Melanie Lynskey
2) Touchback
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Twenty years after sustaining a career-ending knee injury during a high school football championship game, a husband and father of two is driven to despair by further disappointments and attempts to commit suicide, but when he wakes up, he finds that he's been transported back to his days of high school glory and given a second chance to realize his dreams.
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
The story about two couples living under one roof on the fringes of Los Angeles. Brett and Michelle are struggling to rekindle the spark in their relationship, which has puttered out from the stresses of marriage and children. When Brett's friend Alex and Michelle's sister Tina move in with them, the foursome engage in a tragically comedic struggle to follow their personal dreams while still remaining good friends, siblings, and spouses to each other....
Publisher
Passion River
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In the cruel world of junior high, Edwin suffers in a state of anxiety and alienation alongside his only friend, Flake. Misunderstood by their families and demoralized at school daily, their fury simmers quietly until an idea for vengeance offers them a terrifying release.
Publisher
HBO Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
After nearly reaching their breaking points last season, Brett and Michelle struggle to make sense of where their marriage might be heading; Michelle tries to handle her guilt over a night with another man while pushing ahead with her charter-school plans, while Brett looks for artistic inspiration. Following his big acting break, Alex returns from New Orleans reinvigorated, and with a new girlfriend in tow, but his newfound success threatens to disrupt...
7) Coyote ugly
Language
English
Formats
Description
A shy, innocent girl new to New York City gets a job as one of the barmaids at the hottest nightclub in town.
Publisher
Lucky Coffee Productions
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
From the director of Drinking Buddies comes a comedy about an irresponsible 20-something, Jenny, who arrives in Chicago to live with her older brother Jeff and his novelist wife, Kelly, after a breakup. Jenny's arrival shakes up their quiet domesticity as she and her friend Carson instigate an evolution in Kelly's life and career.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A newly single dad navigating the good, the bad, and the weird of the 30-something singles scene in the whip-smart comedy. When his wife unexpectedly informs him that she wants a divorce, well-meaning but oblivious husband Otto Wall finds himself thrust back into bachelorhood. What follows is a hilarious sequence of romantic encounters, from reconnecting with a former crush to online dating, as Otto searches for a real connection amidst a string of...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Welcome back to the Harpers' Malibu beach house. Bachelor Charlie is trying (but not very hard) to remember the name of the girl currently taking a shower upstairs. Alan, Charlie's tightly-wound, divorced brother is trying to figure out how he can get his ex-wife to remarry so he can stop paying alimony. And Jake, Alan's 11-year-old son, is just trying to figure out what's for lunch and where's the TV remote. After a year of living together, the guys...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
As an asteroid nears Earth, a man finds himself alone after his wife leaves in a panic. He decides to take a road trip to reunite with his high school sweetheart. Accompanying him is a neighbor who inadvertently puts a wrench in his plan.
Publisher
Oscilloscope Pictures
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Amy is a recent divorcee who seeks refuge in the suburban Connecticut home of her parents. Demoralized and directionless, Amy begins an affair with 19 year old actor Jeremy that reignites her passion for life and jumpstarts her independence.
13) The informant!
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
The U.S. government decides to go after an agri-business giant with a price-fixing accusation based on the evidence submitted by their star witness, vice president turned informant Mark Whitacre. The FBI needs evidence, so Whitacre eagerly agrees to wear a wire and carry a hidden tape recorder in his briefcase, imagining himself as a kind of de facto secret agent.
Publisher
Showalter-Wain Productions
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
When Joel and Molly meet, it's hate at first sight: his big Corporate Candy Company threatens to shut down her quirky indie candy shop. Plus, Joel is hung up on his sexy ex. But amazingly, they fall in love, until they break up about two thirds of the way through, and Molly starts dating her accountant. But then right at the end, well you'll just have to see. (Hint: Joel makes a big speech and they get back together.).
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Past and present collide in this supernaturally funny buddy comedy when stoner-slacker Hannah is hired to portray Lady Wadsworth, a Southern belle who died in 1875, in a tour at Wadsworth Manor. Hannah, a hot mess, figures she can fake it, until the ghost of Lady Wadsworth appears! Lady Wadsworth tells Hannah it's time to change her wild ways, and she'll haunt her until she does.
16) Up in the air
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Ryan Bingham is a corporate downsizing expert who flies all over the world on business. Just as he is on the cusp of reaching ten million frequent flyer miles, and meeting the frequent traveler woman of his dreams, his company grounds him. When Bingham goes on his last cross country firing expedition, he will learn that life isn't about the journey, but about the connections made along the way.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A psychological horror series set in the Stephen King multiverse, it is an original story that combines the mythological scale and intimate character storytelling of King's best-loved works, weaving an epic saga of darkness and light, played out on a few square miles of Maine woodland. The fictional Maine town of Castle Rock has figured prominently in King's literary career: Cujo, The Dark Half, IT and Needful Things, as well as novella The Body and...
Publisher
SDS
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
When civilization is destroyed by a worldwide pandemic, hardened survivor Joel is hired to take fourteen-year-old Ellie out of an oppressive quaratine zone. What should have been a quick job soon becomes a brutal, heartbreaking journey across a post-apocalypic United States, where no one can protect Joel or Ellie except each other.
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Melanie is a successful New York fashion designer who is dating a wealthy socialite. One day he pops the big question and asks Melanie to marry him. Despite her polished uptown image, Melanie grew up poor in the deep South, and as a teenager she married her high school sweetheart. Now Melanie returns to her hometown to tell her parents the news and convince Jake to grant her a divorce. However, the more time she spends with her old flame, the more...