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Pub. Date
[2020]
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"In the 1950s, Ellie and Brick are teenagers in love. A basketball star, Brick could escape his abusive father and be the first person in his working-class family to go to college. But when Ellie becomes pregnant, they marry, she gives up her dream of nursing school, and Brick gets a union card instead. This riveting novel tells the story of three generations in a working-class family; especially Brick and Ellie's daughter Samantha. Illuminating issues...
2) Overboard
Publisher
MGM/UA Home Video
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (112 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A super-rich and pretentious socialite winds up in the world of a struggling carpenter with four kids.
3) Meantime
Series
Criterion collection volume 890
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A incisive portrait of the tensions that exist within a working class family.
Series
Criterion collection volume 178
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Description
Ingemar is a working-class 12-year old boy who is sent to live with his uncle after his mother falls ill. There, he takes refuge from his troubles with the help of the town's warmhearted eccentrics. A bittersweet evocation of the struggles and joys of childhood and the pains of coming-of-age.
5) Meantime
Series
Criterion collection volume 890
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An already dysfunctional, working-class family becomes concerned when one son falls under the influence of a skinhead.
Publisher
Koch Vision
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (193 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After the death of her oldest son, Gertrude Morel pours all of her love and frustrated ambition into her relationship with her youngest son, Paul. Struggling to find his own way in the world, Paul is torn between putting his mother's wishes before his own and finding happiness on his own terms.
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (495 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Over the course of several hours, the sprawling story tracks the everyday triumphs and travails of the young toolmaker Jochen and many of the people populating his world, including the woman he loves, his eccentric nuclear family, and his fellow workers, with whom he bands together to improve conditions on the factory floor. The film rates as a true discovery, one of Fassbinder's earliest and most tender experiments with the possibilities of melodrama....
10) Scrapper
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A vibrant and inventive father-daughter comedy follows Georgie, a resourceful twelve-year-old girl who secretly lives alone in her flat in a working-class suburb of London following the death of her mother. She makes money stealing bikes with her best friend Ali and keeps the social workers off her back by pretending to live with an uncle. Out of nowhere, her estranged father Jason arrives and forces her to confront reality. Uninterested in this sudden...
11) Shuggie Bain
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"Shuggie Bain is the unforgettable story of young Hugh "Shuggie" Bain, a sweet and lonely boy who spends his 1980s childhood in run-down public housing in Glasgow, Scotland. Thatcher's policies have put husbands and sons out of work, and the city's notorious drugs epidemic is waiting in the wings. Shuggie's mother Agnes walks a wayward path: she is Shuggie's guiding light but a burden for him and his siblings. She dreams of a house with its own front...
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 435 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Two teenage girls discover they were switched at birth. Bay Kennish grew up in a wealthy family with her happily married parents and older brother. Daphne Vasquez lost her hearing as a child and grew up with a single mother in a working-class neighborhood. Life as they know it is turned upside down when Bay's school project about blood types reveals she is not genetically related to her parents, and a series of tests confirms she and Daphne were accidentally...
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Ariel is a young man who lives in a Jewish working-class section of Buenos Aires. Since his father went missing in the war, his mother Sonia and brother Joseph work in the shopping and business district. With no interest in school or work, Ariel just ends up hangin out. He finally gets motivated by the idea of moving to Poland, so asks his grandmother, an ex-girlfriend, and Rabbi Benderson for help.
14) Incendiary
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
237 p. ; 23 cm.
Description
Distraught over the deaths of her husband and son in a suicide bombing at a London soccer match, a woman writes a letter to Osama bin Laden to persuade him to abandon his terror campaign.
15) Palisades Park
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
421 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
Sharing a family life in the 1930s near the legendary Palisades Amusement Park, a family of dreamers explores ambitions and cultural boundaries that are challenged by the realities of the Great Depression, multiple wars, and the park's eventual closing in 1971.
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Description
"After sixteen novels, Jacqueline Winspear has taken the bold step of turning to memoir, revealing the hardships and joys of her family history. Both shockingly frank and deftly restrained, her memoir tackles such difficult, poignant, and fascinating family memories as her paternal grandfather's shellshock, her mother's evacuation from London during the Blitz; her soft-spoken animal-loving father's torturous assignment to an explosives team during...
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