Shawn Levy
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Formats
Description
Larry Daley is a divorced father who can't seem to keep a job for more than a week. He applies for a job at the Museum of Natural History and is assigned as a night guard. However, a seemingly easy job turns out to be an adventure when he finds that an ancient curse has caused the "inhabitants" of the museum to come to life.
2) Arrival
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
When mysterious spacecraft touch down around the world, a team ,including linguist Louise Banks, is brought together to investigate. As mankind teeters on the verge of global war, Banks and the team race against time for answers, and to find them, she will take a chance that could threaten her life, and quite possibly humanity.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Tom and Kate Baker have made many sacrifices in their professional lives in order to raise their 12 children. When Tom is offered a job as a Division I college football coach, he moves the entire pack to a suburb in Chicago. This move shakes up the entire family, but when Kate's memoirs get published, she takes off on a book tour. The lack of parental guidance creates problems for all the Baker kids and chaos ensues.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the Museum of Natural History is closed for upgrades and renovations, some of the 'animated' museum pieces are moved to the famous archives at the Smithsonian Institute. Larry Daley gets into the action when Jedediah calls him to say that Dexter stole The Tablet and the evil Pharaoh Kahmunrah is attacking them. Larry sneaks into the Archives and meets Amelia Earhart who is thrilled at the prospect of adventure and helps him out. Later, Larry...
6) Free guy
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A bank teller, who discovers he is actually a background player in an open-world video game, decides to become the hero of his own story, one he rewrites himself. Now in a world where there are no limits, he is determined to be the guy who saves his world his way, before it is too late.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
There's little debate that Robert De Niro is one of the greatest screen actors of his generation, perhaps of all time. His work -- Mean Streets, The Godfather Part II, Taxi Driver, The Deer Hunter, Raging Bull -- is unparalleled. Yet little is known about the off-screen De Niro. In an elegant and compelling biography that reads like a novel, Shawn Levy portrays Robert De Niro's transition from ambitious young man to enigmatic artist and cultural icon....
8) Real steel
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Charlie Kenton is a washed-up fighter who lost his chance at a title when 2000-pound, 8-foot-tall steel robots took over the ring. Now nothing but a small-time promoter, Charlie earns just enough money piecing together low-end bots from scrap metal to get from one underground boxing venue to the next. When Charlie hits rock bottom, he reluctantly teams up with his estranged son Max to build and train a championship contender.
9) Big fat liar
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
After a young boy's school essay erroneously finds its way into the hands of a Hollywood producer who turns the idea into a hit film, the boy travels to Los Angeles to claim his credit.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Big fat liar (2002): After a young boy's school essay erroneously finds its way into the hands of a Hollywood producer who turns the idea into a hit film, the boy travels to Los Angeles to claim his credit.
Johnny English (2003): Rowan plays the eponymous lead character in a spoof spy thriller. During the course of the story we follow our hero as he attempts to single-handedly save the country from falling into the hands of a despot.
Author
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When the first season of Stranger Things debuted on Netflix in the summer of 2016, the show struck a nerve with millions of viewers worldwide and received broad critical acclaim. The series has gone on to win six Emmy Awards, but its success was driven more than anything by word of mouth, resonating across generations. Viewers feel personal connections to the characters. Now fans can immerse themselves in the world--or worlds--of Hawkins, Indiana,...
12) Date night
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
In New York City, a case of mistaken identity turns married couple Phil and Claire Fosters' attempt at a glamorous and romantic evening into an outrageous chain of events involving small-time thieves, big-city mobsters, corrupt cops, and a crazed cabbie.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007, c2006
Language
English
Description
Larry Daley is a divorced father who can't seem to keep a job for more than a week. He applies for a job at the Museum of Natural History and is assigned as a night guard. However, a seemingly easy job turns out to be an adventure when he finds that an ancient curse has caused the "inhabitants" of the museum to come to life.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
When teens mysteriously develop powerful new abilities, they are declared a threat by the government and detained. Sixteen-year-old Ruby, one of the most powerful young people anyone has encountered, escapes her camp and joins a group of runaway teens seeking safe haven. Soon this newfound family realizes that, in a world in which the adults in power have betrayed them, running is not enough and they must wage a resistance, using their collective...
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seven years after the Monsterpocalypse, Joel Dawson, along with the rest of humanity, has been living underground ever since giant creatures took control of the land. After reconnecting over the radio with his high school girlfriend, Aimee, who is now 80 miles away at a coastal colony, Joel begins to fall for her again. As Joel realizes that there's nothing left for him underground, he decides to venture out to Aimee, despite all the dangerous monsters...
17) The Pink Panther
Language
English
Formats
Description
A famous soccer coach is murdered and his priceless Pink Panther diamond is stolen, leaving France in an uproar. Fortunately, Inspector Jacques Clouseau is on the case. For Clouseau it is just a minor detail, but he doesn't have a clue. With his partner, Gilbert Ponton, he careens from one misadventure to the next, leaving mayhem in his wake. He will travel from the boulevards of Paris to the streets of New York. Along the way he tries to seduce Xania,...
19) Just married
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Rich girl Sarah and party boy Tom are opposites who have just tied the knot. The young newlyweds embark on a perfectly planned European honeymoon but nothing seems to go right.
20) Real steel
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2012.
Language
English
Description
Charlie Kenton is a washed-up fighter who lost his chance at a title when 2000-pound, 8-foot-tall steel robots took over the ring. Now nothing but a small-time promoter, Charlie earns just enough money piecing together low-end bots from scrap metal to get from one underground boxing venue to the next. When Charlie hits rock bottom, he reluctantly teams up with his estranged son Max to build and train a championship contender.