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City banker Andy Dufresne arrived at Shawshank Prison in 1947. Convicted of two brutal murders, he received a double life sentence. Within the confines of the prison, Andy forms an unlikely friendship with the prison "fixer" Red. He also becomes popular with the Warden and the prison's guards, as Andy is able to use his banking experience to help the corrupt officials amass personal fortunes. With the extraordinary twist in the tale, Andy finds that...
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
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Michael and Jenna have been a couple for three years. At dinner one night, Jenna's parents, Anna and Stephen, announce that they are having a baby. Jenna is overjoyed, but everyone else has mixed emotions. At a wedding the next day, Jenna and Michael meet up with friends Chris, who is tired of his wife telling him how bad he is as she deals with their whiny baby; Izzy who is taking the break-up of his most current relationship badly and does not react...
4) Half nelson
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A high school teacher with a drug habit finds a friendship in an unlikely source - one of his troubled students. Will their relationship help them or harm them?
5) Being Julia
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
London, 1938. Julia is a true West End diva: beautiful, talented, wealthy, and famous. She has a devoted husband who has masterminded her brilliant career - but after years of the spotlight she begins to suffer from a severe case of boredom and longs for something new and exciting to put the twinkle back in her eye. She finds what she is looking for in a handsome young American fan, who adds a few more sparks than Julia was hoping for.
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
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Joe Buck moves to New York from Texas to make his fortune servicing women. Instead, he's conned into partnering up with small-time huslter Ratso Rizzo. Living together on the tattered edges of society, these two outcasts develop an unlikely bond that helps them transcend their cruel existence.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Michael and Jenna have been a couple for three years. At dinner one night, Jenna's parents, Anna and Stephen, announce that they are having a baby. Jenna is overjoyed, but everyone else has mixed emotions. At a wedding the next day, Jenna and Michael meet up with friends Chris, who is tired of his wife telling him how bad he is as she deals with their whiny baby; Izzy who is taking the break-up of his most current relationship badly and does not react...
8) Beach girls
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
An inseparable trio spent their summers in the beautiful northeast coastal town of Hubbard's Point as kids. Now the past is about to resurface when one woman returns to the same place, this time with her widower father.
9) Dreamland
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
A young girl must decide between taking care of her father and friend, both of whom are sick and need her the most, and doing what will truly make her happy.
10) Strays
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Frustrated by the repetitious grind of one-night stands and aimless hustling, drug dealer Rick is looking for meaning and intimacy in his life. Like his testosterone-tweaked buddies, Rick is a "stray"-- lacking a traditional family structure and wrestling subconsciously with his father's absence. When Heather enters his life, Rick suddenly sees the possibility of a committed relationship and the life he has longed for. However, trying to assimilate...
16) Tara Road
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Marilyn Vine's idyllic life in Connecticut is devastated by the tragic death of her only son, Dale, during his 15th birthday party. 3,000 miles away, Ria Lynch's marriage comes to a stunningly abrupt end in Dublin, Ireland, when husband Danny reveals that he is leaving her for his pregnant mistress, Bernadette. An accidental phone call brings these two otherwise unrelated women together and, in their mutual need for space and time alone, they agree...
18) The good soldier
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
In the decade preceding World War I, two wealthy, handsome couples--English Captain Edward Ashburnham and his wife Leonora, and American John Dowell and his wife Florence--meet at a German spa and forge an immediate bond. Through nine seasons at various spas, the splendid foursome lives elegant, perfect lives. But nothing is as it seems. As John says at one point, "My wife and I knew the Captain and his wife Mrs. Ashburnham as well as was possible...
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Television series about the lives of high school students at Degrassi Community School. In this season, the challenges get harder, the lessons get tougher and the path to self-discovery becomes more dangerous than ever. Emma goes to extremes to lose weight, Manny makes a decision that tarnishes her reputation, Paige questions her sexuality, and relationships will begin or rekindle-- and some couples will meet their bitter end.
Series
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
The Divorcée: When a woman discovers that her husband has been unfaithful to her, she decides to respond in kind.
A free soul: An alcoholic lawyer who successfully defended a notorious gambler on a murder charge objects when his free-spirited daughter becomes romantically involved with his client.
Three on a match: Although Vivian Revere is seemingly the most successful of a trio of reunited schoolmates, she throws it away by descending into a...
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