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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Menagerie was Williams' first popular success and launched the brilliant, if somewhat controversial, career of our preeminent lyric playwright. Since its premiere in Chicago in 1944, with the legendary Laurette Taylor in the role of Amanda, the play has been the bravura piece for great actresses from Jessica Tandy to Joanne Woodward, and it is studied and performed in classrooms and theaters around the world. A new introduction by prominent Williams...
Publisher
Cinedigm
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
An inspirational story of family, friendship, and redemption. After years of searching for his father, a young man, on the run from the law, finds his way into the life of a secluded old man in the woods. As the days go by and secrets about their past are revealed, they realize they may not have been looking for each other but they were brought together for a reason.
3) Guest artist
Publisher
Indican Pictures
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The story of a young man coming face to face with his hero an exploring the tangled relationship between the dreams of youth and the wisdom of age.
4) Fight Club
Publisher
20th Century Fox
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
When a ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a soap salesman channel their aggresion into therapeutic "fight clubs", an eccentric woman gets in the way and ignites an out-of-control spiral toward oblivion.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Julian is a boy with looks, charm, intelligence and a father who sets him up in the record business; he also has a drug habit. His best friend Clay wants to help and is willing to do almost anything for his friend, but Julian is going downhill so fast that he might take his girlfriend and Clay with him.
Publisher
Altered Innocence
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
Français
Description
THE STRANGLER centers on Emile, a handsome young man targeting women he believes are too depressed to go on living. As multiple women fall to ¡mile₂s suffocating white scarf, inspector Simon Dangret, the detective assigned to track down the killer, resorts to seriously unorthodox and even unethical methods to get his man with the assistance of Anna, a beautiful woman who believes herself to be a potential victim.
8) Amnesia
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Jo has come to Ibiza to be a DJ in the club Amnesia. He befriends a solitary woman who's trying to forget her past. As Jo draws her into techno music, Martha puts everything she had previously lived by into question.
9) Martin Eden
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Italiano
Description
Adapted from a 1909 novel by Jack London yet set in a provocatively unspecified moment in Italy's history, this is a passionate and enthralling story in the tradition of great Italian classics. Martin is a self-taught proletarian with artistic aspirations who hopes that his dreams of becoming a writer will help him rise above his station and marry a wealthy university student. The dissatisfactions of working-class toil and bourgeois success lead to...
10) Monkey man
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Kid is an anonymous young man who ekes out a meager living in an underground fight club where, night after night, wearing a gorilla mask, he is beaten bloody by more popular fighters for cash. After years of suppressed rage, Kid discovers a way to infiltrate the enclave of the city's sinister elite. As his childhood trauma boils over, his mysteriously scarred hands unleash an explosive campaign of retribution to settle the score with the men who took...
11) The goldfinch
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Theodore 'Theo' Decker was thirteen years old when his mother was killed in a bombing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The tragedy changes the course of his life, sending him on a stirring odyssey of grief and guilt, reinvention and redemption, and even love. Through it all, he holds on to one tangible piece of hope from that terrible day, a painting of a tiny bird chained to its perch.
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
©2001
Language
English
Description
A poor young man is determined to win a place in respectable society and the heart of a beautiful socialite. A factory girl has dark secret that threatens his professional and romantic prospects. Consumed with fear and desire, he is ultimately driven to a desperate act of passion that unravels his world forever.
Series
Criterion collection volume 95
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The film follows the blossoming love between a well-off suburban widow and her handsome and earthy younger gardener. After their romance prompts the scorn of her selfish children and snooty country club friends, she must decide whether to pursue her own happiness or carry on a lonely, hemmed-in existence for the sake of the approval of others.
Series
Publisher
Weinstein Company
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
The anti-Ching patriots, under the guidance of Ho Kuang-han, have secretly set up their base in Canton, disguised as school masters. During a brutal Manchu attack, Lui Yu-te, one of Ho's pupils, manages to escape and devotes himself to learning the martial arts in order to seek revenge. In a short period of time he masters the deadly use of his fists, feet and palms, along with such weapons as swords, sticks, and lances. With his learning complete,...
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