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Language
English
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The powerful drama of Willy Loman & his tragic end. Ever since it was first performed in 1949, Death of a Salesman has been recognized as a milestone of the American theater. In the person of Willy Loman, the aging, failing salesman who makes his living riding on a smile and a shoeshine, Arthur Miller redefined the tragic hero as a man whose dreams are at once insupportably vast and dangerously insubstantial. He has given us a figure whose name has...
Author
Publisher
New Directions
Language
English
Description
"Brick, an alcoholic ex-football player, drinks his days away and resists the affections of his wife, Maggie. His reunion with his father, Big Daddy, who is dying of cancer, jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son." --
6) Humor me /producers, Jamie Gordon, Sam Hoffman, Courtney Potts ; written and directed by Sam Hoffman
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
After his wife leaves him, a struggling New York playwright moves in with his father in his New Jersey retirement community, and is soon enlisted to help with a senior citizen theater troupe staging a musical.
7) The illusion
Author
Series
TCG translations ; 6
Publisher
Theatre Communications Group
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
14) Lemon sky
Author
Publisher
Dramatists Play Service, Inc
Pub. Date
[1970]
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old boy's unsuccessful attempt to establish a meaningful relationship with preoccupied father.
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Oskar is convinced that his father, who died in the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center, has left a message for him hidden in the city. Feeling disconnected from his grieving mother and driven by an active mind that refuses to believe in things that can't be observed, Oskar begins searching New York City for the lock that fits a mysterious key he found in his father's closet. His journey through the five boroughs takes him beyond his loss to a...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
A former sports star who's fallen on hard times starts coaching his son's soccer team as a way to get his life together. His attempts to become an adult are met with challenges from the attractive soccer moms who pursue him at every turn.
18) Snitch
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
A father's teenage son is wrongly accused of a drug distribution crime and is looking at a mandatory minimum prison sentence of ten years. Desperate and determined to rescue his son at all costs, he makes a deal with the U.S. attorney to work as an undercover informant and infiltrate a drug cartel on a dangerous mission, risking everything, including his family and his own life.
19) Winter solstice
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
LaPaglia and Janney star in a poignant look at how a woman's love and support can help a widower, who is struggling to overcome the loss of his wife, deal with his older son's decision to leave home and his younger son's destructive behavior.
