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A brilliant female chemist in the 1960s is barred from the lab and becomes a reluctant TV cooking show host who teaches science instead of recipes.
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The Rosie Project
Don Tillman, a genetics professor who lives by strict routines, designs a questionnaire to find the perfect wife, and then meets Rosie, who fails every criterion and needs his help to find her biological father.
Anxious People
A failed bank robber holds eight people hostage in a Swedish apartment viewing, and every single one of them has a secret.
The Chicken Sisters
In tiny Merinac, Kansas, two restaurants, Chicken Mimi's and Chicken Frannie's, have feuded for three generations, and when one sister signs them up for a reality television cook-off, the other comes home to fight.
Landline
Georgie McCool, a TV comedy writer whose marriage is in trouble, stays in Los Angeles to work over Christmas while her husband takes their daughters to Omaha, and finds that the old yellow phone in her childhood bedroom lets her talk to him in 1998, before they were married.
Deacon King Kong
An elderly church deacon in a 1969 Brooklyn housing project shoots a drug dealer in broad daylight, and the whole neighbourhood gets tangled in the fallout.
The Calamity Club
In Oxford, Mississippi, in 1933, Meg, an eleven-year-old left by her mother at the county orphan asylum for girls, and Birdie, who has come to town to beg her socialite sister for money to save the family home, find their lives tangling together in the depths of the Depression.
The Secret Life of Bees
In 1964 South Carolina a fourteen-year-old white girl runs off with her black housekeeper to a pink house kept by three beekeeping sisters who know the secret of her dead mother.
A Gentleman in Moscow
A Russian aristocrat is sentenced to house arrest in a luxury hotel for the rest of his life and discovers that a full existence can unfold within four walls.
The Giver of Stars
Alice Wright marries a handsome American to escape her stifling life in England, and in Baileyville, Kentucky, in 1937, she joins the Packhorse Library, riding into the Appalachian mountains with books under the lead of the fiercely independent Margery O'Hare.
The Lincoln Highway
Released from a juvenile work farm in 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett plans to drive west with his little brother, until two boys from the farm stow away and take his car towards New York.
Utopia Avenue
A band of misfit musicians in late-1960s London chases fame through psychedelia, protest, and the collision of art and commerce.
The Silver Linings Playbook
A man with bipolar disorder channels all his manic energy into one goal: reuniting with his ex-wife, fuelled by football and unearned optimism.