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Olivia Thirlby
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Believing she is realizing her dreams when her sitcom is bought, television writer Ruth Saunders finds her happiness threatened by demanding actors and executives as well as an unrequited crush on her boss and her septuagenarian grandmother's upcoming wedding.
Publisher
IFC Films
Language
English
Formats
Description
Stanford University professor Dr. Philip Zimbardo, who, in 1971, cast twenty-four male student volunteers as prisoners and guards in a simulated jail to examine the source of abusive behavior in the prison system. The results astonished the world, as participants went from middle-class undergrads to drunk-with-power sadists and submissive victims in just a few days. Based on a true story.
3) 5 to 7
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A young Manhattan writer (Anton Yelchin) starts a passionate love affair with a glamorous, married French woman in this sexy romance. Co-stars Glenn Close and Frank Langella.
5) Juno
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008.
Language
English
Description
Juno MacGuff is sixteen years-old who after a one-time sexual encounter with her best friend Paulie, learns that she's pregnant. Juno and Paulie like each other, but not enough to start a family, complete with a child. Paulie leaves all the decisions about the baby to Juno. Initially she decides to have an abortion, but can't go through with it. So she decides to have the baby and give it up for adoption. The next step is to find prospective parents...
6) Dredd
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
The future America is an irradiated wasteland. On its East Coast lies Mega City One, a vast, violent metropolis where criminals rule the chaotic streets. The only force of order lies with the urban cops called Judges who possess the combined powers of judge, jury and instant executioner.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Running from his emotional baggage, a novelist and writer for a New York magazine moonlights as an unlicensed private detective.
Escape from the dungeon!: Jonathan is hired by a cop with an S&M fetish; George is told to make do with less; Ray fails a yoga test.
Mike it quick, Fitzgerald!: Jonathan gets a job working for George's rival; Ray vows to win back Leah.
The Gowanus Canal has gonorrhea!: George gets sobering news; Jonathan is kidnapped.
I've...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Running from his emotional baggage, a novelist and writer for a New York magazine moonlights as an unlicensed private detective.
Stockholm syndrome: Heartbroken by a recent breakup, between-books writer, Jonathan Ames places an ad on Craigslist offering his unlicensed services as a private investigator.
The Alanon case: A woman with a drinking problem hires Jonathan to see if her boyfriend has been cheating.
The case of the missing screenplay:...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on historical events, this suspenseful thriller examines the infamous 1969 death of Mary Jo Kopechne, who drowned after Senator Ted Kennedy drove off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island, and the moral and legal complexities that play out over the following week.
10) The wackness
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Newly-inaugurated mayor, Rudolph Giuliani, is only beginning to implement his anti-fun initiatives against crimes like noisy portable radio, graffiti and public drunkenness. Set in this time, troubled high school student Luke Shapiro is a teenage pot dealer who forms a friendship with Dr. Jeffrey Squires, a psychiatrist and kindred lost soul. When the doctor proposes Luke trade him weed for therapy sessions, the two begin to explore both New York...
12) Damascus cover
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Israeli spy, Ari Ben-Zion, haunted by the death of his son, is recalled to Jerusalem after a failed attempt to bring a mole back to Israel alive. Unsure how many of its operatives have been exposed, the Mossad assigns Ari to smuggle a chemical weapons scientist out of Syria. While in Damascus, Ari's loneliness is relieved by Kim, a young American photographer. Within days of his arrival, his mission goes wrong, and to survive, Ari reaches out to a...