Sissy Spacek
Author
Language
English
Description
"A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel -- a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with rich humor and unswerving honesty and irrationality of adult attitudes toward race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s. The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence, and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina and...
2) Carrie
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In one way or another, everybody abused Carrie. Her fanatical mother forbade this sixteen-year-old misfit everything that was young and fun. She was teased and taunted by her classmates, misunderstood by her teachers, and given up as hopeless by almost everyone. But Carrie had a secret: she possessed terrifying telekinetic powers that could make inanimate objects move, a lighted candle fall, or a door lock. Carrie could make all kinds of startling...
3) The help
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mississippi during the 1960s: Skeeter, a southern society girl, returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends' lives, and a small Mississippi town, upside down when she decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent southern families. Aibileen, Skeeter's best friend's housekeeper, is the first to open up, to the dismay of her friends in the tight-knit black community.
5) Trading Mom
Author
Language
English
Description
Tired of their mother's lack of free time, three siblings ask an elderly lady with magical powers to make them a new one - but choosing the perfect mom soon proves tricky.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
At age 70, Forrest Tucker infamously made his escape from the tough San Quentin prison. Once he had gained his freedom, he embarked on a new set of heists that left investigators scratching their heads and the public fascinated by the story. This true story details Tucker's life which includes a detective wrapped up in the case, and a female who takes a liking to Tucker despite the criminal path he's on.
8) Get low
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Felix Bush, a Tennessee hermit, is either feared or hated by most of the people that live in the town. One day, he gets the idea to throw one big bash before he kicks the bucket. While he is still alive and kickin' he plans his very own rollicking funeral party.
Publisher
New Line Cinema
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Widescreen and full screen edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When happily unmarried San Francisco couple Kate and Brad find themselves socked in by fog on Christmas morning, their exotic vacation plans morph into the family-centric holiday they had, until now, gleefully avoided. Out of obligation, and unable to escape, they trudge to not one, not two, but four relative-choked festivities.
11) Badlands
Series
Criterion collection volume 651
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on the Starkweather-Fugate killing spree of 1958, in which a fifteen-year-old girl and her twenty-five-year-old boyfriend slaughtered her entire family and several others in the Dakota badlands.
12) River of Gold
Publisher
Under the Milky Way
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (62 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Narrated by Academy Award winners Sissy Spacek and Herbie Hancock, RIVER OF GOLD is the disturbing account of a clandestine journey into Peru’s Amazon rainforest to uncover the savage unraveling of pristine jungle. Guided by Peruvian biologist Enrique Ortiz, war journalists Ron Haviv and Donovan Webster bear witness to the apocalyptic destruction in pursuit of illegally mined gold with consequences on a global scale. Fast forward four years to a...
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (500 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A psychological horror series set in the Stephen King multiverse, it is an original story that combines the mythological scale and intimate character storytelling of King's best-loved works, weaving an epic saga of darkness and light, played out on a few square miles of Maine woodland.
14) Sam & Kate
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (110 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Starring Academy Award®-winners Dustin Hoffman and Sissy Spacek, Sam & Kate is a heartwarming, multi-generational family story bringing together four people who are given a second chance at love, and life.
15) Carrie
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001], c1976
Edition
Widescreen special ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Carrie White is a shy young girl who doesn't make friends easily. After her class mates taunt her about her horrified reaction to her totally unexpected first period one of them takes pity on her and gets Tommy Ross, her boyfriend and class hunk to invite Carrie to the senior prom. Meanwhile another girl who has been banned from the prom for her continued aggressive behaviour is not as forgiving and plans a trick to embarrass Carrie in front of the...
Series
Publisher
[Binge Box]
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. ; in 1 multi-disc DVD case
Language
English
Description
A collection of DVDs all gathered into one "binge box" for a spectacular movie night.
It (R) (2017) (135 min.): A group of bullied kids band together when a monster, taking the appearance of a clown, begins hunting children.
Pet sematary (R) (1989) (102 min.): When the new doctor in town discovers that a nearby patch of woods can rejuvenate the dead, he uses it to restore the life of his dead son. But it soon becomes clear that his son has changed.
The...
18) Katherine
Author
Language
English
Description
Katherine is a young debutante who is transformed into a revolutionary by the chaotic currents coursing through American society in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Her loving, middle-class parents enable her descent into extremism. Disappointed with her radical boyfriend, who is interested more in sex than in activism, she joins a group of leftist militants who contend that only violence can enact social and political change.
19) Deadfall
Author
Language
English
Description
Siblings Addison (Eric Bana) and Liza (Olivia Wilde) are fleeing from a casino heist when their getaway results in a car accident and a dead state trooper. On the run, they go separate ways, Addison creating mayhem cross-country and Liza being rescued by ex-boxer Jay (Charlie Hunnam), who is en route for a Thanksgiving homecoming. When the siblings reunite, a thrilling showdown occurs that pushes the bonds of family to the limit.