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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Importance of Being Earnest is an important play by Oscar Wilde, and is a comedy of manners that discusses the serious of society. Set in late Victorian England, the story is about the main character, John Worthing's ficticious brother Ernest, which is the main source of the comedy in this work.
Author
Language
English
Description
"...The play opens with Max and Charlotte, a couple whose marriage is on the verge of collapse. Charlotte, it is revealed, is actually an actress who is appearing in a play written by her husband, Henry. Max, who plays Charlotte's husband in the piece, is also married to an actress, Annie. Both marriage are at the point of rupture because Henry and Annie have fallen in love. But is it the real thing? Tom Stoppard combines his characteristic wordplay...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"When Jack and Kate meet at a party, bonding until sunrise over their mutual love of Fruit Loops and their favorite flicks, Jack knows he's falling -- hard. soon she's meeting his best friends, and Kate wins them over as easily as did Jack. But this love story is ... complicated. Because Kate dies. And their story should end there. Yet Kate's death sends Jack back to the moment they met, and Kate's there again. Beautiful, radiant Kate. Healthy,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
When Tate Collins meets airline pilot Miles Archer, she doesn't think it's love at first sight. They wouldn't even go so far as to consider themselves friends. The only thing Tate and Miles have in common is an undeniable mutual attraction. Once their desires are out in the open, they realize they have the perfect set-up. He doesn't want love, she doesn't have time for love, so that just leaves the sex. Their arrangement could be surprisingly seamless,...
Publisher
Broad Green Pictures
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Dressmaker tells the story of the beautiful and talented Tilly Dunnage. After years working as a dressmaker in exclusive Parisian fashion houses, Tilly returns home to a town in the Australian outback to reconcile with her eccentric mother Molly. She also falls in love with the pure-hearted Teddy, and armed with her sewing machine and haute couture style, Tilly transforms the women of the town, exacting sweet revenge on those who did her wrong....
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Language
English
Description
A shining example of the magic that's created when two of Hollywood's biggest and brightest stars join forces in one special film. Robert De Niro and Meryl Streep play Frank Raftis and Molly Gilmore, two everyday people who meet first by chance, and later by choice. There's just one thing standing between Frank and Molly's intense, newfound love: both are already married. Oscar Winners De Niro, Streep and a fine supporting cast including Harvey Keitel...
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
日本語
Description
In this triptych, mundane encounters spin into a world of infinite possibilities. In Episode 1: Magic (or Something Less Assuring), a young woman is startled when she realizes that her best friend's new flame might just be her ex; in Episode 2: Door Wide Open, a disgruntled student plots to trick his college professor, using his friend-with-benefits as bait; and in Episode 3: Once Again, a girl's college reunion leads to an unanticipated run-in with...
8) Manglehorn
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Al Pacino and Holly Hunter give moving performances as a cat loving locksmith and a lovelorn bank teller who are both transformed by a new romance in this magical love story.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the Pearson family across the decades, from Jack and Rebecca as young parents in the 1980s to their 37 year old kids Kevin, Kate and Randall searching for love and fulfillment in the present day. This grounded, life affirming dramedy reveals how the tiniest events in people's lives impact who they become, and how the connections they share with each other can transcend time, distance, and even death.
10) Nobody's Fool
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Paul Newman earned an Oscar® nomination plus Best Actor honors from the National Society of Film Critics and New York Film Critics Circle for his portrayal of Sully, a likeable working stiff who's made a lifetime of bad decisions. But he unexpectedly has a chance to make right on some of them when his estranged son - and grandson - drop into his life. Melanie Griffith and Jessica Tandy are among the talented costars of this engaging film honored...
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
2018
Language
Korean
Description
Art imitates life in this quietly devastating masterpiece from Hong Sang-soo. Kim Minhee (The Handmaiden, Claire's Camera) plays Younghee, an actress reeling in the aftermath of an affair with a married film director. Younghee visits Hamburg then returns to Korea, but as she meets with friends and has her fair share to drink, increasingly startling confessions emerge. No stranger to mining his own experience for his films, Hong, whose real-life affair...
12) Heartbreaker
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Français
Description
Alex (Romain Duris) is a successful entrepreneur in a business he himself pioneered: Hire him, and he'll seduce any woman you want into falling in love with him, thus breaking her out of an existing relationship, after which he'll disappear. When a wealthy businessman asks him to break up his daughter's relationship before her wedding in 10 days, it sounds tough but doable -- that is, until he meets the bride, Juliette (Vanessa Paradis), who may be...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Centered on characters who share the same birthday, the story follows several decades in the lives of Jack and Rebecca Pearson. As the plot unfolds, it traverses numerous timelines, and intertwines the stories of people whose lives connect in unexpected ways. Filled with memorable performances from its acclaimed cast, it is a smart, poignant dramedy.
14) Francisca
Publisher
Grasshopper Film
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Português
Description
The book's re-telling of a troubled passage in real-life author Camilo Castelo Branco life, his friend Jose Augusto embarked on a perverse game of marital cat and mouse with Francisca, the woman the novelist loved, led Oliveria to new levels of stylistic and formal imagination. With its elaborate title cards, its abundance of shots in which the action is oriented directly toward the camera, its gloomy interiors, and its show-stopping gala set-pieces,...
15) Porto
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Jake (Anton Yelchin) and Mati (Lucie Lucas) are two expats who experience a brief but intimate connection in the ancient Portuguese city of PORTO. He's an American loner exiled from his family. She's a student from France embroiled in an affair with one of her professors. After spotting each other from a distance at an archeological site and then again at a train station and a café, Jake works up the courage to approach Mati and they embark on a...
16) Carrie
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Based on the Theodore Dreiser novel that publishers deemed "too immoral," William Wyler's Carrie is a power-house of human passions transformed into soul-withering frailties. As Carrie, the smalltown girl come to Chicago, Jennifer Jones "seems to have stepped out of the pages of the book" (Time). And Laurence Olivier gives one of his finest portrayals as love-doomed Hurstwood. "Olivier has always given credit to Wyler for teaching him how to act in...
17) A Case of You
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Young writer Sam has a crush on Birdie, the cute and quirky barista at his local coffee shop. When his conventional attempts to woo her crash and burn, he takes his efforts online, creating an Internet profile embellished with all of the details that would make him Birdie's dream guy. When the harebrained scheme is a surprise success and Birdie falls for his exaggerated alter ego, Sam must keep up the act or lose his dream girl forever.
18) The Tomorrow Man
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Ed Hemsler (John Lithgow) spends his life preparing for a disaster that may never come. Ronnie Meisner (Blythe Danner) spends her life shopping for things she may never use. In a small town somewhere in America, these two people will try to find love while trying not to get lost in each other's stuff. Official Selection at the **Sundance Film Festival**. "*If you cherish the rare opportunity to watch magnificent actors as perfect as Blythe Danner...
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Headstrong farmer Rosemary Muldoon has her heart set on winning her neighbor Anthony Reilly's love. The problem is, Anthony seems to have inherited a family curse, and remains oblivious to his beautiful admirer. Stung by his father's plans to sell the family farm to his American nephew, Anthony is jolted into pursuing his dreams.
20) Punch-drunk love
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Barry Egan, a shy sad-sack with a great deal of repressed anger that occasionally bursts forth in sudden violent outrages, falls in love with Lena, a co-worker of one of Barry's seven sisters. After calling a phone-sex line, Barry is extorted by bad-guy Dean, who eventually sends four goons to assault Barry and get the money.
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