Shirley Knight
Pub. Date
c2005
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Melvin Udall is an obsessive-compulsive novelist with Manhattan's meanest mouth. But when his gay neighbor Simon is hospitalized, Melvin is forced to babysit Simon's dog. And that unexpected act of kindness-- along with waitress Carol Connelly-- helps put Melvin back in the human race.
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2015
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After six years of keeping our malls safe, Paul Blart has earned a well-deserved vacation. He heads to Vegas with his teenage daughter before she heads off to college. But safety never takes a holiday and when duty calls, Blart answers.
"...generates more laughs than the original..."--AV Club
Pub. Date
[2009]
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Paul Blart is a mild-mannered, dutiful family man who works as a security guard in a New Jersey mall. He has applied to become a cop for years, but he always fails the physical exam because he is overweight. One day, a gang of organized criminals put the mall under siege and take hostages. Blart becomes trapped inside and because he feels that it is his sense of duty, refuses to leave. He becomes the police department's eyes on the inside and attempts...
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Mrs. Warren's Profession is a play written by George Bernard Shaw in 1894, and first performed in London in 1902. The title refers to prostitution. The story centres on the relationship between Mrs Kitty Warren and her daughter, Vivie. Mrs. Warren, a former prostitute and current brothel owner, is described as "on the whole, a genial and fairly presentable old blackguard of a woman." Vivie, an intelligent and pragmatic young woman who just graduated...
6) Juggernaut
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The Greatest Sea Adventure In History has Just Begun! The high seas have never been more terrifying than in this riveting, tension-packed adventure. Richard Harris (A Man Called Horse) and Omar Sharif (Doctor Zhivago) head on all-star cast that includes the great Anthony Hopkins (Silence of the Lambs) in a "tingling" (The Village Voice), edge-of-your seat shipboard thriller! HMS Britannic is caught in a storm at sea, but the real terror is on board...
Pub. Date
c2009
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Wes Merritt and his daugher Natalie get mor than they bargained for when they buy an old house that was formerly inhabited by the nice old Mrs. Ashboro and her pet cat Margaret. When strange thangs start happening in the house, all fingers point to the presence of Margaret, who died the same day as Mrs. Ashboro. But wh has the cat come back?
10) Grandma's boy
Pub. Date
[2006]
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By day, 35-year-old Alex is the world's oldest video game tester, but at night he is privately developing the next big game for the X-Box generation. When one of his roommates spends all the rent money on Filipino hookers, Alex gets kicked out of his apartment. He finds himself forced to live with his grandmother and her friends Grace and Bea. To save face with his friends and co-workers, he brags about the three hot babes living with him.
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In 1950's Houston, an affluent couple is transformed by tragedy when their son dies under mysterious circumstances and the husband loses his job of 40 years. Shirley Knight recreates her Tony-nominated performance in this 1995 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Phyllis Applegate, Jamie Hanes, Shirley Knight, Lynne Marta, Ronan O'Casey, Daniel Passer, Kenna Ramsey, David Selby and Tom Virtue.
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Like a salmon leaving the ocean and swimming upriver, we are on a journey in which we must learn how to fly, at least for brief intervals. As we navigate the rapids in life, we grow stronger and more skillful. If we don't make it up the waterfall though, we swim in circles where cynics stagnate. Joy and clarity are ahead if we continue to progress. While every person's journey is unique, it is also universal. Any path that involves honesty and integrity...
Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
Like mother, like daughter. Neither a hard-as-nails New York playwright nor her flaky Louisiana mother will take the necessary steps to mend their long-time rift. No, this is a job for the Sisterhood, sworn life-long friends who stage an outlandish "intervention" to bring daughter and mother back together again
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Successful businesswoman Chris Winslow gives up her career to raise her deceased sister's son. Eight years later, the boy's father-who was unaware of his son's existence-arrives. They decide to enter into a marriage of convenience in order to not upset the child, though they soon find that they may just be in love after all.
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He's good enough, he's smart enough and doggone it, people like him! He's Stuart Smalley (Al Franken), and he's bringing his nutty New Age act to the big screen in a heartwarming comedy that's "flat-out amazing" (F.X. Feeney, L.A. Weekly) Stuart's "shame spiral" begins when his cable-access show, Daily Affirmation With Stuart Smalley, is abruptly canceled. Then Stuart's favorite aunt dies, sending him home to his co-dependent mother, alcoholic dad,...
20) My Louisiana Sky
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A young girl comes of age in this bittersweet story of family pride in the rural South of the 1950s. A movie for anyone who has ever been surprised by the small miracles of life, touched by memories, and thankful for booth.