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When it was first produced in 1959, A Raisin in the Sun was awarded the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for that season and hailed as a watershed in American drama. A pioneering work by an African-American playwright, the play was a radically new representation of black life. "A play that changed American theater forever."
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This lush romantic drama depicts a family of cigar makers whose loves and lives are played out against the backdrop of America in the midst of the Depression. Set in Ybor City (Tampa) in 1930, Cruz imagines the catalytic effect the arrival of a new "lector" (who reads Tolstoy's Anna Karenina to the workers as they toil in the cigar factory) has on a Cuban-American family. Cruz celebrates the search for identity in a new land.
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"[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.
4) Hamlet
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
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"One of the most frequently read and performed of all stage works, Shakespeare's Hamlet is unsurpassed in its complexity and richness. Now the most extensively annotated version of Hamlet to date makes the play completely accessible to readers in the twenty-first century. It has been carefully assembled with students, teachers, and the general reader in mind." "Eminent linguist and translator Burton Raffel offers generous help with vocabulary and...
5) Boyhood
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English
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Filmed over twelve years with the same cast, Richard Linklater's acclaimed smash hit is a groundbreaking celebration of life. Stars Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette.
6) The lovers
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English
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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...
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Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos (*The Favourite, The Lobster, Dogtooth*) and staring Colin Farrell and Nicole Kidman, THE KILLING OF A SACRED DEER is a heart-stopping thriller about a surgeon whose family is terrorized by a depraved teenager determined to take revenge on the doctor for a fatal past mistake. Winner of Best Screenplay at the **Cannes Film Festival**. Nominated for Best Supporting Male and Best Cinematography at the **Film Independent Spirit...
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"Can one man be that unlucky? Elisa Wright is a mom and wife, living a nice, quiet life in a nice, quiet town. She's also convinced her brother-in-law is a murderer. Josh has one dead wife and one missing fianc?e, and though he grieved for them he starts dating someone new. Elisa fears for that woman's safety, and she desperately wants to know what happened to her friend, Josh's missing fianc?e. Searching for clues means investigating her own family....
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A24
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English
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After an elaborate heist goes south, reluctant criminal Chad (Michael Fassbender) must find a way to escape the clutches of his fierce outlaw father (Brendan Gleeson) and the encroaching police in this riveting, action-packed crime thriller. Nominated for Best Actor at the **British Independent Film Awards**. Official Selection at the **Toronto International Film Festival**. "*Gleeson and Fassbender are class acts who bring an ever-mounting intensity...
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"Shay Benson adored her younger brother, Caden, and that got her into trouble. When he owed money, Shay realized she would do anything to help him avoid the men who were threatening him, and she crossed lines she never should have crossed. Now, determined to start fresh, she finds herself in search of a place to stay and wanders into a church to escape from the cold. Pastor Drew Douglas adored his wife. But when he lost her, it was all he could do...
12) Touchy feely
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English
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A massage therapist is unable to do her job when stricken with a mysterious and sudden aversion to bodily contact. Meanwhile, her uptight brother's floundering dental practice receives new life when clients seek out his healing touch, turning both their professional & personal lives to unchartered turns.
13) Cloudstreet
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Acorn
Pub. Date
[2012]
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Widescreen.
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3 DVDs (365 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Set around Perth from 1943-63, two families, each scarred by catastrophe, find a home for their hearts in this acclaimed Australian miniseries. The Lambs are hardworking and God-fearing, the Pickles are luckless and derelict, yet they find common ground beneath the same roof.
14) Home again
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English
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A daughter of a famous filmmaker, who has just separated from her husband and moved with her two daughters into her childhood home in Los Angeles, meets three young aspiring filmmakers and lets them live in her home.
15) Let him go
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Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
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Widescreen.
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English
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Following the loss of their son, retired sheriff George Blackledge and his wife Margaret leave their Montana ranch to rescue their young grandson. When they discover that he is in the clutches of a dangerous family living off the grid in the Dakotas, George and Margaret must fight for the survival of their family.
16) Ben is back
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Lionsgate
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Widescreen.
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English
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Ben Burns, a drug-addicted teenager, shows up unexpectedly to visit his family on Christmas Eve. His wary mother welcomes him, but after finding out he's still in danger, she must to do everything she can to help her family.
17) To the wonder
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Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
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Widescreen.
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1 DVD (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A romantic drama about men and women grappling with love and its many phases and seasons, passion, sympathy, obligation, sorrow and indecision, and the way these forces merge together and drift apart, transforming, destroying and reinventing the lives they touch.
18) A kid like Jake
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English
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A Brooklyn couple has always known that their four-year-old son is more interested in fairy tale princesses than toy cars. But when his preschool director points out that his gender-nonconforming play may be more than a phase, the couple is forced to rethink their roles as parents and spouses as they apply for him to go to a private kindergarten in New York City.
19) Bad Moms
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Universal
Pub. Date
2016
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English
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When three overworked and under appreciated moms are pushed beyond their limits, they ditch their conventional responsibilities for a jolt of long overdue freedom, fun, and comedic self indulgence.
"...a women's shared, near orgiastic pleasure in their freedom and friendship."--New York Times
"A good natured girl power comedy that balances a bland sitcom structure with some weird and hilarious moments."--New York Post
"The Hangover for working...
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Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
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English
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Follows three under appreciated and over burdened women as they rebel against the challenges and expectations of the Super Bowl for moms: Christmas. If creating a more perfect holiday for their families wasn't hard enough, they have to do all of that while hosting and entertaining their own mothers.
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