Nicolas Cage
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1998.
Language
English
Description
"Ben Sanderson is a career alcoholic who has hit rock bottom. Trashing all personal and professional ties to his L.A. existence, he sets off for the lights of Vegas on a mission: to drink himself to death. There he meets Sera, a beautiful, seen-it-all hooker. Together they form a unique bond based upon unconditional acceptance and mutual respect that will change each of them forever." --container.
Publisher
Disney DVD
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Since his childhood, Benjamin Franklin Gates has known that he is a decendant of a long line of people whose job it has been to guard a treasure hidden by the Founding Fathers. They hid clues to its whereabouts in the country's currency and on the back of the Declaration of Independence. Now, Ben has learned of a plot to steal the Declaration, and has only one option: he had to steal it himself. Even if he pulls off this monumental task, keeping the...
Author
Publisher
Abdo
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
James Howard Kunstler describes various episodes of Davy Crockett's life, from his boyhood confrontation with a hungry bear to his campaign for Congress to his heroic role at the battle of the Alamo. This lively tale shows how an early frontiersman became a true American legend.
7) Knowing
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
A college professor finds a piece of paper, covered with numbers, that has predicted major disasters in the last fifty years, and he and his son must figure out what the remaining numbers mean for the world before disaster strikes again.
Publisher
Rabbit Ears
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Davy Crockett: Follow the escapades of America's ultimate backwoods hero as he travels the frontier in his trademark coonskin cap in search of adventure and brags his way into history at the Battle of the Alamo.
Rip Van Winkle: This Washington Irving classic tells the story of likeable but lazy Rip Van Winkle, who shared a strange brew with some mysterious strangers and fell into a deep sleep for 20 years. He discovers when he finally wakes that...
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
Henry and Nicky are small town pals from blue collar families with only a short time before they ship off to World War II. Henry begins romancing new-to-town Caddie Winger, believing her to be wealthy. Mischievious and irresponsible, Nicky gets into trouble which forces the other two to become involved, testing their relationship, as well as the friendship between the boys
13) Adaptation
Series
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
Blends fictional characters and situations with the lives of real people: obsessive orchid hunter John Laroche, "New Yorker" journalist Susan Orlean, Hollywood screenwriter Charlie Kaufman and his twin brother Donald. As Charlie struggles to adapt a best-selling book, he writes himself into the movie plot.
15) Raising Arizona
Publisher
20th Century-Fox
Pub. Date
c1999.
Language
English
Description
An ex-con and his wife set out to kidnap a baby when they find they can't have or adopt one of their own.
16) Moonstruck
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Description
An "unlucky in love" Italian-American widow just weeks away from her wedding falls for her fiance's younger brother.
18) The Croods
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2013.
Language
English
Description
When their home is destroyed, a prehistoric family travel across a dangerous, exotic land in search of a new home.
19) Joe
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
A hard-living ex-con who is the unlikeliest of role models, but when he meets a troubled fifteen-year-old homeless boy in need of help from a violent and destitute father, Joe is faced with the heartbreaking choice of redemption or ruin.
Publisher
FoxVideo
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Pathological liar Dave Firpo and his kleptomaniac brother Alvin are two small-time crooks who lure their good-hearted brother Bill into robbing a bank in the small town of Paradise, Pennsylvania. Pulling off the heist is a snap compared to getting out of town after a snowstorm hits.