Diana Scarwid
Language
English
Description
The story of movie star Joan Crawford, as told by her adopted daughter Christina. As she struggles for her career and battles the inner demons of her private life, desperate to be a mother, she adopts children. Her torment is manifested in her increasingly dysfunctional and abusive relations with her two children.
Series
Language
English
Description
As two young girls embark on a quest for a legendary treasure, they discover an even more valuable prize, the enduring power of loyalty and friendship. Beth and Jody couldn't be more different. Beth is a city girl who has just moved from Los Angeles to a small town in the Pacific Northwest; Jody is a rough-and-tumble tomboy who's right at home in the woods and lakes surrounding her hometown.
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A Christmas story told through the eyes of two young boys living in a North Carolina manufacturing town during the 1950s. Jerry is a quiet 10-year-old who enjoys all the advantages of a middle-class lifestyle. Whitey lives in poverty with his mother and ailing four-year-old sister Sandy. As Whitey saves up money from his daily newspaper route to buy Sandy a real angel doll for Christmas, he discovers there are no such dolls for sale in their small...
4) Truman
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
President Truman led the nation through the end of World War II, the beginning of the Cold War, the struggle for civil rights and the creation of the United Nations.
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Lynn and her three youngest children attend the wedding of her estranged eldest son at her parents' Annapolis estate. Though she is hoping for a joyful reunion, her attempts at reconciliation veer quickly off-course when she is hurled into the center of touchy family dynamics.
6) The cure
Series
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Two boys, one with AIDS, become friends and embark on an adventure to New Orleans in hopes of finding a cure.
7) Pretty baby
Language
English
Description
A photographer obsessed with the prostitutes in New Orleans' red-light district, circa 1917, is bewitched by a twelve-year-old child prostitute.
8) Rumble fish
Series
Criterion collection volume 869
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this deeply personal tale of estrangement and reconciliation between two rebellious brothers, set in a dreamlike and timeless Tulsa, Francis Ford Coppola gives mythic dimensions to intimate, painful emotions. The director's "art film for teenagers" was his second adaptation of young-adult novelist S. E. Hinton's work in a single year, after the more classically styled The Outsiders. Graced with a remarkable cast headed by Matt Dillon, Mickey Rourke,...
9) Extremities
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
A young woman escapes a rapist, only to have him appear at her house. She fights back and turns the tables.
10) Ruby Bridges
Series
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
When bright six year old Ruby is chosen to be the first African-American to integrate her local New Orleans elementary school, she is subjected to the true ugliness of racism for the very first time.
11) Local color
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
In 1974, in the suburb of Port Chester, New York, the teenage aspirant artist John Talia has a troubled relationship with his homophobic father who does not understand John's talent. While visiting his friend Yammi, John finds that the genius Russian painter Nicoli Seroff lives nearby. He decides to pay a visit to his idol. John finds a bitter alcoholic who is still grieving the loss of his wife Anya. Somehow, he successfully befriends the master....
12) Truman
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
President Truman led the nation through the end of World War II, the beginning of the Cold War, the struggle for civil rights and the creation of the United Nations.
13) A guy thing
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Special edition.
Language
English
Description
Paul is a regular guy who is engaged to marry Karen. Shortly before the wedding, Paul's friends throw him a bachelor party. Paul strikes up a conversation with one of the dancers, Becky, and the next morning, he wakes up bleary-eyed with a massive hangover -- and Becky in bed next to him. Karen comes over and Paul attempts to explain some incriminating evidence with a few white lies, but this messy situation gets messier when Paul runs into Becky...
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Triple feature.
Language
English
Description
Psycho II. After years of treatment at a mental institution for th ecriminally insane, Norman Bates still can't quite elude the demands of "Mother".
Psycho III. A failed nun and a sleazy musician find the desert motel Norman Bates runs in memory of his mother
Psycho IV. When Norman Bates is drawn to a late night radio show where he shares his views on the topic of matricide--he relives his trials as a young boy living with his widowed schizophrenic...
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
A trilogy of stories set in the same house--with different occupants and spanning over 40 years--examines three women, the common crisis of an unexpected pregnancy, and the wrenching decision to have an abortion. In 1952, abortion is illegal. A widowed nurse deals with her unexpected pregnancy by taking drastic measures to obtain one. In 1974, a happily married woman, the mother of four children, discovers that she is pregnant again. Now she must...