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Swimming with Bridgeport Girls is an "outstanding
debut...entertaining and sometimes sad, a superb portrait of a
troubled but wisecracking gambler. Think Carl Hiaasen meets Fyodor
Dostoevsky's The Gambler" (Library Journal, starred review). Ray
Parisi is in trouble. Fired from his anchor job at ESPN after
one-too-many public humiliations, he is holed up in a motel and in
desperate need of a break. His ex-wife is shacking up with another
guy in his old house, a bookie wants to kill him, and he's wanted
by the New York State Police. A few days before the Fourth of July,
he unexpectedly receives an inheritance from his long-lost father,
and it seems like all of his problems might be solved. Determined
to get his life back together, Ray hatches an imaginative but
highly suspect plan to win back his wife, dashing from Connecticut
to Las Vegas to Memphis in an attempt to secure his future before
the past runs him down. The cast of characters he meets along the
way is as loveable as it is absolutely insane. If Swimming with
Bridgeport Girls "were a Springsteen album, it would be Devils
& Dust: partly set in Las Vegas, it evinces hope and humor but
is dark and gritty at its core" (Kirkus Reviews). Anthony
Tambakis's first novel is an uproarious romantic comedy about a
charismatic gambler who loses everything and sets off on a mission
to--against all odds--finally get it right.
Mixed martial arts action drama, starring Nick Nolte and Tom Hardy,
in which a fractured family relationship is tested even further
when two estranged brothers enter the same prestigious fighting
competition. Tommy Conlon (Hardy) and his brother, Brendan (Joel
Egerton), are the children of former boxer and recovering alcoholic
Paddy Conlon (Nolte) - and both have issues with him. Tommy,
tortured by his recent experience as a soldier, reconnects with his
father to some extent when he enlists him as his coach for the
upcoming Sparta mixed martial arts competition, which Tommy hopes
to win in order to be able to give the prize money to the family of
a fallen comrade. Brendan, in contrast, needs the money to provide
for his wife and children after losing his job. How will the
brothers cope if the tournament forces them to go against the
fraternal bond and do battle?
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Jane Got a Gun (DVD)
Natalie Portman, Joel Edgerton, Ewan McGregor, Rodrigo Santoro, Noah Emmerich, …
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R184
Discovery Miles 1 840
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Gavin O'Connor directs this action Western. Natalie Portman stars
as Jane Hammond, gun-wielding wife of Bill 'Ham' Hammond (Noah
Emmerich). When Ham is severely injured in a duel with the Bishop
Boys, a band of thugs headed by the devious Colin (Ewan McGregor),
the couple go on the run. With the gang hot on their heels, Jane
turns to old flame Dan Frost (Joel Edgerton) to help the pair stake
out against the approaching mob, whose past with Jane goes deeper
than is at first apparent.
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