Glenn Close
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Language
English
Description
More than fifty million people a year are diagnosed with some form of mental illness. It spares no sex, race, age, ethnicity, or income level. And left untreated, mental disorders can devastate our families and communities. Family members and friends are often the first to realize when someone has a problem, but it is hard to know how to help or where to turn. From understanding depression, bipolar illness and anxiety to eating and traumatic disorders,...
4) Albert Nobbs
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
A woman passes as a man in order to work and survive in 19th century Ireland. Some thirty years after donning men's clothing, she finds herself trapped in a prison of her own making.
5) The wife
Publisher
Sony Pictures Classics
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
While traveling to Stockholm with her husband, where he'll be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, a woman confronts the sacrifices she's made on his behalf.
Series
Criterion collection volume 720
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
After the suicide of their friend, seven college friends who have drifted apart reunite at his funeral and reminisce about the past.
9) The wife
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The story of the couple's youthful passion and ambition interwoven with a portrait of a marriage, thirty-plus years later, a lifetime's shared compromises, secrets, betrayals, and mutual love.
Series
Hallmark Hall of Fame volume 1
Publisher
Hallmark Hall of Fame Productions
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Sarah, plain and tall: In this heartwarming, enormously popular family film, a mail-order bride travels to Kansas in 1910 and teaches a lonely family to love again.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A nurse during World War II, Jenny Fields (Glenn Close) conceives with a dying pilot and bears a boy named T.S. Garp (Robin Williams) whom she raises alone. When Garp grows up, he has some success writing fiction, but not nearly so much as his mother has with feminist-themed nonfiction. Rich and famous, she starts a center for troubled women, and while Garp marries and has children, he remains a constant, if somewhat critical, observer of the strange...
13) Father figures
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Upon learning that their mother has been lying to them for years about their allegedly deceased father, two fraternal twin brothers hit the road in order to find him.
14) Anesthesia
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
While on his way home one evening, Walter Zarrow, a popular Columbia University philosophy professor, is violently attacked on the street. Flashing back one week to the beginning of a domino effect of events that led up to this seemingly senseless assault, the film traces hidden connections between an apparently disparate group of people.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Brash adventurer Peter Quill finds himself the object of an unrelenting bounty hunt after stealing a mysterious orb coveted by Ronan, a powerful villain with ambitions that threaten the entire universe. To evade Ronan, Quill is forced into an uneasy truce with a quartet of disparate misfits. But when Quill discovers the true power of the orb and the menace it poses to the cosmos, he must do his best to rally his ragtag rivals for a last, desperate...
16) Mary Reilly
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The classic horror story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde gets a chilling new twist when seen through the eyes of Dr. Jekyll's devoted maid.
Publisher
LG Premiere
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Gilly Hopkins has seen more than her share of foster homes and has outwitted every family she has lived with. In an effort to escape her new foster mother Maime Trotter's endless loving care, Gilly concocts a plan that she believes will bring her mother running to her rescue. But when the ploy blows up in Gilly's face it threatens to ruin the only chance she's ever had to be part of a real family.
19) Paradise road
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Fact-based recounting of a group of women who are imprisoned on the island of Sumatra by the Japanese during World War II and used music as a relief to their misery.
20) The natural
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1984
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A once-promising baseball player on his way to stardom in the big leagues, finds his dreams shattered when a mysterious woman and a silver bullet end his career prematurely. Sixteen years later, armed with his childhood bat "Wonderboy," comes back to baseball, joins the roster of the lowly New York Knights to see if he can overcome physical pain and the nefarious forces around him and lead his team to the pennant.
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