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Pub. Date
2015
Description
As the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel has only a single remaining vacancy - posing a rooming predicament for two fresh arrivals - Sonny pursues his expansionist dream of opening a second hotel.
"It's the kind of movie that provides a perfect answer for when your mother or grandmother calls you up and asks, 'What should I go see with the girls after our weekly canasta game?"--Entertainment Weekly
"...a joy to watch..."--Toronto Star
"...a rare, optimistic...
Pub. Date
2017
Description
Bridget is forty-something and single again after breaking up with Mark Darcy. She decides to focus on her job and surround herself with old friends and some new ones. But her love life takes a turn when she meets a dashing American named Jack. In an unlikely twist, Bridget finds herself pregnant but she can only be fifty percent sure of the father's identity.
"...some genuinely uproarious laughs..."--Entertainment Weekly
"Zellweger has precision...
5) St. Vincent
Pub. Date
2015
Description
Maggie, a single mother, moves into a new home in Brooklyn with her twelve-year old son, Oliver. Forced to work long hours, she has no choice but to leave Oliver in the care of their new neighbor, Vincent, a retired curmudgeon with a desire for alcohol and gambling. An odd friendship soon blossoms between the improbable pair. Together with a pregnant stripper, named Daka, Vincent brings Oliver along on all the stops that make up his daily routine,...
6) French Exit
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Sixty-year-old penniless Manhattan socialite Frances Price had a plan. To die before the money ran out, but things didn't go as planned. Her husband Franklin has been dead for twelve years and with his vast inheritance gone, she cashes in the last of her possessions and resolves to live out her twilight days anonymously in a borrowed apartment in Paris. She is accompanied by her directionless son Malcolm and a cat named Small Frank, who may or may...
7) Game night
Pub. Date
[2018]
Formats
Description
A group of friends who meet regularly for game nights find themselves trying to solve a murder mystery.
"Mark Perez has written one of the tightest comedy scripts to make it to be the big screen in ages."--Village Voice
"McAdams, whose comedic skills have gone unsung for way too long, is dizzy fun. The whole movie is, actually..."--Entertainment Weekly
Pub. Date
[2018]
Formats
Description
Join the celebration, sing and dance, and discover how it all began! Ten years after Mamma Mia! the movie premiered, you're invited back to the Greek island of Kalokairi in an all-new musical sequel based on the songs of ABBA. Sophie (Amanda Seyfried) is now pregnant, and like her mother Donna (Meryl Streep), she'll need to take risks. The film's original cast returns, with new additions including Lily James as a young Donna, Andy Garcia and Oscar-winner...
Pub. Date
2016
Description
A young woman searches for love in New York City in this romantic comedy based on the novel by Liz Tuccillo.
"Lovely stuff all around."--Richard Roeper
"Full of frank, just-us-girls talk about men and wicked gags about drunken sex and intimate "landscaping," it's probably a poor choice for date night. But it's a great pick for girl's night out."--New York Daily News
"Much like its characters' romantic lives, How to Be Single is more enjoyable when...
10) Despicable me
Pub. Date
c2010
Formats
Description
Gru delights in all things wicked. Surrounded by an army of tireless little yellow minions, and armed with his arsenal of shrink rays, freeze rays, and battle-ready vehicles for land and air, he vanquishes all who stand in his way. Until the day he encounters the immense will of three little orphaned girls who look at him and see something that no one else has ever seen, a potential dad.
Pub. Date
2015
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...
12) Sex tape
Pub. Date
2014
Description
Jay and Annie are a married couple still very much in love, but ten years and two kids have cooled the passion. To get it back, they decide to make a video of themselves trying out every position in 'The Joy of Sex' in one marathon three-hour session. It seems like a great idea, until they discover that their most private video has gone public. In a panic, they begin a wild night of adventure to reclaim their video, their reputation, their sanity,...
13) The bronze
Pub. Date
2016
Description
A decade ago, Hope Ann Greggory was America's sweetheart. Her inspired performance on a ruptured Achilles at the world's most prestigious gymnastics tournament clinched an unlikely bronze medal for the U.S. team. But in the years since that epic third place victory, Hope hasn't done a whole lot with her life. Now she must coach Amherst's newest gymnastics prodigy Maggie in order to receive a sizeable financial inheritance.
"The Bronze isn't a brilliant...
15) Diary of a fly
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
A young fly realizes, day by day, that there is a lot to learn about mastering flight school and getting along with 327 brothers and sisters, and she discovers that heroes come in all shapes and sizes
Series
Pub. Date
1989.
Description
Harry and Sally, best friends, debate the question of whether or not sex will ruin the perfect friendship.
"Will sex ruin a perfect relationship between a man and a woman? That's what Harry and Sally debate during their trip from Chicago to New York. And eleven years later, they're still no closer to finding the answer. Will these two best friends ever accept that they're meant for each other .. or will they continue to deny the attraction that's...
Pub. Date
2015
Description
A sharp and funny comedy about a group of African-American students as they navigate campus life and racial boundaries at a predominately white college. A sly, provocative satire about being a black face in a white place.
"One of the freshest, funniest, boldest debut films to come along in years."--Newsday
"A witty movie and in many places a funny one."--San Francisco Chronicle
"The film takes a clear-eyed approach to the complex subject of racial...
18) Damsel
Pub. Date
2018
Description
It's the Wild West, circa 1870. Samuel Alabaster, an affluent pioneer, ventures across the American frontier to marry the love of his life, Penelope. As his group traverses the west, the once-simple journey grows treacherous, blurring the lines between hero, villain, and damsel.
"A movie that turns the classic western into something wackily eccentric and entertainingly original."--New York Times
"The film is unpredictable and bizarre, stunningly...
Pub. Date
2019
Description
Now chief and ruler of Berk alongside Astrid, Hiccup has created a gloriously chaotic dragon utopia. When the sudden appearance of female Light Fury coincides with the darkest threat their village has ever faced, Hiccup and Toothless must leave the only home they've known, and journey to a hidden world thought only to exist in myth. As their true destines are revealed, dragon and rider will fight together-to the very ends of the Earth-to protect everything...
Author
Series
Wildstone series volume 3
Formats
Description
Brooke Lemon has always led the life she wanted, wild adventures—and mistakes—included, something her perfect sister, Mindy, never understood. So when Mindy shows up on Brooke’s doorstep in the throes of a break-down with her three little kids in tow, Brooke’s shocked. Wanting to make amends, Brooke agrees to trade places, taking the kids back to Wildstone for a few days so Mindy can pick up the pieces and put herself back together. What Brooke...