Laura Dern
Author
Language
English
Description
"Award-winning actresses and mother-daughter duo Laura Dern and Diane Ladd are the kind of women who draw strength from their lifelong friendships with other women, and most of all, from each other. Ever since Laura was born, the two have leaned on each other through the trials of everyday life and the tribulations that come with even the most storied Hollywood careers. They were always close, but when Diane developed a sudden illness, their relationship...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
10 paperbacks, 1 folder with supplementary materials or online supplementary materials in canvas bag.
Language
English
Description
"Award-winning actresses and mother-daughter duo Laura Dern and Diane Ladd are the kind of women who draw strength from their lifelong friendships with other women, and most of all, from each other. Ever since Laura was born, the two have leaned on each other through the trials of everyday life and the tribulations that come with even the most storied Hollywood careers. They were always close, but when Diane developed a sudden illness, their relationship...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1038
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A New York couple hoping for an amicable divorce find themselves in a system that pits them against each other.
4) Cold pursuit
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (approximately 119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An action thriller infused with irreverent humor that stars Liam Neeson as Nels Coxman, a family man whose quiet life with his wife is upended following the mysterious death of their son. Nels' search for justice turns into a vengeful hunt for Viking, a drug lord he believes is connected to the death. As one by one of Viking's associates 'disappear,' Nels goes from upstanding citizen to ice-cold vigilante, letting nothing, and no one, get in his way....
5) Blue velvet
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Edition
Special edition ; widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (121 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
6) Cold pursuit
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a snowplow driver learns that his son was killed by a drug cartel, he seeks revenge for his son's murder.
7) Wild
Publisher
20th Century Fox
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A powerful, blazingly honest, inspiring memoir: the story of a 1,100 mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe--and built her back up again.
8) J.T. Leroy
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on Savannah Knoop's memoir Girl Boy Girl: How I Became JT Leroy, this captivating true story goes beyond the headlines to tell the story of the most compelling literary hoax of recent times. Laura Albert writes as her avatar, 'a disenfranchised young queer man' named JT LeRoy. When her debut novel becomes a best-seller and JT becomes the darling of the literary world, she comes up with a unique solution to preserve her anonymity but give life...
9) Wild
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
High definition.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A powerful, blazingly honest, inspiring memoir: the story of a 1,100 mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe--and built her back up again.
10) 99 homes
Publisher
Broad Green Pictures
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a single father Dennis Nash is evicted from his home, his only chance to win it back is to go to work for Rick Carver, the charismatic and ruthless businessman who evicted him in the first place. It's a deal-with-the-devil that provides security for his family; but as Nash falls deeper into Carver's web, he finds his situation grows more brutal and dangerous than he ever imagined.
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Nick, a career salesman who loses his wife and his job in the worst day of his life. Faced with his life imploding, Nick puts it all on the line, or, rather, on the lawn, as he moves himself and all his possessions to his front yard. Special features included.
12) Lonely hearts
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on a true story. In the late 1940's, Martha Beck and Raymond Fernandez became known as the notorious "Lonely Hearts Killers". They would swindle and then viciously murder war widows who would answer their personal ads. Ray would describe himself as a sexy Latin Lover. Martha was Ray's initial mark. But when they met, it was love at first sight. With Martha posing as Ray's sister, they bilked elderly spinsters and widows of their savings and...
13) A perfect world
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (138 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A kidnapped boy strikes up a friendship with his captor: an escaped convict on the run from the law, headed by an honorable U.S. Marshal.
14) The son
Publisher
Sony Pictures Classics
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A cautionary tale that follows a family as it struggles to reunite after falling apart. Centers on Peter, whose hectic life with his infant and new partner Beth is upended when his ex-wife Kate appears at his door to discuss their son Nicholas, who is now a teenager. The young man has been missing school for months and is deeply troubled. Peter strives to take care of Nicholas as he would have wanted his father to have taken care of him while juggling...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jack and Terry. Hank and Edith. They're two married couples and best friends with much in common. Jack and Hank are professors at Cedar County College. Terry and Edith are both stay-at-home moms. What will split them apart is that Jack and Edith are secret lovers. The interlocked foursome go into uncharted realms of anger, confrontation and lust - and making decisions that may or may not let love slip away.
16) Certain women
Series
Criterion Collection volume 893
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Director-approved special edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Follows the stories of three women as they make decisions that change the course of their lives.
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
Special ed.; widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (122 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
While a middle-aged Dallas gynecologist whose wife has become mentally ill falls for his sexy new golf pro, chaos surrounds the wedding of his daughter, and his alcoholic sister-in-law arrives with three nieces in tow.
18) The tale
Publisher
HBO
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Tale is a fictional narrative starring Laura Dern as the adult documentary filmmaker, Jennifer Fox, and Isabele Nelisse as her 13-year-old self. -- filmmakermagazine.com.
"A groundbreaking film memoir, based on the filmmaker's own personal experiences, this HBO Films presentation tells the story of Jennifer Fox (Laura Dern), a globetrotting documentarian and professor living an apparently enviable life with her boyfriend (Common) in NYC. That...
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (300 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Enlightened centers on Amy Jellicoe, a 40-year-old woman who returns home to California after a month's stay at a holistic treatment facility, a result of having a mental breakdown at work triggered by her self-destructive ways. Amy returns to her old life with a new cultivated approach and perspective, which includes daily meditation and exhorting the power of self-help and inner healing.
20) Novocaine
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Edition
Widescreen version (1:85.1).
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A prosperous dentist has his well-ordered existence thrown into turmoil when an alluring new patient draws him into the seedy underworld of sex, drugs and murder.