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1) Hoot
Series
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Roy Eberhardt is the only child in a family that is constantly relocating for his father's work. At 14, he's once again the new kid, this time in the tiny Florida beach town of Coconut Cove. Predictably, a bully nicknames him "Cowgirl" and proceeds to torture him. Unpredictably, a barefoot blonde boy who runs alongside the school bus every morning fascinates him. Tough-as-nails girl jock Beatrice befriends Roy, helps with the bully, and is revealed...
2) Moonlight
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young black man struggles to find his place in the world while growing up in a rough neighborhood in Miami.
3) In her shoes
Language
English
Description
Free-wheeling irresponsible Maggie gets through her life thanks to her remarkable looks and her complete lack of scruples. She constantly goes to her straight-laced, plain-Jane successful lawyer sister Rose when she is in need of financial help. The two sisters have been very close to each other in part because their troubled mother died when they were girls. Maggie discovers hidden letters that reveal she and Rose have a grandmother, but Maggie ends...
5) Pain & gain
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
When an ambitious group of personal trainers go after the American dream, they get caught up in a criminal enterprise that goes horribly wrong.
6) Zola
Language
English
Formats
Description
Y’all wanna hear a story about why me & this bitch here fell out? It’s kind of long but full of suspense.” Thus began the odyssey of one A’Ziah King, aka ZOLA. From acclaimed writer/director Janicza Bravo, Zola's stranger than fiction saga, which she first told in a now iconic series of viral, uproarious tweets, comes to dazzling cinematic life. Zola (Taylour Paige), a Detroit waitress, strikes up a new friendship with a customer, Stefani...
7) The birdcage
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
The story of a middle-aged gay couple's comic encounter with a self-righteously straight and conservative family. Armand and Albert reluctantly accept young Val's intention to marry the daughter of a conservative Senator, but when the fiancee's family comes to visit, the whole household is turned upside down.
8) The yearling
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
A young boy, Jody, living with his family on the Florida frontier shortly after the Civil War, must sacrifice his pet fawn for his family's survival.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A collection of DVDs all gathered into one "binge box" for a spectacular movie night.
The Danish girl (R) (2015) (120 min.): This remarkable love story which is inspired by the lives of artists Lili Elbe an Gerda Wegener, follows the evolution of the couple's marriage and work as they navigate Lili's groundbreaking journey as a transgender pioneer.
Call me by your name (R) (2017) (132 min.): In northern Italy in 1983, seventeen-year-old Elio begins...
13) 92 in the Shade
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Tom Skelton is a bum who gets a job as a fishing guide in his old hometown. Nobody wants to have anything to do with Skelton, so, faced with financial disaster and widespread hostility, he turns to his wealthy grandfather for help.
Series
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
For Queen and Country:A veteran turns vigilante when he returns home to find his neighborhood besieged with crime and corruption.
The Mighty Quinn: Washington stars as Xavier Quinn, Police Chief of a small Caribbean island whose childhood friend, Maubee, is suspected of murdering a wealthy resort owner. Though doubtful of Maubee's guilt, a reluctant Quinn is forced by the Governor to search for his elusive friend, who is in hiding. His investigation...
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Boyhood: Shot over a twelve-year span, this groundbreaking coming-of-age story follows Mason, who ages from six- to eighteen-years-old on screen.
The edge of seventeen: High-school life gets even more unbearable for Nadine when her best friend, Krista, starts dating her older brother.
Lady Bird: Christine "Lady Bird" McPherson fights against but is exactly like her wildy loving, deeply opinionated, and strong-willed mom, a nurse working tirelessly...
17) Marley & me
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
John and Jen are journalists who are a newly married couple. Marley is the adopted puppy that no one wants, a high-strung lab who is virtually untrainable. Marley shreds cushions, destroys floors and walls and most everything in between. Instead of taking him to the pound, they love their dog and he faithfully loves them in return. John and Jen eventually have three children and Jen gives up her career to be a mom. John's career continues to advance...
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A collection of DVDs all gathered into one "binge box" for a spectacular movie night.
Burnt: Chef Adam Jones had it all, and lost it. A rockstar chef of a two-star Michelin restaurant with the bad habits to match, the former enfant terrible of the Paris restaurant scene did everything different every time out and only ever cared about the thrill of creating explosions of taste. To land his own kitchen and that third elusive Michelin star though,...
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The birdcage: When the son of a gay man invites his fiancee"s ultra-conservative family over for dinner, his father tries to act straight while his partner plays an endearing old woman.
The world to come: Somewhere along the mid-nineteenth century American East Coast frontier, two neighboring couples battle hardship and isolation, witnessed by a splendid yet testing landscape, challenging them both physically and psychologically.
Love, Simon: Everyone...
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