Tracy Letts
Author
Publisher
Theatre Communications Group
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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Description
Winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the 2008 Tony Award for Best New Play.
"A tremendous achievement in American playwriting: a tragicomic populist portrait of a tough land and a tougher people." —TimeOut New York
"Tracy Letts' August: Osage County is what O'Neill would be writing in 2007. Letts has recaptured the nobility of American drama's mid-century heyday while still creating something entirely
Author
Language
English
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Description
"[This drama] is a portrait of the dysfunctional American family at its finest--and absolute worst. When the patriarch of the Weston clan disappears one hot summer night, the family reunites at the Oklahoma homestead, where long-held secrets are unflinchingly and uproariously revealed."--http://www.booksinprint.com.
3) Linda Vista
Author
Language
English
Description
"Letts is a master of pitch-dark comedies that measure the grisliest depths of human behavior...Linda Vista is very funny, equally unsettling...An inspired, ruthless take on the classic midlife-crisis comedy." -Ben Brantley, New York Times
Fifty-year-old Wheeler is moving into his own apartment after a nasty divorce. With a blend of humor and humanity, Pulitzer Prize—winning playwright Tracy Letts demonstrates the ultimate midlife crisis: the bewildering...
4) Killer Joe
Author
Language
English
Description
A definitively dysfunctional family gives in to its basest instincts and is forced to face hidden truths in this twisted modern-day fairy tale by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of August: Osage County. Performed in fifteen countries and twelve languages since its 1998 stage debut, Killer Joe is "a terrifically tasty potboiler. . . . It has the enjoyable hairpin turns of the standard mystery thriller, but it's the skewed shifting relationships that...
Author
Language
English
Description
With its high degree of tuning ease, and with all the new models coming into the market, the knowledge of an expert like Vizard is a requirement to meet your carburetor performance goals, now more than ever. This book is an essential addition to any hot rodder's library.
Author
Publisher
Theatre Communications Group
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
“Letts’ astonishing creation…is mammoth in many ways. It’s a full, three-act evening, more than three hours in length. And there are 13 characters, each getting Letts’ full attention. He creates a parade of memorable people spanning several generations of unhappiness and unfulfilled dreams. August: Osage County has introduced a major playwright to Broadway.” —Michael Kuchwara, Associated Press “This
...8) Indignation
Publisher
Lionsgate
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set against the backdrop of the Korean War in 1951, the storyline focuses on a bright and promising young man from a working-class Jewish family in Newark, New Jersey, who gets a scholarship to attend a small college in Ohio and thus avoids being drafted,but whose ethical principles and nonconformism set him to clash with the people around him and, most importantly, with the dean of the college.
9) French exit
Publisher
Columbia (Canada)
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
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Description
Sixty-year-old penniless Manhattan socialite Frances Price had a plan--to die before the money ran out. But things didn't go as planned. Her husband Franklin has been dead for twelve years and with his vast inheritance gone, she cashes in the last of her possessions and resolves to live out her twilight days anonymously in a borrowed apartment in Paris. She is accompanied by her directionless son Malcolm and a cat named Small Frank, who may or may...
10) The lovers
Publisher
A24 Films
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mary and Michael are a long married, dispassionate couple who are both in the midst of serious affairs. On the brink of calling it quits, a spark between them suddenly reignites, leading them into an impulsive romance.
"Two fine performances anchor this half-funny, half-brutal story of a midlife marriage in crisis."--Newsday
"...buoyant and cheerfully flirty..."--TIME Magazine
"Just about every step of the way, the dialogue crackles and the performances...
11) Lady Bird
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Formats
Description
The adventures of a young woman living in Northern California for a year.
12) Ford v Ferrari
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
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Description
The remarkable true story of the visionary American car designer Carroll Shelby and the fearless British-born driver Ken Miles, who together battled corporate interference, the laws of physics, and their own personal demons to build a revolutionary race car for Ford Motor Company and take on the dominating race cars of Enzo Ferrari at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in France in 1966.
13) Killer Joe
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
Unrated director's cut.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
'Killer' Joe Cooper is a Dallas detective who doubles as a hit man, with the charm of a Southern gentleman. Chris hires Joe to kill his mother, in order to collect her life insurance and pay off his debts. When Chris is unable to pay for the service up front, Joe takes Chris's sister Dottie as a retainer until he can be paid.
14) Wiener-dog
Publisher
IFC Films & Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (89 min.) : sound., color. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Wiener-Dog tells several stories featuring people who find their life inspired or changed by one particular dachshund, who seems to be spreading a certain kind of comfort and joy. Mans best friend starts out teaching a young boy some contorted life lessons before being taken in by a compassionate vet tech named Dawn Wiener. Dawn reunites with someone from her past and sets off on a road trip picking up some depressed mariachis along the way. Wiener-Dog...
16) Christine
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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Description
The story of a woman who finds herself caught in the crosshairs of a spiraling personal life and career crisis. Christine, always the smartest person in the room at her local Sarasota, Florida news station, feels like she is destined for bigger things and is relentless in her pursuit of an on-air position in a larger market.
17) Bug
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Special ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Agnes has finally escaped her abusive ex-husband Goss, who has recently been released from state prison. Agnes is a lonely waitress with a tragic past who moves into a sleazy, run-down Oklahoma motel room with her lesbian co-worker R.C. She, in turn, introduces Agnes to Gulf War veteran, Peter, a peculiar, paranoiac drifter and they begin a tentative romance. However, things don't always seem as they appear and Agnes is about to experience a claustrophobic...