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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof first heated up Broadway in 1955 with its gothic American story of brothers vying for their dying father's inheritance amid a whirlwind of sexuality, untethered in the person of Maggie the Cat. The play also daringly showcased the burden of sexuality repressed in the agony of her husband, Brick Pollitt. In spite of the public controversy Cat stirred up, it was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the Drama Critics Circle Award for...
2) King Lear
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
King Lear, one of Shakespeare's darkest and most savage plays, tells the story of the foolish and Job-like Lear, who divides his kingdom, as he does his affections, according to vanity and whim. Lear's failure as a father engulfs himself and his world in turmoil and tragedy. --Publisher.
3) Gaslight
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Brooke becomes unstable after her inheritance begins to disappear, and she is unsure if her husband is plotting to steal her inheritance or if she's losing her mind.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
As Molly MacDonald comes to terms with becoming a widow, Lexie and the estate employees must come to terms with her new position in life as fiancě of the laird, Archie. Includes all ten episodes from the fourth series.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Raised by an Amish family, Katie Lapp starts a quest to find her birth-mother, Laura Mayfield-Bennett. Along the way, two very different men try to help her overcome a devious scheme to steal her rightful inheritance and divide her heart between two worlds.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Arthur: Arthur faces marriage to a woman he detests to keep his fortune, then meets the right woman from the wrong side of the tracks.
Arthur 2: When Arthur finally marries his sweetheart, it may not be 'happily ever after' because the father of the girl he didn't marry is out for revenge.
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Montgomery Brewster is a down-and-out baseball player who discovers that he is the only living relative of an eccentric multimillionaire. Monty stands to inherit $300 million, but only if he can spend $30 million in a single month without acquiring any assets. If he fails, it's back to zero again.
10) Billy Madison
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In order to inherit his fed-up father's hotel empire, an immature and lazy man must repeat grades 1-12 all over again.
11) Texas chainsaw
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
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In 1974, townspeople hunted down and killed every member of the Sawyer family for committing a series of grisly murders. Decades later and hundreds of miles away, a young woman learns that she has inherited a Texas estate from a grandmother she never knew she had. She finds she is the sole owner of a lavish, isolated Victorian mansion. But her newfound wealth comes at a price as she stumbles upon a horror that awaits her in the mansion's dank cellars....
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
When Sydney socialite Daisy Munroe and London lawyer Louis Oakley inherit a New Zealand vineyard, they quickly learn that they are not the 'sole heirs' as they believed and that the estate itself is a dilapidated money pit. The disenchanted duo want nothing more than to sell up, split up, and get out of there. But when they get an unexpected taste of success, they wonder if the vineyard may not be worthless after all. Despite never having done a hard...
13) The handmaiden
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Korean
Description
A Korean woman who is hired as handmaiden to a young Japanese lady is secretly plotting with a conman to defraud her of her large inheritance.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Archie's brother Paul returns to Glenbogle and is enlisted into helping to run the estate. Although this brings him into conflict with Archie and Lexie, it also allows Archie to think about his role and the world beyond Glenbogle.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Meet handsome Archie MacDonald, a reluctant young Scottish laird torn between his trendy London life and the call of his wild Highland ancestry. Tricked into returning to Scotland by his eccentric father and dotty mother, Archie discovers he is now the Laird of the decaying family estate, Glenbogle.
16) The bronze
Publisher
Sony Pictures Classics
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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A decade ago, Hope Ann Greggory was America's sweetheart. Her inspired performance on a ruptured Achilles at the world's most prestigious gymnastics tournament clinched an unlikely bronze medal for the U.S. team. But in the years since that epic third place victory, Hope hasn't done a whole lot with her life. Now she must coach Amherst's newest gymnastics prodigy Maggie in order to receive a sizeable financial inheritance.
17) The estate
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Two sisters attempt to win over their terminally ill, difficult-to-please aunt in hopes of becoming the beneficiaries of her wealthy estate, only to find the rest of their greedy family members have the same idea in this hilarious comedy about family being the worst.
18) Tommy boy
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Language
English
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Description
Party animal Tommy Callahan is definitely a few cans short of a six-pack. But after seven years, Tommy's finally earned his diploma -- and a cushy job at Callahan Auto Parts. Returning home, Tommy gets some more great news: his dad is marrying a real "10," and Tommy will get the stepbrother he always wanted. But as fast as you can say "Who killed the keg?," the family business starts tanking. Now Tommy's got to hit the road with his dad's right-hand...
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