Joe Grifasi
1) The ghost
Author
Language
English
Description
The romance of Sarah Ferguson, an 18th century countess who flees her abusive husband in England to join her French lover in America. It is presented through the eyes of a modern man who reads her diary, drawing inspiration from it to improve his own love life.
3) Benny & Joon
Series
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
A mentally ill young woman who lives with her older brother finds her love in an eccentric young man who models himself after Buster Keaton.
Author
Series
Tales from the House of Bunnicula volume 1
Language
English
Description
With help from his Uncle Harold, who wrote books about Bunnicula, Howie the wire-haired dachshund writes a story in which he saves the world from a science experiment gone awry.
5) Matewan
Series
Criterion collection volume 999
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Written and directed by John Sayles, this wrenching historical drama recounts the true story of a West Virginia coal town where the local miners' struggle to form a union rose to the pitch of all-out war in 1920. When Matewan's miners go on strike, organizer Joe Kenehan (Chris Cooper, in his film debut), arrives to help them, uniting workers white and black, Appalachia-born and immigrant, while urging patience in the face of the coal company's violent...
7) The front
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
District Attorney Monique Lamont orders Detective Win Garano to reopen the investigation of the brutal, decades-old murder of a young blind woman named Janie Brolin. Janie's boyfriend was the main suspect in the original investigation, but Lamont has another suspect in mind: the Boston Strangler. Garano will work with no-nonsense female detective 'Stump' to uncover the truth about Janie's death and track down a psychopath who is leaving their witnesses...
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Ray Ray Morales' financial woes disappear when he starts working for the neighborhood loan shark. Set up to oversee cash flow at the pawnshop, Ray Ray soon finds himself caught between the shop owner and his dangerous crime boss - both of whom have strong lessons to teach about the importance of community and the meaning of responsibility.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Adaptation of the Shakespeare play, filmed during a stage performance: "This immersive and darkly poetic cinematic experience brings the play's iconic fairies, spells and hallucinatory lovers to life ... the feats of visual imagination are ingenious and plentiful, but beating at the center of the film is an emotionally moving take on the deeper human aspects of Shakespeare's beloved tale"--Container.
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