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1) The lawgiver
Author
Language
English
Description
Margo Solovei, a brilliant young writer-director, has rejected her rabbinical father's strict Jewish upbringing to pursue a career in the arts. When an Australian multi-billionaire promises to finance a movie about Moses if the script meets certain standards, Margo does everything she can to land the job, including a reunion with her estranged first love, an influential lawyer with whom she still has unfinished business.
2) At Middleton
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Straight-laced George and eccentric Edith are two strangers who meet on their children's campus tour at the idyllic Middleton College. Failing comically to connect with their kids, George and Edith play hooky together, ditching the official tour for a carefree adventure reminiscent of their own college years. But what begins as an afternoon of fun soon becomes a revealing and enlightening experience that will change their lives forever.
4) Local hero
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
A comedy about the interaction between Americans representing a Texas oil company and the inhabitants of a small village in Scotland.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Single, attractive Isabelle ("Izzy") Grossman has a rent-controlled uptown apartment and a blooming career in publishing. She also has Bubbie, a tradition-minded grandmother who's hired a matchmaker to find a husband for Izzy. There's already a prospect: the corner pickle seller?!?"--Container.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Seymour 'Swede' Levov, a once-legendary high school athlete, is a successful businessman married to an ex-beauty queen, Dawn. When Swede and Dawn's daughter disappears after being accused of a violent crime, Swede's perfect life is broken forever and he is left to make sense out of the chaos.
7) In the weeds
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
In one New York bistro, the waiters aren't just waiters, they're aspiring actors, waiting for the big break. Pompous customers and cranky chefs aren't enough to send them packing; this waitstaff bands together through another night without getting fired.
Language
English
Description
Fiftysomething and still clueless Leo Spivak is drifting through life without a compass. Among his problems are his rebelling teenage daughter, a gravely ill father, a work protege after his job, and his wife is losing her patience and his own judgment is sinking fast. It's going to take a bizarre twist of fate and some twisted wisdom from a "freelance rabbi" to help Leo navigate the murky waters of middle age and turn his midlife crisis into a midlife...
9) Local hero
Series
Criterion collection volume 994
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A Texas oil company representative, anticipating resistance when he travels to the Scottish fishing village his company plans to demolish and replace with refineries, is surprised and charmed by the community's reaction.
Series
Hallmark Hall of Fame volume 52
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Humorous, uplifting and touching story about abandoned dreams and rediscovered destinies.
11) Show me a hero
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The story of Nick Wasicsko, the mayor of Yonkers who was faced with the difficult task of building public housing in the white, middle class section of the town.
12) The mask
Series
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
A mild-mannered bank clerk discovers a mysterious ancient mask that brings his innermost desires to life.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1176
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Surrounded by family members and friends not appreciably unlike himself, a twenty-seven-year-old government worker longs to recapture his ex-lover Laura, who has recently returned to her husband, stepdaughter, and A-frame.
16) Oka!
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Twenty-five years ago, ethnomusicologist Louis Sarno traveled from New Jersey to the forests of Central Africa to record the music of the Bayaka Pygmies. He fell in love with the people, their music, their lifestyle-and a local girl. Despite his failing health and the harsh realities of life in the village, he follows the Bayaka into the heart of the forest. A true story of strength and bravery, uniquely capturing the spirit of a people with music,...
17) Gypsy
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Mama Rose is the ultimate vaudeville stage mother, whose blind ambition for her two daughters forces one to desert her and the other to emerge as the world's most famous striptease artist, Gypsy Rose Lee.
18) The chosen one
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A car salesman, whose life is heading downhill, is proclaimed to be a spiritual leader by a tribe of holy men from a foreign land.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1962, Larry Kroger and Kent Dorfman are freshman in college. They want to join a fraternity. After visiting several, including the snobby Omega house, they come to a Delta house pledge party. Here they meet the handsome, but compulsive womanizer Otter, his best friend Boone, Boone's girlfriend Katy, the daring thrill-seeker D-Day, the ever responsible Hoover, and slacker Bluto. They are accepted into the fraternity and join in on the wild toga...
20) Animal house
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
A madcap spoof of 1960s college life that follows the outrageous adventures of the Delta House fraternity.
