Lois Smith
1) Lady Bird
Series
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Christine "Lady Bird" MacPherson is a high school senior from the "wrong side of the tracks." She longs for adventure, sophistication, and opportunity, but finds none of that in her Sacramento Catholic high school. LADY BIRD follows the title character's senior year in high school, including her first romance, her participation in the school play, and most importantly, her applying for college" --
2) P.s
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Louise is a divorced, thirty-something admission's office at Columbia University's School of Fine Arts who is unfulfilled in her love life. That is, until a graduate school application crosses her desk and she arranges to interview the young painter. Scott bears the same name and has an uncanny resemblance to Louise's high school boyfriend and one true love, an artist who died in a car accident twenty years earlier. Within hours of the interview,...
4) A dog year
Publisher
HBO Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Jon Katz is a writer at a mid-life crossroads who decides to adopt and train a high-strung border collie named Devon, only to discover it's he himself who has the real lessons to learn. Based on a true story.
Publisher
Screen Media Films
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Kailey is a small town pool hustler in upstate New York. She barely makes a living playing poker. She periodically drives into Manhattan to check up on her mentor, Quinn, who runs a hardcore pool hall called Quinn's. Kailey is determined to raise the $50,000 she needs to get her son Gulley, who she was forced to give up at birth, from the poisonous grasp of her alcoholic ex-husband David and his domineering mother. Kailey's hope is to move to Canada...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Inge is a feisty German mail-order bride who has come to Minnesota to marry Olaf, a young Norwegian immigrant farmer of few words. But in a post-WWI, anti-German climate, the local minister openly forbids the marriage. Inge and Olaf fall in love despite the town's disapproval. But when the town banker attempts to foreclose on the farm of his friend Frandsen, Olaf takes a stand.
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Matthew Poncelet is the convicted killer of two teenage lovers, preparing to end his life on death row. In response to a letter, Sister Helen Prejean visits Matthew and finds herself face-to-face with a killer who still pleads his innocence. When the date is set for his execution death by lethal injection, Poncelet asks Sister Helen to be his spiritual advisor and she agrees, little knowing the outrage that will follow her decision.
8) Roadie
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Jimmy, a longtime roadie for the legendary Blue Oyster Cult, has been fired by the band. With nowhere else to go, he returns home to see his aging mom in Forest Hills, Queens, where a wild encounter with two old high school friends shows him that some things never change.
Series
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Washington, D.C. has been murder-free thanks to astounding technology which identifies killers before they commit their crimes. But when the chief of the Pre-crime unit is himself accused of a future murder, he has just 36 hours to discover who sets him up.
10) Marjorie Prime
Publisher
FilmRise
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
in the near future where artificial intelligence has brought about holographic reconstructions of loved ones, 86-year old Marjorie gains a holographic companion in the form of her late husband, but will she take advantage of this opportunity to recreate their life as she wished to have lived it?
Publisher
Monterey Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Granny Weatherall is a spunky old lady of eighty who bosses her doctor and her children. She seems so strong and in control. Yet she has never had the upper hand in her destiny. One morning, a flood of long-forgotten memories bring her to the realization that of all her accomplishments, she cannot console herself for the shame-filled day she was left standing at the altar. Still, her indomitable will to live and act independently infuses the last...
13) Minority report
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
John Anderton is a Washington D.C. detective in the year 2054. He is part of 'Precrime, ' a special police department that arrests criminals before they commit the actual crime. When Anderton discovers that he has been identified as a future killer, he must find out why and how he broke the law in order to prove his innocence of the crime he has yet to commit.
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Alice Paul and Lucy Burns were two defiant suffragist women who fought for the passage of the 19th Amendment. The two activists broke from the mainstream women's rights movement and created a more radical wing, daring to push the boundaries to secure women's voting rights in 1920. In a country dominated by chauvinism, this is no easy fight. Along the way, sacrifices are made: Alice gives up a chance for love, and collegue Inez Mulholland gives up...
16) Lady Bird
Series
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"The adventures of a young woman living in Northern California for a year." --
17) The comedian
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A look at the life of an aging insult comic named Jack Burke.
18) Black widow
Publisher
Twentieth Century-Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A female FBI agent attempts to prove that a sultry beauty is also a serial murderer.
19) Minority report
Series
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Washington, D.C. has been murder-free thanks to astounding technology which identifies killers before they commit their crimes. But when the chief of the Pre-crime unit is himself accused of a future murder, he has just 36 hours to discover who set him up.
20) Skylark
Series
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Jacob's farm is in trouble from a severe drought. Jacob and Sarah begin to wonder if Sarah can stay, and what will happen to Jacob if she and the children have to leave the farm.