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A sardonic white hotel owner watches Haiti sink into barbarism with growing fatalism. Complications include a friendship with a rebel leader, politically "charged" hotel guests, an affair with the wife of a European ambassador, and the manipulations of a conniving British arms dealer.
2) Magnolia
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"Magnolia is a mosaic of American life woven through a series of comic and poignant vignettes. Through a collusion of coincidence, chance, human action, shared media, past history and divine intervention, nine people will weave and warp through each other's lives on a day that builds to an unforgettable climax. Some will seek forgiveness, others escape. Some will mend frayed bonds, others will be exposed"--Back of container.
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Six thousand years before Sora and Shiro were even a blink in the history of Disboard, war consumed the land, tearing apart the heavens, destroying stars, and even threatening to wipe out the human race. Amid the chaos and destruction, a young man named Riku leads humanity toward tomorrow and teaches an exiled female android named Schwi what it means to have a human heart.
4) Going my way
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"Father O'Malley [is] a young priest new to an established but financially troubled parish. When his philosophies conflict with those of the curmudgeonly Father Fitzgibbon, the unflappable Father O'Malley perseveres, eventually winning over his gruff superior and the parish with his fresh, inspirational approach"--Container.
6) The Mirror
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Russian
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Tarkovsky's looking glass is not merely cracked but shattered and we see the jagged, jumbled reflections of its shards, imges of Tarkovsky's childhood mixed with fragments of his adult life--a child's wartime exile, a mother's experience with political terror, the breakup of a marriage, life in a country home--all intermingled with slow-motion dream sequences and poetic chunks of stark newsreels.
8) Mama's boy
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29-year-old Jeffrey Mannus is a stay-at-home guy-- not his home, his mom's. And now his biggest challenge just walked in the door: Mert Rosenbloom, mom's new beau and Jeffrey's new rival for her 24/7 attention. Mert's gotta go and no plot is too devious or immature to make Mert history.
9) The V.I.P.s
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Elite passengers waiting for London-to-U.S. flights get fogged in, and have to deal with their problems rather than run from them.
10) The sundowners
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A married couple in Australia find themselves at odds when the wife wants to settle down on a farm of their own, but the husband finds settling down more than his untethered spirit can bear.
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Hindi
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A sarcastic love story of a 64-year-old arrogant, acidic chef of London's top Indian restaurant and a simple 34-year-old unmarried woman visiting London. It's a story of how they meet, how they fight, how they make up, and how their relationship evolves into romance. It's a story of their funny struggle to break the news to the woman's father and the chaos they go through convincing him and making him accept them as a couple.
13) Rome adventure
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"Tired of stuffy New England, Prudence Bell longs for a Rome adventure. So she heads for the Eternal City and encounters a handsome student, a dashing older man, and competition from a wily woman of the world"--Container.
15) The dinner party
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Describes sorrow, cruelty, tender memories and intimate betrayals of three Frenchmen and their ex-wives, who are invited to a hostless dinner party, through the quips and witty wordplay (inside jacket cover).
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Now, voyager: A young woman escapes the smothering influence of her wealthy and very conservative mother through the help of a psychiatrist and an ocean cruise where she finds love, helping her to become her own person.
Dark victory: The life of a fast-moving Long Island socialite skids to a stop when she discovers that she has less than a year to live.
Old acquaintance: Old friends Kit Marlowe and Millie Drake adopt contrasting lifestyles: Kit...
17) After
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Set in the winter of 2002 in chilly upstate New York, after tells the story of a middle class family struggling with the financial consequences of a failing family business and a series of intergenerational conflicts and rivalries. But, what truly threatens to upset their delicate balance and shatter the emotionally fragile family matriarch is an intricately buried secret that, if revealed, could alter their lives irrevocably.
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Yakuza: Harry Kilmer returns to Japan after several years in order to rescue his friend George's kidnapped daughter - and ends up on the wrong side of the Yakuza, the notorious Japanese mafia.
Angel face: When Mrs. Tremayne is mysteriously poisoned with gas, ambulance driver Frank Jessup meets her refined but sensuous stepdaughter Diane, who quickly pursues and infatuates him. When he shows signs of pulling away, Diane schemes to get him in so deep...
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Six thousand years before Sora and Shiro were even a blink in the history of Disboard, war consumed the land, tearing apart the heavens, destroying stars, and even threatening to wipe out the human race. Amid the chaos and destruction, a young man named Riku leads humanity toward tomorrow and teaches an exiled female android named Schwi what it means to have a human heart.
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When stage star Jeannie Laird meets her new widower neighbor, Bill Carter, love is in the air. The only problem is Carter's young son, Joe. Threatened by a new woman in his father's life, Joe refuses to accept Jeannie and begins a mischievous campaign to keep her away. With Joe between them, Jeannie and Bill must find a way to earn the boy's acceptance if they're ever going to be more than just the lovers next door.
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