Shari Springer Berman
Publisher
Screen Media
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
Set in the 1980s, following tragedy, teenage Jude moves from Vermont to New York City to live with his father in the punk-fueled East Village. Caught in the chaos of city life, Jude and his friends, Eliza and Teddy embark on a journey of self-realization in a neighborhood on the verge of riots.
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
Aspiring playwright Louis Ives moves to New York, taking an environmental job with a beautiful, infatuating co-worker. Louis rents a room from an eccentric former playwright who moonlights as an 'extra man, ' a social escort for the wealthy widows of Manhattan high society. The two men develop a volatile mentorship, which leads to a series of comic adventures.
Publisher
Weinstein Company
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
Annie is a young girl from a working-class neighborhood who suddenly finds herself working as a nanny for a wealthy family in Manhattan's Upper East Side. Between catering to the every whim of her employers and their precocious son and falling in love with their gorgeous neighbor, Annie tries to figure out what she wants to do with her life.
4) Once
Publisher
20th Century Fox
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
A brokenhearted street musician clicks with a beautiful and feisty keyboardist and the unlikely couple decides they have nothing and everything to lose. Over the course of one week the write, perform and reocord an incredible cycle of songs.
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2004], ©2003
Description
Pekar is a frustrated file clerk working at the local V.A. Hospital. He is also a comic book fan who befriends the young illustrator Robert Crumb and is soon inspired to create comic books based on his own life. Along his bumpy journey he meets, marries and falls in love with Joyce, an admiring comic book seller.