Christine Lahti
Author
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
A fiercely intelligent, hilarious, and deeply feminist collection of interrelated personal stories from Academy, Emmy, and Golden Globe Award–winning actress and director Christine Lahti.
For decades, actress and director Christine Lahti has captivated the hearts and minds of her audience through iconic roles in Chicago Hope, Running on Empty, Housekeeping, And Justice for All, Swing Shift, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, God
...2) The doctor
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Jack McKee is a doctor with it all: he's successful, he's rich, and he has no problems until he is diagnosed with throat cancer. Now that he has seen medicine, hospitals, and doctors from a patient's perspective, he realizes that there is more to being a doctor than surgery and prescriptions.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999.
Language
English
Description
After antiwar activists Annie and Arthur Pope blew up a napalm lab in 1971, they became lifelong fugitives. they and their children have stayed just one step ahead of the law but now their son Danny wants to stop running from a past not his and to do so, he might never see his family again.
5) Housekeeping
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"Writer/director Bill Forsyth (Comfort and Joy, Being Human) brings to life this tale, set in the 1950s and based on a novel by Marilynne Robinson, which is neither a sentimental nor simple exploration of familial and emotional bonds. Ruth (Sara Walker) and Lucille (Andrea Burchill) are two young sisters who are abandoned by their mother and raised by a succession of aged relatives, until their unconventional aunt Sylvie (Christine Lahti, Running...
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A story of two poets with bipolar disorder, whose art is fueled by their emotional extremes. When they meet in a treatment facility, their chemistry is instant and intense driving each other to new heights. They pursue their passion which breaks outside the bounds of sanity, swinging them from fantastical highs to tormented lows until they ultimately must choose between sanity and love.
8) Touchback
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012.
Language
English
Description
Former high school football star turned farmer and family man, Scott Murphy finds himself with a unique opportunity to revisit his glory days during the Ohio state championship game where he permanently injured his knee in a game-winning play. Given a second shot at his destiny, Scott seeks counsel from Coach Hand, Scott's longtime mentor on and off the field, to help him decide whether to let his fate unfold, or follow a path that will change his...
Publisher
Showtime Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
Perl spent WWII in charge of the woman's infirmary at Auschwitz. Hoping to leave her nightmares behind her after the liberation, she applies for American citizenship in 1946. However, she is hauled into military court to explain how much she "collaborated" with the Nazis during the war. The U.S. officials are especially disturbed by the number of illegal abortions Perl performed at the camp. Perl struggles to explain how she terminated the lives of...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Tom Hanks portrays Mister Rogers in a timely story of kindness triumphing over cynicism, based on the true story of a real-life friendship between Fred Rogers and journalist Tom Junod. After a jaded magazine writer is assigned a profile of Fred Rogers, he overcomes his skepticism, learning about kindness, love, and forgiveness from America's most beloved neighbor.
11) Swing shift
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A vivid look at the wartime conditions that stood society on its head. Kay Walsh had never held a wrench before but you're never too pretty to learn. The women and men that stayed home during World War II worked in the factories that turned out the weaponry to turn the tide of battle.
12) Hideaway
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Hatch Harrison was dead for two hours. When the doctors revived him, they brought more than Hatch's body back to life. Hatch discovers that he is telepathically linked to a killer. He witnesses the killer stalking a series of young women, including his own daughter.