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Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Mass murders, kidnappings and a flasher may be troubling to the residents of Fernwood, Ohio. But pigtailed, gingham-frocked housewife Mary Hartman has a much more serious problem: waxy buildup on her kitchen floor. And while her husband Tom struggles in the bedroom and her best friend, country singer Loretta Haggers, struggles to make it big in Nashville, Mary teeters closer to the edge, desperate to save her marriage, keep her family together and...
Series
Criterion collection volume 603
Language
English
Formats
Description
Disc 1. In which we serve. The story of the H.M.S. Torrin, a British naval ship, from its construction through its destruction in World War II. As the surviving crew cling to life boats and wreckage awaiting rescue, they flashback to their homes and loved ones and in so doing recall just why they are fighting and whom they are fighting for. Disc 2. This happy breed. The story of a London family from 1919 to 1939, and their struggle to maintain a stable...
125) Serial mom
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Collector's edition.
Language
English
Description
Beverly Sutphin is a seemingly perfect homemaker who will stop at nothing to rid the neighborhood of anyone failing to live up to her moral code.
127) Suburban shootout
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Ah, suburbia. The smell of newly mown grass, the colorful blooms in flowerbeds, the clatter of automatic gunfire-- at least, that's how it goes in Little Stempington, a posh London 'burb where the ladies care more about turf wars than topsoil. They stash Glocks in Tupperware, extort protection money from the Wicker Barn, and peddle black-market estrogen patches at the local pub. When mild-mannered Joyce Hazledine moves to town, she finds herself caught...
Series
Criterion collection volume 482
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
Special édition.
Language
Français
Description
Juliette, a bourgeois housewife, is a loving wife and mother whose domestic moments alternate with her days and nights as a call girl.
130) The pumpkin eater
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Anne Bancroft's cathartic lead performance anchors The Pumpkin Eater, Harold Pinter's harrowing, elliptical tale of marital dissatisfaction. Though much of the film concerns her character's fitful bouts with depression, Bancroft charges every moment she's onscreen, employing an array of subtle gestures and facial expressions to convey what her repressed character cannot. Pinter and director Jack Clayton never resort to facile satire or pat assignations...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
"German immigrant and farm wife Hulda Klager possesses only an eighth-grade education and a burning desire to create something beautiful. What begins as a hobby to create an easy-peeling apple for her pies becomes Hulda's driving purpose: a time-consuming interest in plant hybridization that puts her at odds with family and community, as she challenges the early twentieth-century expectations for a simple housewife. Through the years, seasonal floods...
133) Brief encounter
Series
Criterion collection volume 76
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
DVD special edition.
Language
English
Description
Two married people, both unsatisfied with their relationships, meet on a train platform in London and fall in love.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A playboy and an interior decorator develop a dislike for each other when they share a party line, until he sees her for the first time and begins to romance her with a different identity; rivals from competing advertising agencies try to win the same client; a happily married hypochondriac thinks he is dying and tries to find a suitable new spouse for his unsuspecting wife; when housewife Beverly Boyer suddenly becomes famous as the spokesperson...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
The Moores are missing: The Moore family just vanished from their home without telling a soul. A last-minute vacation? A kidnapping? A run for their lives? You'll never see the truth coming. The housewife: Maggie Denning is a former chief detective adjusting to a quiet life in the suburbs with her family. But when the woman next door is found brutally murdered, Maggie starts investigating--and everyone's a suspect. Even her own husband. Absolute zero:...
137) Lady killer: 2
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Josie Schuller is a picture-perfect homemaker, wife, and mother, but she is also a ruthless, efficient killer.
138) Lady killer: 1
Author
Pub. Date
2015-
Language
English
Description
"Josie Schuller is a picture-perfect homemaker, wife, and mother—but she’s also a ruthless, efficient killer for hire! A brand-new original comedy series that combines the wholesome imagery of early 1960s domestic bliss with a tightening web of murder, paranoia, and cold-blooded survival."--Goodreads.com
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