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Publisher
Hateship Productions Louisiana, LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Johanna Parry, a quiet caregiver, starts a new job working for an elderly Mr. McCauley and his teenage granddaughter Sabitha. A cruel trick by Sabitha lands Johanna in an awkward one-way relationship with Ken, Sabitha's estranged father but her newfound ambition and desire gives her courage to transform her awkward doom into real contentment.
2) 3 faces
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Persian
Description
Actress Behnaz Jafari is distraught when she comes across a young girl's video plea for help after her family prevents her from taking up her studies at the Tehran drama conservatory. Behnaz abandons her shoot and turns to filmmaker Jafar Panahi to help with the young girl's troubles. They travel by car to the rural Northwest, where they have encounters with the charming and generous folk of the girl's mountain village. But Behnaz and Jafar also discover...
Author
Publisher
Dramatists Play Service
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
The story follows the strained, sexual relationship between Li'l Bit and her aunt's husband, Uncle Peck, from her pre-adolescence through her teenage years into college and beyond. Using the metaphor of driving and the issues of pedophilia, incest, and misogyny, the play explores the ideas of control and manipulation.
"Newly published as a stand-alone edition, Vogel's widely celebrated masterpiece How I Learned to Drive was the winner of the 1998...
5) Pearl
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Filmmaker Ti West returns with another chapter from the twisted world of X in this astonishing follow-up to the year’s most acclaimed horror film. Trapped on her family’s isolated farm, Pearl must tend to her ailing father under the bitter and overbearing watch of her devout mother. Lusting for a glamorous life like she’s seen in the movies, Pearl’s ambitions, temptations, and repressions all collide in the stunning, technicolor-inspired origin...
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
On an isolated island, Uma (Emma Roberts) wakes up to find herself at PARADISE HILLS, a facility where high-class families send their daughters to become perfect versions of themselves. The facility is run by the mysterious Duchess (Milla Jovovich) where calibrated treatments including etiquette classes, vocal lessons, beauty treatments, gymnastics and restricted diets, revolve all physical and emotional shortcomings within two months. The outspoken...
7) The kitchen
Publisher
Monterey Media
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Jennifer (Laura Prepon, Orange is the New Black) is turning 30 and her best friend Stan is throwing her a party. But she is in no mood to celebrate. She just left her job, as well as her cheating boyfriend, Paul. Her cynical little sister Penny is threatening to overshadow the whole affair with the most inappropriate party announcement. And she is pretty sure she's too old to still be living with her creepy roommate.. What starts out as a well-intentioned...
9) Premature
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
On a summer night in Harlem during her last months at home before starting college, seventeen-year-old poet Ayanna (Zora Howard) meets Isaiah (Joshua Boone), a charming music producer who has just moved to the city. It's not long before these two artistic souls are drawn together in a passionate summer romance. But as the highs of young love give way to jealousy, suspicion, and all-too-real consequences, Ayanna must confront the complexities of the...
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
This beautiful new edition features an eye-opening Afterword written by Tappan Wilder that includes Thornton Wilder's unpublished notes and other illuminating photographs and documentary material. Our Town was first produced and published in 1938 to wide acclaim. This Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of life in the small village of Grover's Corners, an allegorical representation of all life, has become a classic. It is Thornton Wilder's most renowned...
11) Little women
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Follow the sisters Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy, on their journey from childhood to adulthood. Under the guidance of their mother Marmee, they navigate what it means to be a young woman: from gender roles to sibling rivalry, first love, loss, and marriage. Based on the novel by Louisa May Alcott, this story is as relevant and engaging today as it was on its original publication in 1868.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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Description
At the peak of her international career, Maria Enders is asked to perform in a revival of the play that made her famous twenty years ago. Back then she played the role of an alluring young girl but now she is being asked to step into the older role. With her assistant Maria prepares to play opposite a young Hollywood starlet and finds herself on the other side of the mirror, face to face with an unsettling reflection of herself.
13) Open road
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Academy Award nominees Andy Garcia and Juliette Lewis join Camilla Belle and Colin Egglesfield in a heartwarming coming-of-age story. Angie (Belle) is a free spirit living on her own terms and occasionally waitressing to make money. But when she makes connections with a drifter (Garcia), a handsome cop (Egglesfield), and his sister (Lewis), she finds herself torn between her life of absolute freedom and being tied to people who care about her.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Everyone said Cassie was a promising young woman, until a mysterious event abruptly derailed her future. But nothing in Cassie's life is what it appears to be. She's wickedly smart, tantalizingly cunning, and she's living with a secret double life by night. Now, an unexpected encounter is about to give Cassie a chance to right the wrongs of the past in this thrilling and wildly entertaining story.
15) Before we go
Publisher
Starz Media
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A young woman races to catch the 1:30 train out of New York City to New Haven. Stranded in the city after being robbed and missing her train, she meets street musician Nick Vaughan. Starting as convenient acquaintances, the two soon grow into each other's most trusted confidants when a night of unexpected adventure forces them to confront their fears and take control of their lives.
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Thinking they're about to crash, Emma spills her secrets to a stranger on a plane. At least, she thought he was a stranger. Until she later meets Jack, her company's young CEO, who now knows every humiliating detail about her.
17) Miss Minoes
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2012
Language
Nederlands
Description
Miss Minoes is a cat who is transformed into a young woman and befriends Tibbe, a shy, bumbling reporter for the local paper. Miss Minoes, still recognized as a cat by neighborhood felines despite her new appearance, organizes them into a news-gathering service and helps Tibbe become a star reporter. He soon turns investigative and discovers that the popular chairman of the 'Club For Friends of Animals' and boss of a nearby factory has evil plans....
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A troubled young woman becomes obsessed with her mysterious new neighbor, who bears a striking resemblance to the girl's dead mother. After a devastating secret is revealed, their relationship intensifies and grows more dangerous.
19) Emma
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Description
Handsome, clever, and rich, Emma Woodhouse is a restless queen bee without rivals in her sleepy little town. In this glittering satire of social class and the pain of growing up, Emma must adventure through misguided matches and romantic missteps to find the love that has been there all along.
Publisher
Manufactured and distributed by New Video
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Just as Carrie comes to the difficult realization that she's no longer in love with Mike, her childhood sweetheart and fiance, a tragic diving accident leaves him paralyzed. Confused, Carrie makes a rash decision to escape her small-town life and heads to New York City to rendezvous with a mysterious older man she just met. Amid the craziness of Manhattan, Carrie attempts to figure out once and for all where she belongs in the world.