Jennifer Beals
1) Cinemanovels
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
In this slyly humorous family drama about what we inherit (and don't inherit) from our parents, Grace (Lauren Lee Smith) has not spoken to her recently deceased father, a fabled filmmaker, in years. She surprises her confidant (Jennifer Beals - "Flashdance") and herself when, on a trip to pick up some of his belongings, she offers to help put together a retrospective of his work and finds herself influenced in strange and significant ways. Official...
2) Caro diario
Pub. Date
1993.
Description
Director Nanni Moretti plays himself in this beloved comedy, told as three chapters from the filmmaker's diary: musing on cinema atop a Vespa, exiling himself to the Aeolian Islands to work on a new screenplay, and mourning his ailing health. Winner of the Best Director award at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival, and two David di Donatello Awards, including Best Film.
3) In the Soup
Pub. Date
1992.
Description
Broke and desperate filmmaker Adolpho Rollo (Steve Buscemi) is a Manhattan wannabe in love with the mysterious woman next door, Angelica (Jennifer Beals). He puts out an ad offering to sell his 'fabulous' movie script for {dollar}500, and gets a response from Joe (Seymour Cassel), who gives him a thousand and says he'll raise the 250,000 to make the picture. The problem is, Joe is a semi-connected wiseguy with a habit of committing oddball crimes....
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Formats
Description
"Daisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. in the late sixties, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go-Go. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it's the rock and roll she loves most. By the time she's twenty, her voice is getting noticed, and she has the kind of heedless beauty that makes people do crazy things. Another band getting noticed is The Six, led by the brooding Billy Dunne....
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
Meet Maddy, Gus and Austin: three kids on a mission! They're three close friends with special talents. One is a champion rock climber, one is a computer genius and the other is a mechanical whiz who specializes in go-carts. Their task: to scale the heights and crack a high-tech bank vault to save Maddy's ailing Dad, but they have to do all this in time to finish their homework.
Author
Pub. Date
2019
Formats
Description
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • OVER TWO MILLION COPIES SOLD! A gripping novel about the whirlwind rise of an iconic 1970s rock group and their beautiful lead singer, revealing the mystery behind their infamous breakup—from the author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Malibu Rising, and Carrie Soto Is Back
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Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Description
Eli walks alone in post-apocalyptic America. He heads west along the Highway of Death on a mission he doesn't fully understand but knows he must complete. In his backpack is the last copy of a book that could become the wellspring of a revived society. Or, in the wrong hands, the hammer of a despot. Eli keeps his blade sharp and his survival instincts sharper as his quest thrusts him into a savage wasteland.
8) The grudge 2
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Unrated director's cut.
Description
Three interwoven stories about a terrible curse. A young woman encounters a malevolent supernatural force while searching for her missing sister in Tokyo; a mean high school prank goes horribly wrong; a woman with a deadly secret moves into a Chicago apartment building.