Tim Blake Nelson
Author
Language
English
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Description
"A travelogue of purgatory. Brutal, but minutely rendered-a chronicle of small betrayals and vicissitudes in a ruthless world. Losers, hustlers and delusional artists, all trapped in their pretense and hollow lives; making deals with the devil at the crossroads of Tinseltown." -Guillermo del Toro
Tim Blake Nelson's debut novel is an epic group portrait of four men grappling for control of a script in a radically changing Hollywood, or the City of...
Author
Language
English
Description
Tim Blake Nelson, David Arquette, Angela Bettis, Thomas Hobson, Phil Norris and Tara Perry star in this exciting new take on the southern ghost story. In post-Civil War Arkansas, a young doctor is mysteriously summoned to a remote town in the Ozarks only to discover that the utopian paradise is filled with secrets and surrounded by a menacing, supernatural presence.
4) Holes
Series
Publisher
[Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment]
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
An ancient family curse sends Young Stanley Yelnats to Camp Green Lake, now sans lake or anything green, where digging a hole a day keeps the warden at bay and "builds character." Stanley and his campmates forge friendships and attempt to unearth the mystery of what's really going on at Camp Green Lake.
El joven Stanley Yelnats se encuentra en el campamiento Lago Verde, donde se sumerge de cabeza en la aventura de su vida debido a una antigua maldici�on...
5) Syriana
Language
English
Description
There is less oil than the world requires, and that will make some people rich and others dead. Career CIA field operative Bob Barnes is sorting out his midcareer issues--his bosses want him quietly confined to a desk job. Bryan Woodman, an expatriate in Geneva, becomes the financial adviser to idealistic Gulf Prince Nasir. Corporate lawyer Bennett Holiday is finessing the questionable merger of two powerful U.S. oil companies. In Prince Nasir's country,...
6) The hustle
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Josephine Chesterfield is a glamorous, seductive Brit who defrauds gullible wealthy men. Penny amasses wads of cash by ripping off her marks in neighborhood bars. Despite their different methods, both are masters of the art of the fleece, so they combine talents for their next mark: a naive tech billionaire.
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Loosely based on Homer's "Odyssey", this is the story of three convicts--escapees from a prison farm in Mississippi--and their adventure as they travel home in hopes of recovering buried loot before it's lost forever in a flood.
8) Hoot
Series
Publisher
Distributed by New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2006
Language
English
Description
Roy Eberhardt is the only child in a family that is constantly relocating for his father's work. At 14, he's once again the new kid, this time in the tiny Florida beach town of Coconut Cove. Predictably, a bully nicknames him "Cowgirl" and proceeds to torture him. Unpredictably, a barefoot blonde boy who runs alongside the school bus every morning fascinates him. Tough-as-nails girl jock Beatrice befriends Roy, helps with the bully, and is revealed...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
When there is an assassination attempt on US President Allan Trumbull, his trusted confidant, Secret Service Agent Mike Banning, is wrongfully accused and taken into custody. After escaping from capture, he becomes a man on the run and must evade his own agency and outsmart the FBI in order to find the real threat to the president. Desperate to uncover the truth, Banning turns to unlikely allies to help clear his name, keep his family from harm, and...
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Webb stumbles onto a story which leads to the shady origins of the men who started the crack epidemic on the nation's streets, and further alleges that the CIA was aware of major dealers who were smuggling cocaine into the U.S., and using the profits to arm rebels fighting in Nicaragua. Despite warnings from drug kingpins and CIA operatives to stop his investigation, Webb keeps digging to uncover a conspiracy with explosive implications.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Formats
Description
The reunited Mystery, Inc. team return to their hometown of Coolsville as heroes where the local criminology museum offers an exhibition of the many ghostly disguises used by villains they've subdued over the years. Their warm welcome is short lived when a mean-spirited reporter airs a series of stories calling the teams abilities into question. To make matters worse, a number of the weird creature costumes are coming to life and wrecking havoc on...
12) Holes
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Young Stanley Yelnats finds himself at Camp Green Lake, where digging a hole a day keeps the warden at bay and "builds character". An ancient family curse still dogs Stanley and he's thrown headlong into the adventure of his life. Stanley and his campmates will have to forge fast friendships to unearth the mystery of what's really going on in the desert.
13) As I Lay Dying
Author
Language
English
Description
Based on the classic novel by William Faulkner, first published in 1930, "As I Lay Dying" is the story of the death of Addie Bundren and her family's quest to honor her last wish to be buried in the nearby town of Jefferson.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Formats
Description
An astronaut-in-training has to leave NASA (to save the family farm) but just can't give up on his dream of shooting into space, even if he has to do it all by himself. And that will of course get everyone up in arms, from his wife to his banker to the town gossips to the media and the Department of Homeland Security.
15) Big miracle
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012], ©2012
Language
English
Description
Based on a true story. A small town news reporter and a Greenpeace volunteer are joined by rival world superpowers to save a family of gray whales trapped by rapidly forming ice in the Arctic Circle.
16) Just mercy
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A powerful and thought-provoking true story follows young lawyer Bryan Stevenson and his history-making battle for justice. After graduating from Harvard, Bryan had his pick of lucrative jobs. Instead, he heads to Alabama to defend those wrongly condemned or who were not afforded proper representation, with the support of local advocate Eva Ansley. One of his first and most incendiary cases is that of Walter McMillian.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A contemporary re-imagining of Marvel's original and longest-running superhero team, centers on four young outsiders who teleport to an alternate and dangerous universe, which alters their physical form in shocking ways. Their lives irrevocably upended, the team must learn to harness their daunting new abilities and work together to save Earth from a former friend turned enemy.
Publisher
Feature Films for Families
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
"Am I my brother's keeper?" To 10-year-old Keagan, this isn't a question, but a way of life. After learning to help others by watching his parents work as legal aid attorneys, Keagan puts his lessons to good use by watching out for his aging neighbor, Jake. Years ago, after a fire took his family, Jake opened up his home and his heart to Glenwood's children who come to play on his lot each day. When Jake gets in the way of a greedy developer, government...
19) Fantastic 4
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A contemporary re-imagining of Marvel's original and longest-running superhero team, centers on four young outsiders who teleport to an alternate and dangerous universe, which alters their physical form in shocking ways. Their lives irrevocably upended, the team must learn to harness their daunting new abilities and work together to save Earth from a former friend turned enemy.
20) Watchmen
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In an alternate history world where masked vigilantes are treated as outlaws, Detective Angela Abar investigates the reawakening of an extremist terrorist group as they plan to start a mutiny against government agencies.