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3) Gran Torino
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Walt Kowalski is a widower who holds onto his prejudices despite the changes in his Michigan neighborhood and the world around him. Walt is a grumpy, tough-minded, unhappy old man, who can't get along with either his kids or his neighbors. He is a Korean War veteran whose prize possession is a 1972 Gran Torino he keeps in mint condition. When his neighbor, Thao, a young Hmong teenager, is pressured by his gang member cousin to steal Walt's prize possession,...
4) Lean On Pete
Author
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
With his life full of uncertainty, fifteen-year-old Charley finds comfort working with horses at the local racetrack, becoming attached to a losing racehorse named Lean On Pete.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
To Greg Heffley, middle school is the dumbest idea ever invented. It's a place rigged with hundreds of social landmines, not the least of which are morons, wedgies, swirlies, bullies, lunchtime banishment to the cafeteria floor - and a festering piece of cheese with nuclear cooties. To survive the never-ending ordeal and attain the recognition and status he feels he so richly deserves, Greg devises an endless series of can't-miss schemes, all of which,...
6) Boyhood
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A story of growing up as seen through the eyes of a boy named Mason, who ages from six to eighteen years old on screen. The film was shot intermittently over a twelve-year period from May 2002 to October 2013, showing the growth of Mason and his older sister, Samantha, to adulthood.
7) Cry macho
Author
Publisher
SDS
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When an aging rodeo star takes a job of bringing the teenage son of his former boss from Mexico, where he lives with his alcoholic mother, to his father's ranch in Texas, he connects with the boy and finds redemption through teaching the boy what it meansto be a man.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Enduring creepy freshmen and her aching crush on the most popular boy in school, a girl makes the most of her sixteenth birthday as her family forgets it amidst the chaos of her sister's wedding; five teenagers with nothing in common spend a Saturday detention in the school library; computer whiz kids create the "perfect woman", and she guides them through several aspects of teenage life.
9) Kick-ass
Publisher
Lionsgate Films
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Ordinary teenager and rabid comic-book geek Dave Lizewski captures the imagination of the public when he becomes the no-nonsense vigilante, Kick-Ass. After he teams up with the fearless father-daughter crime-fighting duo, Big Daddy and Hit-Girl, the three work together to take down the criminal empire of local Mafioso Frank D'Amico. But when D'Amico's son Chris is reborn as Red Mist, the showdown between the forces of good and evil will force Kick-Ass...
10) Kick-Ass 2
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Self-made superhero Kick-Ass and sweet faced, foul-mouthed assassin Hit Girl try to return to life as 'normal' teenagers, but soon they are faced with their deadliest challenge yet. To seek revenge for his father's death, Red Mist has re-invented himself as the leader of super-villains. To defeat their new nemesis, Kick-Ass and Hit Girl must team up with a new wave of masked crusaders, led by the badass Colonel Stars and Stripes, in this battle of...