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Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The seven Shaw siblings have long been haunted by two early and profoundly consequential events. Told in turn back and forth over time, from the early twentieth century through the 1950s, each sibling relays their own version of the memories that surround both their mother's mysterious death and the circumstances leading up to and beyond one sister's scandalous teenage pregnancy. As they move into adulthood, the siblings assume various new roles:...
3) Hope floats
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
Birdee Pruitt has a life most people would envy. But when her cheating husband reveals his infidelity to her on a national TV talk show, her perfect life comes crashing down. Devastated, Birdee and her young daughter head home to the small town she left behind. As mother and daughter struggle to adjust to their new lives, Birdee slowly gains the strength to open her heart and find hope again.
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Nick, a career salesman who loses his wife and his job in the worst day of his life. Faced with his life imploding, Nick puts it all on the line, or, rather, on the lawn, as he moves himself and all his possessions to his front yard.
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"After years of driving her husband to succeed, ruthless social climber Joyce Ramsey has driven him away. This decades-spanning drama is notable for its unblinking portrait of the traumatic effect of divorce on a middle-aged woman"--Container.
7) In name only
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 94 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Alec Walker's wife Maida is a beauty, but she's also a venomous, self-absorbed schemer. Then Alec falls for an open-hearted widow named Julie. And Maida turns wedding vows into a steel trap: If Alec files for divorce, she'll drag Julie into court as a homewrecker, and use Julie's little daughter as a witness.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Determined to win her husband back, Phyllis Nefler decides to throw her lavish lifestyle to the wind, and become leader of her daughter's Wilderness Girls troop.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her husband of sixteen years abruptly leaves her for a younger woman, Manhattan gallery worker Erica finds herself alone and adrift, but also newly empowered to explore her needs and desires as she tests the waters of a new relationship with a charismatic artist.
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
Widescreen version (1.85:first).
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A close-up look at the ups and downs of dating and marriage. Takes a look at three men and three women who unknowingly form a tangled web of relationships.
12) Street of women
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (59 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Couturier Natalie Upton finds happiness in the arms of a married man, until her kid brother comes to town. He and the daughter of Natalie's lover are engaged and the young couple demand that the scandalous affair end now!
Language
English
Formats
Description
Miles Massey is a high-powered Los Angeles divorce lawyer nearing a midlife crisis. While representing his wealthy client Rex Rexroth, Miles meets his match in Rex's gold-digging wife, Marilyn. He's impressed by her similarly heartless ways of using marriage to fuel an expensive lifestyle, but Miles still manages to defeat her in court. With Marilyn looking to get her revenge and Miles finding himself attracted to her, the two engage in a ruthless...
14) The singing fool
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Full-screen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (102 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Follow-up to the historic "first talkie", The jazz singer. Al Stone (Al Jolson), goes from a waiter to Broadway performer with the trials and tribulations of life and several great songs along the way.
15) The gay divorcee
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In one of their best loved, most charming song and dance comedies, Fred and Ginger demonstrate just how they became known as America's greatest dance team. Includes the Academy Award-winning hit The Continental.
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (72 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Hard-hitting news editor Jim Branch falls for high-society type Sharon Norwood but can't get to first base as he continually makes use of her knowledge of the rich and famous to try to solve the murder of one of her socialite acquaintences --IMDb.
Series
Criterion collection volume 229
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (468 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Swedish
Description
Marianne and Johan always seemed to be the perfect couple. But when Johan suddenly leaves Marianne for another woman, they are forced to confront the disintegration of their marriage. Chronicles ten years of turmoil and love that bind the couple despite their divorce and subsequent marriages. Portrays the brutal pain and uplifting peace that accompany a lifetime of loving.
18) Phffft!
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (91 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A radio writer and her lawyer husband break up and each finds someone else, causing them to realize they were better off before they were divorced.
19) Big eyes
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 minutes) : sound, color ; 12 cm + 1 booklet (34 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 15 cm)
Language
English
Description
Walter Keane became a worldwide celebrity and talk show fixture in the 1950s after he pioneered the mass production of prints of big-eyed kids, and used his marketing savvy to sell them cheaply. Unfortunately, he claimed to be the artist. That role was played by Margaret, his shy wife. The ruse broke up their marriage and led to a divorce and a dramatic courtroom battle to prove authorship of the paintings.
20) Kid Boots
Series
Publisher
Alpha Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (60 min.) : silent, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
None
Description
A salesman is helped out of a jam with an angry customer by a wealthy playboy. In return, he agrees to help the playboy get a divorce from his wife, only to find himself falling for the girlfriend of the customer who got him in trouble in the first place.
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