Meryl Streep
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English
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Screen favorite Meryl Streep received an Academy Award® for her portrayal of Sophie Zawistowska in this penetrating drama set in post-World War II Brooklyn. Kevin Kline plays her all-consuming lover, Nathan. The story revolves around Sophie's struggle as a Polish-Catholic immigrant in the United States who had survived a Nazi concentration camp. The lovers' drama unfolds through the observations of a friend and would-be writer, Stingo (Peter MacNicol)....
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Shout Gladi Gladi chronicles the maternal health care crisis in Africa, and the heroic efforts to rescue African women from a medical condition during childbirth that can turn them into reviled outcasts -- if they survive. About 2 million women and girls in Africa and parts of Asia are living with obstetric fistula, and many die from it every year. Those that survive are incontinent and shunned in their villages. Filmed in Kenya, Malawi and Sierra...
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English
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Dr. Carolyn Reiser's family practice is interrupted when she's called to the emergency room to help with a local teenage girl who's been bludgeoned to death. That night she and her husband, Ben, are shocked when the local sheriff comes by to see if their son, Jacob is home. Jacob was the victim's boyfriend and is suspected in her murder. When Jacob does not return home for days, Carolyn and Ben suspect the worst. Finally, he returns home and confesses...
5) She-Devil
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English
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The author of 32 best-selling romance books takes her accountant away from his frumpy wife. And when this overweight suburban wife discovers what's been going on, she wreaks malicious and delicious revenge...
7) Doubt
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English
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Sister Aloysius, the rigid and feared principal of the Saint Nicholas Church School, has an intense dislike for the progressive and popular parish priest Father Flynn. She believes she's uncovered the ultimate sin when she hears he has taken a special interest in a troubled boy. But without proof, the only thing certain is doubt. Based on the Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning play.
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English
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Based on the incredible true story, Meryl Streep delivers a hilarious and touching performance as a New York socialite who dreams of becoming a great opera singer. While the voice she hears in her head is beautiful, to everyone else it is hilariously awful. Her husband and biggest fan, St. Clair Bayfield (Hugh Grant) is determined to protect his beloved Florence from the truth. But when Florence stages a huge concert at Carnegie Hall, he faces his...
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English
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Seventeen years ago, fiercely independent Lee left home...and left behind her kindhearted sister Bessie to care for their father, Marvin. But now Lee is returning with her teenage son for a homecoming that's sure to turn the entire household upside down! This entertaining motion picture proves that people you know the least may be the ones you need the most!
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Based on Tracy Letts' Pulitzer® Prize- and Tony® Award-winning play of the same name, AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY is a dark, hilarious, and deeply touching story of the strong-willed women of the Weston family, whose lives have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the Oklahoma house they grew up in and the dysfunctional woman who raised them. Directed by John Wells (THE COMPANY MEN), the film features an all-star cast led by Golden Globe®-Nominees...
11) The Hours
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English
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Three women in different times, related by a parallel in their personal lives. One throwing a party for a friend suffering from AIDS. Another in 1949, suffering as a young wife. The last, Virginia Woolf, writing "Mrs. Dalloway".
12) The deer hunter
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
Tracks a group of steelworker pals from a Pennsylvania blast furnace to the coal hunting grounds of the Alleghenies to the lethal cauldron of Vietnam. It is a drama of friendship and courage and of what happens to these qualities under stress.
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20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Miranda is the editor of "Runway" magazine. When Miranda demands that her assistant obtain the next unpublished Harry Potter manuscript she is whisked away to Paris and faces all of the glamor that could be hers but is forced to make the decision of where she wants to be in her life.
14) Manhattan
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MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Allen portrays a comedy writer whose wife leaves him and is now writing a book about their failed marriage. He consoles himself in the arms of an adoring 17 year-old until he gets involved with his best friend's mistress.
15) Out of Africa
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
The story of Karen Blixen, her philandering husband, her struggles with a coffee plantation in Kenya, and her love for the mysterious white hunter.
17) Sophie's choice
Publisher
Live Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
Sophie Zawistowska, a Polish Catholic beauty who survived Auschwitz, has settled in America after World War II. The time is 1947. Stingo, a 22-year-old aspiring writer from rural Virginia, is drawn to Sophie and Nathan--a madly romantic couple whose instability and flamboyance utterly capture this young man's imagination. The deeper Stingo sinks into these people's lives, the more he learns that each harbors terrible and terrifying secrets.
18) Hope springs
Publisher
Sony
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Kay and Arnold are a middle-aged couple who have been married for 30 years and now are sleeping in separate rooms and barely interact in any meaningful loving way. Finally, Kay has had enough and finds a book by Dr. Feld which inspires her to sign them up for the doctor's intense week-long marriage counseling session. What follows is an insightful experience as Dr. Feld manages to help the couple understand how they have emotionally drifted apart...
19) It's complicated
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Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Sparks reignite between a divorced couple despite the fact that he has since remarried. Things get even more out of hand when she meets a man she'd truly like to date.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
When his army unit is ambushed during the first Gulf War, Sergeant Raymond Shaw saves his fellow soldiers just as his commanding officer, Major Ben Marco, is knocked unconscious. Using the incident for political gain, Shaw eventually becomes a vice-presidential nominee, but Marco is haunted by dreams of what really happened in Iraq. As Marco investigates, the story begins to unravel. He begins to figure that the entire unit was kidnapped and brainwashed...