Danielle Macdonald
1) Big summer
Author
Language
English
Description
"Six years after the fight that ended their friendship, Daphne Berg is shocked when Drue Cavanaugh walks back into her life, looking as lovely and successful as ever, with a massive favor to ask. Daphne hasn't spoken one word to Drue in all this time--she doesn't even hate-follow her ex-best friend on social media--so when Drue asks if she will be her maid-of-honor at the society wedding of the summer, Daphne is rightfully speechless. Drue was always...
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English
Formats
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...
3) French exit
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Sixty-year-old penniless Manhattan socialite Frances Price had a plan. To die before the money ran out, but things didn't go as planned. Her husband Franklin has been dead for twelve years and with his vast inheritance gone, she cashes in the last of her possessions and resolves to live out her twilight days anonymously in a borrowed apartment in Paris. She is accompanied by her directionless son Malcolm and a cat named Small Frank, who may or may...
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
It follows a brilliant young fund manager named Millie, who quits her job and ends things with her long-term boyfriend to fulfill her dream of becoming an opera singer in the Scottish Highlands. She begins intense vocal training lessons with a renowned but fearsome singing teacher and former opera diva Meghan Geoffrey-Bishop. It is there she meets Max, another of Meghan's students who is also training for the upcoming "Singer of Renown" contest. The...
5) I Am Woman
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In 1966, single-mother Helen Reddy leaves her old life in Australia for New York and stardom, only to find that the industry doesn't take her seriously.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In a small upstate New York town, two 11-year-old girls from opposite sides of the tracks are convicted of murdering an infant and sentenced to juvenile detention facilities. But when a toddler goes missing seven years later, Detective Nancy Porter begins to suspect recently released Ronnie and Alice. As the investigation deepens, Porter may discover that the truth can hide the most shocking secrets of all. Diane Lane and Common co-star in this grim,...
7) Skin
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Inspired by real-life events, this **Oscar**-winning short is set In a small supermarket in a blue collar town, a black man smiles at a 10 year old white boy across the checkout aisle. This innocuous moment sends two gangs into a ruthless war that ends with a shocking backlash. Winner of the 2019 **Academy Award** for Best Live Action Short Film. "*It's a narrow treatment of a now pressingly relevant subject, but one that still rewards as a powerful,...
8) I Am Woman
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Language
English
Description
For the first time on screen, I AM WOMAN tells the inspiring story of singer Helen Reddy, who wrote and sang the song "I Am Woman" that became the anthem for the women's movement in the 1970s. The film is a story of fearless ambition and passion, of a woman who smashed through the patriarchal norms of her time to become the international singing superstar she always dreamed of being.
9) I am woman
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The inspiring story of singer Helen Reddy, who wrote and sang the song that became the anthem for the women's movement in the 1970s.
10) Patti Cake$
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Female rapper Patti Cake takes advantage of every opportunity in her New Jersey hometown as she chases her dreams of music stardom.
11) French exit
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
'My plan was to die before the money ran out,' says 60-year-old, penniless Manhattan socialite Frances Price (Michelle Pfeiffer), but things didn't go as planned. Her husband, Franklin, has been dead for 12 years. With his vast inheritance gone, she cashes in the last of her possessions and resolves to live out her twilight days anonymously in a borrowed apartment in Paris, accompanied by her directionless son, Malcolm (Lucas Hedges), and a cat named...