Mena Suvari
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
An award-winning actor, in this harrowing, heartbreaking coming-of-age story set in Hollywood, not only reveals her own mistakes, but also the lessons she learned and her efforts to understand and grow rather than casting blame, proving that there is always a light at the end.
A memoir by award-winning actor Mena Suvari, best-known forher iconic roles in American Beauty, American Pie, and Six Feet Under. The Great Peace is a harrowing, heartbreaking...
2) Three women
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Language
English
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"Desire as we've never seen it before: a riveting true story about the sex lives of three real American women, based on nearly a decade of reporting. It thrills us and torments us. It controls our thoughts, destroys our lives, and it's all we live for. Yet we almost never speak of it. And as a buried force in our lives, desire remains largely unexplored--until now. Over the past eight years, journalist Lisa Taddeo has driven across the country six...
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Series
Language
English
Description
"They were a perfect family, golden and carefree--until a heartbreaking tragedy shattered their happiness. Now, for the sake of an inheritance that will ensure their future, the children must be hidden away out of sight, as if they never existed. Kept on the top floor of their grandmother's vast mansion, their loving mother assures them it will be just for a little while. But as brutal days swell into agonizing months and years, Cathy, Chris, and...
5) Locked in
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Mena Suvari and Jeff Fahey star in this heart-stopping, action-thriller that keeps you guessing until the very end. After a diamond heist takes a fatal turn, a pair of thieves must entrust their fortune with an accomplice at a high-tech storage facility while they lay low. Hiding the goods within the labyrinth of storage units, the thieves₂ inside man pays the ultimate price when he turns against them. Now, hell-bent on recovering the missing stones,...
Publisher
Phase 4 Films
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Art Bechstein is a recent college grad and plans on spending his last summer sleepwalking through the exams that will send him far away to a job chosen for him by his gangster father. But when Art meets the beautiful Jane Belliweather and her wild boyfriend, Cleveland, Art's summer and life change forever. The Mysteries of Pittsburgh captures the adventures and emotional explorations of three young people trying to find their way in a changing world....
8) Factory girl
Publisher
Weinstein Company [distributor
Pub. Date
2007]
Language
English
Description
Edie Sedgwick, a beautiful, wealthy young party girl, drops out of Radcliffe in 1965 and heads to New York to become Holly Golightly. When she meets a hungry young artist named Andy Warhol, he promises to make her the star she always wanted to be. And like a super nova she explodes on the New York scene only to find herself slowly lose grip on reality.
Language
English
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An emotionally & spiritually comatose suburban man decides "to hell with it all" and reverts to living as he did when he was happiest--as a carefree teenager. His desperately uptight wife and sullen daughter can only look on as he quits his corporate job to become a burger flipper, starts getting high with a strange new neighbor (whose parents are even stranger) and lusts after a pouty blonde teenager--his daughter's best friend.
10) Rumor has it
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Description
Sarah has finally agreed to marry her boyfriend Jeff, but isn't sure if marriage is what she wants. Now she's on her way home to attend her sister's wedding, which means spending a lot of time with the tennis-obsessed Pasadena family that she's never felt quite a part of. It isn't until Sarah stumbles into a well-kept family secret that she starts to question her roots and sets off in search of the man who may have the answers she has been looking...
11) American pie
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Follows the hapless adventures of four "unlucky in love" high school friends as they gear up for the prom.
12) The dog problem
Publisher
Thinkfilm
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A writer gets a dog to cheer him up and finds his life getting more and more complicated when others step forward wanting the dog too.
13) Edmond
Publisher
Distributed by Vivendi Visual Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
A fortune-tellers teasing rumination sends Edmond Burke lurching into New York City's hellish underworld. He becomes involved in a twisted game of sex, lies and murder with 3 young women.
14) Beauty shop
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Gina Norris is in Atlanta making a name for herself at a posh Southern salon with her cutting-edge hairstyles. But when her flamboyant, egotistical boss takes it one criticism too far, she leaves his salon to open a shop of her own.
15) Loser
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Meeting at college, a small-town boy and girl struggle to maintain their relationship despite constant interference from room-mates and even some of the faculty.
16) Fourth grade
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
When a brick of weed is found in a 4th Grade classroom, the students' parents gather in an emergency meeting to protect their own child from being expelled.
17) Sugar & spice
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001], c2001
Language
English
Description
When the A-squad cheerleading captain finds herself pregnant and in need of money, she and her friends dress up in costume to rob a bank. High school highjinx ensues.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
While stealing money to help their sick mother, teen brothers Matt and Joey are surprised by Hamby, a security officer who gives chase and is then trapped in a well. Over the next few days, Joey and Hamby forge an uneasy relationship. Hamby tells Joey he'll keep quiet if Joey sets him free. But Hamby holds another secret, one that will threaten Joey and his family.
19) Brooklyn rules
Publisher
City Lights Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Set in Brooklyn in 1985 against the backdrop of John Gotti's rise to power. Three lifelong friends' different ambitions threaten to shake their enduring bond.
Publisher
Hawaii Film Partners
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
An unassuming pet photographer is thrown into serious action, adventure, and romance when he is forced to marry a Croatian bride and spend his honeymoon on a remote Tahitian resort, where he must rescue her after she is kidnapped.