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Summary
Amanda, a faded southern belle, abandoned wife, and dominating mother, hopes to match her daughter Laura with an eligible "gentleman caller" while her son Tom supports the family. Laura, lame and painfully shy, evades her mother's schemes and reality by retreating to the make-believe world of her glass animal collection. Tom eventually leaves home to become a writer but is forever haunted by the memory of Laura.
2) Moonlight
Pub. Date
[2017]
Summary
A young black man struggles to find his place in the world while growing up in a rough neighborhood of Miami.
Author
Summary
"This new edition of Tony Kushner's masterpiece is published with the author's recent changes and a new introduction in celebration of the twentieth anniversary of its original production. One of the most honored American plays in history, Angels in America was awarded two Tony Awards for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It was made into an Emmy Award-winning HBO film directed by Mike Nichols. This two-part epic, subtitled 'A Gay Fantasia...
7) Uncut gems
Pub. Date
[2020]
Summary
A charismatic jeweler (Adam Sandler) makes a high-stakes bet that could lead to the windfall of a lifetime. In a precarious high-wire act, he must balance business, family, and adversaries on all sides in pursuit of the ultimate win.
8) Mojave moon
Pub. Date
c2005, 1996
Summary
A nice guy stumbles into a weekend of wacky intrigue when he impulsively gives a girl a ride from Los Angeles to the Mojave Desert.
9) The Irishman
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
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Summary
Left behind by the world, former hit man and union truck driver Frank Sheeran looks back from a nursing home on his life's journey through the ranks of organized crime: from his involvement with Philadelphia mob boss Russell Bufalino to his association with Teamsters union head Jimmy Hoffa to the rift that forced him to choose between the two.
11) Fatale
Pub. Date
[2021]
Formats
Summary
Derrick desperately tries to put the pieces together after a wild one-night stand with a woman who has entangled him in a dangerous game of cat and mouse. The female detective got him caught up in her latest investigation, putting him -- and his perfect life and family -- at risk of losing everything, even their lives.
12) Wakefield
Pub. Date
[2017]
Formats
Summary
A successful suburbanite commuter Howard Wakefield takes a perverse detour from family life: He vanishes without a trace. Hidden in the attic of his carriage house garage, surviving by scavenging at night, Howard secretly observes the lives of his wife and children and neighbors. Wakefield becomes a fraught meditation on marriage and identity, as Howard slowly realizes that he has not in fact left his family, he has left himself.
13) Joe
Pub. Date
2014
Summary
A hard-living ex-con who is the unlikeliest of role models, but when he meets a troubled fifteen-year-old homeless boy in need of help from a violent and destitute father, Joe is faced with the heartbreaking choice of redemption or ruin.
15) You belong to me
Pub. Date
2008
Summary
After moving into an apartment because of an obsession for a lover, Jeffrey hears sounds in the building and discovers that his landlady has secrets and jealousies of her own.
16) Latter days
Pub. Date
2004
Summary
The handsome Aaron, a Mormon missionary, travels door-to-door in Los Angeles spreading the word of his religion. Christian, a cute West Hollywood party boy, goes from man-to-man without much commitment. Opposites soon attract when Aaron and Christian meet, and sparks begin to fly.
Summary
Jennifer Lopez stars as Claire Peterson, a high school literature teacher struggling to get back in the dating game after separating from her cheating husband. When handsome and charismatic nineteen year old Noah moves in next door, Claire has a moment of weakness that leads to an extremely intense and intimate night together. Noah's attraction quickly turns into a dangerous, violent obsession, forcing Claire to her limits as she protects her world...
18) The falls
Pub. Date
[2012]
Summary
This captures the lives of two young men struggling to make sense of the conflict between their worlds, their desires, and each other. What they ultimately discover is a challenge to them both, but also an affirmation of the human spirit.
19) Autopilot
Pub. Date
c2010
Summary
With the help of his sister Sara, his childhood friend Mike, and his new therapist Dr. Brian, Tanner Beatly tries to adjust to life on the outside after spending sixteen years in a mental institution for accidentally killing his mother.
20) I'm not here
Pub. Date
[2019]
Summary
A man struggles with the tragic memories of his past to make sense of his present, but soon realizes that time isn't the enemy he thinks it is.