Jake Gyllenhaal
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English
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Jay Gatsby had once loved beautiful, spoiled Daisy Buchanan, then lost her to a rich boy. Now, mysteriously wealthy, he is ready to risk everything to woo her back. This is the definitive, textually accurate edition of a classic of twentieth-century literature, The Great Gatsby. The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan has been acclaimed by generations of readers; however the first edition contained...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
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Global warming triggers the onset of a new Ice Age. As tornadoes flatten Los Angeles and a tidal wave engulfs New York City, the entire Northern Hemisphere begins to freeze solid. Now, climatologist Jack Hall, his son Sam and a small band of survivors must ride out the growing superstorm and stay alive.
4) Bubble boy
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Jimmy is a good-hearted innocent born with no immunities against germs. He grows up in a plastic bubble. To win back the girl of his dreams, he steps out of his indoor greenhouse and into a homemade bubble suit.
5) Demolition
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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While trying to work through his grief over losing his wife in a car crash, investment banker Davis makes an unlikely connection with a customer service representative, a single mother with emotional and financial struggles of her own.
6) Source code
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A soldier discovers that he is part of an experimental project allowing him to exist in another person's body, and his mission is to find the person who already destroyed one train with a bomb and is threatening to do it again.
7) Nightcrawler
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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A pulse-pounding thriller set in the nocturnal underbelly of contemporary Los Angeles. Jake Gyllenhaal stars as Lou Bloom, a driven young man desperate for work who discovers the high-speed world of L.A. crime journalism. Finding a group of freelance camera crews who film crashes, fires, murder and other mayhem, Lou muscles into the cut-throat, dangerous realm of nightcrawling, where each police siren wail equals a possible windfall and victims are...
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Free-spirited Lucky Prescott moves to Miradero to join her estranged father, and is decidedly unimpressed with the sleepy town until she discovers a unique tie to her late mother, who was a fearless horse-riding stunt performer. She quickly forms a bond with a wild mustang named Spirit and makes two new pals who love horses as much as she does. When a heartless wrangler plans to capture Spirit and his herd, Lucky and her friends set off on an epic...
10) The good girl
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Thirty-year old Justine Last longs for more in life than her boring husband and dead-end job at Retail Rodeo. She falls for a passionate young co-worker and her good-girl existence takes a turn for the worse.
11) Prisoners
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Keller Dover is facing every parent's worst nightmare. His six-year-old daughter, Anna, is missing, together with her young friend, Joy. The only lead is a dilapidated RV that had been parked on their street. Heading the investigation, Detective Loki arrests its driver but a lack of evidence forces his release. As the police pursue multiple leads, Dover knows his child's life is at stake and decides he must take matters into his own hands. How far...
13) Proof
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A devoted daughter who comes to terms with the death of her father, a brilliant mathematician whose genius was crippled by mental insanity, with the help of one of her father's former students.
14) October sky
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
Seeing the first Russian satellite, Sputnik, streak across the October sky, Homer Hickam becomes obsessed with the building and launching his own rocket, and draws his friends into his dream.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Still in mourning for his mentor, Peter Parker decides to join his best friends Ned, MJ, and the rest of the gang on a European vacation as a way to reset. However, when Nick Fury hunts him down for help defeating Elemental creatures from the future, he has to keep the appearance of being a regular student while fighting alongside a new superhero from the future: Mysterio.
16) Stronger
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Inspired by the true story. Jeff Bauman, a working-class Bostonian, was at the 2013 marathon when the bomb blast occurred and he tragically lost both of his legs. After regaining consciousness, Jeff was able to help law enforcement identify one of the bombers, but his own battle had just begun. Jeff's deeply personal journey tests a family's bond and defines a community's pride as he overcomes adversity to become the living embodiment of ''Boston...
17) Life
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The six-member crew of the International Space Station is on the cutting edge of one of the most important discoveries in human history: the first evidence of extraterrestrial life on Mars. As the crew begins to conduct research, their methods end up having unintended consequences and the life form proves more intelligent than anyone ever expected.
18) Donnie Darko
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
An edgy, psychological thriller about a suburban teen coming face-to-face with his dark destiny. Donnie Darko is a delusional high-school student visited by a demonic rabbit with eerie visions of the past, and deadly predictions for the future.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Description
It's 1963, a time in the United States when life was simple, straightforward and the lines between the sexes and sex roles were crisply drawn and severely delineated. Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist find themselves thrown together when they are hired to tend sheep in the remote area of Brokeback Mountain, Wyoming. Because of the job, the two are forced to spend many hours together alone in the wild. Ennis and Jack are inexorably drawn to each other through...
20) Everest
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Inspired by the incredible events surrounding an attempt to reach the summit of the world's highest mountain, the film documents the awe-inspiring journey of two different expeditions challenged beyond their limits by one of the fiercest snowstorms ever encountered by mankind. Their mettle tested by the harshest elements found on the planet, the climbers will face nearly impossible obstacles as a lifelong obsession becomes a breathtaking struggle...