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Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 95 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Lola Delaney is a vulgar, dumpy, less-than-bright "shotgun bride" who is married to recovering alcoholic Doc Delaney. Their unhappy marriage is made even more unhappy when a sexy stranger, Marie, rents a room from Lola. Lola is a tiresome creature who never stops talking, especially about the "imminent" return of her runaway dog Sheba. Doc is having enough trouble staying from the bottle and resigning himself to his marriage without the curvaceous...
Series
Criterion collection volume 76
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (86 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson star as middle-class suburbanites whose casual friendship evolves into a passionate yearning for each other. But as their affections grow stronger, they must face a difficult decision that will affect both of their lives forever.
5) Stay close
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Description
A bored suburban wife, a documentary photographer-turned-paparazzo, and a detective who cannot let go of a cold case hide secrets from their loved ones only to have the past return in dangerous ways.
6) Cruel intent
Author
Series
Description
When her contractor's unfaithful wife is brutally murdered, former TV anchorwoman Ali Reynolds sets out to prove the husband's innocence in spite of skepticism on the part of Ali's detective boyfriend, a situation that strains their relationship and catches the attention of the real killer.
7) Polyester
Series
Criterion collection volume 995
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Formats
Description
Follows the life of an overweight middle-class suburban housewife as she sees her world crumble when she discovers that her husband cheats on her, her daughter is pregnant and getting an abortion, and her delinquent son is the serial foot stomper who terrorizes local women.
8) Swallow
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A newly pregnant housewife develops a habit of swallowing inedible and life-threatening objects as she struggles with the expectations of her husband and in-laws.
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A suburban housewife is forced to fend for herself when she becomes stranded in a desolate forest with four murderous thugs. What starts off as a quick trip to the mall ends in the woods with a fight for her life. All she has is a toolbox and her will to survive.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
451 pages ; 24 cm
Description
'Name: Stella Sweeney. Height: average. Recent life events: dramatic.' One day, sitting in traffic, married Dublin mum Stella Sweeney attempts a good deed. The resulting car crash changes her life. For she meets a man who wants her telephone number (for the insurance, it turns out). That's okay. She doesn't really like him much anyway (his Range Rover totally banjaxed her car). But in this meeting is born the seed of something which will take Stella...
Publisher
AMC Studios
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (354 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Allison McRoberts is the prototypical sitcom wife married to Kevin, her self-centered husband. When she learns that the perfect future she envisioned is impossible, she teams up with her neighbor Patty as she attempts to escape her confines and take control of her life."--container.
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
344 pages, 10 pages ; 20 cm
Description
"CWA Gold Dagger winner Mick Herron's debut novel introduces Sarah Tucker, whose search for a missing child unravels a murderous conspiracy. When a house explodes in a quiet Oxford suburb and a young girl disappears in the aftermath, Sarah Tucker--a young married woman, bored and unhappy with domestic life--becomes obsessed with finding her. Accustomed to dull chores in a childless household and hosting her husband's wearisome business clients for...
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,...
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On the day John F. Kennedy is inaugurated, Claire, a young wife and mother obsessed with the glamour of Jackie, struggles over the decision of whether to stay in a loveless but secure marriage or to follow the man she loves and whose baby she may be carrying. Decades earlier in 1919, Vivien Lowe, an obituary writer, is searching for her lover who disappeared in the Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906. By telling the stories of the dead, Vivien...
18) The kitchen
Publisher
New Line Cinema / Warner Home video
Pub. Date
[2019].
Formats
Description
Based on the Vertigo comic book series from DC Entertainment, the mobster husbands of three 1978 Hell's Kitchen housewives are sent to prison by the FBI. Left with little but an ax to grind, the ladies take the Irish mafia's matters into their own hands, proving surprisingly adept at everything from running the rackets to taking out the competition, literally.
19) The big nap
Author
Series
Mommy-track mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Berkeley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
227 p. ; 22 cm.
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
viii, 292 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"In the spring of 2006, a new kind of show premiered on Bravo: The Real Housewives of Orange County. Its stars were tanned, taut, and bedazzled; their homes were echoey California villas; and their drama was gossip-fueled, wine-drenched, and absolutely exquisite. Fifteen seasons on, RHOC is an institution, along with The Real Housewives of New York, Atlanta, New Jersey, Miami, Potomac, and more. Over the years these ladies have done a lot more than...
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