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1) My Hollywood
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Claire, a composer and a new mother, comes to Los Angeles so that her husband can follow his dream of writing television comedy. With Paul working all hours and Claire left with the baby, William, whom she adores but has no idea how to care for, they hire Lola, a fifty-two-year-old mother of five who works in America to pay for her own children's education back in the Philippines. Lola stabilizes the rocky household, and other parents try to lure...
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This Edwardian social comedy explores love and prim propriety among an eccentric cast of characters assembled in an Italian pensione and in a corner of Surrey, England.
A charming young Englishwoman, Lucy Honeychurch, faints into the arms of a fellow Britisher when she witnesses a murder in a Florentine piazza. Attracted to this man, George Emerson—who is entirely unsuitable and whose father just may be a Socialist—Lucy is soon at war with the...
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Twentieth Century-Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Anywhere but here: Tired of her life in a small Wisconsin town, Adele August leaves her second husband and moves to Beverly Hills with her teenage daughter, who resents the move and her mother's dreaminess and flamboyance.
Where the heart is: After generating notoriety by giving birth in the Wal-Mart where she lives after being abandoned by her boyfriend, a teen mother begins to rebuild her life with the help of quirky strangers who become her surrogate...