Ethan Hawke
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Hawke's narrator is a young man in torment, disgusted with himself after the collapse of his marriage, still half-hoping for a reconciliation that would allow him to forgive himself and move on as he clumsily, and sometimes hilariously, tries to manage the wreckage of his personal life with whiskey and sex. What saves him is theater: in particular, the challenge of performing the role of Hotspur in a production of Henry IV under the leadership of...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
With the town of Rose Creek under the deadly control of industrialist Bartholomew Bogue, the desperate townspeople employ protection from seven outlaws, bounty hunters, gamblers and hired guns. As they prepare the town for the violent showdown that they know is coming, these seven mercenaries find themselves fighting for more than money.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"It is 1483, and Sir Thomas Lemuel Hawke, a Cornish knight, is about to ride into battle. On the eve of his departure, he composes a letter to his four young children, consisting of twenty virtues that provide instruction on how to live a noble life, and on all the lessons, large and small, that he might have imparted to them himself were he not expecting to die on the battlefield. "Why am I alive? Where was I before I was born? What will happen to...
5) Cymbeline
Publisher
Grindstone
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
When extortion, betrayal, and fiery passions threaten his criminal empire, a drug kingpin is driven to desperate measures in this explosive, modern retelling of Shakespeare's timeless tragedy.
6) Boyhood
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A story of growing up as seen through the eyes of a boy named Mason, who ages from six to eighteen years old on screen. The film was shot intermittently over a twelve-year period from May 2002 to October 2013, showing the growth of Mason and his older sister, Samantha, to adulthood.
7) White Fang
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Pictures
Pub. Date
1991
Language
English
Description
A young man tries to fulfill his father's dying wish to find gold in the treacherous Yukon valley. His incredible journey begins when he meets a veteran gold miner who guides young Jack to his father's claim. Along the way, Jack discovers a kindred spirit who will change his life forever--a magnificent wolf-dog named White Fang. From the taming of a wolf, to the taming of the wild, he must find the courage to conquer his fears and become a man.
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Robin Williams portrays English professor John Keating, who, in an age of crew cuts, sport coats and cheerless conformity, inspires his students to live life to the fullest, exclaiming "Carpe Diem, lads! Seize the day. Make your lives extraordinary!" The charismatic teacher's emotionally charged challenge is met by his students with irrepressible enthusiasm--changing their lives forever.
9) Daybreakers
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
In the year 2019, an unknown plague has transformed the world's population into vampires. As the human population nears extinction, so does the blood supply. Now the vampires must find a blood substitute before time runs out. Researcher Edward Dalton and a clandestine group of vampires have made a remarkable discovery, one which has the power to save the human race.
Publisher
New Video Group
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"American novelist Tom Ricks ... arrives in Paris determined to renew a relationship with his estranged wife and daughter. When a longed-for meeting goes poorly, he ends up in a seedy hostel on the outskirts of the city. Unable to pay for his room and board, he agrees to work as a night guard at a warehouse or the proprietor ... and spends the hours writing elaborate, imaginative letters to his daughter. One evening, after he's invited to a literary...
11) Sinister
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Ten years ago, true crime writer Ellison Oswald made his reputation with a best-selling account of a notorious murder. Now, desperate to replicate the success of his first book, he moves his family into a home where the previous occupants were brutally executed and a child disappeared, hoping to find inspiration in the crime scene. In the home, Ellison discovers a cache of terrifying home movies, unwittingly opening the door into a nightmarish mystery....
12) Before sunrise
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
A young American man meets a beautiful French student on a train bound for Paris, falls in love and asks her to share his last night in Vienna.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In the 28th century, Valerian and Laureline are a team of special operatives charged with maintaining order throughout the human territories. Under assignment from the Minister of Defense, the two embark on a mission to the astonishing city of Alpha. A mystery is at the center of Alpha, a dark force which threatens the peaceful existence of the city.
"An expansive, expensive adventure whose creativity outweights its more uneven elements."--Variety.
"Valerian...
14) Reality bites
Publisher
MCA Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998, c1994
Language
English
Description
As her college valedictorian, Lelaina Pierce should be destined for greatness. In reality, she's a lowly production assistant for an obnoxious TV morning show host. In her free time, Lelaina's making a biting, often outrageous video documentary about her peers. Meanwhile, Lelaina meets Michael, an ambitious video executive who wants to showcase her documentary on "In your face TV." Suddenly, she finds herself at the center of a very odd love triangle...
15) Adopt a highway
Publisher
RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Russ Millings has just been released from prison after serving 21 years for a third strike conviction for possessing an ounce of marijuana. As he tries to adapt to a world he doesn't recognize, including trying to learn how to use the internet, he finds an abandoned baby in a dumpster behind the fast-food restaurant where he works as a dishwasher. Unsure of what to do, and caught between impulses of kindness and panic, Russ soon realizes this could...
16) The Kid
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Although we pass by people constantly during our everyday lives, some interactions make a much bigger impression than others. For one young man, a run-in with outlaw Billy the Kid will end up defining the rest of his life. Of course, it's not a normal day in Billy's life either. Facing off with Sheriff Pat Garrett, Billy will soon discover whether or not he can live up to his own bold legend.
17) Before Midnight
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Jesse and Celine first met in their twenties in Before Sunrise, reunited in their thirties in Before Sunset and, now they face the past, present and future, family, romance and love. Now on a writer's retreat in Greece, the couple looks for a night of passion, but instead their idyllic night turns into a test of their relationship and a discussion of what the future holds for them.
19) The purge
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
In an America wracked by crime and overcrowded prisons, the government has sanctioned an annual 12-hour period in which any and all criminal activity, including murder, becomes legal. On this night plagued by violence and an epidemic of crime, one family wrestles with the decision of who they will become when a stranger comes.
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In the 28th century, Valerian and Laureline are a team of special operatives charged with maintaining order throughout the human territories. Under assignment from the Minister of Defense, the two embark on a mission to the astonishing city of Alpha. A mystery is at the center of Alpha, a dark force which threatens the peaceful existence of the city.
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