Estelle Parsons
1) Diane
Language
English
Formats
Description
For Diane, everyone else comes first. Generous but with little patience for self-pity, she spends her days checking in on sick friends, volunteering at her local soup kitchen, and trying valiantly to save her troubled, drug-addicted adult son from himself. But beneath her relentless routine of self-sacrifice, Diane is fighting a desperate internal battle, haunted by a past she can't forget and which threatens to tear her increasingly chaotic world...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1893, thirteen-year-old Rosie and members of her family travel from their Illinois farm to Chicago to visit Aunt Euterpe and attend the World's Columbian Exposition which, along with an encounter with Buffalo Bill and Lillian Russell, turns out to be a life-changing experience for everyone.
5) Empire Falls
Publisher
HBO Video
Language
English
Description
A powerful portrait of blue-collar America, a timeless tribute to the inherent decency and good humor that sustains working-class people in everyday life.
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Rachel Cameron is a 35-year-old school teacher living in New England. Her life is small and safe. She has no man in her life and lives with her mother. She wants to do anything to keep from slipping into spinsterhood. When a man from the big city returns and asks her out, she has to make decisions about her life and where she wants it to go.
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Barney and Betty Hill, husbands -and -wife survivors of alien abduction, in this engrossing look at one of the most controversial and carefully documented cases of an extraterrestrial encounter in U.S. history. The Hills claim that, on the 19th of September, 1961, in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, they were taken aboard a saucer-like spacecraft and examined medically by mysterious humanoid beings with grayish skin. The UFO Incident describes...
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A once popular summer resort existed along the Rockaway shore, consisting of wide beaches, a long boardwalk, honky tonk amusements, and bungalows, Interviews bring the former bungalow colonies to life, and vintage archivalfilm includes some Marx Brothers frolicking. But the film also tracks 100 years of Rockaway history: the story of the bungalow form; the effects of 1950s urban renewal on the peninsula; and, finally, the grassroots activism to preserve...
10) Dick Tracy
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002?]
Language
English
Description
G-man Dick Tracy battles top crime figure The Lame One in San Francisco.
12) For Pete's sake
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
When Henry (Streisand) and her husband Pete (Sarrazin) get a hot tip on the stock market, they try to get a loan for the $3,000 they need to invest. Henry comes up with the cash-- which she tells Pete she borrowed from a rich uncle. However, when the investment doesn't pay off, Henry finds herself bounced from one loan shark to another, falling deeper in debt as she goes.
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
[c2002]
Language
English
Description
Arthur Miller's vivid comedy-drama portrays the nature of life during America's Great Depression. The emphasis is on mood and characterization as Miller draws on his own personal experience to evoke what the 1930s were like for workers to whom a job-- any job-- was everything.
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The Hollanders, a typical family on vacation, are stranded in Vulgaria after a hijacking. Trying to maintain their vacationing spirits, they start taking pictures, but the Vulgarians think they're spies. The Hollanders try to flee the country before the evil government throws them in prison.