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Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Faulques, a war photographer, witnessed most of the wars of the end of the 20th Century, but he was never able to capture the photo that would explain the chaos of the universe. Now, as continues to try to understand it, he starts painting a grand circular fresco on the inside wall of a tower on the Mediterranean, disturbed by the memories of a woman he can never forget, and an unexpected visit: a man who wants to kill him.
2) Rabbit hole
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Becca and Howie Corbett are returning to their everyday existence in the wake of a shocking, sudden loss. Just eight months ago, they were a happy suburban family with everything they wanted. Now, they are caught in a maze of memory, longing, guilt, recrimination, sarcasm and tightly controlled rage from which they cannot escape. The journey is an intimate glimpse into two people learning to re-engage with each other and a world that has been tilted...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"From Spain's most acclaimed writer, a novel about a charismatic half-Spanish, half-English man who is recruited by British intelligence. Thou shalt not kill. But, as our narrator admits, "Killing is not so extreme or so difficult or unjust if you know who you are killing, what crimes he has committed or announced he is going to commit, how many evils you would save people from, how many innocent lives would be preserved in exchange . . ." The British...
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
After his wife leaves him, Ted Morgan realizes he has nothing left to live for. Summoning the courage for one last act, Ted decides to go home and face the people he feels are responsible for creating the shell of a person he has become. The more determined Ted is to confront his demons, to get closure, and to withdraw from his family, the more Ted is yanked into the chaos of their lives. So, when Ted Morgan decides to kill himself, he finds a reason...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A "genre-twisting film by director Sarah Polley, who investigates the elusive truths of her eclectic family of storytellers as she playfully interrogates a cast of characters who each relate their version of the family mythology. Polley reveals the essence of family as she uncovers the secrets buried deep within-- "--Container
6) Freakonomics
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
The highly anticipated film version of the phenomenally bestselling book about incentives-based thinking by renowned economists Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner. Like the book, the film examines human behavior with provocative and sometimes hilarious case studies, bringing together a dream team of filmmakers responsible for some of the most acclaimed and entertaining documentaries in recent years.
7) Freakonomics
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Explores the role economics plays in various social issues, including child naming and low crime rates.
8) Rabbit Hole
Publisher
Lionsgate
Language
English
Description
A couple has trouble coping with the death of their young son.
Publisher
Focus Features
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
It's the ultimate personal challenge--swimming the English Channel. As Frank Redmond (Peter Mullan_ plunges headlong into his new life, his friends get swept up in his quest, filling his training with laughter and camaraderie as he prepares for the most extraordinary test of human endurance.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
When 10-year-old Cadi feels responsible for her little sister's death, she searches out the one man she feels can take it away, the Sin Eater. In her quest for redemption, she uncovers a secret that threatens her family and community.
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
In the astronaut's wife the lives of courageous NASA astronaut Spencer Armacost and his beautiful schoolteacher wife Jillian are momentarily shattered when Spencer's mission mysteriously loses contact with Earth for 2 minutes, but neither Spencer nor Jillian knows that those 120 seconds of terror will ultimately threaten their sanity, their future and their lives.
In Don Juan DeMarco a psychiatrist rescues a young man who claims to be the legendary...
14) Idiocracy
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Joe Bowers is an average Joe. He is not the sharpest tool in the shed. He becomes part of a government experiment to go into hibernation. The experiment goes awry and Bowers awakens in the year 2505 to find a society so dumbed-dowm by mass commercialism and mindless TV programming that he's become the smartest guy on the planet. Now it's up to this average Joe to get human evolution back on the right track.
16) Life, animated
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Ron Suskind describes how his high-functioning autistic son, Owen, learned to cope with his handicap from a young age by memorizing the dialogue of Disney movies and having his family play the roles of the animated characters.
Publisher
CBS DVD
Pub. Date
[2008], ©2008
Language
English
Description
In the aftermath of a devastating nuclear explosion, and a battle with neighboring New Bern, the once peaceful town of Jericho begins to rebuild itself as it attempts to communicate with the outside world. The newly formed Cheyenne government strives to establish its stronghold in the region, but Jericho's citizens become suspicious of these new leaders and they question their true intentions.
18) Persepolis
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
Français
Description
In 1970s Iran, Marjane "Marji" Statrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family. Their long dream is realized when the hated Shah is defeated in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. Now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, Marji grows up to witness first hand how the new Iran has become a repressive tyranny on its own. With Marji dangerously refusing to remain silent at this injustice, her parents send her abroad to Vienna to study....
Publisher
Distributed by Image Entertainment
Language
English
Description
This film, like many from director Werner Herzog, is a poem of oddness and beauty. Investigating the lives of the "professional dreamers" who conduct research at the bottom of the world in Antarctica, he finds a happily cynical lot, who regard climate change and the potential extinction of Homo sapiens in rather a different light than most people. They study penguins, seals, volcanoes, miniscule underwater creatures, and the shifting ice patterns....
20) For One More Day
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Chick Benetto, a former baseball player who has fallen into alcoholism and depression, returns to his home town to commit suicide, and when he is magically given a day with his departed mother Posey, she reveals secrets about both of their lives that may save him.