Jane Smiley
Jane Smiley: 2010 National Book Festival (Poetry)
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A Thousand Acres [VHS] $4.99 Jessica Lange and Michelle Pfeiffer are quietly dazzling in this underrated adaptation of Jane Smiley’s best-selling modern version of King Lear. The two play sisters of a stubborn, alcoholic Iowa farmer (Jason Robards), who decides to leave his fertile farm to them and their youngest sister (Jennifer Jason Leigh). It is a decision that rends the family, setting siblings against one another and… |
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The Secret Lives of Dentists [VHS] $1.99 The passion of oral surgeons is the unlikely subject of The Secret Lives of Dentists, Alan Rudolph’s keenly observed comedy-drama. Campbell Scott and Hope Davis, dentists both, have three kids and a pleasant life. Pleasant, but not exciting. When Scott realizes his wife is having an affair on the side, he’s torn between caution and an outrageous inner voice urging drastic action. That voice is per… |
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The Resurrected [VHS] $11.98 Since the beginning of time, man has struggled with death. Now, Charles Ward, a wealthy scientist, may have found a way to beat it. Using a diary inherited from an ancient relative and human remains acquired through unsavory sources, Charles begins a terrifying and bloody process he soon learns cannot be reversed. Based on H P Lovecraft’s “The Case of Charles Dexter Ward”, color, approximate runn… |
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22×14 Oval Wall Vinyl Sticker Mess With Me You Mess With the Whole Trailer Park $26.97 Product Number: 030-545194381 Wall peels are printed on a reusable vinyl with a special adhesive that sticks to walls without harming them. No tape. No tacks. No marks. * Measures 22″ x 14″ * Won’t hurt walls * Can be moved and reused… |
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21 x 7 Wall Vinyl Sticker Mess With Me You Mess With the Whole Trailer Park $23.97 Product Number: 030-545194382 Wall peels are printed on a reusable vinyl with a special adhesive that sticks to walls without harming them. No tape. No tacks. No marks. * Measures 21″ x 7″ * Won’t hurt walls * Can be moved and reused… |
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42 x 14 Wall Vinyl Sticker Mess With Me You Mess With the Whole Trailer Park $29.97 Product Number: 030-545194377 Wall peels are printed on a reusable vinyl with a special adhesive that sticks to walls without harming them. No tape. No tacks. No marks. * Measures 42″ x 14″ * Won’t hurt walls * Can be moved and reused… |
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Under Western Stars $2.99 … |
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The Great American Western Vol. 1-10 (44 Movies) $22.70 No Description Available.Genre: WesternsRating: RRelease Date: 6-JAN-2004Media Type: DVD… |
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The Resurrected $9.98 Charles Dexter Ward’s wife enlists the help of a private detective to find out what her husband is up to in a remote cabin owned by his family for centuries. The husband is a chemical engineer, and the smells from his experiments (and the delivery of what appear to be human remains at all hours) are beginning to arouse the attention of neighbors and local law enforcement officials. When the detect… |
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A Thousand Acres: A Novel $6.31 A successful Iowa farmer decides to divide his farm between his three daughters. When the youngest objects, she is cut out of his will. This sets off a chain of events that brings dark truths to light and explodes long-suppressed emotions. An ambitious reimagining of Shakespeare’s King Lear cast upon a typical American community in the late twentieth century, A Thousand Acres takes on themes of … |
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