Carey Mulligan
Author
Appears on list
Description
Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice at any point in your life. While we all wonder how our lives might have been, what if you had the chance to go to the library and see for yourself? Would any of these...
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Formats
Description
Everyone said Cassie was a promising young woman...until a mysterious event abruptly derailed her future. But nothing in Cassie's life is what it appears to be: she's wickedly smart, tantalizingly cunning, and she's living a secret double life by night. Now, an unexpected encounter is about to give Cassie a chance to right the wrongs of the past in this thrilling and wildly entertaining story.
4) Wildlife
Series
Criterion collection volume 1031
Publisher
Criterion Distribution
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After his father loses his job and leaves to fight wildfires, a teenage boy is left to cope with his mother's reaction to their situation.
5) Mudbound
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (134 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. +‡e1 booklet (16 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm).
Description
In the Mississippi Delta of the 1940s, two farming families -- one of white landholders, and one of Black tenant farmers -- are bound by the unforgiving soil they share as they struggle to survive amid the upheavals of World War II and the poisonous hatred of the Jim Crow South. Each family sends a young man off to battle; when they return home, scarred, and find a common bond, the community is ripped apart. Writer-director Dee Rees, with co-writer...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy are best friends who grow up together at an English boarding school with a chilling secret. When they learn that they are genetically engineered clones raised to be organ donors, they embrace their fleeting chance to live and love.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2013], ©2013.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (142 minutes) : digital, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A would-be writer Nick Carraway leaves the Midwest and comes to New York City in the spring of 1922, an era of loosening morals, glittering jazz, bootleg kings, and sky-rocketing stocks. Chasing his own American Dream, Nick lands next door to a mysterious, party-giving millionaire, Jay Gatsby. It is thus that Nick is drawn into the captivating world of the super rich, their illusions, loves and deceits.
8) She said
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
c2023
Formats
Description
New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor break one of the most important stories in a generation, a story that helped launch the #MeToo movement and shattered decades of silence around the subject of sexual assault in Hollywood.
9) Bleak House
Publisher
Distributed in the USA and Canada by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (ca. 465 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Two innocent young orphans are the potential heirs to a fortune. Their fates are snarled in a monumental legal battle known as Jarndyce and Jarndyce. Another orphan, Esther Summerson, whose mysterious parentage proves to be intertwined with the fate of the Jarndyce wards and the aloof Lady Dedlock. Lady Dedlock faces the revelation of her dark past once Mr. Tulkinghorn catches wind of it. The icily beautiful Esther's background also comes to light...