Jenny Slate
2) Landline
Author
Language
English
Description
When sisters Dana and Ali suspect their father is having an affair, cracks in their family façade begin to surface. The two sisters bond as they discover the reality of love while trying to uncover the truth about their father without their mother knowing. Set in 1990s Manhattan, Landline is a comedic drama about a family united by secrets and lies, co-written and directed by Gillian Robespierre.
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Language
English
Description
The Sunlit Night follows an aspiring painter (Slate) from New York City to the farthest reaches of Arctic Norway for an assignment she hopes will invigorate her work and expand her horizons. In a remote village, among the locals, she meets a fellow New Yorker (Sharp), who has come in search of a proper Viking funeral only to find that the Chief (Galifianakis) is but a re-enactor from Cincinnati. The eclectic crew ranges from "home" to "lost," within...
Author
Language
English
Description
"To see the world through Jenny Slate's eyes is to see it as though for the first time, shimmering with strangeness and possibility. As she will remind you, we live on an ancient ball that rotates around a bigger ball made up of lights and gasses that are science gasses, not farts (don't be immature). Heartbreak, confusion, and misogyny stalk this blue-green sphere, yes, but it is also a place of wild delight and unconstrained vitality, a place where...
Author
Series
Marcel the Shell volume 1
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Description
Follows Marcel the Shell as he introduces his neighbors, favorite activities, and home.
Author
Language
English
Description
In his stories, Saunders explores ideas of power, ethics, and justice, and cuts to the very heart of what it means to live in community with our fellow humans. Wickedly funny, unsentimental, and perfectly tuned, the stories challenge and surprise as they encompass joy and despair, oppression and revolution, bizarre fantasy and brutal reality. -- adapted from back cover
"The 'best short story writer in English' (Time) is back with a masterful collection...
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English
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Description
When an interdimensional rupture threatens to unravel reality, the fate of the world is suddenly in the hands of a most unlikely hero: Evelyn (Michelle Yeoh), a flustered immigrant mother. As bizarre and bewildering dangers emerge from the many possible worlds, she must learn to channel her newfound powers and fight her way through the splintering timelines to save her home, her family, and herself in this big-hearted and irreverent adventure through...
8) Landline
Publisher
Broad Green Pictures
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
When sisters Dana and Ali suspect their father is having an affair, cracks in their family faȧde begin to surface. The two sisters bond as they discover the reality of love while trying to uncover the truth about their father without their mother knowing.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Description
Terrier Max is coping with some major life changes. His owner is now married and has a toddler, Liam. Max is so worried about protecting the boy that he develops a nervous tic. On a family trip to a farm, Max and Duke encounter many creatures who elevates Max₂s anxiety. Luckily, Max gets some guidance from veteran farm dog Rooster, who pushes Max to ditch his neuroses, find his inner alpha, and give Liam a little more freedom. Can Max and the gang...
Publisher
A24
Language
English
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Description
Marcel, a one inch-tall shell, lives with his grandmother Connie, the only residents of their town after their neighbors' sudden, mysterious disappearance. When a brush with fame gives him a chance at reuniting with his long-lost friends and family, Marcel's big adventure begins in this bighearted and bittersweet, delightful and moving story of finding home.
12) The Sunlit Night
Publisher
Quiver Distribution
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
THE SUNLIT NIGHT follows an aspiring painter (Slate) from New York City to the farthest reaches of Arctic Norway for an assignment she hopes will invigorate her work and expand her horizons. In a remote village, among the locals, she meets a fellow New Yorker (Sharp), who has come in search of a proper Viking funeral only to find that the Chief (Galifianakis) is but a re-enactor from Cincinnati. The eclectic crew ranges from "home" to "lost," within...
13) The longest week
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Affluent and aimless, Conrad Valmont lives a life of leisure in his parent's prestigious Manhattan Hotel. In the span of one week, he finds himself evicted, disinherited, and in love.
14) Gifted
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Frank Adler is a single man raising a child prodigy, his spirited young niece Mary, in a coastal town in Florida. Frank's plans for a normal school life for Mary are foiled when the seven-year-old's mathematical abilities come to the attention of Frank's formidable mother Evelyn, whose plans for her granddaughter threaten to separate Frank and Mary.
15) Obvious child
Publisher
A24
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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Description
Donna Stern is a Brooklyn comedian who gets heartlessly dumped by her two-timing boyfriend. While trying to drown her troubles at the stand-up comedy club, she has a drunken one night stand with a cute young professional named Max (who's not even remotely her type) and ends up pregnant. Donna has to do what is expected of a "responsible adult" just in time for the best/worst Valentine's Day of her life.
16) Zootopia
Series
Language
English
Description
Zootopia is a city like no other that is comprised of habitat neighborhoods like ritzy Sahara Square and frigid Tundratown, it's a melting pot where animals from every environment live together. But when optimistic Officer Judy Hopps arrives, she discovers that being the first bunny on a police force of big, tough animals isn't so easy. Determined to prove herself, she jumps at the opportunity to crack a case, even if it means partnering with a fast-talking,...
17) The Lorax
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
In a place where the brown Bar-ba-loots frisk and the Humming-Fish splash around, you will find the Lorax. The Lorax speaks of the trees, which the Once-ler is chopping down as fast as he pleases. Will the Once-ler change his destructive ways and heed the wise warnings of the Lorax?
18) Venom
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Investigative journalist Eddie Brock attempts a comeback following a scandal, but accidentally becomes the host of an alien symbiote that gives him a violent super alter-ego. Soon, he must rely on his newfound powers to protect the world from a shadowy organization looking for a symbiote of their own.
19) Aardvark
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Follows Josh Norman, a troubled man who has lived in the shadow of his brother Craig for so long he starts seeing that shadow everywhere. After experiencing a series of hallucinations involving Craig, Josh places himself in the care of Emily, a young therapist. Emily is forced to wade deeper and deeper into Josh's imaginary world, and along the way forms her own obsession with his famous brother.
20) Hotel Artemis
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the midst of a riot-torn Los Angeles, a mysterious woman named the Nurse runs a secret emergency room and hospital for criminals. Her life has kept her entirely indoors ever since a tragedy, but her past intersects with her haven on exactly the wrong night.