Ben Shenkman
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
In this heartfelt romantic drama, directed by and starring Helen Hunt, schoolteacher April Epner (Hunt) is blindsided by the collapse of her marriage and the sudden appearance of her biological mother, Bernice (Bette Midler), a flamboyant talk show host. As April navigates her complex relationships, including a budding romance with Frank (Colin Firth), a single father, she faces emotional challenges tied to motherhood, identity, and love.
2) Jesus' Son
Pub. Date
2000.
Description
Based on the critically acclaimed book by Denis Johnson, a young man (Billy Crudup), often high on drugs and alcohol, careens through life and makes his way toward recovery and redemption.
3) Forty Winks
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
A struggling hypnotist in New York city is blackmailed into being the world’s first hypnotist hit man after a mysterious woman finds out his degree is fake.
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
Set in 1985. Revolves around two very different men with AIDS, one fictional, one fictionalized. Roy Cohn, personifies all the hypocrisy, delusion and callousness of the official response to the plague. Nothing shakes Roy's lack of empathy: even on his death bed, he's fighting with his gay nurse and taunting the woman he helped put to death, Ethel Rosenberg. The other patient is Prior Walter, who is visited by an angel and deserted by his self-pitying...
5) [Pi]
Pub. Date
[1999]
Description
A brilliant mathematician teeters on the brink of insanity as he searches for an elusive numerical code that will allow him to predict patterns in the stock market.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
[Widescreen ed.].
Description
Elizabeth is a dedicated, workaholic doctor who is much to busy to have a life. One night, she gets into a terrible car accident and dies. She becomes a spirit stuck between heaven and earth. She doesn't realize that she is dead and thinks nothing has happened. That is until she meets David, a lonely architect, who has rented her old apartment. David thinks he is going crazy when he sees Elizabeth's spirit and tries everyway he can think of to get...
Pub. Date
2008
Description
Desperate to start a family, New York schoolteacher, April Epner hits a midlife crisis when, in quick succession, her husband unexpectedly abandons her and her adoptive mother dies. She gets another shock when she meets her biological mother, an eccentric, self-centered talk show host, whom at first she rejects. Then the divorced dad of one of her students begins courting April. As her life is turned upside-down, April finds herself opening up in...