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Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
A chance encounter in a nursing home leads to an unexpected friendship between a dowdy housewife and a spry octagenarian who tells her the story of a fiercely independent woman half a century ago, inspiring the housewife to change her life, often with hilarious results
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Centuries ago, two 'sworn sisters' are isolated by their families, but stay connected through a secret language written in the folds of a white silk fan. Now in modern-day Shanghai, their descendents must draw inspiration from the past as they struggle to maintain their own eternal bond in the face of life's complications. What unfolds are two stories, generations apart, but everlasting in their universal notion of love, hope and friendship.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Coal Miner's Daughter : The story of Loretta Lynn and her ambitious husband Mooney who takes Loretta away from her backwoods Appalachian home to be his child bride.
Smokey and the Bandit : Two truckers trying to transport 400 cases of beer from Texas to Atlanta get pursued by a sheriff after they pick up a hitch-hiking runaway bride-to-be who happens to have left the sheriff's son.
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas : A famous brothel, the "Chicken...
Author
Publisher
Punto de Lectura
Pub. Date
2013
Language
Español
Description
"Verano de 1924. Durante una rutilante fiesta de la alta sociedad en Riverton Manor, un joven y prometedor poeta se quita la vida. Invierno de 1999. Grace Bradley, una anciana de noventa y ocho an��s que otrora fuera doncella en la mansio�� de Riverton, recibe la visita de una joven directora de cine que esta�� rodando una peli��ula sobre aquel suicido [suicidio]. Esa visita convoca los recuerdos que durante de��adas Grace habi��...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Inspired by the bestselling novel SNOW FLOWER AND THE SECRET FAN by Lisa See, the film is a timeless portrait of female friendship. In 19th-century China, seven year old girls Snow Flower and Lily are matched as laotong - or "old sames" - bound together for eternity. Isolated by their families, they furtively communicate by taking turns writing in a secret language, nu shu, between the folds of a white silk fan. In a parallel story in present day...