Danny DeVito
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
In the mid-1970's, in a sleepy Michigan community, live the Lisbon sisters, five teenagers whose beauty has bewitched a group of neighborhood boys. Kirsten Dunst, Josh Hartnett and James Woods star in Sofia Coppola's feature debut. Nominated for the Golden Camera Award at the **Cannes Film Festival.** *"A disarmingly poetic - and specifically female - vision of adolescence that it belongs in a category of its own." - Moira MacDonald, **Seattle Times***...
3) Tin Men
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Language
English
Description
Two rival "Tin Men" (aluminum siding salesmen) attempt to outsmart each other in the name of revenge in Baltimore circa 1963.
Author
Language
English
Description
Academy Award® winner Holly Hunter (Little Black Book) and Danny DeVito (Be Cool) star in this romantic comedy written and directed by Richard LaGravenese, acclaimed screenwriter of The Horse Whisperer and The Bridges of Madison County. Judith Nelson (Hunter), newly divorced, is consumed by vindictive fantasies of her ex-husband and his young bride. Her life is empty until she finds unexpected companions in a bold and sassy jazz singer (Queen Latifah,...
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Language
English
Description
Hilary Swank stars in this story about a teacher in a racially divided school who gives her students what they've always needed - a voice. Swank plays Erin Gruwell, the real-life teacher at Long Beach's Wilson High who inspired her students to overcome the gangs that divided them and the education system that forgot them. Based on the book The Freedom Writers Diary and supported by a cast of first-time actors who drew from their actual experiences...
7) Duplex
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Language
English
Description
Young and vibrant New Yorkers Alex and Nancy have just found the perfect place to settle down, but their new home comes with a permanent fixture they didn't expect: an obnoxious elderly tenant who won't move out and refuses to die! Pushed to the edge of insanity, it's only a matter of time until they begin to entertain some truly sinister solutions to their problem in this darkly hilarious comedy!
8) Goin' South
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Language
English
Description
Sentenced to hang in a backwater western town, horse thief Henry Moon (Jack Nicholson) is saved when frontierswoman Julia Tate (Mary Steenburgen) agrees to marry him. Taking advantage of the town law that prohibits the execution of married men, Moon follows Tate back to her ranch, planning all the while to escape at the first possible opportunity. But Tate insists that he honor his end of the bargain at work on the ranch. She has no intention of consummating...