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(0)Grace Gummer
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English
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"2000. Bright, ambitious, and yearning for adulthood, fifteen-year-old Vanessa Wye becomes entangled in an affair with Jacob Strane, her magnetic and guileful forty-two-year-old English teacher. 2017. Amid the rising wave of allegations against powerful men, a reckoning is coming due. Strane has been accused of sexual abuse by a former student, who reaches out to Vanessa, and now Vanessa suddenly finds herself facing an impossible choice: remain...
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Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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The daughter of a Coney Island boardwalk curiosities museum's front man pursues an impassioned love affair with a Russian immigrant photographer who after fleeing his Lower East Side Orthodox community has captured poignant images of the infamous Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire.
Mesmerizing and illuminating, Alice Hoffman?s The Museum of Extraordinary Things is the story of an electric and impassioned love between two vastly different souls in New...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Elsa Mars is the proprietor of a troupe of human "curiosities" on a desperate journey of survival in the sleepy hamlet of Jupiter, Florida, in 1952. Her menagerie of performers includes a two-headed, telepathic twin, a take-charge bearded lady, a vulnerable strongman, and his three-breasted wife. But strange emergence of an entity will savagely threaten the lives of the townsfolk and freaks alike.
4) The Homesman
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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Single woman and pioneer Mary Bee Cuddy saves the life of claim jumper George Briggs in return for his help in getting three women who have gone insane from Nebraska to Iowa.
6) The homesman
Publisher
Roadside Attractions LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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When three women living on the edge of the American frontier are driven mad by harsh pioneer life, the task of saving them falls to the pious, independent-minded Mary Bee Cuddy. Transporting the women by covered wagon to Iowa, she soon realizes just how daunting the journey will be, and employs a low-life drifter, George Briggs to join her.
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CBS Studios Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Devastated by the loss of her husband and humanich robot son, Ethan, astronaut Molly Woods is involuntarily committed to a 'rest facility.' Believing her confinement is part of a conspiracy to keep her quiet about the presence of aliens, Molly escapes, but she's stricken by an unknown illness...one she believes may be related to the mysterious space encounter that left her pregnant.
10) Frances Ha
Series
Criterion collection volume 681
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Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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Greta Gerwig is radiant as a woman in her late twenties in contemporary New York, trying to sort out her ambitions, her finances, and, above all, her tight but changing bond with her best friend, Sophie (Mickey Sumner). Meticulously directed by Noah Baumbach (Kicking and Screaming) with a free-and-easy vibe reminiscent of the French New Wave's most spirited films, and written by Baumbach and Gerwig with an effortless combination of sweetness and wit,...
