Jessica Tandy
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Glass Menagerie marked a crucial turning point in American theater, and forever changed the life of its then unknown author. Williamss elegiac masterpiece brought a radical new lyricism to Broadway the tragedy, fragility, and tenderness of this 'memory play' have made it one of Americas most powerful, timeless, and compelling plays. The introduction by Tony Kushner sparkles with the kind of rich, unique insight that only a fellow playwright...
Series
Language
English
Description
A chance encounter in a nursing home leads to an unexpected friendship between a dowdy housewife and a spry octagenarian who tells her the story of a fiercely independent woman half a century ago, inspiring the housewife to change her life, often with hilarious results.
4) Foxfire
Publisher
Hallmark Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001?]
Language
English
Description
A grown son tries to get his widowed mother to leave her home in the Blue Ridge Mountains after her husband's death, and she must decide between remaining with her memories or building a new life.
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Set in Atlanta in the 1950's, a textile factory owner insists on hiring an ever-patient chauffeur for his aging head-strong mother. The Jewish woman and her African American driver eventually build a relationship over many years.
Language
English
Description
Olive, a militant suffragette, takes on the education of Verena, a brilliantly gifted but naive young girl. Olive wants to mold and use this gift for the feminist cause. But Verena is also loved by Basil Ransom, an impecunious young lawyer with views strenuously opposed to the Boston feminists. The contest is met between Basil and Olive. The prize: possession of Verena.
9) The birds
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
When Melanie Daniels rolls into Bodega Bay in pursuit of eligible bachelor Mitch Brenner, the small California town is inexplicably attacked by thousands of birds.
Series
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
A devoted old couple are separated when the wife dies. The husband struggles to cope with his loneliness and failing health, but his spirit is fading when a mysterious white dog appears and reawakens his joy of life.
12) Foxfire
Series
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
"When her son asks her to move to the city, an elderly woman is torn between his wishes and her many memories of sharing country life with her late husband." --
Language
English
Description
In this sequel to Cocoon, the senior citizens who left Earth for Antarea where people live free from sickness and pain return to their families and friends. They find it hard to face human realities on Earth such as age, illness and personal loss, but soon come to realize that, even with its frailties, life on Earth may not be so bad after all.
14) Nobody's fool
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Trying to get back on her feet, wild child Tanya looks to her buttoned-up, by-the-book sister Danica to help her get on track. As these polar opposites collide, with hilarious and sometimes disastrous results, Tanya discovers that Danica's picture-perfect life, including her mysterious boyfriend, may not be what it seems." --
15) Used people
Publisher
Largo Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"'She got picked up at her own husband's funeral!' She is Pearl Berman, a not-so-inconsolable widow whose emotionally barren life and dysfunctional family get a joyous kick in the pants when a handsome Italian confesses that for 23 years he's loved her from afar. And now it's time for a close-up. As love turns Pearl luminescent, her disgruntled daughters and mother also discover that happiness is worth waiting for." --
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Garp is a man whose life unfolds from cradle to grave in counterpoint to the dizzy, violent, cruel and casually destructive rhythms of our anxious age. Whilst Garp sees himself as a "serious" writer, his mother Jenny writes a feminist manifesto at an opportune time, and finds herself as a magnet for all manner of distressed women.
18) Cocoon
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Art, Ben and Joe are three simple, aging senior citizens who like to swim in the unguarded swimming pool next door from the old folks home they live in. One day they go swimming and feel energized and 'ready to take on the world!' What they soon discover is that the pool was recently bought by four alien Antereans incognito as humans. The men and their friends offer to help the Antereans return the cocoons and as a reward, the Antereans offer something...
