Carter Burwell
1) The founder
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of Ray Kroc, the McDonald brothers, and the creation of McDonald's fast food restaurants.
2) Fargo
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
A midwestern policewoman investigates a series of brutal and interconnected crimes. Steadily, she tightens the net on the killers and their accomplices in a kidnapping scheme gone wildly wrong.
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Llewelyn Moss is a Vietnam vet who could use a break. One morning while hunting antelope, he spies several trucks surrounded by dead bodies. He decides to examine the site. He finds a case filled with $2 million and a truck loaded with heroin. Moss takes it with him, tells his wife he's going away for awhile, and hits the road until he can determine his next move. On his the way from El Paso to the Mexican border, he discovers he's being followed...
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000?]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
This rockin' and rollin' modern-day story finds Goofy bonding with his teenage son, Max, on a cross-country road trip. But en route to the ol' fishing hole, they find themselves up to their floppy ears in misadventure! Will Max learn there's nothing wrong with taking after dear old dad-- even if he is a little goofy?
5) The Alamo
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Based on the 1836 standoff between a group of Texan and Tejano men, led by Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie, and Mexican dictator Santa Anna's forces at the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
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Description
Michael Oher is a homeless African-American teenager who is from a broken home. Mike is taken in by the Touhys, a well-to-do white family who help him fulfill his potential. At the same time, Oher's presence in the Touhys' lives leads them to some insightful self-discoveries of their own. Living in his new environment, Mike faces a completely different set of challenges to overcome - as both a football player and student. Mike works hard and, with...
7) Twilight
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009]
Language
English
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Description
Isabella Swan moves to gloomy Forks, Washington to live with her father. She begins her junior year in high school and becomes fascinated by Edward Cullen. He holds a dark secret which is only known by his family. To Edward, Bella is what he has waited 90 years for, a true sole mate. But he knows the further they progress in their relationship the more he is putting Bella and those close to her at risk. Edward tries to warn Bella that she should leave...
9) Wonderstruck
Author
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Tells two stories set fifty years apart, of a boy in the Midwest and a girl in New York both seeking the same mysterious connection.
12) Kinsey
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A portrait of a man driven to uncover the most private secrets of the nation, and journey into the mystery of human behavior. His 1948 book Sexual behavior in the human male irrevocably changed American culture and created a media sensation.
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Osbourne Cox is a CIA analyst who quits his job after being demoted. He decides to write a memoir about his life in the CIA. His wife, Katie, wants a divorce and, based on the advice of her divorce lawyer, she downloads many of his personal and financial files onto a disc. Katie's lover is Treasury agent Harry Pfarrer. The disc eventually finds its way to Hardbodies, a workout gym. An employee of the gym, Chad Feldheimer obtains the disc and ascertains...
14) This Boy's Life
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Academy Award-winner Robert De Niro ("GoodFellas," "City by the Sea"), Emmy-winner Ellen Barkin ("Sea of Love," "The Big Easy") and Academy Award-nominee Leonardo DiCaprio ("The Departed," "Blood Diamond") star in the film adaptation of author Tobias Wolff's award-winning autobiographical novel. Set in the 1950s, this moving drama tells the story of a young boy and his divorced mother who travel cross country in hopes of a better life. When his mother...
15) A knight's tale
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
A peasant squire assumes the identity of his recently deceased master and sets out to become a jousting champion.
16) Raising Arizona
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
1999, c1987
Language
English
Description
Vowing to go straight, a maladroit convenience store bandit marries a police photographer. When they are unable to conceive or adopt a baby, they decide to kidnap one from a set of quintuplets and head out across the Southwestern desert.
17) Twilight/DVD
Series
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Isabella Swan moves to gloomy Forks, Washington to live with her father. She begins her junior year in high school and becomes fascinated by Edward Cullen. He holds a dark secret which is only known by his family--he's a vampire. To Edward, Bella is what he has waited 90 years for, a true soul mate. But he knows the further they progress in their relationship the more he is putting Bella and those close to her at risk. Edward tries to warn Bella that...
18) Three kings
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Absurdly comic tale set after the end of the Gulf War, when three American soldiers looking to plunder stolen gold become involved in an uprising.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Max has an active imagination, who will throw a fit if others don't go along with what he wants. Following an incident with his sister Claire and her friends, Max throws a tantrum when his mother pays more attention to her boyfriend than to him - runs away from home. Wearing his wolf costume at the time, Max not only runs away physically, but runs toward a world in his imagination. This world, an ocean away, is inhabited by large wild beasts, including...
20) The finest hours
Series
Publisher
Disney
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In February of 1952, one of the worst storms to ever hit the East Coast struck New England, damaging an oil tanker off the coast of Cape Cod and literally ripping it in half. On a small lifeboat faced with frigid temperatures and 70-foot high waves, four members of the Coast Guard set out to rescue the more than 30 stranded sailors trapped aboard the rapidly-sinking vessel.