Fred Schepisi
Pub. Date
2002.
Description
Alex is trying to deal with a midlife crisis, while feeling caught in the middle of his familial obligations. While successful, Alex sometimes feels as if he's under the shadow of his father, Mitchell, a successful attorney. Mitchell has recently survived a stroke, and Alex and Mitchell want to mend their relationship while there's still time.
3) Roxanne
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Roxanne confides her interest to the secretly smitten C.D., who reluctantly passes it on to Chris. But Chris is dumbstruck, and convinces C.D. to ghost-write a letter to Roxanne-one that, unbeknownst to Chris, is an outpouring of C.D.'s own feelings for her.
4) I.Q
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
All the world knows about Einstein the scientific genius. But what about Einstein the matchmaker? I.Q. puts this fanciful notion to the test and comes up with winning results in this fun, warm-hearted romantic comedy.
6) Barbarosa
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
As gnarly ex-Texas ranger who turned into an bandit, lives by his own wits and prowess with a gun.
7) Iceman
Pub. Date
c1984
Description
A team of Arctic researchers find a 40,000 year old man frozen in ice and bring him back to life. Anthropologist Stanley Shephard wants to befriend the Iceman and learn about man's past. Dr. Diane Brady and her surgical team want to discover the secret that will allow man to live in a frozen state. When the Iceman becomes part of their lives, the results are both moving and emotionally shattering.
Pub. Date
©2008, [1976]
Description
In 1953 a young man faces strict religious discipline and self-denial in an Australian seminary, where the adult instructors also face intense personal questions about their chosen vocation. A study of life in a religious school for teenage boys and its effects on their lives, morals, and mental states.
12) Last orders
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Description
Follows the lives of four men, covering nearly a half-century of these South London buddies lives, from thier adopted pub to Margate Pier. Through a series of flashbacks, they take you on a journey of a lifetime. Along with them are the ashes of Jack, their larger-than-life friend, whose deathbed request sends them on their way.
13) Fierce creatures
Pub. Date
c1998
Description
When ruthless media mogul Rod McCain acquires England's Marwood Zoo, he sends his sexy marketing executive and his lecherous son to whip the place into shape, but they discover Marwood's straitlaced director has already implemented his own harebrained scheme to boost attendance: from now on the zoo will do away with cute, cuddly animals and display only "fierce creatures."
14) Empire Falls
Pub. Date
[2005]
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.
15) Plenty
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
Susan Traherne is a former World War II French Resistance fighter who returns to her home in post-war Britain haunted by her experiences in occupied France. She finds that she is having trouble fitting back into formal British society after the war.
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
Fabulous Baker boys: musical brothers Jack and Frank Baker meet sultry songbird Susie Diamond, who makes their tired tunes suddenly new until Jack and Susie's romance threatens to make life more entertaining for all three. Love field: on a cross-country trek, Lurene Hallett meets an African American man with a little girl and ends up evading the police and on the run. Married to the mob: the widow of a mobster must choose between enlisting the FBI...