Shirley Henderson
Author
Language
English
Description
NEVER STEADY, NEVER STILL, the feature film debut of Kathleen Hepburn, is a tender and heartbreaking story of a physically disabled mother and discontent son - each alienated from their world and struggling to manage in the face of grief, guilt and chronic disease. Having lived with Parkinson's Disease for almost two decades, Judy is faced with the heightened challenges of daily life when tragedy strikes on their isolated property on the shores of...
2) Urban Hymn
Author
Language
English
Description
A redemptive coming of age story about a wayward teen, Jamie (Letitia Wright), who is encouraged by an inspiring and unconventional social worker Kate (Shirley Henderson), to use singing as an escape from her troubled background. Jamie's loyalties soon become torn between Kate and her possessive and volatile best friend, Leanne (Isabella Laughland).
3) Everyday
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
An emotionally powerful tale about a father's 5-year prison sentence and how his family overcomes it.
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Based on true events, Elijah Wood stars as John Malcolm Brinnin, the New York academic who brought Dylan Thomas to America. Actor/co-writer Celyn Jones plays the volatile celebrity poet – tormented by anonymity, alcohol and the abyss – who scandalized the Manhattan literati of the 50s. In the face of his wilder excesses in the Big Apple, John has no choice but to hijack Dylan to a private retreat to get him ready for America. The days and nights...
6) Intermission
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
English
Description
In the suburbs of Dublin, more than a dozen strangers find their paths colliding in sometimes violent, sometimes absurd ways.
Series
Criterion collection volume 574
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Director-approved DVD special ed.
Language
English
Description
With her ex-husband Bill a convicted pedophile and in jail, Trish is happy to remarry and provide a normal father figure for her two sons, but when Bill is released, Trish and the boys must decide whether or not to forgive him. Includes bonus features.
8) Urban Hymn
Publisher
Level 33 Entertainment
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A redemptive coming of age story about a wayward teen Jamie (Letitia Wright), who is encouraged by Kate, an inspiring and unconventional social worker to use singing as an escape from her troubled background. Jamie's loyalties soon become torn between Kate and her possessive and volatile best friend, Leann. Official Selection at the **Toronto International Film Festival**. Nominated for Most Promising Newcomer at the **British Independent Film Awards**....
11) Tom Jones
Series
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Abandoned as a baby, rescued and adopted by a country gentleman, Tom Jones grows up kind, handsome, free-spirited, and very popular with the ladies. But he cannot escape his lowly birth. When he falls in love with the bright, beautiful heiress Sophia Western, and she falls in love with him, their families unite against the match. They both end up in London, facing the wiles and whims of Sophia's aunt, the beguiling but dangerous Lady Bellaston, who...
12) Meek's cutoff
Publisher
Oscilloscope Pictures
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
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Description
A wagon train of three families has hired mountain man Stephen Meek to guide them over the Cascade Mountains. Claiming to know a shortcut, Meek leads the group on an unmarked path across the high plain desert, only to become lost in the dry rock and sage. Over the coming days, the emigrants face the scourges of hunger, thirst, and their own lack of faith in each other's instincts for survival. When they encounter a Native American, they must choose...
Author
Series
Southcliffe volume 1
Language
English
Description
The sleepy market town of Southcliffe is utterly and forever devasted by an apparently random killing spree by an indiscriminate gunman.
Author
Series
Southcliffe volume 3
Language
English
Description
The families of the dead are each immersed in their own struggle to comprehend what has happened with feelings of guilt, madness and grief prevalent among them.
16) American Cousins
Author
Language
English
Description
Hiding out from Russian mobsters, American criminals Settimo and Gino pay a visit to their Scottish cousin, Roberto. The unassuming Scotsman operates a small restaurant and believes his relatives are businessmen, so he's thrown for a loop when he discovers their true occupation. When the Russians send hit men after Settimo and Gino, Roberto gets pulled into the dangerous situation.
Author
Series
Southcliffe volume 4
Language
English
Description
One year on and a hate mail letter reawakens the threat that Morton is still alive and returning to Southcliffe for the anniversary of the attack.
Author
Series
Southcliffe volume 2
Language
English
Description
Chris awakes to find his wife shot dead, before the deceits and desires of the people involved in the days leading up to the event are revealed.