Robert Duvall
Author
Language
Français
Description
Une histoire politique qui se lit d'un trait,
et qui pourrait bien être vraie.
Voilà six ans que Denis Moreau occupe la fonction de maire de Granby. On peut dire que sous son règne, la dette et les taxes ont baissé de façon substantielle, ce qui le rend très populaire au sein de la population et du conseil municipal, qu'il contrle complètement. Il prétend être le défenseur du petit contribuable, mais est-ce vraiment le cas?
Maxime Lalonde,...
Author
Language
Français
Description
-Papa, je veux aller à la taverne!
Connaissez-vous beaucoup d'enfants de six ou sept ans qui interpellent leur père tous les dimanches de cette façon? Toute mon enfance, j'ai été fasciné par ce lieu mystérieux. Plus tard, au début de ma vie adulte, j'ai connu les différents acteurs qui fréquentaient ces lieux: les travailleurs, les récipiendaires d'aide sociale, les ivrognes, les artisans, les artistes et les nombreux immigrants. Suivez-moi...
3) Convicts
Author
Language
English
Description
A young boy comes of age observing the violent scenes on a Texas Gulf Coast cane field in 1902--even as life seems to be cycling to an end for an imposing plantation boss who survives by using convict labor to work in his fields.
4) Wild Horses
Author
Language
English
Description
A detective opens up a fifteen-year-old missing person's case, and begins to suspect that the missing boy was murdered, and that a local rancher was involved.
Author
Series
Lonesome Dove volume 4
Language
English
Description
RETURN: A tragedy in the Montana Territory exacts a painful promise from Call (Tommy Lee Jones) that takes him on a haunting mission back to Texas.
7) Get low
Series
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Felix Bush, a Tennessee hermit, plans his very own rollicking funeral party.
9) The 6th day
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Adam is an ace pilot in the very near future who is having a serious identity crisis. An evil corporation illegally cloned him, and now they're trying to kill him to hide the evidence.
11) Lonesome Dove
Publisher
Artisan Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Epic western about two former Texas rangers who leave the south Texas town of Lonesome Dove on a cattle drive to the lush ranch country of Montana.
12) Falling down
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
The freeways are clogged. Terror stalks our cities. At shops and restaurants, the customer is seldom right. The pressures of big-city life can anger everyone. Bill Foster is more than angry. He is slipping over the edge. He abandons his gridlocked car on the hottest day of the year and heads home. Instead, he walks straight into an urban nightmare. He is an ordinary guy who declares war against the frustrations of daily living. A savvy cop is obsessed...
13) The natural
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Roy Hobbs determines to fulfill his boyhood dream of being a baseball superstar; he is making progress when a mysterious woman shatters his dream and later, overcoming physical pain, he has a chance to lead his team to the pennant.
14) Secondhand lions
Publisher
New Line Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
To the rest of the world, Garth and Hub are mysterious old men hiding millions. But to Walter, they are family - and now they're about to lead him on an adventure he'll never forget.
15) Newsies
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
July, 1899: When Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst raise the distribution price one-tenth of a cent per paper, ten cents per hundred, the newsboys, poor enough already, are outraged. Inspired by the strike put on by the trolley workers, Jack "Cowboy" Kelly organizes a newsboys' strike. With David Jacobs as the brains of the new union, and Jack as the voice, the weak and oppressed found the strength to band together and challenge the powerful....
16) Crazy heart
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
The powerful story of a country music star's rocky road to redemption. Bad Blake is a boozy, broken-down singer who reaches for salvation with the help of Jean, a journalist who discovers the real man behind the music. But will Bad's hard-livin' ways and crazy heart cost him his last chance at a comeback?
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain left behind a quiet life and a career as a college professor to fight for the Union. Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson was a man of great religious faith who served in the defense of the Confederacy. And Gen. Robert E. Lee, who led the Confederate army, was a man who was forced to choose between his loyalty to the United States and his love of the Southern states where he was born and raised. As Chamberlain, Jackson,...
19) Tender mercies
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002, c1983
Language
English
Description
Mac Sledge, a washed up, alcoholic country singer, finds love and happiness again with the help of a lonely Texas widow and her young son, but must still deal with his past, which includes a bitter ex-wife and troubled daughter.
20) Sling blade
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
25 years after committing an unthinkable crime, a quiet man named Karl is finally returning home. Once there he is befriended by a fatherless boy and his mother. As a strong relationship develops between Karl and the boy, a confrontation builds with the mother's abusive and sometimes violent boyfriend.
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