2013
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August: Osage County accomplishes a task made exceedingly difficult by its crossing of mediums – it converts an award-winning stage play into an actually engaging two-hour film. True to its theatrical nature, it’s, by necessity, several rooms full of interrelated
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Sent to Britain to live with her cousins for the summer, Elizabeth – who insists on being called Daisy – is stuck in a trap very familiar to American teenage girls. Living rigidly according to societally imposed rules, she is
2013
Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish
The infant, named Margaret, had hair on her headThink and wild as a fire, and three times as red.The midwife, a brawny and capable whelper,Gave one look and crossed herself. ‘God about help her,’She whispered, but gave the new mother
2008
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This book is a teenage Young Adult Novel and it revolves around Sutter Keely who resides in Oklahoma. He is not narcissistic nor spiritual nor a social butterfly. He is a social magic maker. He makes up witty words to
2013
THE SPECTACULAR NOW examines the lives of high school teens in a manner that doesn’t trivialize, sexualize or demean them. At times, the film may succeed in sentimentalizing high school and cannot quite decide precisely how its audience is meant
1983
In Mark Helprin’s novel Winter’s Tale, a thief in love with a doomed heiress looks for a way to turn back time and ushers in a new millennium in the process. The book begins somewhere in Brooklyn when a beautiful