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One summer's day, ten-year-old India Opal Buloni goes down to the local supermarket for some groceries - and comes home with a dog. But Winn-Dixie is no ordinary dog. It's because of Winn-Dixie that Opal begins to make friends. And it's because of Winn-Dixie that she finally dares to ask her father about her mother, who left when Opal was three. In fact, as Opal admits, just about everything that happens that summer is because of Winn-Dixie.
3) Amelie
Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
Amelie Poulain has led a sheltered life, educated at home by her parents, she lives in a fantasy world of her own. When she finally leaves home and finds work as a waitress in a Parisian café, life is uneventful until a chain of extraordinary events leads her to the discovery of a box containing a schoolboy's long forgotten mementos. It is then that Amelie discovers her vocation in life - helping others find love and happiness - which she sets about...
Pub. Date
2007
Description
Barbara is a cynical schoolteacher who is close to retirement. Her only means of taking the edge off her desperate loneliness is writing in her journal. Sheba is a younger, attractive woman, who joins the faculty as an art teacher. Barbara watches her from afar and has nothing but caustic things to say in her diary. Barbara finds herself reaching out to Sheba. Sheba responds by inviting her to dinner at her house to meet Sheba's lecturer husband and...
5) A single man
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
Widescreen.
Description
After the death of his longtime partner, a British college professor in Los Angeles struggles to find meaning in his life. As he dwells in the past, he begins to contemplate suicide. A series of events and encounters will lead him to question if there really is a meaning to his life after all.
Series
Criterion collection volume 147
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
[Widescreen format], Special ed.
Description
Mr. Chow and Mrs. Chang move into neighboring apartments and soon discover that they have much in common, including frequently absent and distant spouses, which leads them to find the intimacy with each other that they cannot find in their marriages.
Pub. Date
2002
Description
Way up high where the clouds and rainbows live, the Care Bears watch over the Earth and make sure everyone is kind and friendly to one another. So when they see an evil spirit trick a a lonely boy into helping make people mean, the Bear heroes jump into action! The come to the rescue with the animals from the Forest of Feelings, but it is going to take an awful lot of love to defeat the spirit's powerful spell.
9) Loverboy
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Widescreen.
Description
Emily is a beautiful and brilliant loner obsessed with having the perfect child. Her desperation will drive her to commit shocking and perilous acts, pushing her closer to the edge of sanity.
10) The apartment
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
Collector's ed.
Description
How far will a man go to climb the corporate ladder? C. C. 'Bud' Baxter, a lowly insurance clerk, has a trump card: his apartment. He "loans" it out to married company executives for secret trysts. In return, he's well looked after, although he does grapple with his conscience. One day he asks out one of the elevator girls, Miss Kubelik, but she stands him up because of a crisis in her relationship with the big boss, Mr. Sheldrake. On Christmas...
11) Taxi driver
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Collector's ed.
Description
A psychotic taxi driver tries to save a child prostitute and becomes infatuated with a political campaigner. He goes on a violent rampage when his dreams don't work out.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
The Jerk : Navin Johnson tells his life story after his humble beginnings and unique outlook take him from rags to riches to rags, winning and losing the woman of his dreams. Is it possible that this jerk is doomed to life on the streets of LA with just a bathrobe, a lamp, and a paddleball game?
Housesitter: Shortly after an architect's girlfriend turns down his marriage proposal, he encounters a woman who decides on her own to move into his empty...
13) The window
Series
Film Movement volume 7, film 6
Pub. Date
2009
Description
It is a significant day for the 80-year-old Antonio. His estranged son is coming to visit and all must be perfect. There will be a special champagne toast; an embrace; warm words that may finally bridge the gap between them. But first, Antonio must wait. Bedridden, he looks out his window at the Patagonian landscape and sees the past and present, while sensing the future. He escapes the eyes of his faithful caretakers and leaves the house for...
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