Kenneth Lonergan
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dennis-with a famous painter father and social activist mother-is a small-time drug dealer and total mess. His hero-worshipping friend Warren has just impulsively stolen $15,000 from his father, an abusive lingerie tycoon. When Jessica, a mixed-up prep school girl, shows up for a date, Warren pulls out a wad of bills and takes her off, awkwardly, for a night of seduction. A wildly funny, bittersweet, and moving story, This Is Our Youth is as trenchant...
2) Margaret
Author
Language
English
Description
The director's-cut screenplay of the film starring Anna Paquin from the Oscar-winning writer and director of Manchester by the Sea.
This stirring drama by the Academy Award—winning director, playwright, and screenwriter Kenneth Lonergan was called "a film of rare beauty and shocking gravity" by Rolling Stone. Delayed for four years in post-production, the film was finally released in 2011, with a director's cut following on DVD in 2012. This edition...
3) Lobby Hero
Author
Language
English
Description
Playwright Kenneth Lonergan has made a career of creating characters whose considerable flaws often get in the way of their good intentions. In Lobby Hero, two menial security guards are embroiled in an unexpected family fiasco… and the local beat police are divided by their own romantic and political allegiances.
7) Margaret
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The story of a Manhattan teenager whose life is profoundly altered after witnessing a terrible accident. Experience an emotional teen's extraordinary journey to set things right as her innocent ideals come crashing against the harsh realities of the adult world."--Container.
9) Margaret
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
After a teenage girl witnesses a bus accident that kills a woman, she feels she may have played a role in the incident and tries to make people understand what really happened.
10) Howards End
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Howards End is the story of two independent and unconventional sisters and the men in their lives seeking love and meaning as they navigate an ever-changing world. The social and class divisions in early 20th century England through the intersection of three families - the wealthy Wilcoxes, the gentle and idealistic Schlegels and the lower-middle class Basts.
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
In 1846, waves of Irish immigrants poured into the New York neighborhood of Five Points. "Billy the Butcher" bands his fellow "Native Americans" into a gang to take on the Irish gang "The Dead Rabbits," organized by Priest Vallon. After an bloody clash Vallon is dead and his son ends up in a brutal reform school. In 1862, that boy returns to seek vengeance against the man that killed his father.
Publisher
Paramount Classics
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Sammy is a single mom living in a small Catskill town with her eight-year-old son. A lot happens all at once to Sammy as she, sort of, picks up with an old boyfriend, gets a new boss and her wayward brother finally shows up after months of no communication. A crisis of sorts ensues when the son meets his estranged father.