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Matthew McConaughey
1) Greenlights
Author
Language
English
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Description
"I've been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last thirty-five." McConaughey sat down with those diaries. He found lessons he learned and forgot, poems, prayers, prescriptions, beliefs about what matters, some great photographs, and a whole bunch of bumper stickers. This book is an album, a record, a story of his life and the graces, truths, and beauties...
2) Just because
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
From worrying when excited to forgiving while still hurting, children experience everyday paradoxes as they embrace their full potential.
4) Bernie
Publisher
Millennium Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Carthage, TX, assistant funeral director Bernie Tiede is one of the town's most beloved residents. He sings in the church choir and is always willing to lend a helping hand. He befriends an affluent widow, and she soon becomes dependent on Bernie. Later it is reported that Marjorie Nugent has been dead for some time, and Bernie Tiede is charged with the murder.
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
A romantic comedy about love, marriage and other events you just can't plan for. Mary (Jennifer Lopez) is a successful, work obsessed wedding planner in San Francisco who finally finds a man of her own (Matthew McConaughey), or so she thinks. He turns out to be the groom in the biggest wedding of her career. Will she get the job or the guy?
6) U-571
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
A U.S. Navy Captain and his crew are just beginning to enjoy 48 hours of leave when they receive word to immediately return to duty. On a top-secret assignment, they must disguise themselves as Nazis and infiltrate a severely damaged Nazi U-boat.
8) Contact
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1997.
Language
English
Description
Astronomer Ellie Arroway discovers communication from the star Vega and leads an international team in deciphering it, eventually travelling through space to encounter the senders of the message.
9) Fool's gold
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
When a man discovers the possible location of an undersea treasure, he convinces his ex-wife to join him in seeking out the fortune.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Texas cowboy Ron Woodroof's free-wheeling life was overturned in 1985 when he was diagnosed as HIV-positive. Shunned and ostracized by many old friends and bereft of government-approved medicines, he decided to take matters in his own hands, tracking down alternative treatments from all over the world by means both legal and illegal. Bypassing the establishment, he joined forces with an unlikely band of renegades and outcasts and established a hugely...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Martin Scorsese directs the story of New York stockbroker Jordan Belfort. From the American dream to corporate greed, Belfort goes from penny stocks and righteousness to IPOs and a life of corruption in the late '80s. Excess success and affluence in his early twenties as founder of the brokerage firm Stratton Oakmont warranted Belfort the title 'The Wolf of Wall Street.'
12) Ed TV
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c1999.
Language
English
Description
Ed Perkurny is just a regular guy who feels he has nothing to lose by agreeing to be a star of a new reality-based TV show. Almost overnight, the program becomes a hit, and suddenly this goofy but engaging video clerk is a national celebrity!
13) Frailty
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
A man confesses to an FBI agent his family's story of how his religious fanatic father's visions lead to a series of murders to destroy supposed "demons."
14) The Newton boys
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox
Pub. Date
c1998.
Language
English
Description
A farm family of four brothers turn to a life of crime. Eventually they execute the greatest train robbery in American history.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
Andie is the "How to" girl at an up-and-coming women's magazine who need to prove she can pick up any guy and dump him in 10 days. And in order for Ben to win an advertising presentation he needs to prove he can make any woman fall in love with him in 10 days. Now that they are a "couple" and the clock is ticking, anything goes.
17) Sahara
Publisher
Paramount DVD
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
Three intrepid adventurers, including the legendary Dirk Pitt, set out to claim a massive treasure and foil the efforts of a cadre intent on world destruction.
18) The dark tower
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on the best-selling book series by highly-acclaimed author Stephen King. The last Gunslinger, Roland has been locked in an eternal battle with the Man in Black, determined to prevent him from toppling the Dark Tower, which holds the universe together. With the fate of the worlds at stake, good and evil will collide in the epic battle as only Roland can defend the Tower from the Man in Black.--From container.
19) A time to kill
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1997.
Language
English
Description
A murder trial brings a small Mississippi town's racial tensions to the flashpoint. Amid a frenzy of activist marches, Klan terror, media clamor and brutal riots, an unseasoned but idealistic young attorney mounts a stirring courtroom battle for justice.
20) Amistad
Publisher
DreamWorks
Pub. Date
c1999.
Language
English
Description
"Based on a true story, the movie chronicles the incredible journey of a group of enslaved Africans who overtake their captor's ship and attempt to return to their beloved homeland. When the ship, La Amistad, is seized, these captives are brought to the U.S. where they are charged with murder and await their fate in prison." --container.