Julia Roberts
1) Larry Crowne
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
When he suddenly finds himself without his long-standing blue-collar job, Larry Crowne enrolls at his local college to start over. There, he becomes part of an eclectic community of students and develops a crush on his teacher. Now this simple guy will discover that when you think everything worth having has passed you by, you just might find your reason to live.
2) The Mexican
Language
English
Description
Jerry has to do one last errand for the mob before they let him find employment elsewhere -- he has to go to Mexico and recover a rare and very valuable pistol "The Mexican", which is said to be cursed. While his girlfriend, Samantha, objects to Jerry taking the assignment, he isn't in much of a position to argue. Once in Mexico, Jerry finds the pistol easily enough, but making his way back to the States proves to be an unexpected challenge. Meanwhile,...
3) Mother's Day
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
This celebration of mothers everywhere invites all to enjoy the laughter, tears and love as three generations come together in the week leading up to Mother's Day.
Language
English
Description
In the early 1980s, Charlie Wilson is best known as a womanizing US congressional representative from Texas. He seemed to be in the minor leagues, except for the fact that he is a member of two major foreign policy and covert-ops committees. However, once Charlie is prodded by his major conservative supporter, Joanne Herring, Wilson learns about the plight of the people who are suffering from the effects of the brutal Soviet occupation of Afghanistan....
8) Closer
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A story of passion, drama, love, and abandonment involving two couples, which only gets more complicated when the man from the first couple gets acquainted with the woman from the second couple.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Three years after pulling a con over Las Vegas casino owner Terry Benedict, Danny Ocean and his cohorts have lived quietly out of the spotlight in retirement. But Benedict gives the group an ultimatum to come up with $190 million dollars or else, so Danny needs to pull one more heist, in the form of separate capers in Paris, Amsterdam and Rome. In addition to a tight deadline, the gang has to cope with an agent in pursuit as well as a rival thief...
11) Eat, pray, love
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A happily married woman who is trying to get pregnant realizes that her life needs to go in a new direction. After a very painful divorce, she risks everything and embarks on a journey around the world that becomes a quest for self-discovery.
12) Pretty woman
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
A corporate raider pays a gorgeous hooker to be his escort for a business week in Beverly Hills...and then falls for her.
13) Notting Hill
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
The world's most famous movie star falls in love with a small-time bookstore owner.
14) Wonder
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Based on the New York best seller, this tells the incredibly inspiring and heartwarming story of August Pullman, a boy with facial differences who enters fifth grade, attending a mainstream elementary school for the first time.
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
In this suspenseful romantic thriller, Laura is a young woman who thinks she's found the man of her dreams in Martin. Only after they are married does she discover the real Martin--compulsive, controlling and dangerously violent. After three years of living in fear and dread, Laura finally escapes, only to have Martin track her down.
16) Steel Magnolias
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Six divas of the silver screen - Sally Field, Dolly Parton, Shirley MacLaine, Daryl Hannah, Olympia Dukakis and Julia Roberts - come together as bosom buddies in this hilarious and heartwarming story of life, love and loss in a small Louisiana Parish. At the center of the group is Shelby Eatenton (Roberts), newly married and joyfully pregnant, despite the fact that her diabetes could make childbirth life-threatening. Terrified and angry at the possibility...
17) Hook
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Formats
Description
Granny Wendy Darling must convince the middle-aged lawyer Peter Banning that he was once the legendary Peter Pan. And so the adventure begins anew, with Peter off to Neverland to save his two children from Captain Hook. Along the way, he rediscovers the power of imagination, friendship, and magic.
18) Money monster
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In the real-time high stakes thriller, financial TV host Lee Gates and his producer Patty, are put in an extreme situation when an irate investor who has lost everything forcefully takes over their studio. During a tense standoff broadcast to millions on live TV, Lee and Patty must work furiously against the clock to unravel the mystery behind a conspiracy at the heart of today's fast-paced, high-tech global markets.
19) Elmo says boo!
Series
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fun and songs abound as Elmo, the Count and friends share spooky surprises around Halloween.
20) Mona Lisa smile
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set in 1953, Katherine Watson is a free-spirited graduate of UCLA who accepts a teaching post at Wellesley College, a women-only school where the students are torn between the repressive mores of the time and their longing for intellectual freedom.