Laura Dern
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Award-winning actresses and mother-daughter duo Laura Dern and Diane Ladd are the kind of women who draw strength from their lifelong friendships with other women, and most of all, from each other. Ever since Laura was born, the two have leaned on each other through the trials of everyday life and the tribulations that come with even the most storied Hollywood careers. They were always close, but when Diane developed a sudden illness, their relationship...
Author
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Unimaginable loss yields to the power of human connection in this simple, moving story from the filmmakers of the eponymous Oscar-winning film. An elegy on grief. Based on the Academy Award-winning animated short by the same name, If Anything Happens I Love You is a young adult graphic novel that follows two parents as they reckon with the loss of their young daughter, Rose, in a school shooting. Readers follow Rose from above as she watches her parents...
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
The true story of one woman's effort to keep her family afloat under difficult circumstances comes to the screen in this bittersweet comedy drama. Evelyn Ryan (Julianne Moore) was a woman of intelligence, talent, and pluck living in the small town of Defiance, OH, in the 1950s. Evelyn was married to Kelly Ryan (Woody Harrelson), a man who gave her ten children but not much else. It was seemingly up to Evelyn to support the family, but with ten kids...
5) Adventure
Series
Publisher
Syndicado
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Acclaimed directors Zhang Yimou and Daniel Espinosa discuss Bergman's film taste, and their own sense of adventure.
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Nick, a career salesman who loses his wife and his job in the worst day of his life. Faced with his life imploding, Nick puts it all on the line, or, rather, on the lawn, as he moves himself and all his possessions to his front yard. Special features included.
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Enlightened centers on Amy Jellicoe, a 40-year-old woman who returns home to California after a month's stay at a holistic treatment facility, a result of having a mental breakdown at work triggered by her self-destructive ways. Amy returns to her old life with a new cultivated approach and perspective, which includes daily meditation and exhorting the power of self-help and inner healing.
9) Sheryl
Publisher
Showtime
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A documentary portrait of the singular storyteller who's lived it all and seen it all but never told it all, until now. From humble beginnings to sold out world tours Sheryl Crow's life has been nothing short of extraordinary. Whether battling sexism in the music industry, mourning ill-fated romances or surviving a well-publicized battle with breast cancer, Crow has always found a way to turn even her darkest experiences into captivating, timeless...
Series
Publisher
Syndicado
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A group of filmmakers visit Ingmar Bergman's house on the remote Swedish island of Faro to discuss his legacy, and the art of filmmaking. Ingmar Bergmans life and his key films as seen and told by the greatest actors and directors of our time. Candid, funny and explicit interviews with the likes of Lars Von Trier, Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen, Isabella Rossellini and Michael Haneke - some shoot at Bergmans last home on the island of Fårö - interwoven...
11) Happy Endings
Series
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Multiple stories are weaved together in HAPPY ENDINGS to create a witty look at love, family and the sheer unpredictability of life itself.
13) Citizen Ruth
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
Reckless, fencepost-dumb Ruth is pregnant - and everyone has an opinion about what she should do.
14) A perfect world
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
In Texas, an escaped convict takes a young boy hostage and they form a bond, while being chased by a Texas Ranger, the FBI and local lawmen.
15) October sky
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The true story of Homer Hickam, a coal miner's son who was inspired by the first Sputnik launch to take up rocketry against his father's wishes.
16) Trial by fire
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In 1992, Cameron Todd Willingham, a poor, uneducated heavy metal devotee with a violent streak, was convicted of an arson-related triple homicide and put on death row. This is the true-life Texas story of the unlikely bond that formed between Willingham and Elizabeth Gilbert, a Houston mother of two, who battled against the state for twelve years to try to save Willingham by exposing suppressed evidence and illogical conclusions.
17) The son
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A cautionary tale that follows a family as it struggles to reunite after falling apart. Centers on Peter, whose hectic life with his infant and new partner Beth is upended when his ex-wife Kate appears at his door to discuss their son Nicholas, who is now a teenager. The young man has been missing school for months and is deeply troubled. Peter strives to take care of Nicholas as he would have wanted his father to have taken care of him while juggling...
18) Wild
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
After years of reckless behavior, a heroin addiction and the destruction of her marriage, Cheryl Strayed makes a rash decision. Haunted by memories of her mother Bobbi and with absolutely no experience, she sets out to hike more than a thousand miles on the Pacific Crest Trail all on her own.
19) 99 Homes
Series
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A recently unemployed single father struggles to get back his foreclosed home by working for the real estate broker who is the source of his frustration.
20) Blue velvet
Language
English
Formats
Description
Clean-cut Jeffrey Beaumont realizes his Mayberry-like hometown is not so normal when he discovers a human ear in a field. His investigation catapults him into an alluring, erotic murder mystery involving a disturbed nightclub singer and a drug-addicted sadist. Soon Jeffrey is led deeper into their depraved existence, to the point of no return. Bonus features included.