Friday, July 20, 2012

Looking for a good movie? Try these

Good Deeds

Businessman Wesley Deeds is jolted out of his scripted life when he meets Lindsey, a single mother who works on the cleaning crew in his office building.

Crazy on the Outside

A recently paroled ex-con who has trouble adjusting to the wacky normalcy of life outside of prison. He has spent the last three years behind bars after getting caught committing a crime and taking the rap for his much more dangerous pal.

The Gift

A woman with extrasensory perception is asked to help find a young woman who has disappeared. 


Running With Scissors

Young Augusten Burroughs absorbs experiences that could make for a shocking memoir: the son of an alcoholic father and an unstable mother, he's handed off to his mother's therapist, Dr. Finch, and spends his adolescent years as a member of Finch's bizarre extended family. 


Australia

Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a stock-man in order to protect her new property from a takeover plot. As the pair drive 2,000 head of cattle over unforgiving landscape, they experience the bombing of Darwin, Australia, by Japanese forces firsthand. 


Mona Lisa Smile

A free-thinking art professor teaches conservative 50's Wellesley girls to question their traditional societal roles. 


A River Runs Through It

Two fly-fishing sons of a Presbyterian minister--one reserved, one rebellious--grow up in rural Montana. 


The Secret Life of Bees

Set in South Carolina in 1964, this is the tale of Lily Owens a 14 year-old girl who is haunted by the memory of her late mother. To escape her lonely life and troubled relationship with her father, Lily flees with Rosaleen, her caregiver and only friend, to a South Carolina town that holds the secret to her mother's past. 


New in Town

A Miami businesswoman adjusts to her new life in a tiny Minnesota town. 


Elizabethtown

During an outrageous memorial for a Southern patriarch, an unexpected romance blooms between a young woman and man. 


Problem Child

A young boy is just short of a monster. He is adopted by a loving man and his wacky wife. The laughs keep coming as the boy pushes them to the limits. 

Problem Child 2

Junior and Ben move to Mortville which seems like the perfect town to live in. The Healys have a nice new house--and Junior get's a cool new room! And young women have formed a line at Ben's door in order to get a piece of him. Ben feels he should get remarried so Junior can have a mom, and Junior adjusts to his new school which includes a little girl who's as bratty as Junior.

Note: Our movie collection is available due to patron donations. If you would like to donate to the collection, we would greatly appreciate it.