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"It is the last season of high school life for Nadia Turner, a rebellious, grief-stricken, seventeen-year-old beauty. Mourning her own mother's recent suicide, she takes up with the local pastor's son. Luke Sheppard is twenty-one, a former football star whose injury has reduced him to waiting tables at a diner. They are young; it's not serious. But the pregnancy that results from this teen romance--and the subsequent cover-up--will have an impact...
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Princeton. Good Friday, 1999. On the eve of graduation, two students are a hairsbreadth from solving the mysteries of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili. Famous for its hypnotic power over those who study it, the five-hundred-year-old Hypnerotomachia may finally reveal its secrets -- to Tom Sullivan, whose father was obsessed with the book, and Paul Harris, whose future depends on it. As the deadline looms, research has stalled -- until an ancient diary...
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Miramax Home Entertainment
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[2000?], c1999
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English
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Homer, a never-adopted-orphan who grows to young adulthood under the care of Dr. Wilbur Larch, an obstetrician and orphanage director in rural Maine in the early twentieth century, sets out to find his place in the world.
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"Mina Simpson, a Lebanese doctor, arrives at the infamous Moria refugee camp on Lesbos, Greece, after being urgently summoned for help by her friend who runs an NGO there. Alienated from her family except for her beloved brother, Mina has avoided being so close to her homeland for decades. But with a week off work and apart from her wife of thirty years, Mina hopes to accomplish something meaningful, among the abundance of Western volunteers who pose...
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The Walt Disney Company
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English
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Hailed as the Prince of the Forest at his birth, wobble-legged Bambi the faun lives deep in the woodland with his mother. His early faunhood is filled with friends--Thumper, a jovial rabbit who says all the wrong things; Flower, a skunk with an inferiority complex; and Friend Owl, misanthrope of the treetops. As he grows, fun-and-games give way to the hardship of winter and the most terrifying, ever-looming threat to survival--man. When the hunters...
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Based on the novel by E.M. Forster.
Set in the early 1900's. ""Tells the story of the coming of age of Lucy Honeychurch (Helena Bonham-Carter). Longing to burst free from the repression of British upper class manners and mores, she must wrestle with her inner romantic longings to choose between the passionate George (Julian Sands) and the priggish but socially suitable Cecil (Daniel Day-Lewis)""--Container.
7) Oliver Twist
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W. Morrow and Co
Pub. Date
2006
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English
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Adapted from the novel by Charles Dickens. Originally released as a motion picture in 1933. Screenplay, Elizabeth Meehan ; directed by William J. Cowan ; photography, T. Roy Hunt ; technical direction, Ernest Hickson ; film editor, Carl Pierson ; sound engineer, John Stronsky, Jr. Dickie Moore, Irving Pichel, William Boyd, Alec B. Francis, Doris Lloyd. One of the first talking versions of Charles Dickens' classic masterpiece. Dickie Moore stars as...
8) Summering
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Bleeker Street
Pub. Date
2022
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English
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MPAA rating: PG-13.
During their last days of summer and childhood, the weekend before middle school begins, four girls struggle with the harsh truths of growing up and embark on a mysterious adventure.
9) The namesake
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20th Century Fox Home Video
Pub. Date
2007
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English
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A young man born of Indian parents in America struggles with issues of identity from his teens to his thirties.
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