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"After the Forest is a dark and enchanting fantasy debut from Kell Woods that explores the repercussions of a childhood filled with magic and a young woman contending with the truth of "happily ever after." Ginger. Honey. Cinnamon. Flour. Twenty years after the witch in the gingerbread house, Greta and Hans are struggling to get by. Their mother and stepmother are long dead, Hans is deeply in debt from gambling, and the countryside lies in ruin, its...
4) Kenny
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Mockumentary follows numerous misadventures of a porta-john worker through both his personal and professional life, including an oddly glamorous excursion to the Pumper & Cleaner Expo in Nashville, Tn.
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The extra girl follows the misadventures of Sue Graham, a small-town lass who escapes her romantic entanglements by heading for the green pastures of Hollywood. Sue quickly discovers that the dream factory is just a factory like any other, as she is assigned to duty in the wardrobe department. But through pluck and ambition, she manages to overcome every setback, including one hair-raising sequence in which she accidentally unleashes a man-eating...
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Frederick Butterfield has always been runner up to his twin brother Herman. When Herman, the older by a mere minute, becomes the world’s oldest man, Frederick finally sees an opportunity to take first place. Frederick will stop at nothing to claim the top spot in the most inventive way possible, but what ensues are a series of bungled hikinks and misadventures. Winner of Best Animation at the **Austin Film Festival**, **Savannah Film Festival**,...
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Max & Ruby is one of the most beloved animated series for preschoolers! Based on the bestselling books by internationally acclaimed children’s author and illustrator Rosemary Wells, Max & Ruby follows the entertaining and mischievous misadventures of bunny siblings Max and his older sister Ruby. Max and Ruby never want quite the same thing and their plans always collide - with hilarious results - but they always realize that two minds are better...
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
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Max & Ruby is one of the most beloved animated series for preschoolers! Based on the bestselling books by internationally acclaimed children’s author and illustrator Rosemary Wells, Max & Ruby follows the entertaining and mischievous misadventures of bunny siblings Max and his older sister Ruby. Max and Ruby never want quite the same thing and their plans always collide - with hilarious results - but they always realize that two minds are better...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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From the author of Kings of Broken Things and In Our Other Lives comes a literary noir about two female war correspondents whose fates intertwine in Europe. Paris, 1938. Two women Mielle, a shy pacifist and shunned Mennonite who struggles to fit in with the elite cohort of foreign correspondents stationed around the city; the other, Jane, a brash, legendary American journalist, who is soon to become a fascist propagandist. When World War II makes...
12) Daddy's Girl
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Teenie, a seven-year-old girl, is abandoned in the rain outside a Glasgow pub while her father gets drunk. Alone, vulnerable, and standing in the rain, we follow her misadventures as she falls prey to a drunken old man, a stray dog, and two bullying older boys, before being temporarily rescued by a local shopkeeper. A bittersweet rites-of-passage tale, DADDY'S GIRL poignantly makes us aware of the struggle of many today's children. Nominated for the...
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2023.
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English
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"From the award-winning, internationally bestselling author, a romp of a novel, at once intimate and panoramic, about the adventures and misadventures of a 19th-century zelig. One man, many lives ... Cashel Greville Ross experiences more of everything than most, from the rapturous to the devastating, from surprising good luck to unexpected loss. Born in 1799, Cashel seeks his fortune across the turbulence of multiple continents, from County Cork to...
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Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Facing imminent death from a parasitic infection, three teenagers elect to spend their final days on a madcap adventure, and discover a lot about themselves along the way.
Hattie Larken doesn't know if she has ever really been real in her life. A compulsive liar with a quick-witted response to everything, Hattie Larken is willing to do whatever it takes to just skate through the rest of high school and she can escape the mind-numbing monotony of...
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
From Maurice Sendak, the world-renowned author and illustrator of Where the Wild Things Are, comes Seven Little Monsters. The show stars - you guessed it - seven little monsters, who really are not so little – they are over ten feet tall! These kids live with their loving Mom at #1234567 Chestnut Street and are definitely not your typical neighbours. The series follows the seven monsters through their hilarious day-to-day misadventures as they confront...
16) The Real Thing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
日本語
Description
After a floundering toy salesman rescues a beguiling woman whose car was stuck on the train tracks, she inadvertently whisks him into an epic series of misadventures that turn his life upside down. While his once humdrum routine was already complicated by two female co-workers, he soon finds himself entrenched with gangsters, strange interlopers, kidnapping and other sundry crimes and misdemeanors. Singular auteur Koji Fukada (A Girl Missing) marks...
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Romanian
Description
Standing defiantly apart from the political ambitions of the Romanian New Wave, Paul Negoescu's debut feature is an impeccably observed comedy of errors and warm portrayal of contemporary Bucharest nightlife. Perfectly capturing the feeling of post-holiday year end ennui, A MONTH IN THAILAND orbits around its sad-sack hero’s (Andrei Mateiu, Toni Erdmann) misadventures on New Year's Eve. A twilight odyssey through buffet-style restaurants with bad...
18) Wobble Palace
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Days before Halloween and America’s traumatic 2016 election, a couple on the verge of a subversive break-up decides to split their house up over the weekend and test the turbulent waters of independence. Desperate to make new connections, Jane and Eugene find themselves in a series of unpredictable misadventures, ill-advised quixotic sexual escapades, and emotional traumas. From this simple premise, WOBBLE PALACE charges headfirst into a manic and...
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[2015]
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English
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It follows the exploits of eleven-year-old Alexander as he experiences the most terrible and horrible day of his young life, a day that begins with gum stuck in his hair, followed by one calamity after another. But when Alexander tells his upbeat family about the misadventures of his disastrous day, he finds little sympathy and begins to wonder if bad things only happen to him.
20) Snowflake
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Take a dash of Tarantino, a splash of Coen brothers, a metric ton of pretzel-logic self-awareness, and a fast-paced series of humorously violent misadventures, and you’re halfway to grasping the magnificent German madness of this bizarre import. Hunting down the murderer of their families in a near-future Berlin, a gang of lowlife characters all want revenge on each other, but along the way they must contend with a myriad of wicked fairytale types—assassins,...
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