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Streaming Video with Overdrive: Leading Ladies Edition
Did you know that you can stream feature films for free through Overdrive?
You may have used Overdrive in the past for reading e-books or listening to e-audiobooks. Now you can stream over 600 feature films, documentaries, foreign films, and children's videos with only your library card! Find out how. In the meantime, check out some of these films with great leading ladies:
Julianne Moore plays a high school teacher who runs into a former star student, played by Michael Angarano. The former student has not made it big in NYC like he wants, but she believes in him and loves his newest play. She convinces the theater teacher, played by Nathan Lane, to have the students put on the play much to the chagrin of the administration. Teacher and student get too close, emotions run too high, and what builds up must fall.
- Pair with the novel Hummingbirds by Joshua Gaylord also on Overdrive.
Dree Hemingway plays a smart, caring, young woman named Jane who intentionally places herself in an unlikely friendship with an elderly neighbor, Sadie. Besedka Johnson plays the nuanced widow who is apprehensive but lonely enough to accept this new friendship. Jane’s life as a porn actress plays in stark contrast to her trips with Sadie to her late husband’s grave. Starlet is the cute chihuahua that Jane takes everywhere. Stella Maeve is excellent as the roommate, a drug-abusing porn actress who keeps screwing up.
- Pair with the novel All the Ugly and Wonderful Things by Bryn Greenwood also on Overdrive.
Kristen Wiig in a serious role...still funny. Wiig plays a woman with borderline personality disorder who miraculously wins the lottery, gets off her meds, and creates her own talk show a la Oprah. It has its comedic moments but it’s also a painful story of a woman whose BPD and narcissism hurts the loving people in her lives. These loving people include Wes Bentley, Tim Robbins, Linda Cardellini, Alan Tudyk, and Joan Cusack. James Marsden and Kulap Vilaysack have roles as well, though not in the inner circle.
- Pair with the novel The Best Awful by Carrie Fisher.
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