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Author
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When it was first produced in 1959, A Raisin in the Sun was awarded the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for that season and hailed as a watershed in American drama. A pioneering work by an African-American playwright, the play was a radically new representation of black life. "A play that changed American theater forever."
2) Southpaw
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Billy "The Great" Hope, reigning Light Heavyweight Boxing Champion of the World, seemingly has it all: an impressive career, a beautiful and loving wife, an adorable daughter, and a lavish lifestyle. When tragedy strikes and his lifelong manager and friend leaves him behind, Hope hits rock bottom and turns to an unlikely savior at a run-down local gym: Tick Willis, a retired fighter and trainer to the city's toughest amateur boxers.
3) The father
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A man refuses all assistance from his daughter as he ages. As he tries to make sense of his changing circumstances, he begins to doubt his loved ones, his own mind, and even the fabric of his reality.
4) Hereditary
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the matriarch of the Graham framily passes away, her daughter's family begins to unravel cryptic and increasingly terrifying secrets about their ancestry.
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Based on a true story of a family caught, with tens of thousands of strangers, in the mayhem of one of the worst natural catastrophes of our time. But the true-life terror is tempered by the unexpected displays of compassion, courage, and simple kindness that Maria and her family encounter during the darkest hours of their lives.
6) Disconnect
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A couple is drawn into a dangerous situation when their secrets are exposed online. A widowed ex-cop struggles to raise a mischievous son who cyber-bullies a classmate. An ambitious journalist sees a career-making story in a teen that performs on an adult-only site. They are strangers, neighbors and colleagues and their stories collide in this riveting dramatic thriller about ordinary people struggling to connect in today's wired world.
7) Poltergeist
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The classic tale about a family whose suburban home is haunted by evil forces. When the terrifying apparitions escalate their attacks and hold the youngest daughter captive, the family must come together to rescue her before she disappears forever.
8) The captive
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Eight years after the disappearance of Cassandra, some disturbing indications seem to indicate that she's still alive. Her parents, detectives, and Cassandra herself will try to unravel the mystery of her disappearance.
10) The family Stone
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Everett Stone brings his girlfriend home during Christmas to meet his family, who are less than welcoming to her.
11) Sounder
Pub. Date
2008, 1972.
Language
English
Description
An extremely powerful and uplifting story about a family of black sharecroppers, the Morgans, set in rural Louisiana during the 1930s. The father steals food from his neighbor to feed his starving family and is arrested, leaving his wife, their three children, and their dog Sounder, to endure the hardships of poverty and prejudice in the Depression-era South. Based on the Newbery Award book by William H. Armstrong.
12) Hamlet
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, with marginal notes and explanations and full descriptions of each character.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
The Griffin clan puts a spin on the greatest sci-fi saga ever told! With Peter playing the swashbuckling Han Solo, Lois as the sexy Princess Leia, Chris as an adolescent Luke Skywalker, Brian as well-spoken Chewbacca and Stewie finally embracing his dark side as Darth Vader. Filled with outrageous gags, spaced-outs droids and more intergalactic satire than you can shake a lightsaber at.
16) Candleshoe
Series
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Welcome to Candleshoe, a stately English manor where a swashbuckling pirate hid a fortune in Spanish doubloons centuries ago. And that's what young orphan Casey and a sly con man are determined to find.
18) Love the Coopers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
It follows the Cooper clan as four generations of extended family come together for their annual Christmas Eve celebration. As the evening unfolds, a series of unexpected visitors and unlikely events turn the night upside down, leading them all toward a surprising rediscovery of family bonds and the spirit of the holiday.
20) Think like a dog
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Josh Duhamel and Megan Fox star in this whimsical family comedy about a boy and his dog, and a science project that will change all of their lives forever. It follows twelve-year-old Oliver, a tech prodigy, whose middle-school science fair experiment goes awry, creating a telepathic connection between him and his furry friend, Henry. The bond brings Oliver and Henry even closer as they join forces to comically overcome complications at school, and...
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