Dustin
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Seventeen-year-old Julie fell in love with Sam the day she met him, and planned to attend college with him; but Sam died, and getting rid of his things, trying to erase him from her life is not working, so desperate to hear his voice one more time, Julie calls his cellphone expecting to hear his voicemail--but then Sam answers, and suddenly their cellphones become the living connection between them, a connection Julie finds impossible to let go.
2) 8
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
George Clooney, Brad Pitt and Martin Sheen lead an all-star cast in this powerful portrait of an American civil rights struggle. In 2008, California's Proposition 8 stripped the freedom to marry away from gay and lesbian couples. Now, two of the nation's most renowned attorneys have joined forces to challenge Proposition 8 under the United States Constitution. “8” faithfully recreates the progression of the historic trial through court transcripts...
Author
Language
English
Description
"A mysterious coded manuscript, a violent Ivy League murder, and the secrets of a Renaissance prince collide in a labyrinth of betrayal, madness, and genius. The setting is Princeton, on Good Friday, 1999. On the eve of graduation, two students are close to solving the mysteries of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, a Renaissance text that has baffled scholars for centuries. An ancient diary hints that clues to the location of a hidden treasure may be...
Author
Publisher
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
c2014
Language
English
Description
For decades, we believed the keys to personal wealth were a college diploma and marketable job skills--but no more. Today, your best hope for financial security is literally right at your feet: it's your cat. The Internet offers an unprecedented opportunity for cats to become superstar "personalities" and global multimedia brands--but how can a human cash in? How to Make Your Cat an Internet Celebrity has the answers. Readers will learn the secrets...
Language
English
Formats
Description
A redemptive movie about a young man, the son of a preacher, who rejects his father's desire for him to join the ministry and instead embarks on a career as a rock singer. As he struggles to pursue his dream and rise to stardom, he finds love, pain, success and failure, and ultimately uncovers a hidden family secret that reveals who he really is. It's a captivating story about a family restored, and a life discovered.
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Well-known playwright James M. Barrie finds his career at a crossroads when his latest play flops and doubters begin to question his future. Then by chance he meets a widow and her four adventurous boys. Together they form a friendship that ignites the imagination needed to produce Barrie's greatest work. Traverses both fantasy and everyday reality, melding the difficulties of adult life with the spellbinding allure and childlike innocence of the...
Publisher
Distribution, Applause/Hal Leonard
Pub. Date
[2002?]
Language
English
Description
Royal Shakespeare Company directors John Barton and Sir Peter Hall travel to America to conduct workshops with the all-star cast of the Broadway production of The merchant of Venice. Subjects covered include: creating a world with words, the clues are in the text, playing the story, Shakespeare's advice to the actor, changing gears from prose to verse, the questions reveal the character, handling emotion, setting the word against the word, and connecting...
8) The cobbler
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Max Simkin repairs shoes in the same New York shop that has been in his family for generations. Disenchanted with the grind of daily life, Max stumbles upon a magical heirloom that allows him to step into the lives of his customers and see the world in a new way. Sometimes walking in another man's shoes is the only way one can discover who they really are.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Now, facing pressures from all sides of the community, Starr tries to find her voice in order to stand up for what's right.
10) Midnight cowboy
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment [distributor]
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
A Texas "cowboy" takes a bus to New York in search of lonely, rich women who will pay for his sexual services, but spends a hard winter helping a con man.
11) Little Big Man
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], ©1983
Language
English
Description
Jack Crabb is 121 years old. And he's done it all. He's been a full-fledged Cheyenne, an Indian fighter, a snake oil merchant, master gunman, drinking buddy of wild Bill Hickok, colleague of Buffalo Bill, and is the only survivor of Custer's Last Stand. Crabb is either the Old West's most neglected hero or the biggest liar ever to cross the Mississippi. Little Big Man is Jack Crabb's story.
12) Meet the Fockers
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2005
Language
English
Description
When Pam and Greg get their parents together it turns into one disaster after another. The hippie Fockers are the direct opposite of the uptight Byrneses. With one pitfall after the next, the film takes awkward in-law experiences to new heights.
Series
Controversial classics volume 2
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
The story of the investigation of the Watergate break-in by two Washington Post reporters that drove a U.S. president from office.
14) Tootsie
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
"Michael Dorsey is a talented actor, but his demanding nature and stubborn temperament have antagonized every producer in New York. Now his agent insists no one will hire him. But Michael needs money - eight thousand dollars to be exact - and to earn it, he's willing to play the role of a lifetime"--Container.
15) Lion
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Five-year-old Saroo gets lost on a train which takes him thousands of kilometers across India, away from home and family. Saroo must learn to survive alone in Kolkata, before ultimately being adopted by an Australian couple. Twenty-five years later, armed with only a handful of memories, his unwavering determination, and a revolutionary technology known as Google Earth, he sets out to find his lost family and finally return to his first home.
16) The Graduate
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005, 1967]
Language
English
Description
A recent college graduate from an affluent family is seduced by the wife of his father's business partner, then subsequently falls in love with her daughter.