Set in a small town located in Pennsylvania, this is an emotional movie about a lonely young girl’s journey during the summer of 1972. Eleven year old Vada, based on her life, is played by Anna Chlumsky. Vada lives with Harry or her dad, played by Dan Aykroyd, who has a business in their...
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Non-Fiction
My Girl
The Devil Wears Prada
Fresh out of college with a degree in journalism, Andrea Sachs, having grown up in a small New Hampshire town, has no idea what lies ahead of her when she moves to Manhattan to pursue her dream to write for the New Yorker. With little experience in the field, she knows she has to...
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Looking For Alaska
“Before”: Miles Halter- memorizer of last words, bored with his Florida high school and ready to venture in order to find his very own “Great Perhaps”. When he leaves Florida in order to attend Culver Creek Preparatory School, he never imagines how a few people and events could change his life irrevocably. “If people...
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Yours, Mine and Ours
Admiral Frank (Dennis Quaid) and Helen Beardsley (Rene Russo) are high school sweethearts. After high school they went their separate ways and married different people. Later on they find each other on dates at a fancy restaurant, but not with each other. Come to find out both Frank’s wife, and Helen’s husband had died...
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The Princess Bride
Many years ago, in a European nation called Florin, there was a beautiful girl named Buttercup. Buttercup has a farm boy, Westley, who only ever says three words to her, “As you wish”. Buttercup realizes that when Westley is saying, “As you wish” he really means, “I love you” and she finds out that...
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The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski is set in Wisconsin. Trudy and Gar Sawtelle live on a dog farm where they raise and train their special dogs and then sell them. The married couple have always wanted a child of their own. After many miscarriages, they are finally blessed with a son,...
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Wherever Nina Lies
Nina was living life big with her younger sister, Ellie, until one day she just never came back, disappeared, gone, and lost. Ellie then began trying to forget all about her loved sister, but she couldn’t. She knew there had to be a purpose for her sister’s disappearance. She was going to get to...
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Lock and Key
Ruby is the definition of independence. She doesn’t need help or sympathy from anyone. When Ruby’s mother abandons her without warning, She lives on her own in her house, working her mother’s job, paying as many bills as she can, cooking for herself, and trying to go to school. Ruby doesn’t tell anyone that...
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Love Unlisted
“It can’t be too hard to meet a man who’s not a co-worker and has at least twenty solid pros on his list, can it? Of course, he can’t smoke, drink, cheat on his taxes, be unemployed, have a defunct family life, listen to hip-hop music, snore, sweat profusely, or have unsavory habits, characteristic...
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He Loves Me Not
Lily Jamison is all alone in the world. As a new student at University of Nevada at Reno, she doesn’t know a single person. Though she’s come to get an education, she is sidetracked by the attention of a mysterious blond man with piercing blue eyes. As she begins falling for him, she receives...
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