Tim Robbins
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
In a future totalitarian state where books are banned and destroyed by the government, Guy Montag, a fireman in charge of burning books, meets a revolutionary schoolteacher who dares to read and a girl who tells him of a past when people did not live in fear.
"The sixtieth-anniversary edition commemorates Ray Bradbury's masterpiece with a new introduction by Neil Gaiman; personal essays on the genesis of the novel by the author, a wealth of critical...
5) Dark waters
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Inspired by a shocking true story, a tenacious attorney uncovers a dark secret that connects a growing number of unexplained deaths due to one of the world's largest corporations. In the process, he risks everything - his future, his family, and his own life - to expose the truth.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
In a universe as vast as it is mysterious, a small but powerful force has existed for centuries. Protectors of peace and justice, they are called the Green Lantern Corps. A brotherhood of warriors sworn to keep intergalactic order, each Green Lantern wears a ring that grants him superpowers. When a new enemy called Parallax threatens to destroy the balance of power in the Universe, their fate and the fate of Earth lie in the hands of their newest...
7) Mystic river
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Boston childhood friends Jimmy, Sean and Dave are reunited after a brutal murder. Reformed confict Jimmy and his devoted wife Annabeth find out that their teenage daughter Katie has been beaten and killed. Jimmy's old friend Sean is the homicide detective assigned to the case. Jimmy gets his relatives, the Savage brothers to conduct their own investigation. Jimmy and Sean soon suspect their old pal Dave, who now lives a quite life, but harbors some...
9) Bull Durham
Publisher
MGM DVD
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
A love triangle surrounds members of a minor league baseball team and its unofficial "handler."
11) Zathura
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Danny twists the key of an old science fiction game. The game unleashes a localized meteor shower and wrenches Danny's house into orbit around a distant ringed planet. Besides Danny, his brother Walter and sister Lisa have to go along. Soon a defective robot, a rangy astronaut, and an alien spaceship enter the picture. The only way the kids can return their house to its proper space-time coordinates is to finish the game, but before they can finish,...
12) Antitrust
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001], c2000
Language
English
Description
A young computer whiz gets caught up in a web of deceit and conspiracy after his best friend is murdered.
13) Arlington Road
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Widowed when his FBI agent wife is killed by a right-wing group, college professor Michael Faraday becomes obsessed with the culture of thise groups--expecially when his new neighbors, the all-American Oliver and Cheryl Lang, start acting suspiciously.
14) Marjorie Prime
Publisher
FilmRise
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
in the near future where artificial intelligence has brought about holographic reconstructions of loved ones, 86-year old Marjorie gains a holographic companion in the form of her late husband, but will she take advantage of this opportunity to recreate their life as she wished to have lived it?
16) Human nature
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Lila Jute, a nature writer with excessive body hair and her boyfriend Nathan Bronfman, a scientist trying to teach mice table manners meet a feral man in the woods and bring him back to the city.
17) Dead man walking
Publisher
MGM DVD Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of convicted killer Matthew Poncelet and Sister Helen Prejean, his spiritual advisor, and the journey they undertake in search of the truth.
18) Cinema verite
Publisher
HBO Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Dramatization of the making of PBS' 1973 documentary series "An American family" that followed the everyday lives of the Loud family.
19) Nothing to lose
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Video
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
A mismatched team of an advertising executive and a carjacker speeds off on a comical crime spree that includes holdups, high-speed chases, and revenge.
20) Mystic River
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Three friends who grew up together in a working-class neighboorhood of Boston, are brought together after a period of estrangement when one friend's daughter is murdered.