Stanley Myers
1) The witches
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Nine-year-old Luke finds that saving the world from witches is a tall order for a boy who has been turned into a mouse.
Publisher
A&E Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
George Smiley goes to the aid of his former colleague, Ailsa Brimley after she receives a letter from a woman predicting her own murder and naming her husband as the killer. After the woman is found dead, they uncover secret societies, sexual abuse, and a mysterious boy.
12) The boost
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
A real estate developer living the good life is crushed when the economy bottoms out. He decides he needs a "boost" to keep his edge. What he gets instead is an all-consuming need that drags him and his wife into a cycle of shame, denial, and anguish.
Publisher
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Deals with Lynda, an English teenager, and her struggles to be loved, recognized and be herself. Lynda embarrasses her straight-laced father with her sassy language and her flamboyant sexiness. Eventually she humiliates him by seducing one of his close friends, but only leaves herself more miserable. She finally runs away to a seaside resort only to return to her home, a child-woman in triumph.
14) The deer hunter
Language
English
Formats
Description
Cimino's epic film about friendship chronicles the lives of three steelworkers and their friends, whose lives are irrevocably changed by a tour of duty in Vietnam. The film is renowned for the Russian roulette scenes.
16) Dreamchild
Publisher
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
A fantasy based on the true life visit of 80 year-old Alice Liddell Hargreaves, the inspiration for "Alice in Wonderland," to New York to celebrate the centennial of Lewis Carroll's birth. As Alice observes the developing romance between her traveling companion, Lucy, and a New York reporter, she reflects on her friendship with Lewis Carroll and finds herself haunted by the characters he created that amused her when she was a child.
17) Wilby conspiracy
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
A political activist and an Englishman on the wrong side of the law team up to escape the clutches of a prejudiced cop in apartheid Africa.
Series
Criterion collection volume 192
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
Deutsch
Description
Set in Latvia in 1919 at the end of the Russian civil war, a Prussian soldier rejects the advances of an aristocratic woman. She retaliates by joining the Bolsheviks.