Lili Taylor
Author
Language
English
Description
Nancy Savoca's star-studded indie gem Household Saints is a chronicle of a spirited Italian-American New York family that perfectly balances humor, tragedy, and pathos. Joseph Santangelo (Vincent D'Onofrio) is a butcher with a wicked sense of humor who "wins" his wife Catherine (a stellar Tracey Ullman) in a pinochle game. Over the protests of his mother (Judith Malina) who talks to ghosts and makes deals with saints, Joseph marries Catherine. When...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Wisconsin, fourth-grader Ida B spends happy hours being home-schooled and playing in her family's apple orchard, until her mother begins treatment for breast cancer, and her parents must sell part of the orchard and send her to public school.
Author
Language
English
Description
Fairy tales for our times from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The HoursA poisoned apple and a monkey's paw with the power to change fate; a girl whose extraordinarily long hair causes catastrophe; a man with one human arm and one swan's wing; and a house deep in the forest, constructed of gumdrops and gingerbread, vanilla frosting and boiled sugar. In A Wild Swan and Other Tales, the people and the talismans of lands far, far away-the mythic...
6) There There
Author
Language
English
Description
Connecting with the person directly in front of us can be a lot harder than it seems. This series of hilarious, romantic, fateful encounters holds a mirror up to life in our distinctly twisted, modern world.
7) The Pier
Publisher
Network Ireland Television
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Jack McCarthy's normal life in New York is disrupted by an emergency call from his elderly father, Larry, whom he has not heard from in 20 years. Believing his father is terminally ill, Jack reluctantly but dutifully rushes back to his hometown in the Southwest of Ireland. Official Selection at the **Cork International FIlm Festival**.
8) Factotum
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Henry Chinaski (Dillon) considers himself a writer, and on occasion writes. Mostly he quests for the booze and women that sidetrack and seduce (like that played by Oscar winner Marisa Tomei), rather than inspire. When he falls for Jan (Lili Taylor), the soulful connection fails to save either from their self-destructive ways, and the relationship totters between earnest connection and reflective loathing.
Publisher
Cinedigm
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Cult author and David Lynch collaborator Barry Gifford’s gritty autobiographical stories of growing up in the 1950s (narrated by Willem Dafoe, Lili Taylor and Matt Dillon) provide the backdrop for a jazzy, impressionistic portrait of a vanished Chicago.
10) Mystic Pizza
Author
Language
English
Description
The coming-of-age of three best friends who work at a pizzeria in the seaside town of Mystic, Connecticut.
11) The Evening Hour
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Cole Freeman (Philip Ettinger) maintains an uneasy equilibrium in his declining Appalachian mining town, looking after the old and infirm in the community while selling their excess painkillers to local addicts to help make ends meet. But when his old friend, Terry Rose (Cosmo Jarvis), returns with dangerous plans that threaten the fragile balance Cole has crafted, his world and identity are thrown into disarray.
12) Future Weather
Author
Language
English
Description
Lauduree (Haney-Jardine) is a 13-year-old loner passionate about nature and worried about global warming. Greta (Amy Madigan), her grandmother, is a fiery nurse jaded by alcohol and disappointment. When Lauduree is abruptly abandoned by her dreamer single mom (Marin Ireland), she decides to take survival into her own hands, forcing her and Greta to rethink their futures. Featuring outstanding performances by Amy Madigan (Field of Dreams, Gone Baby...
13) Paper Spiders
Publisher
Entertainment Squad
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Dawn recently lost her husband, and experiences growing anxiety as her daughter Melanie plans to move away for college. An altercation with a hostile new neighbor aggravates Dawn's mental condition, and she begins to show signs of paranoid delusions. Determined to help her mom, Melanie attempts a series of interventions, but challenging Dawn's reality of persecution threatens to destroy their loving relationship. Melanie is forced to make the toughest...
14) There There
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A lover’s doubt in the cold light of morning leads to a chain of uneasy intimacies. THERE THERE takes physical separations to an extreme while simultaneously forging, always, to create unique intimacies on screen.
15) Love, Marilyn
Author
Language
English
Description
Of all the stars in Hollywood's history, no one had a more potent mix of glamor and tragedy than Marilyn Monroe. Through performed readings of her personal papers, this film explores the life and personal thoughts of this seminal movie star.
16) Arizona Dream
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
Academy Award-nominee Johnny Depp ("Pirates of the Caribbean," "Blow"), Academy Award-winner Faye Dunaway ("Network," "Chinatown"), and the legendary Jerry Lewis ("The King of Comedy," "Cinderfella"), headline this offbeat psychodrama about a group of people drawn together in a desert town. Fleeing personal problems to pursue their dreams, they come to learn something about themselves and their relationships with the others around them. The New York...
17) Blood Ties
Author
Language
English
Description
NYC, 1974: Chris (Clive Owen) is released from prison, but his younger brother Frank (Billy Crudup), an aspiring cop, sees him slowly descending back into a life of crime. Does Frank cover for him or risk destroying his own future?
18) Four Rooms
Author
Language
English
Description
Don't miss the fun in this hilariously sexy comedy that has a sizzling all-star cast checking in for laughs! It's Ted the Bellhop's first night on the job and the hotel's very unusual guests are about to place him in some outrageous predicaments.
19) The conjuring
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Rental ed.
Language
English
Description
The story of Ed and Lorraine Warren, world renowned paranormal investigators, who were called to help a family terrorized by a dark presence in a secluded farmhouse. Forced to confront a powerful demonic entity, the Warrens find themselves caught in the most horrifying case of their lives.
20) Family of spies
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
This is the true, Golden Globe Award nominated and Emmy winning miniseries about the rise of a manipulative traitor in our midst: John A. Walker, American spy to the KGB.