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Based on the bestselling book by Matthew Quick, the riotous and poignant story of how a man who has lost everything, his house, his job, his wife, reconnects with himself and creates his own silver linings from the bonds he forms with his family and friends.
"I say good for Russell for risking a protagonist who requires some patience and forgiveness."--Michael Phillips
"... is so good, it could almost be a terrific old classic."--Roger Ebert
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2020
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After an accidental pregnancy turned abortion, a deadbeat nanny finds an unlikely friendship with the six-year-old she's charged with protecting.
"The film has enough modest charms to connect with audiences similarly navigating the bridge between youthful detachment and grounded adulthood."--Hollywood Reporter
3) Big Eyes
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c2015
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Walter Keane became a worldwide celebrity and talk show fixture in the 1950s after he pioneered the mass production of prints of big-eyed kids, and used his marketing savvy to sell them cheaply. Unfortunately, he claimed to be the artist. That role was played by Margaret, his shy wife. The ruse broke up their marriage and led to a divorce and a dramatic courtroom battle to prove authorship of the paintings.
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Crispin volume 1
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Falsely accused of theft and murder, an orphaned peasant boy in fourteenth-century England flees his village and meets a larger-than-life juggler who holds a dangerous secret.
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2013
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Lovable Sulley and his wisecracking sidekick Mike Wazowski are the top scare team at Monsters, Inc., the scream-producing factory in Monstropolis. When a little girl named Boo wanders into their world, it's the monsters who are scared silly, and it's up to Sulley and Mike to keep her out of sight and get her back home.
"...as visually inventive as its Pixar predecessors."--USA Today
"...cheerful, high-energy fun..."--Roger Ebert
"...funny and sweet...
8) The Neighbor
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A young mother disappears from her South Boston home leaving behind her four-year old daughter as the only witness and her secretive husband as the prime suspect. When Detective Sergeant D.D. Warren arrives at the home, she detects something off. On the surfac Jason and Sandra Jones are like any other hardworking couple raising a child, but just below the surface things grow murkier. Jason seems more intent on destroying evidence and isolating his...
10) The friendship
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Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 4
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Four children witness a confrontation between an elderly African-American man and a white storekeeper in rural Mississippi in the 1930s.
11) Child 44
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Leo Demidov thrillers volume 1
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Stalin's Soviet Union strives to be a paradise for its workers, providing for all of their needs. One of its fundamental pillars is that its citizens live free from the fear or ordinary crime and criminals. But in this society millions do live in fear...of the State. Death is a whisper away. The mere suspicion of ideological disloyalty-owning a book from the decadent West, the wrong word at the wrong time-sends millions of innocents into the Gulags...
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Arriving at a deserted lake house to investigate an aborted call to police, Deputy Anna McCafferty walks into the middle of a heinous crime and is deprived of her weapon, car, and phone, forced to flee, along with the twenty-five-year-old daughter of the murdered couple, into the surrounding forest to escape the perpetrators who must eliminate any potential witnesses.
13) Cake
Pub. Date
2015
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A look into the darkly funny world of Claire Bennett, who initiates a dubious relationship with a widower while confronting fantastical hallucinations of his dead wife. With her feisty housekeeper-cum-caretaker ever at her side, Claire searches for human connection and self-forgiveness in this tale of personal redemption.
"Worth sitting through just to watch Jennifer Aniston pull off a performance of a lifetime."--RogerEbert.com
"The good news of...
14) Still mine
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An exquisitely mounted and deeply affecting story about one man's determination to create a home for his ailing wife as they enter their twilight years. Based on actual events, that proves love is the ultimate triumph.
"Quietly observes a love tested by infirmity and bureaucracy..."--Toronto Star
"...tremendously moving."--New York Post
"A pitch-perfect, deeply affecting film..."--Village Voice
15) Flight
Pub. Date
2013
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A seasoned airline pilot miraculously crash lands his plane after a mid-air catastrophe, saving nearly every soul on board. After the crash, Whip is hailed as a hero, but as more is learned, more questions than answers arise as to who or what was really at fault and what really happened on the plane.
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2013
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Collection include: Star Wars - Episode I The Phantom Menace (1999, PG); Star Wars - Episode II Attack of the Clones (2002, PG); and Star Wars - Episode III Revenge of the Sith (2005, PG13).
"...it recaptures the sense of fun we got from the first movie."--Houston Chronicle.
"...highly exhilarating and enjoyable..."--Movie Parables.
"Consistently thrilling and massively enjoyable..."--BBC News.
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Following his doctor's instructions, engaging simpleton Charlie Gordon tells his own story in semi-literate "progris riports." He dimly wants to better himself, but with an IQ of 68 can't even beat the laboratory mouse Algernon at maze-solving. Algernon is extra-clever thanks to an experimental brain operation so far tried only on animals. Charlie eagerly volunteers as the first human subject. After frustrating delays and agonies of concentration,...
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2014
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Russell and his younger brother Rodney live in the economically depressed Rust Belt, and have always dreamed of escaping and finding better lives. But when a cruel twist of fate lands Russell in prison, his brother becomes involved with one of the most violent and ruthless crime rings in the Northeast - a mistake that will cost him everything. Once released, Russell must choose between his own freedom or risking it all to seek justice for his brother.
"It's...
19) The captive
Pub. Date
2015
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Eight years after the disappearance of Cassandra, some disturbing indications seem to indicate that she's still alive. Her parents, detectives, and Cassandra herself will try to unravel the mystery of her disappearance.
"...one of the most satisfyingly baroque thrillers of the year..."--RogerEbert.com
"...builds incredible tension and emotion..."--Times (UK)
"...Egoyan's best film for a very long time..."--The Telegraph
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A masterful achievement that ranks with "Brave New World" and "1984", this mesmerizing tale of the terrible aftermath of nuclear war has captivated generations of readers since its first publication in 1959. "Prodigiously imaginative, richly comic, terrifyingly grim".--"Chicago Tribune."