Dianne Wiest
1) The Birdcage
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
In this hysterical comedy, Armand (Robin Williams) and Albert (Nathan Lane) have built the perfect life for themselves tending to their gaudy Miami nightclub. But their pastel tranquility is shaken when Armand's son announces that he's getting married to the daughter of ultra-conservative Senator Keeley (Gene Hackman)...and they're all getting together for dinner! Can Armand and Albert transform themselves into Mr. and Mrs. Family Values in time?...
2) Sisters
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The story of two disconnected sisters summoned home to clean out their childhood bedroom before their parents sell the family house. Looking to recapture their glory days, they throw one final high-school-style party for their classmates, which turns into the cathartic rager that a bunch of ground-down adults really need.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1984.
Language
English
Description
A shining example of the magic that's created when two of Hollywood's biggest and brightest stars join forces in one special film. Robert De Niro and Meryl Streep play Frank Raftis and Molly Gilmore, two everyday people who meet first by chance, and later by choice. There's just one thing standing between Frank and Molly's intense, newfound love: both are already married. Oscar Winners De Niro, Streep and a fine supporting cast including Harvey Keitel...
4) Rabbit hole
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Becca and Howie Corbett are returning to their everyday existence in the wake of a shocking, sudden loss. Just eight months ago, they were a happy suburban family with everything they wanted. Now, they are caught in a maze of memory, longing, guilt, recrimination, sarcasm and tightly controlled rage from which they cannot escape. The journey is an intimate glimpse into two people learning to re-engage with each other and a world that has been tilted...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Classics
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Beth saves a bedraggled lost dog from the side of the freeway on a wintry day in Denver. Struggling with her distracted, self-involved husband Joseph and an empty nest at home, Beth forms a special bond with the rescued animal. When Joseph loses the dog after a wedding at their vacation home in the Rockies, the distraught Beth enlists the help of the few remaining guests and a mysterious young woman in a frantic search. Each member of the search party...
6) Footloose
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
1984
Language
English
Description
A fatherless teen-age boy (Kevin Bacon) from Chicago, who likes to dance, tries to shake up his new small midwestern hometown of Bomont, which doesn't allow public dancing. Bomont's Baptist minister (John Lithgow) is a staunch supporter of the ban on public dancing, but has a "loose" teenage daughter (Lori Singer) in high school who doesn't share his views on the ban. The two teenagers develop a mutual affection for each other and fight the town's...
7) I am Sam
Series
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
A mentally handicapped man fights for custody of his 7-year-old daughter and in the process teaches his cold-hearted lawyer the value of love and family.
10) Dan in real life
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Dan Burns is a local newspaper advice columnist. He is a widower with three daughters. He brings the family to his parent's house for a family gathering. When Dan goes to a local bookstore, he meets Marie. When he gets home, he finds out that Marie is actually dating his brother Mitch. Dan's mother Nana announces that she met an old acquaintance of Dan's, Ruthie Draper and that she has set up a date between Dan and Ruthie. Dan refuses to go. Mitch...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2022
Language
English
Description
"Novelist Alice Hughes boards an ocean liner with her two best friends from college to have some fun and heal old wounds, while her nephew - who tags along to look after them - falls for an alluring stowaway." --container.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Once upon a time in a castle high on a hill lived an inventor whose greatest creation was named Edward. Although Edward had an irresistible charm, he wasn't quite perfect. The inventor's sudden death left him unfinished, with sharp shears of metal for hands. Edward lived alone in the darkness until one day a kind Avon Lady took him home to live with her family. And so began Edward's fantastic adventures in a pastel paradise known as Suburbia.
13) Practical magic
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
The wry, comic romantic tale follows the Owens sisters as they struggle to use their hereditary gift for practical magic to overcome the obstacles in discovering true love.
14) Parenthood
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
p2007, c1989
Language
English
Description
The Buckmans are a modern family facing the age-old dilemma of trying to raise children the "right" way.
15) The mule
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Formats
Description
A ninety-year-old horticulturist and Korean War veteran turns drug mule for a Mexican cartel. Inspired by a true story.
16) The big year
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"Looking to shake up their routine lives, three amateur bird watchers compete to become the ultimate 'birder' by spotting the greatest number of species within a single calendar year. But the friendly rivalry soon turns into a hilariously complicated cross-country adventure as each man begins to realize that the quest for success comes at a price -- and that's not chicken feed!" --Container.
17) The birdcage
Series
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
A gay cabaret owner and his drag queen companion agree to put up a false straight front so that their son can introduce them to his fiancée's right-wing moralistic parents.
18) Little man Tate
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
A seven-year-old genius is caught in a tug of war between his waitress mom who only wants a regular life for him, and the head of an institute for gifted children who wants to further his development.
19) Footloose
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
City-boy Ren McCormick finds he has been moved into an uptight Midwestern town where the local officials have banned dancing and rock 'n roll music. Ren revolts with his best friend Willard and the minister's daughter. A timeless struggle between innocent teenage pleasures and adults' need for rigid morality.
