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1) Big eyes
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Walter Keane became a worldwide celebrity and talk show fixture in the 1950s after he pioneered the mass production of prints of big-eyed kids, and used his marketing savvy to sell them cheaply. Unfortunately, he claimed to be the artist. That role was played by Margaret, his shy wife. The ruse broke up their marriage and led to a divorce and a dramatic courtroom battle to prove authorship of the paintings.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Formats
Description
When Harriet Lauler, a retired businesswoman who tries to control everything around her, decides to write her life's story, a young journalist takes up the task of finding out the truth, resulting in a life-altering friendship.
3) The wife
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
After nearly forty years of marriage, Joan and Joe Castleman are complements. Where Joe is casual, Joan is elegant. Where Joe is vain, Joan is self-effacing. And where Joe enjoys his very public role as Great American Novelist, Joan pours her considerable intellect, grace, charm, and diplomacy into the private role of Great Man's Wife. Joe is about to be awarded the Nobel Prize for his acclaimed and prolific body of work. Joe's literary star has blazed...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2004
Description
Evan Treborn wants to be free of his disturbing childhood memories. As a young child, he often blacked out for long periods of time and would try to detail his life through journal writing. As a young adult, he revisits the journal entries to figure out the truth about his troubled childhood friends Kayleigh, Lenny, and Tommy. When he discovers he can travel back in time in order to set things right, he does so in order to save his beloved friends....
Publisher
20th Century Fox
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
A famous horror writer. That's what Zackie Beauchamp wants to be. He's writing a story about a giant blob monster. A pink slimy creature who eats up an entire town!Then Zackie finds the typewriter. In a burned-down antiques store. He takes it home and starts typing. But there's something really odd about that typewriter. Something really dangerous. Because now every word Zackie writes is starting to come true. Bonus features included.
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
Takes novelist-turned-detective, Jessica Fletcher, from not-so-sleepy Cabot Cove to around the world. From uncovering false fortune seekers to tracking down two-faced killers, Jessica is always there to catch the culprit and pen the final solution to the case.
Publisher
Dreamscape Media
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
In this instructional video, Anne references her quintet of novels about World War I to demonstrate the various themes which need to be considered when you first pick up that pen. Although writing a book can be like climbing Everest, the advice found here will save some troublesome extra drafts, and give viewers a head start toward an enjoyable writing experience and a successful novel.
10) Big eyes
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Walter Keane became a worldwide celebrity and talk show fixture in the 1950s after he pioneered the mass production of prints of big-eyed kids, and used his marketing savvy to sell them cheaply. Unfortunately, he claimed to be the artist. That role was played by Margaret, his shy wife. The ruse broke up their marriage and led to a divorce and a dramatic courtroom battle to prove authorship of the paintings.
Author
Publisher
Panorama Studios
Pub. Date
2005
Description
Patrick Smith, Pulitzer Prize nominated Florida writer, takes the viewer off the tourist path to learn about a "Florida Cracker" heritage upon which his novel, A Land Remembered is based. Smith provides a sample of Florida in the 1930's and a rare glimpse into the mind of a writer whose work preserves Florida as it once was and will never be again.
13) Anonymous
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Was Shakespeare a fraud? Who really wrote about cloak-and-dagger political intrigue, illicit romances in the Royal Court, and the schemes of greedy nobles hungry for the power of the throne? Set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I, and the Essex Rebellion against her, intrigue and suspense advance the theory that it was really Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford, who penned Shakespeare's plays.
14) The offer
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
This epic ten-episode limited event series tells the extraordinary behind-the-scenes story of Oscar-winning producer Albert S. Ruddy's journey of bringing Francis Ford Coppola's cinematic masterpiece The Godfather to the big screen. This critically acclaimed series contains over 2.5 hours of special features, including featurettes, deleted scenes, and more!
15) Man about town
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2007
Description
With a marriage in shambles and a shaky client roster, slick Hollywood agent Jack Giamoro has lost his killer instinct. To make matters worse, his personal journal has been stolen by a reporter who is now threatening to write a career-ending exposé. Now with everything on the line, Jack is forced to take a hard look at himself and step up to close the deal on what's most important in his life.
16) Freedom writers
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Description
A true story about a teacher in a racially divided school who gives her students what they've always needed, a voice. Erin Gruwell comes to a southern California high school bubbling over with naive optimism. She quickly discovers that her unruly classroom is not easily won over by her good intentions. After a few floundering attempts to connect with her students, Gruwell gives them the assignment of keeping journals about their own lives, This assignment...
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