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41) 3 Backyards
Publisher
Screen Media Films
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Follows an unhappily-married businessman, a girl who missed the schoolbus, and a bored housewife, as their lives take unpredictable turns in a Long Island suburb over the course of an autumn day.
43) Neighbors
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
New parents Mac and Kelly are living the American Dream, complete with a baby girl and a new home in the suburbs. Nevertheless, they want to believe that they are still cool, so when they discover that their new next-door neighbors are dozens of fraternity brothers - led by charismatic Teddy - they try to play along. But when the parties grow increasingly more epic, both sides begin to fend for their turf. The sabotage escalates into extreme one-upmanship,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Image Comics, Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A boarding house full of druggies. A neglected housewife. A young girl who thinks she's a superhero. A cop who wants to be left alone. And a Private Detective looking for a runaway girl. These stories collide one fateful summer in Where the Body Was, a tale of love and murder in the suburbs, told from a dozen different points of view. All the neighbors on the block have an opinion about the murder and how it happened, but which of them is telling...
Author
Publisher
Suma De Letras
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Español
Description
Sigue a tres madres, cada una en una encrucijada, y su posible participación en un motín en una trivia noche de escuela que deja uno de los padres muertos en lo que parece ser un trágico accidente, pero que podrían haber sido premeditados muestra la evidencia.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Tracy Flick is back and, once again, the iconic protagonist of Tom Perrotta's Election--and Reese Witherspoon's character from the classic movie adaptation--is determined to take high school politics by storm. Tracy Flick is a hardworking assistant principal at a public high school in suburban New Jersey. Still ambitious but feeling a little stuck and underappreciated in midlife, Tracy gets a jolt of good news when the longtime principal, Jack Weede,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A "novel about two upper-class stay-at-home mothers--one white, one Black--living in a 'perfect' suburb that explores motherhood, friendship, and the true meaning of sisterhood amidst the backdrop of America's all-too-familiar racial reckoning"--
51) The oranges
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
What does it take to be truly happy? Two suburban families are about to find out when the Ostroffs' rebellious daughter Nina returns home and starts an adulterous affair with family friend David Walling. Love is a wrecking ball headed straight for the burbs, and it may just change all of their lives forever.
52) Weeds: Season 4
Series
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Last time we saw her, Nancy's business and house were going up in smoke. So the Botwin bunch has relocated near the border for a fresh start with some new buds.
53) Life is sweet
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
An amusing portrait of a working-class family in a suburb just north of London, an irrepressible mum and dad and their night-and-day twins, a bookish good girl and a sneering lay about. A vivid, lived-in story of ordinary existence, in which even modest dreams (such as the father's desire to open a food truck) carry enormous weight. Perched on the line between humor and melancholy.
54) Over the hedge
Publisher
Dreamworks Animation
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Upon waking up after hibernation, a group of forest animals discover that a tall hedge has appeared out of nowhere, half their forest is gone, and they have little to no food left. Their leader Verne, a nervous turtle, suggests they must adapt. Newcomer RJ the raccoon gives them another option: go over the hedge and get food from the humans! The other forest animals quickly give in to RJ's blandishments, sneaking into the human world to get all the...
56) Disturbia
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
After his father's death, Kale Brecht becomes a sullen, withdrawn, and troubled young man. He finds himself under a court-ordered sentence of house arrest after a run in with the law. His mother, Julie, works night and day to support herself and her son, only to be met with Kale's indifference and lethargy. As the walls of his house begin to close in on Kale, he turns into a voyeur as his interests turn outside the windows of his suburban home towards...
57) Disturbia
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
After his father's death, Kale becomes sullen, withdrawn, and troubled - so much so that he finds himself under a court-ordered sentence of house arrest. His mother, Julie, works night and day to support herself and her son, only to be met with indifference and lethargy. The walls of his house begin to close in on Kale. He becomes a voyeur as his interests turn outside the windows of his suburban home towards those of his neighbors, one of which Kale...
58) Weeds: Season 7
Series
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
New York, new high! After serving three years in the joint, the onetime suburban soccer mom is making a fresh start in New York City and going back to doing what she does best: selling pot. But when some old friends return, they could send everything up in flames.
59) The ice storm
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Thanksgiving 1973. The climate is changing, both politically and physically. As the Watergate scandal unfolds in the background, the inhabitants of a small Connecticut town begin to slip into an existentialist void. Social taboos are shattered on whims and the line between adult authority and juvenile irresponsibility is practically nonexistant. Focuses on the Hood and Carver families. Chronicles a brief period of rapid moral deterioration. Their...