Gena Rowlands
1) Hope floats
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002, 1998]
Language
English
Description
Birdee Pruitt has a life most people would envy. But when her cheating husband reveals his infidelity to her on a national TV talk show, her perfect life comes crashing down. Devastated, Birdee and her young daughter head home to the small town she left behind. As mother and daughter struggle to adjust to their new lives, Birdee slowly gains the strength to open her heart and find hope again.
3) Paulie
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
When a little parrot with a big personality sets out to find the loving girl who raised him, he discovers his way with words has a way of landing him in big trouble.
Series
Criterion collection volume 253
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
As a suburban housewife suffers an emotional breakdown, her family struggles to help her.
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
When Caroline Ellis takes a job as a hospice worker in Louisiana's bayous, she unlocks a deadly secret involving magic, conjure, and sacrifice that pulls her into a terrifying world of strange, frightening, and unexplained incidents. The key to escaping may lie in a decrepit attic, but if she dares to believe in what she discovers, everything she fears will become real.
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Mildred is a quiet suburban lady whose life is changed forever when she agrees to baby-sit for Monica, her wild and crazy neighbor. As Mildred, a caretaker by nature, grows closer to Monica's son, J.J., he thrives under her watchful eye, and Mildred begins to loosen up with the help of Monica's party-girl ways. But when Monica sorts out her domestic issues, and J.J. no longer needs a babysitter, Mildred is forced to examine her life and for once,...
Publisher
New Line Cinema
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Notebook: Allie Hamilton and Noah Calhoun meet one evening at a carnival. But they are separated by Allie's parents who disapprove of Noah's unwealthy family, and move Allie away. When Allie doesn't hear from Noah after several years, she meets and becomes engaged to a handsome young soldier named Lon. Allie, with her love still alive for Noah, stops by Noah's home to check on him. Seeing that their reunion has rekindled a passionate romance, Allie...
9) Taking lives
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Illeana Scott is a special agent with the FBI, who has a strong record as a criminal profiler. Scott is called in by a former Quantico colleague to assist two Canadian police detectives, Paquette and Duval, who are on the trail of a serial killer who has been killing in and around Montreal for almost two decades. Art gallery owner James Costa saw the killer during an assault, and now finds himself working as a decoy for Scott. As Scott and Costa follow...
10) The notebook
Series
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Allie Hamilton and Noah Calhoun meet one evening at a carnival. But they are separated by Allie's parents who disapprove of Noah's poor family, and move Allie away. When Allie doesn't hear from Noah after several years, she meets and becomes engaged to a handsome young soldier named Lon. Allie, with her love still alive for Noah, stops by Noah's home to check on him. Seeing that their reunion has rekindled a passionate romance, Allie must now choose...
11) Tony Rome
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Tony Rome, a tough Miami PI living on a houseboat, is hired by a local millionaire to find jewelry stolen from his daughter, and in the process has several encounters with local hoods as well as the Miami Beach PD.
12) Tempest
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Comedy loosely based on Shakespeare's play "The Tempest" has a New York City architect who tries to solve his midlife crisis by moving to a Greek island with his teenage daughter.
13) Hope floats
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
When Birdee Pruitt's husband and her best friend reveal their affair on a national TV talk show, Birdee and her young daughter head home to the small Texas town she left behind. Mother and daughter struggle to adjust to their new lives, with Birdee wondering how she will recover.
14) The Mighty
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
With his loving and supportive mother, 13-year-old Kevin moves in next door to another teen, Max. though both have problems that label them as outcasts, Kevin and Max discover that by proudly combining their strengths on uniting as one, they can overcome their individual limitations and triumph over any adversity. As the two set out on a series of courageous adventures, they find the mightiest treasure of all: friendship!
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
It's 1987 in Bayonne, New Jersey. The bars are full and smoky, and two old friends, Debby and Beth, are out looking for a good time. With their hair teased and clothes tight enough that they looked painted on, you would never suspect one is a single mother and the other is a lonely office worker. But what they don't see is that most of the men that they meet are only looking for one night stands, not a long term relationship.
16) Another woman
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
When a distinguished philosophy professor turns 50, she feels compelled to take emotional stock of her life. But the deeper she digs the more her life seems to unravel, until she realizes that her search for truth is a personal odyssey of self-examination, discovery and acceptance.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Hope floats (1998, 114 min.): Birdee Pruitt has a life most people would envy. But when her cheating husband reveals his infidelity to her on a national TV talk show, her perfect life comes crashing down. Devastated, Birdee and her young daughter head home to the small town she left behind. As mother and daughter struggle to adjust to their new lives, Birdee slowly gains the strength to open her heart and find hope again.
Speed (1994, 115 min.):...
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
After landing himself in jail trying to break out his friend, Jack Burns finds himself alone and on the run from the law. Leading the manhunt is Sheriff Morey Johnson, who must bring Burns to justice despite his own sympathy for the fugitive.
19) Faces
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2004], 1968.
Language
English
Description
Powerful story of the dissintegration of a marriage of a captain of industry and his wife.
Publisher
Showtime Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
"Charlie is a troubled, hot-headed teen who is offered an ultimatum by his school principal, Mr. Dewitt - either be suspended from school or work for the town "crazy lady". Charlie decides to work for Mrs. Ritchie and he spends the harvest season in her backyard. The troubled teen learns about love and forgiveness from the eccentric, elderly widow and from his high school principal."