Joey Lauren Adams
Series
Criterion collection volume 336
Description
America, 1976. The last day of school. Bongs blaze, bell-bottoms ring, and rock and roll rocks. Eavesdrop on a group of seniors-to-be and incoming freshman.
2) Big daddy
Description
Thirty-two-year-old Sonny Koufax has spent his whole life avoiding responsibility. But when his girlfriend dumps him for an older man, he's got to find a way to prove he's ready to grow up. In a desperate last-ditch effort, Sonny adopts five-year-old Julian to impress her. She's not impressed and he can't return the kid.
3) The break-up
Description
Brooke calls it quits with her boyfriend Gary. Neither one is willing to move out of the condo they once shared. Taking the advice of their respective friends and confidants, including a few complete strangers, they both engage in mental warfare designed to force the other person to flee the premises. But they might just realize that they are fighting to keep their relationship alive.
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
An overworked architect uses a magical universal remote control to rearrange and control parts of his days but complications arise when it starts to take over his life; thirty-two-year-old Sonny has spent his whole life avoiding responsibility, but when his girlfriend dumps him for an older man, he's got to find a way to prove he's ready to grow up: he adopts five-year-old Julian to impress her; a young man meets his soulmate, who suffers from a memory...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
A young man meets his soulmate, who suffers from a memory disorder which wipes her memory clean each evening; thirty-two-year-old Sonny has spent his whole life avoiding responsibility, but when his girlfriend dumps him for an older man, he's got to find a way to prove he's ready to grow up so he adopts five-year-old Julian to impress her.
6) Chasing Amy
Series
Pub. Date
2000
Description
Holden thinks Alyssa is the woman of his dreams but she has someone a little different in mind--another woman. They share the kind of relationship they've been looking for all along and discover the confusing ups and downs of love, sex and friendship in the '90s.
7) Bio-dome
Pub. Date
[2015],c2015
Description
Bud and Doyle, two goofball slackers, get more than they bargained for when they are unwittingly sealed for a year inside the "Bio-Dome," an environmentally controlled scientific community.
8) Mallrats
Pub. Date
c1999
Description
When T.S. is dumped by his girlfriend, he retreats to the mall with his comic book-loving best friend Brodie, whose girlfriend has also left him. Between brooding and visits to the food court, the unmotivated suburban New Jersey teenagers decide to win their girlfriends back with the help of Silent Bob and Jay, the ultimate delinquents, as they scheme to disrupt T.S.'s girlfriend's father's dating game TV show that is going to be broadcast from the...
9) Beautiful
Pub. Date
2000.
Description
Mona (Minnie Driver) has a fantasy of becoming Miss American Miss. She will do anything to obtain her dream.
Pub. Date
[2013?]
Description
When a disgruntled politician leads a global campaign to ban the myth of Santa Claus, the world joins his movement, causing Santa Claus to lose his magical powers. Two children from a small farming community learn about Santa's predicament, and attempt to help Chris Cringle regain his powers after he becomes stranded in their barn while making his final rounds around the world.
11) Harvard man
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Description
Alan is an all-star Harvard man. He's ambitious, intelligent and star of the college basketball team, juggling two girlfriends. Girlfriend no. 1, his Philosophy professor, Chesney. Girlfriend no. 2, Cindy, a sexy college cheerleader and mob boss daughter with all the right moves, including the beauty, money and power to lure Alan right where she wants him. Needing money, Alan agrees to fix the basketball games. The scheme works until the FBI cathes...