Julia Ormond
Series
Criterion collection volume 476
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
Daisy Fuller Williams is on her deathbed in a New Orleans hospital the day that Hurricane Katrina hits. At her side is her adult daughter, Caroline. Daisy asks Caroline to read to her aloud from the diary of Daisy's lifelong friend, Benjamin Button. Benjamin's diary recounts his entire extraordinary life. The unusual aspect of his life is that he is ages backwards, being born an old man. He is diagnosed with several aged diseases at birth and thus...
2) Reunion
Author
Publisher
Mpi Media Group
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
After the death of her grandparents, a pregnant woman travels to their old family home where she finds her reunion with her estranged mother taking a terrifying turn.
3) First knight
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004, c1995
Language
English
Description
Sir Malagant declares war on King Arthur in hopes of gaining part of Camelot. In the meantime, Arthur's young bride, Guenivere, has fallen in love with Lancelot, one of Arthur's loyal knights.
Series
Publisher
New Line Video
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
A young girl enlists the help of her friends to solve a robbery in her home that threatens to put her family's house into foreclosure, after her father leaves town to look for work and her mother takes in borders to make ends meet.
"Two thumbs up!"--Roeper & Michael Phillips
"...a great look, engaging performances, real substance and even a few whispers of political ideas..."--Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
"One of the 10 best American movies released...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
An engaging portrait of an autistic young woman who became, through timely mentoring and sheer force of will, one of America's most remarkable success stories as a leader in the field of animal husbandry and the humane handling of cattle.
7) Sabrina
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Sabrina, the naive daughter of the chauffeur for an immensely wealthy family, is obsessed with David, the family's younger son. When Sabrina returns to Long Island from Paris as a sophisticated young woman, she begins a romance with David, who has meanwhile become engaged to the daughter of a wealthy family. This new romance threatens the business interests of Linus, the older son, so he pretends to court Sabrina in order to woo her away from David,...
Publisher
Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1956, 23-year-old Colin Clark, determined to make his way in the film business, worked as a lowly assistant on the set of The Prince and the Showgirl, the film that famously united Sir Laurence Olivier and Marilyn Monroe. When his diary account was published, one week was missing. This is the story of that week: an idyll in which he escorted a Monroe desperate to get away from Hollywood hangers-on and the pressures of work.
10) Albatross
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
17-year-old Emelia, who believes she is following in the footsteps of her great-grandfather Sir Arthur Conan Doyle by pursuing a writing career, takes a job at a B&B owned by former writer Jonathan Fischer and run by his wife Joa. Sensing emerging talent in Emelia, Jonathan begins to tutor her, leading to a relationship that soon develops into a secret affair. Meanwhile, bookish daughter Beth Fishcher finds an unlikely friend in the free-spirited...
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Centers on the adventures of a mother and her two adult daughters, both of whom unknowingly are their family's next generation of witches, who lead seemingly quiet, uneventful modern day lives in Long Island's secluded seaside town of North Hampton. When one of the daughters becomes engaged to a young, wealthy newcomer, a series of events forces her mother to admit to her daughters they are, in fact, powerful and immortal witches.
12) The wronged man
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Paralegal Janet Gregory takes on a pro bono case to help an African-American husband and father who she believes has been wrongly accused of raping a girl in his neighborhood. Her 22-year battle with the justice system will eventually bring him the freedom he deserves and bond the two of them in a life-long friendship.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Aubrey Fleming is a bright and promising young woman with friends and family. One night, she unexpectedly disappears. Two weeks later she is found unconscious in the middle of the woods. When she comes to, her loved ones realize she has forgotten her identity and the personality living in her body is Dakota Moss, a character that Aubrey created in one of her stories for an English assignment. Dakota denies ever being Aubrey, but knows that they look...
14) Son of the South
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
In this true story set in Montgomery, Alabama, a Klansman's grandson must choose which side of history to be on during the Civil Rights Movement.
Series
Criterion collection volume 476
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Daisy Fuller Williams is on her deathbed in a New Orleans hospital the day that Hurricane Katrina hits. At her side is her adult daughter, Caroline. Daisy asks Caroline to read to her aloud from the diary of Daisy's lifelong friend, Benjamin Button. Benjamin's diary recounts his entire extraordinary life. The unusual aspect of his life is that he is ages backwards, being born an old man. He is diagnosed with several aged diseases at birth and thus...
Publisher
HBO Video [Distributor]
Pub. Date
©2004.
Language
English
Description
Alice Paul and Lucy Burns were two defiant suffragist women who fought for the passage of the 19th Amendment. The two activists broke from the mainstream women's rights movement and created a more radical wing, daring to push the boundaries to secure women's voting rights in 1920. In a country dominated by chauvinism, this is no easy fight. Along the way, sacrifices are made: Alice gives up a chance for love, and colleague Inez Mulholland gives up...
Publisher
Lions Gate Films
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
From the author of Awakenings comes a heartwarming tale of a father and son, who find a connection through the music that embodied the generation gap of the 1960s. An unforgettable soundtrack features the Grateful Dead, Bob Dylan, Crosby Stills and Nash, and many more.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
On her 60th birthday, Julia hits it off with handsome young Benjamin. But their whirlwind romance is marred by the disapproval of Julia's adult children. Does Benjamin truly love her, or is he the gold digger her family believes him to be?
19) Sabrina
Series
Centennial collection volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
David and Linus are brothers running the family corporation. When the chauffeur's daughter comes back from Paris she finds she has the attention of David, whom she has always liked, but starts to fall in love with Linus. Includes bonus features.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2000
Language
English
Description
When a young boy from Greenland falls from the top of the house Smilla lives in, she suspects that this was not an accident. As she begins to investigate, she is pulled deeper and deeper into a conspiracy that could very well mean her death.