Griffin Dunne
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"A memoir and coming-of-age story chronicling the successes and disappointments, wit and wildness of Dunne and his multigenerational family of larger-than-life characters"-- Provided by publisher.
At eight, Sean Connery saved him from drowning. At thirteen, desperate to hook up with Janis Joplin, he attended his aunt Joan Didion and uncle John Gregory Dunne's legendary LA launch party for Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. At sixteen, he...
2) Junction
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The opioid crisis told from the viewpoint of three people - a pharmaceutical executive, a doctor, and an addict.
3) Ocean's 8
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Debbie Ocean, the estranged sister of infamous criminal mastermind Danny Ocean, seeks to carry on the family business by plotting an enormous heist on New York's annual Met Gala. After being released from prison, Debbie recruits her best friend Lou to set out and assemble a team of larcenists. This hodgepodge, seven-member team includes everyone from a street pick-pocket, a computer hacker, and a jewelry expert. The women band together to infiltrate...
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"Hank Thompson was a high school baseball phenom who can't play anymore, but everything else is going okay. He's got a great girl, tends bar at a New York dive, and his favorite team is making an underdog run at the pennant. When his punk-rock neighbor Russ asks him to take care of his cat for a few days, Hank suddenly finds himself caught in the middle of a motley crew of threatening gangsters. They all want a piece of him; the problem is he has...
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Everyman's library (Alfred A. Knopf Inc.) volume 432
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"This second hardcover omnibus edition of Didion's collected nonfiction contains her final four books: 'Blue Nights,' 'South and West,' 'Let Me Tell You What I Mean,' and her bestselling and most famous work, 'The Year of Magical Thinking.' In her essay 'Why I Write' (included in this volume), Joan Didion explained what lies behind her iconic nonfiction writing: 'I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what...
6) Broken city
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Seven years after being forced to resign as a New York city police officer, private detective Billy Taggart takes on his toughest case yet when he's hired to follow the mayor's wife. By the time the mayor reveals his true intentions, Taggart's already in too deep, with his freedom and possibly his life, on the line. Taggart will risk it all in a desperate bid to expose the truth and seek redemption in a city where second chances don't come cheap.
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Texas cowboy Ron Woodroof's free-wheeling life was overturned in 1985 when he was diagnosed as HIV-positive. Shunned and ostracized by many old friends and bereft of government-approved medicines, he decided to take matters in his own hands, tracking down alternative treatments from all over the world by means both legal and illegal. Bypassing the establishment, he joined forces with an unlikely band of renegades and outcasts and established a hugely...
8) Ex-husbands
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Manhattan dentist Peter Pearce (Griffin Dunne) is facing a midlife crisis after his wife of 35 years (Rosanna Arquette) leaves him. On the spur of the moment, he books a trip to Tulum, Mexico, only to crash his son’s bachelor party. A warmhearted comedy drama co-starring Richard Benjamin, James Norton, and Miles Heizer.
9) Last night
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A married couple in New York City are apart for the night. Each will be confronted by temptation that may decide the fate of their marriage.
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Two American students are on a walking tour of England. As the trudge on to the next town, when suddenly the air is pierced by an unearthly howl and the two are attacked by a Werewolf. One is killed, the other is mauled. The Werewolf is killed, but reverts to it's human form, and the townspeople are able to deny it's existence. The surviving student begins to have nightmares of hunting on 4 feet at first, but then finds that his friend and other recent...
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It follows the tangled lives of the residents of Los Alamos, New Mexico, as they race to create the first nuclear bomb in history. Locked away in the world's most secretive city, the scientists and their families surrender their freedoms, compromise their marriages, and even sacrifice their sanity to end one war and usher in another, the Cold War waiting just over the atomic horizon, all while embedded spies and a climate of paranoia threaten to destroy...
13) Game 6
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It's 1986, and New York playwright Nicky Rogan (Michael Keaton) faces a series of fears, but none more frightening than the powerful critic Steven Schwimmer (Robert Downey Jr.). Nicky worries about a scathing review when his play premieres on Broadway. In the meantime, his beloved Boston Red Sox are trying to win the World Series.
14) My girl
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A precocious 11-year-old tomboy obsessed with death shares a poignant summer with her widowed mortician father, the sexy and kind cosmetician he hires, and most importantly with the boy-next-door who idolizes her.
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A story of two poets with bipolar disorder, whose art is fueled by their emotional extremes. When they meet in a treatment facility, their chemistry is instant and intense driving each other to new heights. They pursue their passion which breaks outside the bounds of sanity, swinging them from fantastical highs to tormented lows until they ultimately must choose between sanity and love.
16) Game 6
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Combining real and fictional events, the film centers around the historic 1986 World Series, and a day in the life of playwright Nicky Rogan who skips his own opening night to watch the momentous game in the hopes both he and his 'cursed' Red Sox can change their fate.
17) Tumbledown
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Years after the accidental death of her folk-singer husband, Hannah has yet to fully accept her small town life without him. Then she is approached by a charming New York writer, intent on penning a biography of her late husband's life, and Hannah finds herself opening up again.
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The inside scoop on the world's most famous chronicler in the age of celebrity. Join Dominick Dunne, Vanity Fair's most notorious celebrity journalist, and a parade of Hollywood and literary notables as they attempt to make sense of his shocking and tumultuous life. Set during his coverage of the Phil Spector murder trial.
20) With/in
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A star-studded anthology film filled with funny, dramatic, romantic and familiar stories about puzzles, bread, pets, lots of wine, family, laughter, tears, fears, friends and relatives capturing the challenges, human resilience, creativity, and the inspiration to take a deep look at ourselves and make each day better than the last. This is our time. The answers lie within.









