Catherine Keener
Author
Language
English
Description
Narrated by Catherine Keener, LOST ANGELS: SKID ROW IS MY HOME takes an uncompromising yet life-affirming look at the lives of eight remarkable individuals, people who have found a way to make a life for themselves within the community of homelessness. The film shows how their descent into society's basement has been exacerbated by the forces of gentrification and the increasing criminalization of homeless people, while exposing the draconian changes...
Author
Language
English
Description
A small-town nurse named Susette Kelo emerges as the reluctant leader of her working-class neighbors in their struggle to save their homes from political and corporate interests bent on seizing the land and handing it over to Pfizer Corporation. Susette's battle goes all the way to the US Supreme Court and the controversial 5-4 decision in Kelo vs. City of New London gave government officials the power to bulldoze a neighborhood for the benefit of...
3) No Future
Author
Language
English
Description
After the tragic overdose of his estranged friend, Will, a recovering addict, returns home, where he is reunited with Claire, his friend's grieving mother, with whom he begins a secret but volatile affair.
Publisher
FilmRise
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (94 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
The true story of suburban housewife Gertrude Baniszewski, who kept a teenage girl locked in the basement of her Indiana home during the 1960s. **Golden Globe** nominee. Official Selection at the **Sundance Film Festival**.
5) Capote
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (114 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Philip Seymour Hoffman delivers an Oscar® -winning performance (2006, Best Actor) as Truman Capote, who embarks upon a journey to write the book of a lifetime, "In Cold Blood," based upon the murder of a family in Kansas. Developing a unique relationship with one of the imprisoned murderers (Clifton Collins Jr.), even he wonders if he can write the great book he believes destiny has handed him.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1996.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (86 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Best friends since sixth grade, Amelia and Laura have shared everything including their cat, Big Jeans. Both women are approaching thirty and for the first time, their lives are on different tracks.
Publisher
MPI Media Group
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (94 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Following the death of their mother (Hope Davis), two young sisters accompany their father (Colin Firth) to the Italian city of Genoa, where an old friend (Catherine Keener) has gotten him a teaching assignment for the summer. Still coping with the grief over the loss of their mother in two very different ways, the girls soon find themselves swept up in a city and lifestyle that seem as equally alluring as they do imposing. While the youngest daughter...
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
1997.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (106 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Joe and Mary have been living together in Manhattan for six years. Joe is an actor, who has no agent and no thesping credits, but whose ambitions are very high. He works as a waiter at a cafe. Mary works as a make-up stylist for hot fashion photographer Blair, and she pays most of the pair's bills. Joe finally lowers his standards and accepts a degrading bit in a Madonna video, while his friend and co-waiter Bob gets a high-paying job on a soap opera...
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Language
English
Formats
Description
A small-town nurse named Susette Kelo (Catherine Keener, *Get Out*) emerges as the reluctant leader of her working-class neighbors in their struggle to save their homes from political and corporate interests bent on seizing the land and handing it over to Pfizer Corporation. Susette's battle goes all the way to the US Supreme Court and the controversial 5-4 decision in Kelo vs. City of New London gave government officials the power to bulldoze a neighborhood...
11) Begin Again
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (104 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A disgraced record exec (Mark Ruffalo) forms a bond with a young singer-songwriter (Keira Knightley) changing each of their lives.
12) Into the Wild
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (148 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
After graduating from Emory University in 1992, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless (Emile Hirsch) abandoned his possessions, donated his entire savings account to charity and hitchhiked to Alaska to live in the wilderness. Nominated for Best Performance Supporting Actor (Hal Holbrook) and Best Achievement in Film Editing at the **Academy Awards.** *"As [Hirsch] struggles with the elements, his increasing fragility and the cinematography's...
Publisher
IFC Films
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jane Fonda, Catherine Keener and Elizabeth Olsen star in Academy Award-nominated director Bruce Beresford’s comedy about an uptight New York City lawyer who takes her two spirited teenagers to her hippie mother’s farmhouse in the countryside for a family vacation. What was meant to be a weekend getaway quickly turns into a summer adventure of romance, music, family secrets and self-discovery.
14) Nostalgia
Language
English
Formats
Description
A mosaic of stories about love and loss, NOSTALGIA explores our relationships to the objects, artifacts, and memories that shape our lives. Official Selection at the **Palm Springs International Film Festival**. *"A multi-character study of grief and loss as represented through the things people leave behind, it's a heartfelt work from Pellington." - Norman Wilner, **NOW Toronto***
15) Trust
Publisher
Millenium Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
High definition.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (106 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inches
Language
English
Description
When a young girl is assaulted by an older man she meets on the Internet, her family's bonds are ripped apart as her father searches across the country in an effort to track down her attacker and exact revenge.
16) Please give
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Kate has a lot on her mind. There's the ethics problem of buying furniture at estate sales and marking it up at her Manhattan store. There's the materialism problem of not wanting her teenage daughter to want the expensive things that she wants. There's the marriage problem of sharing a partnership in parenting, business, and life with husband Alex but sensing doubt nibbling at the foundations. And worst of all are the neighbors, cranky, old Andra...
17) The Croods
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Croods is a prehistoric comedy adventure that follows the world's first family as they embark on the journey of a lifetime when the cave that has always shielded them from danger is destroyed. Traveling across a spectacular landscape, the Croods discover an incredible new world filled with fantastic creatures, and their outlook is changed forever.
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
c2012, 2003, 2000
Edition
Special ed.; Widescreen (16 x 9)
Physical Desc
1 DVD (113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Craig Schwartz is a struggling street puppeteer; in order to make some money, Craig takes a job as a filing clerk. One day he accidentally discovers a door ... a portal into the brain of John Malkovich! For 15 minutes, he experiences the ultimate head trip--he is being John Malkovich! Then he's dumped onto the New Jersey turnpike! With his beautiful office mate Maxine and his pet-obsessed wife, they hatch a plan to let others into John's brain for...
20) Enough said
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Divorced mom Eva may be falling for Albert, a sweet, funny, like-minded divorce. But as their relationship blossoms, Eva befriends Marianne, who's always complaining about her ex-husband. When Eva realizes that Albert is the target of Marianne's rants, she begins to question her own perceptions about first impressions and second chances.