Kate Nelligan
Author
Language
English
Description
A magnificent storyteller with vast imaginative range, Anita Diamant gave voice to the silent women of the Old Testament in The Red Tent. Now, in her third novel, she brings to vivid life an early New England world that history has forgotten. Set on Cape Ann in the early 1800s, The Last Days of Dogtown is peopled by widows, orphans, spinsters, scoundrels, whores, free Africans, and "witches. " Among the inhabitants of Dogtown is Black Ruth, an African...
Series
Criterion collection ; 1022
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Tom Wingo, a disillusioned southern football coach, leaves his crumbling marriage to travel to New York to talk to his troubled sister's psychiatrist about their dysfunctional family's history." --
5) Outer banks
Author
Language
English
Description
Reunited with her beloved college chums after years of separation, Kate Abrams, now a successful interior designer, must face the many bitter truths of her own past.
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Language
English
Formats
Description
Frankie, a waitress at a N.Y.C. coffee shop, has had a series of hurtful relationships and the last thing she's looking for is a new man. Johnny, an outgoing ex-con hired as the new short-order cook, falls head-over-heels for Frankie, who wants nothing to do with him.
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
The sordid story of a young country girl whose life is slowly engulfed in a murderous love triangle. Desperate to be together, Therese and her lover conspire to murder Therese's husband and initiate a deteriorating series of events that can only end in tragedy.
9) The fugitive
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Description
Fugitive: A Chicago surgeon falsely convicted of killing his wife is determined to prove his innocence by leading his pursuers to the one-armed man who actually committed the crime.
U.S. marshals: U.S. marshal Sam Gerard is accompanying a planeload of convicts from Chicago to New York. The plane crashes spectacularly, and Mark Sheridan escapes. But when the FBI's John Royce is assigned to help Gerard recapture Sheridan, it becomes clear that Sheridan...
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Vicki Miller (Marcia Gay Harden) is a writer who has cut herself off from her dysfunctional family. Her life drastically changes when one night, her 16-year-old nephew Bobby (Taylor Handley) shows up unannounced on her doorstep. He looks tired and depressed, and when Vicki realizes that he's run away, she takes him in. From that point on, Vicki is bound to Bobby. This story tells the tale of two people trying to find themselves and make their way...
12) U.S. Marshals
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
U.S. Marshal Sam Gerard is accompanying a planeload of convicts from Chicago to New York. The plane crashes spectacularly, and Mark Sheridan escapes. But when the FBI's John Royce is assigned to help Gerard recapture Sheridan, it becomes clear that Sheridan is more than just another murderer.
Series
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
When aspiring news reporter Tally Atwater tries to break into television, only veteran newsman Warren Justice will give her a shot. In time, he teaches her everything she knows about news and she teaches him how to love again. But witnh her rise from local TV weather girl to network anchor, Tally and Warren must balance the dream of success with their desire for each other.
14) Premonition
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A housewife's life is shattered when she finds out the her husband Jim is killed in a gruesome car accident, but when she awakes the next morning, he is still alive and well. As she keeps having dreams about his death, she must decide what to do.
15) Eleni
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
When her children are kidnapped and sent to communist camps inside the Iron Curtain, Eleni arranges for the escape of her three daughters and her son. For this act, Eleni is imprisoned, tortured, and executed in cold blood. Several years later, her son, now a New York Time reporter, returns to his homeland to discover the facts surrounding his mother₂s death and to hunt down the man who murdered her.
16) Second nature
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the New York Times best-selling author of The Dovekeepers, Second Nature tells the story of a suburban woman, Robin Moore, who discovers her own free spirit through a stranger she brings home to her perfectly ordered neighborhood. As Robin impulsively draws this beautiful, uncivilized man into her world-meanwhile coping with divorce and a troubled teenage son-she begins to question her wisdom and doubt her own heart, and ultimately she changes...
17) Wolf
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
©2005.
Language
English
Description
"Jack Nicholson and Michelle Pfeiffer star in 'Wolf', a wickedly funny, wildlly romantic, white-knuckle thriller. James Spader...Kate Nelligan...Christopher Plummer...and David Hyde Pierce...co-star in this beastly tale of love and betrayal with equal measures of humor, passion and delicious terror."--container.
18) Dracula
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Throughout history Dracula has filled the hearts of men with terror and the hearts of women with desire. This stylish new production of the classic gothic horror tale stars Frank Langella, repeating his electrifying, award-winning stage performance as the blood-thirsty Count, and Laurence Olivier as the devout vampire hunter Von Helsing who is Dracula's nemesis. A great cast, fine direction, and a superbly atmospheric musical score make this the ultimate...
20) Thérèse Raquin
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Based on the classic 1867 novel and play by French writer Émile Zola. The story of a young woman, Thérèse, unhappily married to her first cousin, Camille. She begins a passionate affair with one of Camille's friends, Laurent. Thérèse and Laurent will go to any lengths to be together, but their actions may haunt them forever." --
