Laura Dern
Author
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...
Publisher
Rhino Entertainment [distributor]
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (172 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When an actress falls in love with her co-star, she finds her life is becoming much like the film she is starring in, which is based on a Polish film that was never finished due to horrible tragedies.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1038
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
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.
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (approximately 119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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....
Publisher
Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (126 min.) : sd.,col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Hazel and Gus are two extraordinary teenagers who share an acerbic wit, a disdain for the conventional, and a love that sweeps them on an unforgettable journey. Their relationship is all the more miraculous, given that they met and fell in love at a cancer support group.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (240 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Season two picks up with Amy immersed in gathering evidence against Abaddonn. In the season's eight episodes, Amy enlists the help of journalist Jeff Flender, and as they work together on a searing expose, she dreams of a bigger life and develops romantic yearnings for the handsome, well-traveled reporter.
7) Cold pursuit
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a snowplow driver learns that his son was killed by a drug cartel, he seeks revenge for his son's murder.
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (300 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
9) Wild
Publisher
20th Century Fox
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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) A perfect world
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (138 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A prison escapee on the run with a young hostage is chased by a Texas Ranger.
11) Certain women
Series
Criterion Collection volume 893
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Formats
Description
A stirring look at three women striving to forge their own paths amidst the wide-open plains of the American Northwest: a lawyer who finds herself contending with both office sexism and a hostage situation; a wife and mother whose determination to build her dream home puts her at odds with the men in her life; and a young law student who forms an ambiguous bond with a lonely ranch hand. A portrait emerges of flawed, but strong-willed individuals in...
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (126 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Hazel and Gus are two extraordinary teenagers who share an acerbic wit, a disdain for the conventional, and a love that sweeps them on an unforgettable journey. Their relationship is all the more miraculous, given that they met and fell in love at a cancer support group.
13) Wild
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray videodisc (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
14) 99 homes
Publisher
Broad Green Pictures
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
15) Adventure
Publisher
Syndicado
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (0 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Acclaimed directors Zhang Yimou and Daniel Espinosa discuss Bergman's film taste, and their own sense of adventure.
16) Inland empire
Series
Criterion collection volume 1175
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
2 blu-rays (180 min.) : sound, color, black and white ; 4 3/4 in..
Description
Lines between fantasy and reality blur for an actress once she begins an affair with a co-star.
17) Smooth talk
Series
Criterion collection volume 1068
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Formats
Description
The fifteen-year-old black sheep of her family whose summertime idyll of beach trips, mall hangouts, and innocent flirtations is shattered by an encounter with a mysterious stranger. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, it captures the thrill and terror of adolescent sexual exploration as it transforms the conventions of a coming-of-age story into something altogether more troubling and profound.
18) Rambling Rose
Publisher
Artisan Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Rose, an alluring young woman, is hired by a Southern family to care for their children, and changes their lives forever. She is an innocent who relates to everyone she meets in the only way she knows how-- with sexuality she cannot restrain. The mother of the family takes Rose under her wing, offering love and protection, while the teenaged son finds Rose both his fantasy and a profound mystery.
Publisher
Distributed by Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (1 hr., 39 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on the true story of Evelyn Ryan. Offers a revealing study of the housewife's plight during the Eisenhower era, along with an inspiring tale of tenacity and survival against formidable odds. Evelyn is a cheerfully strong-willed mother of ten who compensates for the failings of her alcoholic husband by becoming the most successful "contester" in the country. Between the mid-1950s and the early '60s, Evelyn submitted cleverly worded poems, jingles,...
20) Jurassic Park
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (2 hrs., 7 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A scheme to open a theme park featuring real dinosaurs cloned from DNA turns into a catastrophe.