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61) W./e. (DVD)
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
In 1998, lonely New Yorker Winthrop is obsessed with what she perceives as the ultimate love story: King Edward VIII's abdication of the British throne for the woman he loved, American divorcee Wallis Simpson. Winthrop's research reveals that the couple's life together was not as perfect as she thought.
"...a kind of dynamic pleasure..."--Slant Magazine
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Follows a week in the life of a young folk singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961. He is at a crossroads. Guitar in tow, huddled against the unforgiving New York winter, he is struggling to make it as a musician against seemingly insurmountable obstacles, some of them of his own making.
"The Coen brothers' latest is one of their best, a bittersweet rumination on creative ambition and youthful dreams."--Newsday
"The whims...
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of journalist Gary Webb. The film takes place in the mid 1990s, when Webb uncovered the CIA's past role in importing huge amounts of cocaine into the U.S. It was sold in ghettos across the country to raise money for the Nicaraguan Contras rebel army. Despite enormous pressure not to, Webb chose to pursue the story and went public with his evidence. As a result he experienced a vicious smear campaign fueled by the CIA.
"If...
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Eric Lomax is a British Army officer who is captured by the Japanese during WWII and sent to a POW camp, where he is tortured and forced to work on the Thai-Burma Railway. Years later, and still suffering from the psychological trauma, Lomax is persuaded by his wife Patti to find and confront one of his captors. Lomax returns to the scene of his torture and manages to track down his captor from the prison camp in an attempt to let go of a lifetime...
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
We meet Jesse and Celine nine years on in Greece. Almost two decades have passed since their first meeting on that train bound for Vienna.
"Delpy and Hawke, who've invested this trilogy with the fine shadings of life lived, do extraordinary things with small moments."--New York Daily News
"One of the great movie romances of the modern era achieves its richest and fullest expression in Before Midnight."--Variety
"Finding romance is easy. Staying...
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
It's William Shakespeare's epic and searing tale of love. An ageless story from the world's most renowned author is reimagined for the 21st Century. This adaptation is told in the lush traditional setting it was written, but gives a new generation the chance to fall in love with the enduring legend.
"Starter Shakespeare for the 'Twilight' generation."--New York Daily News
"A sufficiently entertaining, adamantly old-fashioned adaptation..."--New...
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Based on a true story, the film centers on the unlikely relationship between Ann Atwater, an outspoken civil rights activist, and C.P. Ellis, a local Ku Klux Klan leader, who reluctantly co-chaired a community summit, battling over the desegregation of schools in Durham, North Carolina, during the racially charged summer of 1971. The incredible events that unfolded would change Durham and the lives of Atwater and Ellis forever.
"...a pleasure to...
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
After Mickey Scarpato's stepson Leon, is killed in a construction accident, Mickey quickly tries to bury the bad news along with the body. But even in the gritty, blue-collar neighborhood of God's Pocket, PA, no secret can stay hidden forever. When a local columnist comes sniffing around for the truth, Mickey quickly finds himself stuck in a life-and-death struggle compounded by a body he can't bury, a wife he can't please, and a debt he can't pay.
"John...
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Andrew has been away from home for ten years when he returns for his mother's funeral. Nothing has changed, and the tension between him and his father still exists. He meets a young woman who helps give him the courage to open his heart and really live.
"It's easy to connect with and enjoy such a universal story about pain, loss, love, and overcoming roadblocks."--Reel Talk Movie Reviews
"A warm, good-spirited and captivating original."--Steve Rhodes'...
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
A twenty-something, fast-talking salesman's latest deal collapses the day he learns his father has suddenly died. Against his wishes, Sam is called home to put his father's estate in order and reconnect with his estranged family. While there, he uncovers a startling secret that turns his entire world upside down, he has a 30-year-old sister he never knew existed.
"...the film is directed as if it were an action drama..."--Hollywood Reporter
"...informed...
72) Labor day (DVD)
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Henry Wheeler struggles to be the man of his house and care for his reclusive mother Adele, all the while confronting the pangs of adolescence. Henry and his mother encounter Frank Chambers, an intimidating man clearly in need of help. Frank convinces them to take him into their home and later is revealed to be an escaped convict. The events of this long Labor Day weekend will shape them for the rest of their lives.
"a lovely, intimate...
73) Outbreak (DVD)
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
The race to save life on earth when an unstoppable killer virus hits our shores.
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
After rejecting her tumultuous family and establishing a new and more ordered life for herself, Jenny finally seems ready to commit to her longtime fiance. When her estranged sister Lucy suddenly reappears in her life, everything Jenny hoped to escape from threatens to catch up with her. But Jenny and Lucy's combustible reunion might be just what they both needed - an opportunity to shatter and reconstruct the worlds they carefully created while trying...
75) Calvary (DVD)
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Calvary's Father James is a good priest who is faced with sinister and troubling circumstances brought about by a mysterious member of his parish. Although he continues to comfort his own fragile daughter and reach out to help members of his church with their various scurrilous moral, and often comic, problems, he feels sinister and troubling forces closing in, and begins to wonder if he will have the courage to face his own personal Calvary.
"To...
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
From the 1930 classic by Faulkner comes the story of the death of Addie Bundren and her family's mission to honor her desire to be buried in the nearby town of Jefferson.
"...a faithful and intelligent synopsis of the book."--Time Magazine
"Franco can chalk up a qualified but distinct success..."--Guardian (UK)
"A startlingly effective adaptation of William Faulkner's challenging novel by James Franco."--Hollywood Reporter
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
A young girl is caught in the middle of her parents' bitter custody battle. Struggling for grace in the midst of this mayhem, Maisie navigates this ever-widening turmoil with innocence, charm and generosity of spirit.
"The camera is often at Maisie's eye level, emphasizing how adults are seen by the perceptive Maisie. The sad-eyed Aprile's honest portrayal is heart-wrenching."--USA Today
"Without losing the 19th century author's sensibility, screenwriters...
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
The true story of a small-town father who must find the courage and conviction to share his son's extraordinary, life-changing experience with the world. Colton claims to have visited Heaven during a near-death experience. He recounts the details of his amazing journey with childlike innocence and speaks matter-of-factly about things that happened before his birth.
"Unlike many of the features targeted to what Hollywood is calling the 'faith audience,'...
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Two very different women-an upscale American named Mary and a middle-class Englishwoman named Martha-form an unlikely bond following the losses of their only children from malaria contracted in Africa. Battling their lingering grief and the strains on their marriages, the two work together to raise awareness of malaria while recovering their sense of purpose. A story of how ordinary people can make a difference in influencing social policy and affecting...
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Hester Collyer is the wife of an upper-class judge and a free spirit trapped in a passionless marriage. Her encounter with Freddie Page, a troubled former Royal Air Force pilot, throws her life in turmoil, as their erotic relationship leaves her emotionally stranded and physically isolated.
"Rachel Weisz is extremely moving."--The New Yorker
"(Rachel) Weisz in one of her finest performances."--Entertainment Weekly
"Rachel Weisz is incandescent."--Rolling...
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