Maury Chaykin
1) Cold Comfort
Author
Language
English
Description
Stephen (Paul Gross), a handsome traveling salesman, gets drawn into a sexual psychodrama between Floyd (Maury Chaykin), a sociopathic truck driver, and his daughter Dolores (Margaret Langrick), when the three are caught together in a blizzard.
3) Mouse hunt
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
Two brothers inherit a crumbling old mansion and then discover it's worth millions. But in order to cash in, they've got to first get rid of the mouse!
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1987.
Language
English
Description
Looking through her lover's bedroom window, Sylvia (Isabelle Huppert) sees a girl being attacked. The attacker flees and his victim is saved. But later that night, another girl is found murdered. Sylvia cannot give evidence, for that would reveal her affair with Terry (Steve Guttenberg), so he gives evidence in Sylvia's place, but when it is found that he is not telling the full truth, he becomes the main suspect... "*The Bedroom Window is a diligent,...
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English
Description
Based on the memoirs of Franz Lidz, Unstrung Heroes is the story of Stephen, a young boy in New York during the 1960s who, in an effort to cope with an emotionally distant father and his mother's illness, goes to live with his three wildly eccentric uncles. By moving into the funny, magical and sometimes painful world of his uncles, Stephen grows up and gains self-confidence. Finally, comforted by his uncles' idiosyncratic love, Stephen is able to...
7) Bartleby
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Language
English
Description
Cult figure Crispin Glover lends his eerie presence to Bartleby, a modern adaptation of the classic short story by Herman Melville (author of Moby Dick). The manager of a public records firm hires a new clerk named Bartleby. However, Bartleby is eccentric and with each passing day, he begins to refuse his boss' orders. Eventually, the boss discovers even stranger things about him.
8) Crossed Over
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Language
English
Description
Based on the book "Crossed Over: A Murder/A Memoir," this is the true story of the deep and healing friendship between a grieving mother, Beverly Lowry (Diane Keaton), and death row inmate, Karla Faye Tucker (Jennifer Jason Leigh).
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Language
English
Description
An edgy, offbeat story about two used car salesmen moonlighting as hit men for the mob. A quiet family man by day, Tom teaches his new partner Jerry all he knows about his other job, that of professional killer! But even if he's shocked at first, the brash young Jerry soon acquires such a taste for his new profession that it scares everyone around him...even those who scare people for a living!
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Series
Emily of New Moon volume 5
Language
English
Description
Emily and Ilse, curious about the recluse, Lofty John, sneak into his barn. He captures Emily and forces her to eat an apple he claims is poisoned. Sure she's about to die, Emily tries to be brave and prays to her parents on the road to Heaven.
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Language
English
Description
Joey Coyle, an unemployed longshoreman, stumbled upon $1.2 million in unmarked, untraceable currancy that had fallen off an armored truck and wanted to keep it. He turns to his girlfriend, Monica, to help him launder the loot. but keeping a million-dollar secret is harder than it looks, especially when Joey begins upgrading his social standing with extravagant gestures -- such as picking up enormous bar tabs for his friends. As an investigating...