3 Women - Summary: "In an dusty, under-populated California resort town, Pinky Rose, a nave and impressionable Southern waif begins her life as a nursing home attendant. There, Pinky finds her role model in fellow nurse ""Thoroughly Modern"" Millie Lammoreaux, a misguided would-be sophisticate and hopeless devotee of Cosmopolitan and Woman's Day magazines. When Millie accepts Pinky into her home at the Purple Sage singles complex, Pinky's hero-worship evolves into something far stranger and more sinister than either could have anticipated."

OPC Call number: PN1997 .A133 2004 DVD

Because I Said So - Summary: "Daphne Wilder is a mother whose love knows no bounds or boundaries. As a single parent, she has raised three fantastic girls - klutzy, adorable Milly, stable psychologist Maggie and sexy and irreverent Mae - to become the kind of women any mom would die to have. The only problem is they're about to strangle her. In order to prevent her youngest, Milly, from making the same romantic mistakes she did, Daphne decides to set her up with the perfect man. The one thing Daphne decides not to tell Milly, however, is that she placed an ad in the online personals to find him. If anyone knows exactly what her daughter does and doesn't need out of a long-term relationship (or clothes or her career), it's Daphne. Comic mayhem unfolds as the well-intended mom continues to do the wrong thing for the right reasons - all in the name of love for her beloved daughter. Is the man of Daphne's (er, um - Milly's) dreams the responsible architect Jason, or is he the free-spirited rocker Johnny? Daphne will continue to push, cajole, suggest and nudge her way into Milly's smallest of decisions until she rights the wrongs of her own life choices or drives her girl nuts. But once Johnny's own father, Joe, catches a buried spark within Daphne, things really start to heat up for the Wilder matriarch. Finally letting herself begin to fall, Daphne begins to wonder if she is just pushing her girls as a way of ignoring her own issues."

OPC Call number: PN1997 .B443 2007 DVD

Catch and Release - Summary: "The film follows Gray Wheeler (Jennifer Garner) while she confronts her grief over the death of her seemingly perfect fianc'. When Gray turns to her fiance's friends for emotional support, she discovers that there were a few things she didn't know about her late beau. She also starts to develop feelings for one of his friends, Fritz (Timothy Olyphant), a man she had previously dismissed as a perpetual failure."

OPC Call number: PN1997 .C384 2007 DVD

The Devil Wears Prada - Summary: "As assistant to impossibly demanding New York fashion magazine editor Miranda Priestly (Streep), young Andy Sachs (Hathaway) has landed a job that a million girls would die for. Unfortunately, her heaven-sent appointment as Miranda's personal whipping girl just might be the death of her!"

SAC Call number: PN1997 DevilWears DVD

Diary of a Mad Black Woman - Summary: "With all of her possessions packed in a moving van, Helen starts on her journey to put the pieces of her life back together. Through the assistance of her friends, family, faith, and a twist of fate, Helen finds the strength and empowerment she needs to get control of her circumstances. She also finds that the tragic events of her life soon become comic, especially with the guidance and help-- mostly unsolicited, by the way--of her pot-smoking, gun-toting, and much beloved, grandmother figure Madea."

OPC Call number: PN1997 .D537.1 2007 DVD

PAL Call number: PN1997 Diar M33 2005 DVD

SAC Call number: PN1997 DiaryMad DVD

Dreamgirls - Summary: "Set in the turbulent late 1960s and early 70s, DREAMGIRLS follows the rise of a trio of womenEffie (Jennifer Hudson), Deena (Beyonc' Knowles) and Lorrell (Anika Noni Rose)who have formed a promising girl group called The Dreamettes. At a talent competition, they are discovered by an ambitious manager named Curtis Taylor, Jr. (Jamie Foxx), who offers them the opportunity of a lifetime: to become the back-up singers for headliner James Thunder Early (Eddie Murphy). Curtis gradually takes control of the girls look and sound, eventually giving them their own shot in the spotlight as The Dreams. That spotlight, however, begins to narrow in on Deena, finally pushing the less attractive Effie out altogether. Though the Dreams become a crossover phenomenon, they soon realize that the cost of fame and fortune may be higher than they ever imagined."

OPC Call number: PN1997 .D732 2007 DVD

SAC Call number: PN1997 DreamGirls DVD

Downfall - Summary: "BERLIN, April 20, 1945. Hitler has retreated to a bunker system under the German Chancellery. Downfall focuses on the final days of the Reich and how the horrifying epic of Hitler and his people was reflected in those last twelve days in the bunker."

SAC Call number: PN1997 Downfall DVD

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood - Summary: "A successful writer laments about her mother and her childhood to a reporter from Time and the subsequent article causes a rift between mother and daughter. Both sides increase their frustration with one another until finally the daughter disinvites the mother from her wedding. Now, the Ya Yas, a secret group of life-long friends to which the mother is a member, decide it's time to act. They kidnap the daughter and bring her back home to rural Louisiana for a swift kick of Southern hospitality and reminiscing with hopes that they can bring mother and daughter back together."

PAL Call number: PN1997 Divi 2002a DVD

Freedom Writers - Summary: "Freedom Writers is inspired by a true story and the diaries of real Long Beach teenagers after the LA riots, during the worst outbreak of interracial gang warfare. Hilary Swank stars as Erin Gruwell, whose passion to become a teacher is soon challenged by a group of Black, Latino, and Asian gangbangers who hate her even more than each other. When Erin begins to listen to them in a way no adult has ever done, she begins to understand that for these kids, getting through the day alive is enough -- they are not delinquents but teenagers fighting a war of the streets that began long before they were born. Erin gives them something they never had from a teacher before -- respect. For the first time, these teens experience a hope that maybe, they might show the world that their lives matter and they have something to say."

PAL Call number: PN1997 Freed W75 2007 DVD

Fried Green Tomatoes - Summary: "An elderly woman tells a middle-aged woman the story of two young women among bigotry and men in the 1930s South."

OPC Call number: PN1997.F854 EV1 2006 DVD

PAL Call number: PN1997 Frie 1991 VHS

SAC Call number: PN1997 FriedGr DVD

Georgia Rule - Summary: "Rebellious teenager Rachel (Lindsay Lohan) screams, swears, drinks and is -- in a word -- uncontrollable. With her latest car crash, Rachel has broken the final rule in mom Lily's (Felicity Huffman) San Francisco home. With nowhere else to take the impulsive and rambunctious girl, Lily hauls her daughter to the one place she swore she'd never return...her own mother's Idaho farm. Matriarch Georgia (Jane Fonda) is not your typical sweet and doting grandmother. She lives her life by a number of unbreakable rules, demanding anyone who shares her home do the same'God comes first and hard work comes a very close second. Now saddled with raising the young woman, it will require each patient breath she takes to understand Rachel's fury. But as Rachel succumbs to her summer of misery and shakes up the tiny Mormon town, Georgia notices something is changing within her granddaughter. Given structure and responsibilities, Rachel is letting her guard down and learning compassion -- especially for her mother. Her journey will lead all three women to revelations of buried family secrets and an understanding that -- regardless what happens -- the ties that bind can never be broken."

OPC Call number: PN1997 .G467 2007 DVD

The Holiday - Summary: "Two women on opposite sides of the globe, Amanda Woods (Diaz) and Iris Simpkins (Winslet) find themselves in a similar predicament. Desperate for a change of scenery, the two women meet on the internet and swap houses for the Christmas holiday discovering that a change of address really can change your life."

PAL Call number: PN1997 Holid A2 2007 DVD

Imitation of Life - Summary: "An actress's tie to her daughter parallels her housekeeper's tie to hers. Directed by Douglas Sirk."

PAL Call number: PN1997 Imita 2002 DVD

Lovely & Amazing - Summary: "A story of women and their obsessions. Blethyn plays mother to three girls who all have their own quirks and identities. It's a story with a message, celebrate what you have and not be obsessed with what you do or don't have."

OPC Call number: PN1997 .L78 2003 DVD

Marie Antoinette - Summary: "When betrothed to King Louis XVI, the naive and beautiful, Austrian-born Marie Antoinette enters the opulent French court, which is steeped in conspiracy and scandal. Without guidance, adrift in a dangerous world, the young girl rebels against the isolated atmosphere of Versailles and becomes France's most misunderstood monarch. Stripped of her riches and finery, imprisoned, and ultimately beheaded by her own subjects, the Queen of France became a toxic symbol for the wanton extravagance of the 18th century monarchy that incited to the French Revolution."

PAL Call number: PN1997 Marie A68 2007 DVD

SAC Call number: PN1997 MarieAn DVD

Mildred Pierce - Summary: "A businesswoman's daughter and second husband have an affair. Directed by Michael Curtiz. Best actress Oscar for Crawford."

SAC Call number: PN1997 Mildred DVD

The Nanny Diaries - Summary: "The Nanny Diaries tells the story of the emotional and often humorous journey of Annie Braddock (Johansson), a young woman from a working-class neighborhood in New Jersey, struggling to understand her place in the world. Fresh out of college, she gets tremendous pressure from her nurse mother to find a respectable position in the business world although Annie would prefer to trade in her blackberry for an anthropologist's field diary. Through a serendipitous meeting, Annie ends up in the elite and ritualistic culture of Manhattan's Upper East Side -- as remote from Annie's suburban New Jersey upbringing as life in an Amazon tribal village. Choosing to duck out of real life, Annie accepts the position as a nanny for a wealthy family, referred to as simply the X's. She quickly learns that life is not very rosy on the other side of the tax bracket, as she must cater to the every whim of Mrs. X (Linney) and her precocious son Grayer, while attempting to avoid the formidable Mr. X (Giamatti). Life becomes even more complicated when Annie falls for a gorgeous Park Avenue Hottie (Evans), and she's forced to explore her identity as never before."

OPC Call number: PN1997 .N322 2007 DVD

Panic Room - Summary: "A divorced woman and her little daughter buy a house to begin their new life together. What they think is a dream house soon becomes anything but when thieves break in shortly after they move in. But, mother and daughter make it to the steel-reinforced panic room and what they think is protection from the would be thieves. As it turns out, what they're after is in that room and they're not leaving without it."

PAL Call number: PN1997 Panic R666 2004 DVD

Pan’s Labyrinth - Summary: "From acclaimed director Guillermo Del Toro comes a dark supernatural epic about the battle between good and evil. When young Ofelia and her mother go to live with her new step-father on a rural military outpost, she finds herself in a world of unimaginable cruelty. Soon Ofelia finds the creatures of her imagination in which she used to escape have become a reality and she must battle them to save both her mother and herself. In the terrifying battle that ensues, Ofelia soon learns that innocence has a power that evil cannot imagine."

OPC Call number: PN1997 .P257 2007 DVD

SAC Call number: PN1997 PansLabyr DVD

Practical Magic - Summary: "Sally and Gillian Owens are modern witches hexed by a centuries-old curse: every man the Owens women fall in love with are doomed to an untimely death. Now, they must concoct a witch's brew of events to save the men they love."

OPC Call number: PN1997 .P734 1999 DVD

Raise the Red Lantern - Summary: "An educated girl becomes one of a nobleman's wives at his mansion in 1920s China. Directed by Zhang Yimou."

SAC Call number: PN1997 RaiseRed DVD

Sherrybaby - Summary: "After serving a three-year prison sentence, a young woman quickly discovers that coming back to the world she left behind is far more difficult than she had planned."

SAC Call number: PN1997 SherryBaby DVD

The Story of Ruth - Summary: "The Old Testament Moabite heroine converts to Judaism, flees to Bethlehem and falls in love."

PAL Call number: PN1997 Story O427 2006 DVD

Terms of Endearment - Summary: "Aurora and Emma are mother and daughter who march the beat of different drummers. Over a 30-year span, each finds different reasons to go on living and find joy. In the end, both mother and daughter find a way to show their love for one another."

SAC Call number: PN1997 TermsOf DVD

Their Eyes Were Watching God - Summary: "Halle Berry stars as the beautiful Janie Crawford, who embarks on an emotional and dramatic journey of self-discovery. Refusing to compromise in spite of society's expectations, Janie endures two stifling marriages until finally finding love in a passionate romance with a much younger man. In one of the greatest, most lyrical love stories ever written, Janie experiences all that life has to offer, from unbelievable triumph to unspeakable heartbreak. Be inspired again and again by this timeless story of passion, romance, and the spirit of true love."

PAL Call number: PN1997 Thei E94 2005 DVD

Things You Can Tell Just by Looking Her - Summary: "Five seemingly unconnected lifelines intersect in the San Fernando Valley: Detective Kathy Farber arrives at a crime scene to find that the corpse is that of her old friend Carmen; Elaine battle her mother and waits for a male colleague to call; Rebecca finds out that she is pregnant, Rose develops a comedic obsession with her new neighbor; and Kathy's sister, Carol, speculates on what might have driven Carmen to suicide."

OPC Call number: PN1997 .T476 2001 DVD

Vanity Fair - Summary: "A new version of the William Thackeray novel that centers on a woman born into the lower class who uses her wit and sexuality to move through the social classes in 1820 London."

PAL Call number: PN1997 Vanit 2005 DVD

Volver - Summary: "VOLVER is a meeting of Mildred Pierce and Arsenic and Old Lace, combined with the surrealistic naturalism of my fourth film, Qu he hecho yo para merecer esto!! (What have I done to Deserve This?), that is, Madrid and its lively working-class neighbourhoods, where the immigrants from the various Spanish provinces share dreams, lives and fortune with a multitude of ethnic groups and other races. At the heart of this social framework, three generations of women survive wind, fire and even death, thanks to goodness, audacity and a limitless vitality. They are Raimunda (Pnelope Cruz), who is married to an unemployed labourer and has a teenage daughter (Yohana Cobo); Sole (Lola Dueas), her sister, who makes a living as a hairdresser; and the mother of both (Carmen Maura), who died in a fire along with her husband. This character appears first to her sister (Chus Lampreave) and then to Sole, although the people with whom she has some unresolved matters are Raimunda and her neighbour in the village, Agustina (Blanca Portillo). VOLVER is not a surrealistic comedy although it may seem so at times. The living and the dead coexist without any discord, causing situations that are either hilarious or filled with a deep, genuine emotion. It's a film about the culture of death in my native La Mancha. The people there practice it with an admirable naturalness. The way in which the dead continue to be present in their lives, the richness and humanity of their rites mean that the dead never die. VOLVER destroys all the clichs about black Spain and offers a Spain that is as real as it is the opposite. A Spain that is white, spontaneous, funny, intrepid, supportive and fair."

SAC Call number: PN1997 Volver DVD

White Oleander - Summary: ""White Oleander" chronicles the life of Astrid, a young teenager who journeys through a series of foster homes after her mother goes to prison for committing a crime of passion. Set adrift in the world, Astrid struggles to become her own person while coming to terms with the challenges of living life on her own."

PAL Call number: PN1997 Whit O54 2003 DVD

Woman Thou Art Loosed - Summary: "An adaptation of Bishop T.D. Jakes' self-help novel, chronicling a woman's struggle to come to terms with her legacy of abuse, addiction and poverty."

PAL Call number: PN1997 Woma T68 2004 DVD