the lines between fantasy and reality become blurred. Three linked stories that exist in distinct but overlapping parallel universes, each challenging the other's claim to reality.
19) About Schmidt
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (125 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Warren Schmidt is about to taste the not-so-sweet slice of life. When he retired, he and his wife, Helen, had big plans--but an unexpected twist changes everything. Now, all of Schmidt's attention is focused on his daughter's upcoming wedding to a loser waterbed salesman. From meeting the groom's hippie parents to sponsoring a Tanzanian foster child, Schmidt embarks on a search for answers, only to discover that life is full of trick questions.
20) Greenland
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Formats
Description
A family fights for survival as a planet-killing comet races to Earth. John Garrity, his estranged wife Allison, and young son Nathan make a perilous journey to their only hope for sanctuary.