Everyone else, she keeps as far away as possible. So she's a mystery to nearly everyone in her New England town. To her husband, she's a saucy, no-B. To her Facebook Moms group, she's a provocateur. To her neighbor, she's a standoffish pain in the butt. To her sons, she's chocolate pudding with marshmallows.
And to her shrink, she's a bundle of nerves on the brink of a cataclysmic implosion. Defying her abundant assortment of anxieties, Agatha dons her "spy pants"--a pair of khakis whose many pockets she crams with binoculars, fishing line, scissors, flashlight, a Leatherman Super Tool EOD, candy, and other espionage essentials--and sets out to spy on her husband and the dog walker.
Along the way, she finds another intriguing target to follow: a mysterious young woman who's panhandling on the busiest street in town. It's all a bit much for timorous Agatha. But with the help of her Bear Grylls bobblehead, a trio of goats, and a dog named Balderdash, Agatha may just find the courage to build a better life.
Creating an algorithm to improve his internet dating employer's match success rate only to be fired for being too effective, Sam Elliot develops a computer program that allows people to say final goodbyes to lost loved ones.
An absolute delight from start to finish! David Bowie reigns supreme, and downtown Manhattan has never been cooler. Griswold is a far cry from Justine's bohemian life in New Haven, where her parents run a theater and struggle to pay the bills. Eve, the sophisticated daughter of status-obsessed Park Avenue parents, also feels like an outsider amidst Griswold's preppy jocks and debutantes. Justine longs for Eve's privilege, and Eve for Justine's sexual confidence.
Despite their differences, they form a deep friendship, together grappling with drugs, alcohol, ill-fated crushes, and predatory male teachers. Justine moves into India's Hell's Kitchen apartment and is pulled further into her friends' glamorous lives. Eve, under her parents' ever-watchful eye, interns at a SoHo art gallery and navigates the unpredictable whims of her boss. India struggles to resist the advances of a famous artist represented by the gallery. All three are affected by their sexual relationships with older men and the power adults hold over them, even as the young women begin to assert their independence.
A captivating, timeless novel about friendship, sex, and parental damage, Amanda Brainerd's Age of Consent intimately evokes the heady freedom of our teenage years. A romance in reverse is set in Paris and London and follows an artist's attempts to fall back in love with his wife after the end of his affair, an effort that is challenged by the sale of a personal painting and his wife's discovery of his infidelity.
A first novel. From the bestselling author of Great Circle—for years Joan has been trying to forget her past, to find peace and satisfaction in her role as wife and mother. Few in her drowsy California suburb know her thrilling history: as a young American ballerina in Paris, she fell into a doomed, passionate romance with Soviet dance superstar Arslan Rusakov.
After playing a leading role in his celebrated defection, Joan bowed out of the spotlight for good, heartbroken by Arslan and humbled by her own modest career. But when her son turns out to be a ballet prodigy, Joan is pulled back into a world she thought she'd left behind—a world of dangerous secrets, of Arslan, and of longing for what will always be just out of reach. In A Window Opens, Elisabeth Egan brings us Alice Pearse, a compulsively honest, longing-to-have-it-all, sandwich generation heroine for our social-media-obsessed, lean in or opt out age.
Like her fictional forebears Kate Reddy and Bridget Jones, Alice plays many roles which she never refers to as "wearing many hats" and wishes you wouldn't, either. She is a mostly-happily married mother of three, an attentive daughter, an ambivalent dog-owner, a part-time editor, a loyal neighbor, and a Zen commuter.
She is not: a cook, a craftswoman, a decorator, an active PTA member, a natural caretaker, or the breadwinner. But when her husband makes a radical career change, Alice is ready to lean in--and she knows exactly how lucky she is to land a job at Scroll, a hip young start-up which promises to be the future of reading, with its chain of chic literary lounges and dedication to beloved classics.
The Holy Grail of working mothers--an intellectually satisfying job and a happy personal life--seems suddenly within reach. I mean she is clearly really anti-social and does not get along well with people.
Or I should say with people outside her family because honestly the bond between her and her daughter is something truly unique and as strong as everything I ever witnessed when it comes to touching mother-daughter relationships. Certainly the most memorable aspect of the film for me.
The scene when the two are talking to the neighbor played by Wiig and really standing up for each other and fighting like lions is really memorable. But there are shorter moments too that stay in the mind, for example when we hear a nickname that Blanchett's character calls her daughter and her dad uses it and the girl says she does not feel comfortable with it really.
Or when we hear the voice-over close to the end already when they are looking for her and there is a brief inclusion whether the character may be dead, the girl says something her mother is out there and she wants to be with her daughter at this point. That was really sweet. There are many more examples. You will recognize them when they are there. As for the death suspense I just mentioned, of course Bernadette is alive and we know it and only a bad filmmaker would have really turned this into serious drama on this idea.
Linklater is too good for that. Back to Bernadette: What is exactly wrong with her? Difficult to explain for sure, especially because I am not a doctor or something, but I kinda liked the somewhat final explanation that the lack of creativity and creating in her life turned her into who she became.
This was the result she received from a bit of a trauma when that game show host bought her creation decades ago and just destroyed it. It is kinda ironic that her basically destroying her neighbor's house with her own carelessness and indifference was one of the things that really made for a change in her mind. But the one thing that is pretty safe is that the shrink hired by her husband is not what she needs.
She needed this trip to the pole and the invitation to work as an architect there again to somewhat find happiness again outside her family. Also it must be said that it is not all Bernadette's fault. Her husband left her sort of alone over the years and just focused on his work. The latter is played by Billy Crudup and I am not too familiar with him. But other supporting players I recognized immediately were Laurence Fishburne whose character was right all along and Troian Bellisario from Pretty Little Liars, even if I initially mistook her for Noomi Rapace.
As for Crudup, he probably plays the biggest male character, the one with the most screen time I mean and there is also some character transformation for him the longer the film goes. No need to go further into detail. But one I did not know because she hasn't virtually acted in anything is Emma Nelson who was just really good and I am not too happy she was billed so far behind in the cast list because she was amazing and should have been included in the top3.
Now I would love for her to receive a Supporting Actor nomination at the Oscars or awards attention in general , but looking at how the film has not really been received too well, it's probably not gonna happen.
Quite a pity, but I am still curious how she is going to do in the future. She could have a great career ahead. Actually, physically she reminded me a bit of Ariel Winter in Modern Family, maybe also slightly character-wise. Her scene in the car with her mom when they sing "Time after Time" was maybe my favorite moment from the entire movie. That was just so amazing. Like I said, there you also see what a unique bond is between them.
Also how Blanchett's character started crying from joy because of this special moment was touching and she said something along the lines of how it is important to appreciate and enjoy these moments that make you happy and I really liked that too. This book is officially a new favorite of mine and will forever stay on my special bookshelf where I keep all my favorites. We use cookies to give you the best possible experience.
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Violet Parry has everything: a husband, a toddler and a luxurious Hollywood home. What she wants is Teddy, a bass player. Shop with confidence on eBay! But today will be different. Today she will shower and put on real clothes. She will attend her yoga class after dropping her son, Timby, off at school. She'll see an old friend for lunch. She won't swear.
She will initiate sex with her husband, Joe. But before she can put her modest plan into action - life happens. For today is the day Timby has decided to pretend to be ill to weasel his way into his mother's company.
It's also the day surgeon Joe has chosen to tell his receptionist - but not Eleanor - that he's on vacation. And just when it seems that things can't go more awry, a former colleague produces a relic from the past - a graphic memoir with pages telling of family secrets long buried and a sister to whom Eleanor never speaks.
Score: 3. When Annabelle Gurwitch was a child, surrounded by a cast of epically dysfunctional relatives, she secretly prayed that it was all a terrible mistake. Maybe she was a long-lost daughter of Joni Mitchell or the reincarnation of an ancient Egyptian princess. A family of bootleggers, gamblers, and philanderers, the Gurwitches have always been a bit vague on the ideal of a loving and supportive family. Their definition includes people you can count on to borrow money from, hold a grudge against, or blackmail.
Thus began a lifetime of Annabelle seeking out surrogates. With a wry wit and healthy dose of irresistible self-deprecation, Gurwitch asks: Who and what makes a family in our modern society? Is it our blood relations, the people we work with, the people we pray with, our pets?
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