Thora Birch
Author
Language
English
Description
Exactly one year and a day after the initial Wall Street bailout, Michael Moore (SICKO, FAHRENHEIT 9/11) looks at the global financial crisis and the U.S. economy during the transition between the incoming Obama Administration and the outgoing Bush Administration. In standard Moore fashion, he mockingly draws attention to the Wall Street and Government decisions that have enabled what he calls "the biggest robbery in the history of this country."...
3) Hocus pocus
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the year 1693, sisters, Winifred, Mary and Sarah were executed for their unforgivable witchcraft. They captured and sucked the life out of children. Just before their execution, Winifred made a curse - a curse that when a virgin lights the black flame candle on Halloween light, in their house, they shall return, 300 years later, Max decides to light the candle in order to scare his irritating sister Dani and his love interest Alison. Now, the three...
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Liz Murray was raised in poverty by drug-addicted parents. Though they loved her, they were unable to care for her and Liz ended up living on the streets by the age of 15. Profoundly affected by her mother's AIDS-related death, Liz forced herself to look at her future and make some significant changes. Her prospects were dismal, yet she turned her life around by going back to high school. While still homeless, Liz earned her diploma in two years....
5) The dot
Author
Series
Creatrilogy volume 1
Language
English
Description
Vashti believes that she cannot draw, but her art teacher's encouragement leads her to change her mind.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jimmie Fails dreams of reclaiming the Victorian home his grandfather built in the heart of San Francisco. Joined on his quest by his best friend Mont, Jimmie searches for belonging in a rapidly changing city that seems to have left them behind. As he struggles to reconnect with his family and reconstruct the community he longs for, his hopes blind him to the reality of his situation.
7) Alaska
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1998, ©1996.
Language
English
Description
Two teens challenge nature and themselves as they set out to rescue their father in the arctic wilderness of Alaska where his plane has crashed, befriending a polar bear cub along the way.
8) Ghost World
Author
Language
English
Description
Based on the well-known comic, GHOST WORLD tells the story of neo-cool Enid (Thora Birch) and Rebecca (Scarlett Johansson) who, faced with graduation from high school take a hard look at the world they wryly observe and decide what they really want. When Enid takes an interest in the offbeat Seymour (Steve Buscemi) and Rebecca focuses her attention on their mutual romantic fixation Josh (Brad Renfro), the girls friendship is forever changed.
10) Hocus Pocus
Publisher
Walt Disney Pictures
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
In the year 1693, sisters, Winifred, Mary and Sarah were executed for their unforgivable witchcraft. They captured and sucked the life out of children. Just before their execution, Winifred made a curse - a curse that when a virgin lights the black flame candle on Halloween light, in their house, they shall return, 300 years later, Max decides to light the candle in order to scare his irritating sister Dani and his love interest Alison. Now, the three...
11) American beauty
Publisher
Dreamworks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
An emotionally & spiritually comatose suburban man decides "to hell with it all" and reverts to living as he did when he was happiest--as a carefree teenager. His desperately uptight wife and sullen daughter can only look on as he quits his corporate job to become a burger flipper, starts getting high with a strange new neighbor (whose parents are even stranger) and lusts after a pouty blonde teenager--his daughter's best friend.
12) Slingshot
Publisher
The Weinstein Company
Pub. Date
2007, ©2004.
Language
English
Description
Two manipulative drifters venture into Fairfield County, Connecticut, looking to seduce wealthy and lonely housewives.
13) Above suspicion
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A newly married FBI agent is drawn into an illicit affair with his star informant, resulting in a scandal that endangers all his investigations.
14) Patriot games
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
An American tourist prevents the assassination of a member of the British royal family. Soon, the ULA members responsible for the attempt try to take revenge on his family.
15) Kindred Spirits
Author
Language
English
Description
A woman will stop at nothing to remove everyone from her beloved big sister's life so she can finally have her sister all to herself.
16) 13 Minutes
Publisher
Quiver Distribution
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
As a new day begins in the small American town of Minninnewah, the residents start their day as ordinary as the next. Mother Nature, however, has other plans for them. Inhabitants have just thirteen minutes to seek shelter before the largest tornado on record ravages the town, leaving them struggling to protect their loved ones and fighting for their lives. Left to deal with the aftermath, four families must overcome their differences and find strength...
17) Now and then
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
1999, ©1995.
Language
English
Description
Four childhood friends reunite for the birth of the first baby of one. Together, they recall the summer of 1970, when they were 12.
Author
Language
English
Description
Brian Cox (Golden Globe Winner for HBO's Succession) is Rory MacNeil, a rugged old Scotsman who reluctantly leaves his beloved isolated Hebridean island for San Francisco to seek medical treatment. Moving in with his estranged son, Rory's life will be unexpectedly transformed through a newly found love for his baby grandson.
19) American beauty
Publisher
Paramount Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
An emotionally & spiritually comatose suburban man decides "to hell with it all" and reverts to living as he did when he was happiest--as a carefree teenager. His desperately uptight wife and sullen daughter can only look on as he quits his corporate job to become a burger flipper, starts getting high with a strange new neighbor (whose parents are even stranger) and lusts after a pouty blonde teenager--his daughter's best friend.
20) The Smokers
Author
Language
English
Description
Three rebellious teenage girls decide to even the score in the battle of the sexes. Starring Dominique Swain (Lolita, Face/ Off), Busy Philipps ( Dawson's Creek, Cougars Town), Keri Lynn Pratt (America's Sweethearts, Smallville), Thora Birch (American Beauty, Ghost World) and Nick Loeb (The Good War).