Jimmy Smits
Author
Language
English
Description
Join some of California's most unique residents and experience the wonders of this amazing state's farthest edges as few ever have. From sky surfing over San Diego to snowboarding in Tahoe to excavating the heart of a thirty-story tall giant sequoia tree, saving stranded baby sea otters, and surfing giant waves at Mavericks in Half Moon Bay, there's something for everyone.
Author
Series
Edens Lost and Found volume 2
Language
English
Description
Jimmy Smits hosts the Los Angeles segment of Edens Lost & Found: Dream a Different City. Los Angeles made smog and pollution into household words. The effects of humans on natural ecosystems are extensive in this metropolis: native habitat is scarce, wildlife movement is obstructed, surface and groundwater quality are impaired, and ocean water quality is affected. But no longer. To everyone's surprise, Los Angeles has embraced mass transit. The Expo...
Publisher
Showtime Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Contains twelve episodes of the television program, "Dexter," representing the third season in which Dexter, a homicidal man with an adopted police officer father, finds his new outlook on life tested when he is forced to work with a new DA in Miami.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
A group of six friends, in Sacramento, gather to distract themselves from loss - a newly dumped Sylvia, Prudie's repressed disappointment, or Jocelyn, who has a life of unrealized dreams. All are devoted Jane Austen fans, except the lone man, Grigg, who has an ulterior motive for joining the chick-lit gang. There's plenty of pride (Prudie), prejudice (Jocelyn), sense (Sylvia), and sensibility (Sylvia's daughter Allegra). Throw in a fair amount of...
9) Rogue One
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a period of great conflict, a group of unlikely heroes, led by daring fugitive Jyn Erso and rebel spy Cassian Andor, band together for a desperate mission to steal the plans to the Empire's ultimate weapon of destruction, the Death Star.
10) My Family
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
Three generations of a Los Angeles family love, work and struggle against discrimination as non-Anglo outsiders in a city that was originally part of Mexico in this exquisitely wrought chronicle of Mi Familia.
12) Who We Are Now
Publisher
FilmRise
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Recently released from prison, Beth (Julianne Nicholson) is working with her public defender (Jimmy Smits) to get her son back from her sister, who was awarded legal custody while Beth was incarcerated. Soon after, Beth forms an unlikely alliance with Jess (Emma Roberts), an idealistic young protégé of the public defense team, who decides to take on Beth's cause whether she likes it or not. Official Selection at the **SXSW Film Festival** and the...
13) In the Heights
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The likeable, magnetic bodega owner Usnavi saves every penny from his daily grind as he hopes, imagines, and sings about a better life. Meanwhile, his tight-knit community faces the challenge of gentrification, losing their homes while trying to better themselves and hold on to their cultures.
Author
Series
Pee-wee's Playhouse volume 1
Language
English
Description
When Pee-wee's robot, Conky 2000, breaks down, the Playhouse gang suddenly doesn't feel so "great." When Pee-wee tries to fix the sick robot, Conky winds up in a million pieces! What'll Pee-wee do, now? Call the Authorized Conky Repairman - that's what. Will the repairman be able to fix their pal, or will lovelorn Miss Yvonne wrench him away first?
16) Bless the Child
Author
Language
English
Description
In the tradition of The Sixth Sense and The Omen comes this riveting supernatural thriller filled with spine-tingling chills and white-knuckle suspense. Academy Award® Winner Kim Basinger stars as Maggie O'Connor, a single woman whose life revolves around her career as a nurse-until the surprise appearance of her sister Jenna (Angela Bettis) and Jenna's newborn baby girl, Cody. When Jenna suddenly disappears, Maggie is left to raise Cody (Holliston...