Maggie Gyllenhaal
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
An art history teacher in the 1950's, who has the admiration of her students at Wellesley College, instructs them on how to be independent women. This goes against the conservative views of the school and she is chastised by the faculty.
"...alot of people said this thing looks a lot like a Dead Poets Society, well, so what? Dead Poets Society was a really good film and this is a good film as well."--Ebert & Roeper
"...I enjoyed Mona Lisa Smile...
2) Crazy heart
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
The powerful story of a country music star's rocky road to redemption. Bad Blake is a boozy, broken-down singer who reaches for salvation with the help of Jean, a journalist who discovers the real man behind the music. But will Bad's hard-livin' ways and crazy heart cost him his last chance at a comeback?
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Two siblings, Nessa and Ephra Stein, children of a zionist arms procurer, now run a foundation aiming to reduce the conflict through increasing Palestine's economic prosperity. When Nessa's foundation is about to announce a major business contract with a prominent Palestinian businessman, he is found dead in an apparent suicide. As doubt circles around his cause of death, an international investigation turns into a manhunt.
4) Away we go
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Burt and Verona are a loving couple. Burt has always wanted to marry Verona, but Verona resists, not seeing the point of the institution. Regardless, they are having a baby together and question their potential parenting abilities. They decide to move closer to Burt's parents so they can share the experience with the baby's grandparents. In Verona's sixth month, she and Burt learn that his parents are moving to Belgium the month before the baby is...
Language
English
Formats
Description
A mysterious governess uses magic to regain control of the misbehaved children of a woman whose husband is away at war.
When Nanny McPhee appears at the farmhouse door of a busy young mother Isabel Green, she discovers that Mrs. Green's children are in an all-out household war with their two spoiled city cousins. Relying on everything from a flying motorcycle and a statue that comes to life to a tree-climbing piglet and an elephant that turns up...