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English
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Menagerie was Williams' first popular success and launched the brilliant, if somewhat controversial, career of our preeminent lyric playwright. Since its premiere in Chicago in 1944, with the legendary Laurette Taylor in the role of Amanda, the play has been the bravura piece for great actresses from Jessica Tandy to Joanne Woodward, and it is studied and performed in classrooms and theaters around the world. A new introduction by prominent Williams...
Author
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
Modern Library paperback ed.
Language
English
Description
"The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays" brings together Oscar Wilde's most popular plays which first appeared between 1891 and 1895. Despite his relatively short theatrical career, Wilde's plays have enjoyed a sustained popularity. A classic satire of Victorian society, "The Importance of Being Earnest" is one of the author's most frequently performed works. The play trivializes its characters, who through a series of deceptions pretend...
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Full screen.
Language
English
Description
As Mildred pulls herself up by the bootstraps, first as an unflappable waitress and eventually as the well-heeled owner of a successful restaurant chain, the ingratitude of her materialistic firstborn becomes a venomous serpent's tooth, setting in motion an endless cycle of desperate overtures and heartless recriminations.
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
[2018].
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
When her husband suddenly dumps her, longtime dedicated housewife Deanna turns regret into reset by going back to college, landing in the same class and school as her daughter, who's not entirely sold on the idea. Plunging headlong into the campus experience, the increasingly outspoken Deanna, now Dee Rock, embraces freedom, fun, and frat boys on her own terms, finding her true self in a senior year no one ever expected.
7) 52 Tuesdays
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Billie's reluctant path to independence is accelerated when her mother reveals plans for gender transition and their time together becomes limited to Tuesday afternoons.
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Language
Italiano
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Description
Shy Vittoria has a close relationship with her loving mother Tina. But their quiet Sardinian life will be upset when the young girl discovers that local party girl Angelica is her birth mother. When Angelica is forced to move away because of financial troubles, she asks to become acquainted with Vittoria. Tina agrees, comforted by the idea that the woman will soon be leaving town. Searching for something deep and inexplicable, Vittoria and Angelica...
9) The meddler
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
With a new iPhone, and apartment near the grove, and a comfortable bank account left to her by her beloved late husband, Marnie Minervini has happily relocated from New Jersey to Los Angeles to be near her daughter Lori and smother her with motherly love. When the dozens of texts, unexpected visits, and conversations dominated by unsolicited advice force Lori to draw strict personal boundaries, Marnie finds ways to channel her eternal optimism and...
Publisher
Screen Media Films
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
After her twin brother dies, a woman approaching thirty lives in her mother's backyard shed, having trouble moving on, until she meets an awkward real estate agent and an eight-year-old boy who is obsessed with Westerns.
11) Angel of mine
Publisher
Lions Gate
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
A woman grieving over the death of her daughter loses grip of reality when she begins to think her girl may still be alive
12) Mr. Church
Publisher
Codeblack Films / Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A little girl and her dying mother obtain the services of a talented cook. What begins as a six-month arrangement spans fifteen years and creates a family bond that lasts forever.
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Join the celebration, sing and dance, and discover how it all began. Ten years later, come back to the magical island of Kalokairi in this sequel based on the songs of ABBA. Sophie is now pregnant, and like her mother Donna, she'll need to take risks.
"The rare sequel so unexpectedly enchanting that it plays less like a rehash than a reclamation."--Los Angeles Times
"That old ABBA magic can make even a middling movie that much better."--USA Today
"Swede...
14) Snatched
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her boyfriend dumps her before their exotic vacation, a young woman persuades her ultra-cautious mother to travel with her to paradise, with unexpected results.
15) All we had
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
The unstable life and relationship of a mother and daughter seems to be looking up with the opportunity of a fresh start, until the dark side of the American dream leads them to face the prospect of homelessness and tests their bond to the core.
16) Latin lover
Publisher
Dreamscape Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Italiano
Description
On the tenth anniversary of fictional film star Saverio Crispo's death, his daughters, all of different nationalities, get together for a celebration of his career.
17) A blast
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
Greek
Description
Maria is waiting for a blast. She has to set her life on fire. Running away on the highway, Maria is alone in her roaring SUV. Behind her, fire and a case full of money. In front of her, the hopeless vastness of the motorway. Only a day before she was a caring mother, a loving wife, a responsible daughter. Today she has gone rogue.
19) The souvenir
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
A shy, ambitious film student from a privileged background begins an intensely emotional relationship with a charismatic man who nearly destroys her dreams.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this vibrant, funny, and heartfelt film, a widow and former songstress discover that life can begin anew at any age. With the support of three loyal girlfriends, Carol decides to embrace the world, embarking on an unlikely friendship with her pool maintenance man, pursuing a new love interest, and reconnecting with her daughter.
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