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"This updated edition includes: newly re-edited play text and revised commentary notes, scene-by-scene plot summaries, a key to the play's famous lines and phrases, an introduction to reading Shakespeare's language, an essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern perspective on the play, fresh images from the Folger Shakespeare Library's vast holdings of rare books, [and] an up-to-date annotated guide to further reading." -- Page [4]...
2) Proof
Author
Series
Language
English
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Catherine, a troubled young woman, has spent years caring for her brilliant but unstable father, a famous mathematician. Now, following his death, she must deal with her own volatile emotions.
Author
Publisher
Faber and Faber
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
83 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
It focuses on Catherine, a young woman who has spent years caring for her father, Robert, a brilliant mathematician in his youth who was later unable to function without her help. His death has brought into her midst both her sister, Claire, who wants to take Catherine back to New York with her, and Hal, a former student of Catherine's father who hopes to find some hint of Robert's genius among his incoherent scribblings. The passion that Hal feels...
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When their father passes away, four grown siblings, bruised and banged up by their respective adult lives, are forced to return to their childhood home and live under the same roof together for a week. Confronting their history and the frayed states of their relationships among the people who know and love them best, they ultimately reconnect in hysterical and emotionally affecting ways amid the chaos, humor, heartache and redemption that only families...
5) Give or take
Publisher
Breaking Glass Pictures
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A man's estranged father unexpectedly dies, so he goes home to Cape Cod and prepares the house for sale while sharing it with his father's temperamental live-in boyfriend. Grieving, they circle each other, butt heads, and negotiate how to remember the different man they both loved, and the significance of what he left behind.
6) True grit
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mattie Ross is determined to avenge her father's blood by capturing Tom Chaney, the man who shot and killed him for two pieces of gold. Just fourteen, she enlists the help of Rooster Cogburn, a one-eyed, trigger-happy U.S. Marshal with an affinity for drinking, and hardened Texas Ranger LaBoeuf to track the fleeing Chaney. Despite their differences, their ruthless determination leads them on a perilous adventure that can only have one outcome: retribution....
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (137 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Scott has been a case of arrested development ever since his firefighter father died when he was seven. He's now reached his mid-20s having achieved little, living with his mother, spending his days smoking weed, hanging with the guys, and secretly hooking up with his girlfriend Kelsey. But when his mother starts dating a loudmouth firefighter named Ray, it sets off a chain of events that will force Scott to grapple with his grief and take his first...
8) Cat Ballou
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When her father is murdered by a powerful businessman, a woman hires a has-been gunfighter to help her gain revenge.
9) Hamlet
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Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"This Arden edition of Hamlet, arguably Shakespeare's greatest tragedy, presents an authoritative, modernized text based on the Second Quarto text with a new introductory essay covering key productions and criticism in the decade since its first publication. A timely up-date in the 400th anniversary year of Shakespeare's death which will ensure the Arden edition continues to offer students a comprehensive and current critical account of the play,...
10) The Tree
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A mystical drama of loss and rebirth in the Australian countryside. Blindsided with anguish after her husband’s sudden death, Dawn (Charlotte Gainsbourg)—along with her four young children—struggles to make sense of life without him. Eight-year-old Simone becomes convinced that her father is whispering to her through the leaves of the gargantuan fig tree that towers over their house. The family is initially comforted by its presence, but then...
11) Ramen Shop
Publisher
Strand Releasing Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
The film tells the story of young Ramen Chef Masato who leaves his home and family's shop in Japan after his father dies in search of his mother's family and the recipes she left behind in Singapore. There he traces a culinary path of delicious signature dishes to find his estranged family across the sea. With the help of food blogger Miki, he learns the recipes of his mother's homeland and the way to his grandmother's heart.
12) It ends with us
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
It Ends With Us, the first Colleen Hoover novel adapted for the big screen, tells the story of Lily Bloom, a woman who overcomes a traumatic childhood to embark on a new life in Boston and chase a lifelong dream of opening her own business. A chance meeting with charming neurosurgeon Ryle Kincaid sparks an intense connection, but as the two fall deeply in love, Lily begins to see sides of Ryle that remind her of her parents' relationship. When Lily's...
13) Jean de Florette
Series
Publisher
MGM DVD
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (235 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Jean de Florette: Set amidst the rugged hills of Provence, this epic saga follows the heroic efforts of Jean Cadoret, who inherits a farm from his mother, Florette, and leaves his city job behind, hoping to create a "new Eden" with his wife and daughter. But, unbeknownst to Jean, his greedy neighbor, César Soubeyran, is plotting to steal the land out from under him with a wicked scheme that drives Jean to the brink of madness.
Manon of the spring:...
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (473 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Danger-courting excursionist James Delaney returns to London in 1814 in order to attend his father's funeral. He not only inherit his notorious father's shipping empire, but all the enemies and debts created by his father's dubious dealings.
15) Freelancers
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 96 min) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The son of a slain NYPD officer joins the force, where he falls in with his father's former partner and a team of rogue cops. His new boss wants to see if he has what it takes to be rogue. When the truth about his father's death is revealed, he won't stop until justice has been served.
16) People like us
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Blu-ray widescreen ed.
Language
English
Description
While settling his recently deceased father's estate and reconnecting with his estranged family, a twenty-something salesman discovers he has a half sister.
18) The mesmerist
Publisher
New Light Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
Letterbox.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 88 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Edgar Allan Poe meets dysfunctional families as Daisy drags her fiance to see her dying father one last time before he passes. But dad isn't ready to leave just yet, with the help of an unhinged hypnotist, he hopes to glimpse the great beyond before he makes his final journey.
19) Tommy: the movie
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A classic rock opera about a boy who is traumatized by the death of his father. He is "cured" several years later, only to be hailed as a "Messiah."
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Widescreen two disc special edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The continuing misadventures of the Wolfpack. After the death of his father, Alan turns to the Wolfpack in his time of grief. This time, there's no wedding, no bachelor party, just one simple road trip. What could possibly go wrong?
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