Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Description
When Ally (Hayden Panettiere), a popular teen and local celebrity goes missing, her small suburban town erupts in panic. Mr. Gibb (Tim Daly), a dorky teacher with a known infatuation with Ally, becomes the main suspect when it is revealed that he was the last person to see her. The Good Student is a riveting thriller that will keep you guessing until the very end!
2) Trust
Author
Language
English
Description
The second feature film from writer/director Hal Hartley follows the unusual romance between two young misfits, pregnant high school dropout Maria and brilliant electronics repairman Matthew, wandering the same suburban town.
3) Bad Parents
Author
Language
English
Description
From tryouts to the State Cup Championship game, Kathy is swept up into the mania of competitive, over-involved parents who stop at nothing to ensure their daughters get the playing time and training to make it to the top. Writer/Director Caytha Jentis, with insider authenticity, shares the absurd, yet very real world of suburban youth sports. With humor and heart, she exposes the void in parents' lives that youth soccer fills. We know these people....
4) Clifford
Author
Language
English
Description
A mischievous and obnoxious 10-year-old boy makes life pure hell for his bachelor uncle while his parents are in Hawaii.
5) Down Terrace
Author
Language
English
Description
Father and son Bill and Karl have just been released from jail free and clear, but all is not well at Down Terrace. Patriarchs of a small crime family, their business is plagued with infighting. Karl has had more than he can take of his old man's philosophizing and preaching, and Bill thinks Karl's dedication to the family is seriously compromised when he takes up with an estranged girlfriend who claims to be carrying his baby.
6) Ghost World
Author
Language
English
Description
Based on the well-known comic, GHOST WORLD tells the story of neo-cool Enid (Thora Birch) and Rebecca (Scarlett Johansson) who, faced with graduation from high school take a hard look at the world they wryly observe and decide what they really want. When Enid takes an interest in the offbeat Seymour (Steve Buscemi) and Rebecca focuses her attention on their mutual romantic fixation Josh (Brad Renfro), the girls friendship is forever changed.
Author
Language
Deutsch
Description
In this wry German dark comedy, Walter is a professional hitman who has just botched a job. Forced to leave the city, he takes up an offer from eccentric crime boss Berger to protect his house (and young, pretty, free-spirited wife Sybille) in a remote region of the Carpathian Mountains. At Walter's side is Micky, his chatty, thrill-seeking old friend. After a freak accident, what seemed to be a nice, easy holiday job for the hapless pair soon becomes...
8) Bad Actress
Author
Language
English
Description
Alyssa Rampart-Pillage is a washed up TV queen whose career has been reduced to starring in commercials for her husband Bernie's appliance empire. When their tree-hugging daughter Topanga dies in a tragic golf ball incident, Bernie goes off the spiritual deep end and tries to give away their fortune. But what starts off as tragedy quickly turns into career re-invention for Alyssa. And as the body count rises, so does her star.
Author
Language
English
Description
The story of Mike Wilson, a charismatic, educated, and articulate young man who has found his life's purpose in exterminating...people. Determined to spread his message about the joy of serial killing, Mike recruits a lost soul and leads him through his 10-step program, which includes such quintessential lessons as: theories on corpse disposal, balancing work and play, and more.
10) Silent Night
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Follows a group of old friends who, in true British fashion and while the rest of the world faces impending doom, reunite to celebrate Christmas in the comfort of an idyllic country home. Burdened with the inconvenience of mankind's imminent destruction, they adopt a stiff upper lip, crack open another bottle of prosecco and continue with their festivities. But no amount of stoicism can replace the courage needed for their last night on Earth.
12) Sandbar
Author
Language
English
Description
A haunted ex-Marine spends one crazy day with his estranged son.
Author
Language
English
Description
Lance Clayton once dreamed of a career as a rich and famous writer. He has only managed to be a single dad and high school poetry teacher. His son is a jerk who won't give him the time of day, and his girlfriend won't acknowledge publicly that they are dating. A freak accident provides Lance his worst tragedy, and greatest opportunity at fame, fortune, and popularity. But can he live with the knowledge of how he got there?
Author
Language
English
Description
When Daniel's father dies, it is up to him to arrange the funeral. On this painful morning, Daniel prepares to welcome his father's friends and relatives. But preserving the dignity inherent in such circumstances will be a hard task. Particularly with an undertaker who botches his work, the return from the U.S. of his famous but selfish brother, his cousin's fiance who has accidentally ingested drugs, and a moron who takes advantage of the sad event...
15) Life of Riley
Author
Language
Français
Description
In the English countryside, the life of three couples is disturbed by a character we shall constantly hear about but never see, the enigmatic George Riley. When general practitioner Dr. Colin inadvertently tells his wife Kathryn that his patient George Riley does not have more than a few months to live, he doesn't know that Riley was Kathryn's first love. Both spouses, who are rehearsing a play with their local amateur theatre company, convince George...
16) Amour Fou
Author
Language
Deutsch
Description
Based on the double suicide of a German romantic poet and his muse, this gorgeous period piece is a darkly humorous postmodern take on love, life, and death.
17) Between Us
Author
Language
English
Description
Two couples reunite over two incendiary evenings where anything can happen in this darkly comedic drama of best friends, marriage, love, disappointment and dreams.
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
It details the lives of three women living in three different decades: a housewife in the '60s, a socialite in the '80s, and a lawyer in 2018, each dealing with infidelity in their marriages. The series will examine how the roles of women have changed, but how their reaction to betrayal, has not.
19) Heathers
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
When two teens 'accidentally' begin murdering the most popular kids in school, suicide suddenly becomes the 'in' thing to do.
20) Arthur Newman
Author
Language
English
Description
Wallace stages his own death and buys himself a new identity as Arthur Newman. However, Arthur's road trip towards a new life is interrupted by the arrival of the beautiful but fragile Mike, who is also trying to leave her past behind. Drawn to one another, these two damaged souls begin to connect as they break into empty homes and take on the identities of the absent owners.
Borrow from another library
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by Darien Library can be requested from other libraries via our interlibrary loan system (ILL).