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The Conners, Roseanne, Dan, Becky, Darlene, and DJ, are back for another hilarious season. Relive the life and times of the working class family as Roseanne gets a job as a waitress, Dan opens a motorcycle shop, Becky starts dating Mark Healy, Crystal is pregnant with Dan's father's baby, and Nana Mary makes her firstappearance.
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Santa Rosa trilogy volume 3
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Follow the young Christine as she edges into self-awareness in the now-vanished Edmonton neighbourhood of Santa Rosa in Wendy McGrath's final book in the Santa Rosa trilogy. Christine is budding with creativity that her working-class parents do not understand. Christine questions her parents' fraught relationship, with alcoholism and implicit violence bubbling under the surface of their marriage. Her insight turns beyond her family to her neighbourhood,...
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A vivid portrayal of working-class life and a deeply moving and highly suspenseful story of the dangerous first love of two young men: Mungo and James. Born under different stars--Mungo a Protestant and James a Catholic--they should be sworn enemies if they're to be seen as men at all. And yet against all odds Mungo and James become best friends as they find a sanctuary in the pigeon dovecote that James has built for his prize racing birds. As they...
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Becky asks for birth control, Dan starts a new business, Rosanne develops a bingo addiction, Jackie becomes a truck driver, Darlene turns into a sullen teenager, and Arnie is abducted by aliens. It's a can't-miss season filled with the trials and tribulations of a working class American family.
8) Shuggie Bain
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This is the unforgettable story of young Hugh "Shuggie" Bain, a sweet and lonely boy who spends his 1980s childhood in run-down public housing in Glasgow, Scotland. Thatcher's policies have put husbands and sons out of work, and the city's notorious drugs epidemic is waiting in the wings. Shuggie's mother Agnes walks a wayward path: she is Shuggie's guiding light but a burden for him and his siblings. She dreams of a house with its own front door...
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Widely regarded as D.H. Lawrence's masterpiece, Sons and Lovers is a sprawling, multi-generational look at family relationships, class dynamics, and the intimate ties with others that pull young adults toward independence. This largely autobiographical novel made Lawrence's reputation as a writer—it's a must read for fans of classic literary fiction.
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Inspired by the earthy eroticism of Harriet Andersson, in the first of her many roles for him, Ingmar Bergman had a major international breakthrough with this sensual and ultimately ravaging tale of young love. A girl (Andersson) and boy (Lars Ekborg) from working-class families in Stockholm run away from home to spend a secluded, romantic summer at the beach, far from parents and responsibilities. Inevitably, it is not long before the pair are forced...
11) The Wards
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The Wards are a working-class Newfoundland family on the verge of upheaval. When a sudden illness throws them together, can they finally figure out how to be close-knit?
12) Scrapper
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Georgie is a resourceful twelve-year-old girl who secretly lives alone in her flat in a working-class suburb of London following the death of her mother. She makes money stealing bikes with her best friend Ali and keeps the social workers off her back by pretending to live with an uncle. Out of nowhere, her estranged father Jason arrives and forces her to confront reality. Uninterested in this sudden new parental figure, Georgie is stubbornly resistant...
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The story of a lower-class family struggling with life's essential problems: marriage, children, money and parent's-in-law. The story circles around the Connor family - a family of five (DJ, Darlene, Becky, Roseanne and Dan). Roseanne is the mom who is being accompanied in her quest to keep the family together by her sister Jackie and various friends over the years.
15) Life is sweet
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Criterion collection volume 659
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"The youngish parents, Wendy (Alison Steadman) and Andy (Jim Broadbent) live with their 20-something twin daughters, Nicola (Jane Horrocks) and Natalie (Claire Skinner). Natalie, a plumber's assistant, is clean-cut and forever looks on the bright side of life. Nicola, who is unemployed, has nothing but contempt for conventionality. As the daughters deal with the obsessively sunny Wendy and the lackadaisical Andy, and confront a succession of ne'er-do-well...
16) Sons & lovers
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A woman puts all of her energy into her relationship with her younger son after her oldest son dies. He, in turn, has to choose between his own personal happiness or pleasing his mother.
17) Special features from Kuhle wampe or Who owns the world =: Kuhle wampe oder Wem gehört die Welt?
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This playlist includes the following special features from Kuhle wampe or Who owns the world, How the Berlin worker lives (dir. Slatan Dudow, 1930) Slatan Dudow: a film about a marxist artist (dir. Volker Koepp, 1974) original prologue, with Herbert Jhering, 1958.
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The Conners are a working-class family in Illinois struggling with life's essential problems: marriage, children, money and in-laws. In this final season, the Conners win the lottery, Roseanne battles terrorists, Dan ponders the meaning of life, Jackie meets her prince, DJ finds love and Darlene gives birth.
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When Nell was a girl, her parents were regularly evicted from the workers’ cottages they rented around Port Melbourne. Now a great-grandmother with 87 descendants, Nell still lives in the Port. But the cohesion of Nell’s extended family and neighbourhood is threatened by the pressures of modernisation and an influx of young professionals into the area. The old inner city suburb of Port Melbourne is the traditional home of working people whose...
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"After sixteen novels, Jacqueline Winspear has taken the bold step of turning to memoir, revealing the hardships and joys of her family history. Both shockingly frank and deftly restrained, her memoir tackles such difficult, poignant, and fascinating family memories as her paternal grandfather's shellshock, her mother's evacuation from London during the Blitz; her soft-spoken animal-loving father's torturous assignment to an explosives team during...
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