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Lucas Black
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
History was made in 1947, when Jackie Robinson broke the professional baseball race barrier to become the first African American MLB player of the modern era. 42 tells the life story of Robinson and his history-making signing with the Brooklyn Dodgers under the guidance of team executive Branch Rickey.
2) Sling blade
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1996.
Language
English
Description
25 years after committing an unthinkable crime, a quiet man named Karl is finally returning home. Once there he is befriended by a fatherless boy and his mother. As a strong relationship develops between Karl and the boy, a confrontation builds with the mother's abusive and sometimes violent boyfriend.
3) Get low
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011.
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.
4) Legion
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
When God loses faith in humans, he sends a legion of angels to destroy them and humanity's last hope lies in a group of people trapped at a truck stop with the Archangel Michael.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
Odessa, Texas, is a small, town in Texas. Racially divided and economically dying, there is one night that gives the town something to live for: Friday Night. The Permian Panthers have a big winning tradition in Texas high school football, led by QB Mike Winchell and superstar tailback Boobie Miles, but all is not well, as Boobie suffers a career-ending injury in the first game of the season. Hope is lost among citizens in Odessa, and for the team,...
Language
English
Formats
Description
To avoid jail time, street racer Sean Boswell is sent to live with his father, who is in the military and serving in Tokyo. There he discovers drift racing. After losing a race to Yakuza-connected D.K., the Drift King, Sean has to enter the Tokyo underworld to find a way to pay his debt.
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
An adaptation of William Gibson's 1959 play about Annie Sullivan, the teacher that opens up the world for the blind and deaf Helen Keller. This compelling story of unconditional love and perseverance, the Kellers of Tuscumbia, Alabama, are a family in crisis. Their eight-year-old daughter Helen has been blind, deaf and mute since she was 18 months old, and her most consistent form of communication is to grab, tear and scratch violently at anything,...
9) Jarhead
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Description
Follows "Swoff," a third-generation Marine enlistee, from a sobering stint in boot camp to active duty, sporting a sniper's rifle and a hundred-pound ruck on his back through the Middle East deserts. There is no cover from intolerable heat or from the Iraqi soldiers, who are always potentially just over the next horizon. Swoff and his fellow Marines sustain themselves with sardonic humanity and wicked comedy on blazing desert fields in a country they...
Publisher
ARC Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011.
Language
English
Description
Luke Chisolm... [is] a talented young golfer set on making the pro tour. When his first big shot turns out to be a very public disaster, Luke escapes the pressures of the game and finds himself unexpectedly stranded in Utopia, Texas, home to eccentric rancher Johnny Crawford. But Johnny's more than meets the eye, and his profound ways of looking at life, love, and faith force Luke to question not only his past choices, but his direction for the future....
11) Get low
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Some thematic material, and brief violent content.
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
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
1988, Odessa, Texas. The small town is racially divided and economically dying. Only one thing brings the community together - Friday night high school football. The Permian Panthers have a big winning tradition and are led by QB Mike Winchell and superstar tailback Boobie Miles. Boobie suffers a career-ending injury in the first game of the season. Hope is lost among the citizens of Odessa. Coach Gary Gaines believes that the team can rise up from...
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
John Grady Cole and his best friend Lacey Rawlins leave Texas, head south of the border in search of adventure, and find work as horse wranglers. But when Cole embarks on an illicit and passionate affair with the beautiful daughter of the wealthy ranch owner who is his employer, events are set in motion which forever change the lives of all involved.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Dom Toretto is leading a quiet life off the grid with Letty and his son, little Brian, but they know that danger always lurks just over their peaceful horizon. This time, that threat will force Dom to confront the sins of his past if he's going to save those he loves most. His crew joins together to stop a world-shattering plot led by the most skilled assassin and high-performance driver they've ever encountered: a man who also happens to be Dom's...