Robert Benton
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ted Kramer is a young husband and father who loves his family and his job. He spends most of his time at work. When he returns home late one evening, his wife Joanna confronts and then leaves him. This forces Ted to become the sole caregiver to their six-year-old son. Now, Ted must learn to be a father while balancing the demands of his high-pressure job. Just as Ted begins to adapt to his new role, Joanna returns wanting her son back.
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Paul Newman earned an Oscar® nomination plus Best Actor honors from the National Society of Film Critics and New York Film Critics Circle for his portrayal of Sully, a likeable working stiff who's made a lifetime of bad decisions. But he unexpectedly has a chance to make right on some of them when his estranged son - and grandson - drop into his life. Melanie Griffith and Jessica Tandy are among the talented costars of this engaging film honored...
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
"When Charlie and his partner Vic steal from a mob boss, they think they've pulled off the perfect crime. But when they race through a night filled with mayhem, lust and lethal surprises, they realize that the biggest risk they'll take will be trusting each other." - container.
5) Twilight
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
A burned-out private eye plunges into a murder mystery tied to a long-unsolved case involving an aging actor.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The action-packed gangster epic details the rise and fall of notorious mobster Dutch Schultz. His story is told through the eyes of his young protege Billy Bathgate, who is an ambitious and streetwise kid seduced by the power, money, and glamour of crime. He soon begins to seriously question if his passport to the good life will come from the fiery Dutch and his gang.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Bradley is the owner of a coffee shop in Oregon. He thinks his marriage is idyllic, that is until his wife, Kathryn, leaves him for another woman. One of Bradley's baristas falls head over heels for a girl who comes looking for a job, but his abusive father spells trouble for the relationship. Finally, a professor and his wife struggle to find purpose in life in the aftermath of a personal tragedy.
10) Billy Bathgate
Pub. Date
[2002?]
Language
English
Description
Two-time Academy Award winner Dustin Hoffman stars in the action-packed gangster epic detailing the rise and fall of notorious mobster Dutch Schultz as seen through the eyes of his young protege, Billy Bathgate. Billy, an ambitious streetwise kid seduced by the power, money and glamour of crime, soon begins to seriously question if his passport to the good life is going to come from the fiery Dutch and his gang!
11) The human stain
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Coleman Silk is a respected professor at a New England college who suddenly finds his life unraveling after a comment he makes about some African-American students is misinterpreted as a racial slur. As the scandal heats up, Nathan Zuckerman, a writer researching a biography of Silk, begins to dig deeply into Silk's life. Eventually, matters are made worse when Coleman's affair with a young married janitor named Faunia Farley is exposed. But amid...
12) The late show
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Aging private detective Ira Wells (Carney) teams up with kooky Margo Sterling (Tomlin) to solve the murder of Carney's old detective partner.
14) What's up, doc?
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Four red plaid traveling cases-- one of each belonging to a befuddled Iowa musicologist, a strange but bright young woman, a rich matron and a suspicious fellow-- are mixed up at a San Francisco hotel, with hilarious results.