Louise Fletcher
Author
Language
English
Description
Life Force is a stunning sequence of over 30 abstract artworks, each taking their inspiration from the poetry of former UK poet laureate Ted Hughes (1930-1998) and the evocative setting of the Yorkshire moors.
With quotations from Hughes's work included alongside the pieces they provoked, moving commentary by Louise detailing their background and inclusive of preliminary sketches and photography, this wonderfully produced hardback documents a journey...
Publisher
Showtime Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen year old Hanna Stern was a typical American teenager who ignored her family's heritage until a mystical Passover seder takes her back in time to German-occupied Poland on an emotional journey of life, death and survival.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
Milly and Lewis, and their recently-widowed mom, Charlene, move to a new neighborhood. Once there, they all deal with a variety of personal problems, but Milly finds a friend in Eric, her autistic next door neighbor. Eric has a fascination with flight, and as the story progresses, he exerts an enthralling force of change on all those around him.
Publisher
Simitar
Pub. Date
c1998.
Language
English
Description
Silent since losing his hearing to meningitis, young Toby Wyler takes a bitter stance against the world and his family, refusing to accept his new stepfather. But when a highly trained orangutan named Casey is thrown from a truck near Toby's home, the boy soon has a secret friend he can communicate with via sign language.
7) Brainstorm
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
Virtual reality researchers invent a machine that downloads one person's thoughts and sensations to another, then must keep their high-tech invention from the wrong hands.
8) Big Eden
Publisher
Wolfe Video
Language
English
Formats
Description
From out gay writer-director Thomas Bezucha (The Family Stone) comes this funny, heart-warming romantic tale of a thirty-something gay guy, Henry Hart (Arye Gross, Ellen, Six Feet Under) who returns to his childhood Montana home when his beloved Grandfather becomes ill. Once there, Henry confronts his unrequited passion for his high school best friend Dean (TimDeKay) and his feelings about being gay in a small town.. But Big Eden residents defy the...
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
In this remake of the classic 50s SF tale, a boy tries to stop an invasion of his town by aliens who take over the the minds of his parents, his least-liked schoolteacher and other townspeople. With the aid of the school nurse the boy enlists the aid of the U.S. Marines.
11) Best of the best
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
Five young men are selected as members of the U.S. National Karate Team. Each teammate has his own reason for competing; however, they soon discover that in order to function as a team, they must put aside their differences and learn to depend upon each other. Together they enter an exhausting training period that puts their mental and physical skills to the ultimate endurance test. After three months of grueling workouts and personal conflicts they...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007.
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.
Series
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Crazy Mama: A widow in the 1950s begins a wacky life of crime when she loses her beauty parlor. She's joined by her mother, her pregnant daughter and her boyfriend, an old lady, a greaser and a defecting sheriff. The Lady in Red: A farm girl flees her abusive father and lands in a sewing sweatshop in Chicago, where the girls are exploited by a sleazy manager. After landing in jail, she becomes a prostitute and then a waitress while falling in love...
15) Thieves like us
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
Two convicts break out of Mississippi State Penitentiary in 1936 to join a third on a long spree of bank robbing. The youngest of the gang falls in love with a girl he has met at their hideout. Their last robbery in Yazoo City goes bad and all three become notorious men, who are wanted by the law.
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
The once and future king: A mediocre Elvis impersonator is transported back to Memphis, 1954, where he meets the real Elvis, then a truck driver and would-be singer in an encounter that transforms both of them.
A saucer of loneliness: Shelley Duvall is a shy young woman who receives a private message from a flying saucer.
What are friends for?: No one believes that a lonely boy's new friend is real until the boy's father remembers something strange...