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1) Suburbicon
Publisher
Paramount
Description
A peaceful, idyllic suburban community with affordable homes and manicured lawns, the perfect place to raise a family, and in the summer of 1959, the Lodge family is doing just that. The tranquil surface masks a disturbing reality, as husband and father Gardner Lodge must navigate the town's dark underbelly of betrayal, deceit, and violence. This is a tale of very flawed people making very bad choices.
"A lightly sneaky and entertaining movie."--Variety....
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2016
Description
An all-star comedy set during the latter years of Hollywood's Golden Age. It follows a single day in the life of a studio fixer who is presented with plenty of problems to fix.
"Grade B+...It's coen lite, basically, but still filled with their best signatures..."--Entertainment Weekly.
"The combination of the Coen brothers' filmmaking acumen and George Clooney in absolute buffon mode is again Hollywood magic."--USA Today.
"An inside-showbiz lark...
3) Cry-baby
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Formats
Description
Eisenhower is President. Rock 'n' Roll is king. And Wade 'Cry-Baby' Walker is the baddest hood in his high school. Walker heads up a supercool cast as the irresistible bad boy whose amazing ability to shed one single tear drives all the girls wild, especially Allison Vernon-Williams, a rich, beautiful 'square' who finds herself uncontrollably drawn to the dreamy juvenile delinquent and his forbidden world of rockabilly music, fast cars and faster...
4) Desert bloom
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
"Set in 1951 Nevada--the dawn of the Atomic Age--the heroine is 13-year old Gish, whose mother only sees what she wants to and whose step-father is an embittered, alcoholic WW2 hero reduced to running a gas station"--Leonard Matlin's TV movie and video guide.
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Formats
Description
"Catherine Lemay is a young archaeologist on her way to Montana, with a huge task before her--a canyon "as deep as the devil's own appetites." Working ahead of a major dam project, she has one summer to prove nothing of historical value will be lost in the flood. From the moment she arrives, nothing is familiar--the vastness of the canyon itself mocks the contained, artifact-rich digs in post-Blitz London where she cut her teeth. And then there's...
7) Grease live!
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Danny and Sandy have a great summer romance, but when they get back to their high school, the magic is not as strong. This show was a live one night musical production of the massively popular crossover musical Great Britainse. Featuring a young ensemble cast, they reintroduce and reimagine some of the show's most memorable moments, great music, and timeless love story to an entirely new generation.
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
2007
Description
Television series about the lives of a real family, The Nelsons, as they cope with everyday life. Ozzie is the bumbling father whose earnest intentions backfire hilariously in their execution; Harriet is the apron-clad, flawlessly coiffed, wise and loving Mom; David is the older and more grounded brother; Ricky (later to become "Rick") is the wisecracking scamp of a kid brother who sings.
15) West Side story
Publisher
20th Century Studios
Pub. Date
[2022]
Formats
Description
Directed by Academy Award winner Steven Spielberg, from a screenplay by Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner Tony Kushner, this musical tells the classic tale of fierce rivalries and young love in 1957 New York City.
16) Diner
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
©2000
Description
Set in 1959, a band of young men, buddies since high school, gather at a local diner to share their escapades and make sense of their lives. As one by one they drift off to join the mainstream of life they still cling to their shared boyhood dreams.
17) Lark and Termite
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Formats
Description
Set during the 1950s in West Virginia and Korea, this is the story of two children--Lark, on the verge of adulthood, and her brother, Termite, a child unable to walk and talk but filled with radiance--who grow up with their mother and aunt while their soldier-father fights for his life during the chaotic early months of the Korean War.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
It's 1957, and it's as if the world of Grantchester has returned to an idyllic state, a metaphorical Garden of Eden. Will believes that everyone can get close to their own Eden through good works and a proactive attitude. But as Geordie knows, every Eden has its snakes. Will's faith will be tested as he and Geordie are reminded that there's darkness lurking in their corner of Cambridgeshire.
19) The end
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
It is August 15, 1953, the day of a street carnival in the Italian enclave of Elephant Park, Ohio, when Rocco LaGrassa receives an excruciating piece of news: his son has died in a POW camp in Korea. Against the background of immigration, broken loyalties, and racial hostility, the story presents everything Rocco sees through the eyes of various characters in the crowd.
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