Laura Dern
2) Blue velvet
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
A college student stumbles across a bizarre mystery and wants to know more. The strange world he's found lurking beneath his hometown picture-postcard veneer is about to become much stranger.
Publisher
Distributed by Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of Evelyn Ryan. Offers a revealing study of the housewife's plight during the Eisenhower era, along with an inspiring tale of tenacity and survival against formidable odds. Evelyn is a cheerfully strong-willed mother of ten who compensates for the failings of her alcoholic husband by becoming the most successful "contester" in the country. Between the mid-1950s and the early '60s, Evelyn submitted cleverly worded poems, jingles,...
6) The master
Publisher
Weinstein Company
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
In post-World War II America, a naval veteran arrives home unsettled and uncertain of his future, until he is tantalized by The Cause and its charismatic leader.
7) Tenderness
Publisher
Lions Gate Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Lori Cranston is a confused fifteen-year-old dreamer in search of an escape from her troubled home life. She discovers and becomes enthralled with Eric, a young man with a violent past. As they embark on a harrowing journey, a hardened local cop, who has been following Eric for years, is intent on exposing him as a serial killer before Lori's fate is determined.
9) Mask
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
The true story of Rocky Dennis, a personable young man who has craniodiaphyseal dysplasia, a fatal disease which causes hideous facial disfigurement. Rocky is the son of biker Rusty and he is accepted without question by his mom's boyfriends and her cycle buddies, but treated with pity and disgust by much of the outside world. The local high school principal doesn't want to enroll Rocky, but Rusty fights for her son's rights. Rocky eventually falls...
10) Focus
Publisher
Paramount DVD
Pub. Date
2002, c2001
Language
English
Description
At the end of World War II, a Brooklyn man and his wife are mistakenly identified as Jewish and harrassed by their anti-Semitic neighbors.
11) Big little lies
Publisher
HBO Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The apparently perfect lives of three mothers of first graders unravel to the point of murder.
12) Little women
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Writer-director Greta Gerwig has crafted a film that draws on both the classic novel and the writings of Louisa May Alcott and unfolds as the author's alter ego, Jo March reflects back and forth on her fictional life. In Gerwig's take, the beloved story of the March sisters, four young women each determined to live life on her own terms, is both timeless and timely.
The four March sisters--Jo, Meg, Amy and Beth--learn about love, life, and loss as...
13) Marriage story
Series
Criterion collection volume 1038
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A love story about divorce. A marriage coming apart and a family coming together. A hilarious and harrowing, sharply observed, and deeply compassionate film from writer-director Noah Baumbach. Charlie is a charismatic New York theater director wedded to his work. Nicole is an actor who is ready to change her own life. Their hopes for an amicable divorce fade as they are drawn into a system that pits them against each other and forces them to redefine...