Olympia Dukakis
Author
Language
English
Description
Something about Olympia Dukakis just speaks to people. In her signature straight-talk style, she tells the story of her own history and career.
Olympia Dukakis, internationally known movie and theater star, was born into a Greek family in Lowell, Massachusetts. As a first generation Greek-American, Olympia "lived in the hyphen" and struggled to reconcile her American desires with her family's old-world traditions. ASK ME AGAIN TOMORROW tells the...
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
After 47 years of marriage, Ben's mother leaves her husband. With no where else to turn, Ben's father Sam is forced to get to know his son. Hysterical antics ensue as Ben and Sam strengthen their relationship while Ben helps Sam romance his mother.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Seldom has society come full circle in the cycle of a disease - from illness, to epidemic, to cure. Polio is the 20th century's most notable exception. Every baby boomer remembers collecting dimes in their dime cards, hearing the success of the Salk shot, and lining up for oral vaccines taken in a sugar cube. But few know the story of how polio came to America in 1916 and grew into the frightening epidemics of the 1940's and 50's when the disease...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Married for almost 50 years, Grant and Fiona's serenity is interrupted by Fiona's increasingly frequent memory lapses. When it is no longer possible for either of them to ignore the fact that she is being consumed by Alzheimer's disease, the limits of love and loyalty are wrenchingly redefined.
7) Cloudburst
Publisher
Wolfe Video LLC
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Stella and Dot have been together for 31 years and have faithfully accompanied one another through life's ups and downs. Now in their seventies, Stella is hard of hearing and Dot is legally blind. Dotty's prudish granddaughter, Molly, decides the best place for Dot is a nursing home that will provide all the necessities. This forces Stella and Dot to make a bold decision: they will leave their hometown in Maine and make their way to Canada, where...
Publisher
Electric Entertainment
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Mild mannered scholar Flynn Carsen, chosen to recover and protect priceless historical artifacts from around the world, must journey to the sweeping plains of Africa. There he uncovers the secrets of his past in order to find the ancient, hidden mines of King Solomon before the treasure-filled tomb is discovered by those who would use the powerful artifacts for evil.
Publisher
Electric Entertainment
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
To be a librarian, you must master the Dewey Decimal System, ace internet research and, if you're new librarian Flynn Carsen (Noah Wyle), save the world! Wyle (ER, Fallen Skies, The Librarians) heads a sterling cast in a fun, fantastical, special effects-laden adventure that soars around the world from the Metropolitan Library in the U.S., to the Amazon jungle to the Himalayas. Geeky Carsen lands a job as the Librarian, keeper of such top-secret treasures...
11) The Infiltrator
Publisher
Broad Green Pictures
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A U.S. Customs official uncovers a money laundering scheme involving Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar.
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Jonathan Kasdan makes his directorial debut with a romantic dramedy about trying to make sense of love.Devastated by the recent breakup with his true love, twentysomething writer Carter Webb (Adam Brody—"The O.C.") escapes Los Angeles for suburban Michigan to care for his ailing grandmother (Academy Award® winner Olympia Dukakis—Moonstruck). Soon after his arrival, he stumbles into the lives of the women across the street: a mother (Meg...
13) Moonstruck
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A superstitious Brooklyn widow is ready to get married again. Only this time, she plans on doing it right - even if she has to say "yes" to a man she doesn't really love. When she unexpectedly falls in love with her fiancé's estranged brother Ronny, what happens next is a wonderful romantic complication.
14) 3 needles
Publisher
Wolfe Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A look at how the tragedy of HIV/AIDS affects people around the globe. A porn star passes blood tests by stealing his father's blood; a nun helps a dying village turn to Jesus; mysterious deaths in China are attributed to the blood drawer.
17) Moonstruck
Author
Language
English
Description
In her Academy Award winning role, Cher, while waiting for her timid fiancé to decide between her and his mother, falls in love with her fiancé's estranged brother (Nicolas Cage), a bakery worker with a love of opera and life. Supporting actress Olympia Dukakis and screenwriter John Patrick Shanley also won Oscars in this comedy classic.
19) The Last Keepers
Author
Language
English
Description
When the teenage daughter of a reclusive family of artists falls in love with an unusual boy at school, she awakens mysterious powers and discovers ancient family secrets that will change her life forever.
Author
Language
English
Description
When three life-long friends--Esther, Doris and Lucille--suddenly find themselves middle-aged widows, they discover the transition from mating to dating is a tricky proposition at best, and that starting over takes more effort the second time around. Although this trio of newly-eligible ladies is an added attraction on the over-50 singles circuit, they quickly find that the harvest years have produced a fallow field of suitable single men. But, among...