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Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Mark is a desperate unemployed writer who lives in a world where everyone unfailingly tells the truth. People don't even know what fiction is. Every thought, no matter how humiliating or harsh, tumbles out unvarnished. Then one day, Mark becomes so desperate he concocts a lie. In a world where everyone is unfailingly honest, a lie is believed with total and absolute gullibility. Mark can get anything he wants. The one thing he truly wants is the love...
Publisher
Hallmark Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Noah McManus is a young politician who loses a high-powered job when his boss is entangled in a scandal during a Senate race. Adding to his grief, he loses his fiance the same day. Feeling overwhelmed, Noah takes his dog and escapes to a small town in Massachusetts called Harpswell. There, he falls for a bookstore owner and the town itself, and he begins to find a sense of purpose and belonging that has been absent from his life.
4) Tyrannosaur
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Joseph is an unemployed widower, drinker, and a man crippled by his own volatile temperament and furious anger. Hannah is a Christian worker at a charity shop, a respectable woman who appears wholesome and happy. When the pair is brought together, Hannah appears as Joseph's potential savior, someone who can temper his fury and offer him warmth, kindness, and acceptance. As their story develops, Hannah's own secrets are revealed and Joseph becomes...
Publisher
Sundance Selects
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Español
Description
Roberto once had a promising career in advertising. Now out of work because of the economic downturn, he struggles to keep his family afloat and their dire situation a secret from his adoring wife Luisa. After yet another dead end interview, Roberto's chances for a promising future seem slim, until a freak accident places him at the center of a wild media storm. Realizing his opportunity, Roberto hires a brazen agent to help him leverage his newfound...
6) Rocky road
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
When Harrison, a young hot shot Wall Streeter, loses his job and expensive lifestyle due to a failed merger, he₂s forced to move back in with his parents and take over his old ice cream truck route for his father's dwindling business. Having spent a lifetime looking up to the power brokers of Wall Street and looking down on the simple ways of his small-town father, Harrison starts to appreciate his father₂s values and find the faith that he lost...
7) Playing dead
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Français
Description
Jean, a 40-year old unemployed actor, has hit rock bottom. Insufferably clueless and egotistical, his over-the-top acting and high-maintenance personality have gotten him fired from countless jobs. At the unemployment office, his counselor sets him up with a rather odd job: helping the police reconstruct crime scenes by standing in for the dead victim.
8) $9.99
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
An unemployed 20-something man finds that the answers to the meaning of life can be found in a book. Soon his path crosses some of his more unusual neighbors, all looking for something missing in their lives.
Publisher
Image/Madacy Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Father's little dividend: In this sequel to Father of tthe Bride, newly married Kay Dunstan announces that she and her husband are going to have a baby, a fact her father will have to come to grips with in this hilarious family tale.
Meet John Doe: After getting fired from the newspaper where she works, reporter Ann Mitchell takes a final pot shot at her former employer by printing a fake letter from "John Doe." In protest of society's ills, he threatens...
Series
Publisher
Castle Rock Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
To be or not to be? To act or not to act? The questions are the same to Joe, a struggling (jobless) actor whose every sinew and synapse cries out to perform and to soften the blow of not landing a part in a mega budget sci-fi movie. So in the stalwart (desperate) tradition of actors everywhere, Joe vows to put on a show, a special (even more desperate) version of the greatest play in the English tongue.
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