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Follows the story of two co-dependent roommates, Olivia and Nicole who are not exactly sure how they're going to make it when they get evicted from their shoebox apartment in Manhattan by their landlord. The two flee to Los Angeles for the promise of sunshine. As one door slams shut, another opens one tarot card reading later, the duo decides to take their performance art sensibilities to the mainstream by auditioning for a reality TV talent show....
85) Home again
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Recently separated from her husband, Alice decides to start over by moving back to her hometown of Los Angeles with her two young daughters. During a night out on her 40th birthday, Alice meets three aspiring filmmakers who happen to be in need of a place to live. Alice agrees to let the guys stay in her guest house temporarily, but the arrangement ends up unfolding in unexpected ways. Alice's unlikely new family and new romance comes to a crashing...
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"New to town and delusionally confident, Slide imagined himself living in a glossy building with doormen and sweeping views of the skyline. Instead he's landed in a creaking, stuffy apartment with two roommates: a loping giant who hardly leaves his room, and a weight-obsessed neurotic who keeps no fewer than forty-seven lamps throughout the house, blazing at all hours. Unwilling to accept this fate, Slide--a barber with an opaque past--embarks on...
87) Head over heels
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Amanda has a great job restoring paintings for the Metropolitan Museum of Art and a great place to live, a spacious East Side apartment that she shares with four successful models. Amanda is in the market for a great boyfriend. She thinks she may have found the right guy in Jim Winston, but she has reason to believe that he might be guilty of murder. Since she's not sure he has actually done anything wrong, she decides to find out the truth.
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Four not-so-old seniors have moved in together in a Florida home. They share the house, their dreams, and a whole lot of cheesecake. Dorothy's main goal is to find a companion she can relate to, while her mother, Sophia loves to tell "Picture this" type of stories. Rose is a little corny, but lovable never-the-less, and Blanche spends her time courting every man she can lay her hands on. All these fiesty seniors have either been divorced or widowed...
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When Jennifer Brady returns to Northern Arizona University for her sophomore year, she quickly becomes a big sister to her new roommate, Beth Rankin, a brilliant yet sheltered sixteen-year-old freshman. For a homeschooled Beth, college is her first taste of both freedom and unfettered access to the internet, and Jenny is concerned that she's too naïve and rebellious for her own good. Her worries are well-founded because one day Beth vanishes, prompting...
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British comedy television series based on two very different twenty-something people, Daisy Steiner and Tim Bisley, who pretend to be a professional couple to secure tenancy of a North London flat. The two along with their assortment of co-conspirators, tortured artist Brian, would-be soldier Mike, fashion fascist Twist, rock casualty landlady Marsha and Colin the dog, tackle the big questions of the 21st century.
93) Five brides
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"Five single, fiercely independent women live together in a Chicago apartment in the early 1950s but rarely see one another. One Saturday afternoon, as they are serendipitously together downtown, they spy a wedding dress in a storefront window at the famous Carson, Pirie, Scott & Co. After trying it on--much to the dismay of the salesclerk and without a single boyfriend or date between the five of them--they decide to pool their money to purchase...
94) Girlfriends
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Aspiring photographer Susan Weinblatt and would-be poet Anne Munroe are best friends and roommates in a five-flight walk-up on Manhattan's Upper West Side. But one day Anne decides to marry and move out. When the best friends go their separate ways, focus on what happens to the one left behind. It's about valuable, delicate and complex ties that bind people, girlfriends, boyfriends, husbands and lovers.
95) Falling uphill
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Robert is in love with his roommate Jenny, but lacks the courage to reveal his feelings to her. With a lame job and not enough income, he has no choice but to move back in with his parents on the east coast. Right when he's about to give up on love and his dream to become an artist, Robert meets Sarah, who over the course of his last day in the city, opens his mind to the world.
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What are holidays for ₆ but a time to be among Friends? Love might not be in the air, but laughs are when Chandler goes on a blind date with Janice (recurring guest star Maggie Wheeler) on Valentine's Day. Christmas ₁tis the season for even more laughs when Monica and Rachel give cookies instead of cash to the building super and he neglects to fix the heat during a sweltering holiday party. And Joey's job selling Christmas trees causes eco-friendly...
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"Julia's house is restless. Julia and her family of lost creatures are ready to move on. But where will they go? And how will they get there? Don't worry--Julia has a plan for that! Julia always has a plan. But when Julia's plans all fail... What's left for her?"--Jacket flap.
98) The roommate
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After college student Sara discovers that her roommate has become obsessed with her, things quickly take a violent turn.
100) The Spires
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"Strung between two teenagers, an unemployed husband, and a tenuous career, Penelope Cox barely has her life together when the past comes knocking at her door. Willa Blaine, her old roommate, needs her help: refuge from an abusive husband. 'Two weeks tops,' she says--but it's not the imposition that bothers Penelope; it's the memories Willa brings with her. Twenty years earlier, Penelope, Willa, and three friends lived together in a converted church....