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English
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After achieving a dream retirement with his wife of 50 years to a condo in the South of France, Joseph (James Fox) finds himself utterly miserable. Bored, lonely, and tired of his wife's incessant nagging and slow onset of Alzheimer's, he finds himself gazing hopelessly at the younger women that pass by and catching unflattering looks from the locals his own age. Brenda (Brenda Fricker) eventually begins to sense her husband's loss of enthusiasm...
2) My Left Foot
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Language
English
Description
Winner of two Academy Awards, including Best Actor Daniel Day-Lewis and Best Actress Brenda Fricker, this is the inspiring true story of a man who defied the odds to become a well-known author, artist and activist.
Author
Series
Holding volume 1
Language
English
Description
When human remains are found in a sleepy Irish village, Sergeant PJ Collins finally has a genuine crime to solve. As the gruesome discovery ripples through the community, it threatens to expose a lifetime of secrets.
Author
Series
Holding volume 4
Language
English
Description
When PJ uncovers the truth behind the body, Duneen is changed forever. No longer able to turn a blind eye to those around him, PJ must also confront his own personal demons as he attempts to bring the killer to justice.
Author
Series
Holding volume 2
Language
English
Description
The disappearance of a key suspect casts an ominous shadow over the investigation. PJ and Linus attempt to piece together what happened the day that Tommy Burke disappeared. PJ makes a dangerous decision that leaves him worrying his actions may have jeopardized the investigation. However, a startling breakthrough turns everything on its head and throws the entire case into doubt.
Author
Series
Holding volume 3
Language
English
Description
A month has passed with no new leads, and the case has fallen dormant. As the village tries to put the terrible events behind it, PJ harbors doubts about what really happened. When a new discovery reignites the investigation, PJ is forced to question everything he has learned so far.
Author
Series
Woman of Independent Means volume 2
Language
English
Description
Following her husband's death, Bess moves into a modest house and works to save his company from bankruptcy. When it's saved by a loan from Arthur Fineman, he ends up proposing to Bess.
Author
Series
Woman of Independent Means volume 3
Language
English
Description
Frustrated with her marriage, Bess accompanies her children on a Queen Mary cruise, where she experiences romance with an older man. After her father's death, Bess and Sam reconcile.
Author
Series
Woman of Independent Means volume 1
Language
English
Description
After marrying her childhood sweetheart, Bess Alcott begins a life in the high society of Dallas, Texas. As time goes by, she faces many personal triumphs as well as losses.
12) Holding
Publisher
itv studios, Acorn
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Duneen is a small remote town at the tip of West Cork, Ireland, where nothing ever happens until human remains are found buried deep on a local farm. For the first time, local Police Sergeant PJ Collins has to solve a genuine crime. As a lifetime's worth of small-town secrets starts to be unearthed, the residents' dark pasts begin to unravel, alongside PJ's inner turmoil.
Publisher
Shout Studios
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
Alfie Byrne is a middle-aged bus conductor in Dublin in 1963. He would appear to live a life of quiet desperation: he's gay, but firmly closeted, and his sister is always trying to find him "the right girl". His passion is Oscar Wilde, his hobby is putting on amateur theatre productions in the local church hall. We follow him as he struggles with temptation, friendship, disapproval, and the conservative yet oddly lyrical world of Ireland in the early...
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Video
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
The California Angels are a struggling baseball team praying to win a pennant. Their luck changes as their biggest fan, 11- year-old Roger, begins giving the coach tips from a real live angel. The team not only climbs back into the pennant race, but learns to believe in themselves.
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Kevin McCallister is ready to turn the Big Apple into his own playground. The notorious Wet Bandits, Harry and Marv, still smarting from their last encounter with Kevin, are plotting a huge holiday heist. Kevin's ready to welcome them with a battery of booby traps that the bumbling bandits will never forget.
Publisher
Miramax Films
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Born with cerebral palsy, the 10th of 22 children of a Dublin bricklayer and his wife, Christy Brown was doomed to life as a vegetable by physicians in 1932. His strong-willed mother's love and faith encouraged him to overcome this label. At age seven, he made a mark with chalk grasped between the toes of his left foot, the only limb on his body he could control. With this proof of intelligence, his schooling begins, and aided by his loving family,...
17) A time to kill
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
A small-town lawyer is hired to defend an African American man who is accused of killing the white men who raped his young daughter.
18) Closing the ring
Publisher
Genius Products
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
World War II. On June 1, 1944, a United States bomber pilot crashes onto the Cave Hill just outside of Belfast in Northern Ireland. He lives long enough to give a ring to a stranger and asks that he return it to his girlfriend. 50 years later, a young man searches for the woman to make good on a promise.
19) Cloudburst
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
This hilarious foul-mouthed, lesbian road movie co-stars Oscar-winning actresses Brenda Fricker and Olympia Dukakis as Dot and Stella, a crackerjack lesbian couple on the run from a nursing home. Stella and Dot have been together for 31 years and have faithfully accompanied one another through life's ups and downs. Now in their seventies, Stella is hard of hearing and Dot is legally blind. Dotty's prudish granddaughter, Molly (played by Genie Award-winner...
20) Tara Road
Publisher
First Look Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Marilyn Vine's idyllic life in Connecticut is devastated by the tragic death of her only son, Dale, during his 15th birthday party. 3,000 miles away, Ria Lynch's marriage comes to a stunningly abrupt end in Dublin, Ireland, when husband Danny reveals that he is leaving her for his pregnant mistress, Bernadette. An accidental phone call brings these two otherwise unrelated women together and, in their mutual need for space and time alone, they agree...
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