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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Over the past decade, Donald Margulies has written some of the most insightful works in contemporary American drama. His body of work includes The Loman Family Picnic, Sight Unseen, The Model Apartment and Collected Stories, and with each succeeding work his audiences have grown. It is no surprise that his newest work is his most critically successful yet. As with all of Margulies's work,...
Over the past decade, Donald Margulies has written some of the most insightful works in contemporary American drama. His body of work includes The Loman Family Picnic, Sight Unseen, The Model Apartment and Collected Stories, and with each succeeding work his audiences have grown. It is no surprise that his newest work is his most critically successful yet. As with all of Margulies's work,...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The seven Shaw siblings have long been haunted by two early and profoundly consequential events. Told in turn back and forth over time, from the early twentieth century through the 1950s, each sibling relays their own version of the memories that surround both their mother's mysterious death and the circumstances leading up to and beyond one sister's scandalous teenage pregnancy. As they move into adulthood, the siblings assume various new roles:...
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Nick, a career salesman who loses his wife and his job in the worst day of his life. Faced with his life imploding, Nick puts it all on the line, or, rather, on the lawn, as he moves himself and all his possessions to his front yard.
4) Hope floats
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
Birdee Pruitt has a life most people would envy. But when her cheating husband reveals his infidelity to her on a national TV talk show, her perfect life comes crashing down. Devastated, Birdee and her young daughter head home to the small town she left behind. As mother and daughter struggle to adjust to their new lives, Birdee slowly gains the strength to open her heart and find hope again.
7) The rebound
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
After dumping her unfaithful husband, a single mother moves with her kids to a Manhattan apartment. The demands of her new job force her to hire a young coffee shop clerk to be her nanny. When romance blooms, they must decide if it is true love or a rebound.
Publisher
MPI Media Group
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Eva is a newlywed with a successful career as a top marriage counselor, a hot husband, and the answers to everything. But when she finds out that her parents are getting a divorce, and her hubby has neglected to mention his first wife, Eva's perfect world begins to crumble. Is true love little more than a fairy tale or is marriage really just an institution for the committed?
9) Big eyes
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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"--source of summary not specified.
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English
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Meet Carter. It's been years since his parents' divorce. But now, with the wedding of this younger brother, he must keep mom and dad from annihilating each other all over again. That's when the real surprises start, including a shocking revelation from his childhood "therapist", the arrival of his dad's latest wife, his own commitment issues with his gorgeous girlfriend, and confronting the sexy A.C.O.D. from his past.
Series
Criterion collection ; 229
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Swedish
Description
Marianne and Johan always seemed to be the perfect couple. But when Johan suddenly leaves Marianne for another woman, they are forced to confront the disintegration of their marriage. Chronicles ten years of turmoil and love that bind the couple despite their divorce and subsequent marriages. Portrays the brutal pain and uplifting peace that accompany a lifetime of loving.
12) The gay divorcee
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
In one of their best loved, most charming song and dance comedies, Fred and Ginger demonstrate just how they became known as America's greatest dance team. Includes the Academy Award-winning hit The Continental.
14) Hope Gap
Publisher
Screen Media Films
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Grace lives an idyllic life until her 29-year marriage to Edward abruptly ends, leaving their only son to pick up the pieces. As life unravels, Grace discovers it's never too late to be happy." --
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"A new comedy series that finds sharp, observant humor in even the most tense situations. Parker stars as Frances, who has suddenly begun to reassess her life and her strained relationship with her husband of ten yearsand father of their two childrenRobert. She soon learns that making a clean break and a fresh start is harder than she thought." --
A refreshingly honest new half-hour comedy series about the never-ending process of unwinding a marriage....
16) Marriage story
Series
Criterion collection ; 1038
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A love story about divorce. A marriage coming apart and a family coming together. A hilarious and harrowing, sharply observed, and deeply compassionate film from writer-director Noah Baumbach. Charlie is a charismatic New York theater director wedded to his work. Nicole is an actor who is ready to change her own life. Their hopes for an amicable divorce fade as they are drawn into a system that pits them against each other and forces them to redefine...
Publisher
Universal
Language
English
Description
Miles Massey is a high-powered Los Angeles divorce lawyer nearing a midlife crisis. While representing his wealthy client Rex Rexroth, Miles meets his match in Rex's gold-digging wife, Marilyn. He's impressed by her similarly heartless ways of using marriage to fuel an expensive lifestyle, but Miles still manages to defeat her in court. With Marilyn looking to get her revenge and Miles finding himself attracted to her, the two engage in a ruthless...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox
Language
English
Description
A perfect 18-year marriage suddenly becomes unglued. Rather than just get divorced, Oliver and Barbara Rose declare war, fighting to the bitter end over their huge mansion and every possession in it. Not even the calculating guidance of Oliver's lawyer can stop this uncompromising twosome as their vicious battle sends them on an increasingly dark and dangerous path.
20) The awful truth
Series
Criterion collection ; 917
Language
English
Description
"IIn this Oscar-winning farce, Cary Grant (in the role that first defined the Cary Grant persona) and Irene Dunne exude charm, cunning, and artless affection as an urbane couple who, fed up with each other's infidelities, resolve to file for divorce. But try as they might to move on, the mischievous Jerry can't help meddling in Lucy's ill-matched engagement to a corn-fed Oklahoma businessman (Ralph Bellamy), and a mortified Lucy begins to realize...
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