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Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Formats
Description
"Write this down: Cara Romero wants to work. Cara Romero thought she would work at the factory of little lamps for the rest of her life. But when, in her mid-50s, she loses her job in the Great Recession, she is forced back into the job market for the first time in decades. Set up with a job counselor, Cara instead begins to narrate the story of her life. Over the course of twelve sessions, Cara recounts her tempestuous love affairs, her alternately...
Publisher
VVS Films
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Bobby Walker is living the proverbial American dream: great job, beautiful family, shiny Porsche in the garage. When corporate downsizing leaves him and co-workers Phil Woodward and Gene McClary jobless, the three men are forced to redefine their lives as men, husbands, and fathers. Bobby soon finds himself enduring enthusiastic life coaching, a job building houses for his brother-in-law that does not play to his executive skill set, and perhaps there...
3) Tootsie
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Michael Dorsey is an out-of-work actor who makes himself up as a woman to get a job. When his girlfriend, Sandy, fails an audition for a soap opera, Michael dresses up as "Dorothy Michaels" and lands the part. All goes well until "Dorothy" falls in love with beautiful co-star, Julie, and Julie's father, Les, falls for "Dorothy."
4) Parasite
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2020.
Formats
Description
Kim Ki-teak's family are all unemployed and living in a squalid basement. When his son gets a tutoring job at the lavish home of the Park family, the Kim family's luck changes. One by one they gradually infiltrate the wealthy Park's home, attempting to take over their affluent lifestyle.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Six unemployed men, inspired by a touring group of male strippers, decide they can make a small fortune by putting on a striptease show of their own with one small difference. They intend to go the "full monty" and strip completely naked. A hilarious, heartfelt comedy in which six friends discover the inner strength to overcome the problems in their personal lives.
Author
Series
Ramona Quimby volume 4
Description
The family routine is upset during Ramona's year in second grade when her father unexpectedly loses his job.
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
379 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"Kit Noonan's life is stalled: unemployed, twins to support, a mortgage to pay--and a frustrated wife, who is certain that, more than anything else, Kit needs to solve the mystery of his father's identity. He begins with a visit to his former stepfather, Jasper, a take-no-prisoners Vermont outdoorsman. But it is another person who has kept the secret: Lucinda Burns, wife of a revered senior statesman and mother of Malachy (the journalist who died...
10) Tammy
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Tammy is having a bad day. She's totaled her car, gotten fired from her job at a burger joint, and finds her husband getting comfortable with the neighbor in her own house. It's time to take her boom box and book it. The bad news is she's broke and without wheels. The worse news is her grandma, Pearl, is her only option-with a car, cash, and an itch to see Niagara Falls. Not exactly the escape Tammy had in mind. But on the road, with grandma riding...
11) Trees Lounge
Publisher
Artisan Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Long Islander Tommy spends time at his neighborhood bar, where he becomes involved with various colorful characters.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Mark is a desperate unemployed writer who lives in a world where everyone unfailingly tells the truth. People don't even know what fiction is. Every thought, no matter how humiliating or harsh, tumbles out unvarnished. Then one day, Mark becomes so desperate he concocts a lie. In a world where everyone is unfailingly honest, a lie is believed with total and absolute gullibility. Mark can get anything he wants. The one thing he truly wants is the love...
13) Tammy
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After losing her job and finding out that her husband has been disloyal, a woman goes out on a road trip with her adventurous grandmother.
Publisher
E1 Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010], c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After being let go from his job on an ostrich farm, a man leaves his small village to find work in the big city. As a motorcycle taxi driver, he soon becomes consumed with his passengers' lives, and is swept up in a world of greed. Now it is up to his family back home to help restore his caring and generous nature.
15) Import export
Publisher
Distributed by Vivendi Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (135 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Olga is a nurse from the Ukraine who only knows poverty. She searches for a better life in the West. Paul is an unemployed security guard from Austria who travels to the East in search of the same. Both are looking for work, a new beginning, an existence, and life. Olga comes from a place where unremitting poverty is the order of the day. Paul comes from a place where unemployment doesn't mean hunger, but a crisis of meaning and sense of uselessness....
16) About a girl
Author
Series
Tess Brooks novels volume 1
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
405 pages ; 20 cm
17) Parásitos
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (132 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Toda la familia de Ki-taek está desempleada. Gi Woo, el hijo mayor, empieza a recibir clases de inglés en casa de los Park. Pese a pertenecer a dos mundos totalmente distintos, ambas familias se vuelven cercanas hasta que se enredan en un incidente inesperado.
Author
Formats
Description
The New York Times bestselling author of Starting Over and An Ocean Apart returns with his strongest work to date-a heartwarming story of love, compassion, and redemption… After the dot-com bubble burst, Dan Porter is laid off from his job and must decide what is truly important. His wife of 20 years, Jackie, a beautiful and successful managing director for a clothing designer, no longer connects with him. His teenagers Josh, Nina and Millie are...
20) Tokyo sonata
Publisher
E1 Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (119 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Story of a contemporary Japanese family torn apart after its patriarch unexpectedly loses his job. Ashamed, he keeps this a secret, but as he grows more despondent, his family resorts to drastic measures to break away from their fractured lives.
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