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Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Theodore 'Theo' Decker was thirteen years old when his mother was killed in a bombing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The tragedy changes the course of his life, sending him on a stirring odyssey of grief and guilt, reinvention and redemption, and even love. Through it all, he holds on to one tangible piece of hope from that terrible day, a painting of a tiny bird chained to its perch.
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
In this humorous and heartwarming story based on Clyde Edgerton's acclaimed novel, a feisty 78-year old widow and an unloved, troubled teenager from a youth rehabilitation center forge a special kind of bond, despite their tremendous differences, and discover what it takes to earn the trust and love of another.
4) Jersey boys
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The story of four young men from the wrong side of the tracks in New Jersey who came together to form the iconic 1960s rock group The Four Seasons.
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Homer Wells grows up in an orphanage in remote St. Cloud, Maine. Dr. Larch, who also provides medically safe, if illegal, abortions, runs the orphanage. Homer is Dr. Larch's favorite, and over the years, Dr. Larch trains Homer as his successor. Homer thus becomes a skilled, albeit unlicensed, physician. Homer, however, yearns for a life outside the orphanage. When Wally and pregnant Candy come for an abortion, Homer leaves with them to work on Wally's...
6) Guest artist
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The story of a young man coming face to face with his hero an exploring the tangled relationship between the dreams of youth and the wisdom of age.
7) Clerks
Series
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
It's one wild day in the life of a pair of overworked counter jockeys who brave a nonstop parade of unpredictable shoppers, while managing to play hockey on the roof, visit a funeral home and straighten out their offbeat love lives.
Series
Criterion collection volume 95
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The film follows the blossoming love between a well-off suburban widow and her handsome and earthy younger gardener. After their romance prompts the scorn of her selfish children and snooty country club friends, she must decide whether to pursue her own happiness or carry on a lonely, hemmed-in existence for the sake of the approval of others.
Language
English
Formats
Description
As his life hits rock bottom, Richie decides to end it all, only to have his half-hearted suicide attempt interrupted by an urgent request from his sister to babysit her precocious daughter. So begins a madcap tour of Manhattan after dark, as uncle and niece find unexpected bonds in the unlikeliest of places.
Language
English
Description
An inspiration to billions of people worldwide, Billy Graham is the charismatic preacher who became one of the most important figures of 20th century Christianity. Now discover Billy as the earnest and promising young man at the crossroads of faith and doubt, ultimately facing the moment of decision that gives way to history's most influential evangelist.
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In this powerful new film based on his bestselling book, sociologist Michael Kimmel maps the troubling social world where boys become men -- a new stage of development he calls "Guyland." Arguing that the traditional adult signposts and cultural signals that once helped boys navigate their way to manhood are no longer clear, Kimmel provides an astonishing glimpse into a world where more and more young men are trying desperately to prove their masculinity...
13) Harold and Maude
Series
Criterion collection volume 608
Language
English
Formats
Description
Deadpan rich boy Harold (Bud Cort) stages elaborate suicide tableaux to get the attention of his mother, but she keeps planning his brilliant future for him instead. Obsessed with the trappings of death, Harold freaks out his blind dates, modifies his new sports car to look like a mini-hearse, and attends funerals, where he meets the spirited Maude (Ruth Gordon). An eccentric to the core, Maude lives exactly as she pleases, with avid collecting and...
14) The Pirogue
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Français
Description
In Moussa Toure’s powerful epic fiction film, a group of 30 men sail to Europe in a pirogue, facing the sea - and the possibility of never reaching their destination - in exchange for the myth of a better life in Europe. Baye Laye is the captain of a fishing pirogue. Like many of his Senegalese compatriots, he sometimes dreams of new horizons, where he can earn a better living for his family. When he is offered to lead one of the many pirogues that...
15) Aces
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Aces is the story of a young man who fights against the battering of his mother by his drunken father. The situation escalates until Ace desperately stabs his father to death, and is sent to jail for a period of 15 years. Nine years later he is out on parole. He kills again within a day's time of his release.
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Devastated over his breakup with his girlfriend, Carter Webb leaves Los Angeles to stay with his ailing Grandmother in her suburban Detroit home. Across the street lives the Hardwicke family. As Carter struggles to reconcile his own inner conflicts, he is drawn into the pains and loves of the Hardwicke women. All the Hardwicke women, in their way, fall in love with Carter. Each woman, in her own way, helps Carter find his way back.
17) Lukewarm
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Luke Rogers started out on the right path, but when his dad walked out when Luke was just a boy, his world came crashing down. Now working as a bartender to make ends meet, Luke is slowly losing his way. Between the enticements of the nightclub scene and a reluctance to fully commit to his devoted girlfriend, Luke's crisis of faith is coming to a head. Will he ultimately succumb to temptation or can he take control of his life and try to forge a new...
Language
English
Formats
Description
After making his mark on Wall Street, Will Martin has returned home to oversee his deceased grandfather's real estate company. He doesn't plan on staying, however. He has hired a manager and plans on returning to New York as soon as possible and pick up his old life. But as he helps is grandmother unravel a mystery regarding his grandfather, Will finds himself on a journey of self-discovery, which leads him to question the greedy practice of putting...
Series
Criterion collection volume 95
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Cary Scott, an attractive and wealthy New England widow, creates a social outcry in her community and within her family when she becomes romantically involved with Ron Kirby, her much younger gardener.
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