Claire Danes
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A passionate story about fitting in...and falling in love! Head-turning cute, but painfully shy and self-conscious, Daisy feels like a complete outsider at her stuffy New York prep school. So when she catches the eye of the coolest guy in the school, she is totally psyched...but afraid that opening up too much might blow it for her.
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A darkly luminous new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours. Michael Cunningham's luminous novel begins with a vision. It's November 2004. Barrett Meeks, having lost love yet again, is walking through Central Park when he is inspired to look up at the sky; there he sees a pale, translucent light that seems to regard him in a distinctly godlike way. Barrett doesn't believe in visions-or in God-but he can't deny what he's seen. At...
4) Shopgirl
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An aspiring artist working behind the glove counter at a Beverly Hills department store falls in love with two men: a wealthy divorcé and a struggling musician.
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Igby Slocumb, a rebellious and sarcastic seventeen-year-old boy, is at war with the stifling world of 'old money' privilege he was born into. With a schizophrenic father, a self-absorbed, distant mother, and a shark-like Young Republican big brother, Igby figures there must be a better life out there -- and sets about finding it.
7) The Flock
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This film is about a hyper-vigilant employee of the department of public safety who, while training his young female replacement, has to track down a missing girl who he is convinced is connected to a paroled sex offender he is investigating.
8) The Hours
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Three women in different times, related by a parallel in their personal lives. One throwing a party for a friend suffering from AIDS. Another in 1949, suffering as a young wife. The last, Virginia Woolf, writing "Mrs. Dalloway".