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21) Memento
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Three-time Oscar nominee Christopher Nolan (Interstellar, Inception) directs this critically acclaimed mystery. Leonard (Guy Pearce) is tracking down the man who raped and murdered his wife. The difficulty, however, of locating his wife's killer is compounded by the fact that he suffers from a rare, untreatable form of memory loss. Although he can recall details of life before his accident, Leonard cannot remember what happened fifteen minutes ago,...
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005], c2004
Language
English
Description
Playwright James M. Barrie's career is questioned when his latest play is ill-received. But when he meets a widow and her four adventurous boys, they form a friendship that sparks the imagination needed to produce Barrie's greatest work.
25) Seabiscuit
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Relates the true story of three men and one undersized race horse who thrilled a nation.
26) Being there
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
A feeble-minded gardener whose entire knowledge of life comes from watching television is sent out into the real world when his employer dies. Equipped with his prize possession, his remote control unit, the gardener encounters a series of hilarious events.
30) Misery
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
After an almost fatal car crash, novelist Paul Sheldon finds himself being nursed by a deranged fan who holds him captive.
31) High fidelity
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Follows the love affairs and belated growing up of a "Generation X" pop music fanatic and record store owner.
32) Blow
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Dramatization of the life of George Jung, the man who established the cocaine market in the United States.
33) The Crucible
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011, c1996
Language
English
Description
A group of teenage girls meets in the woods at midnight for a secret ceremony. When the ceremony is witnessed by the town minister, the girls are accused of witchcraft. Soon the entire village is consumed by hysteria, and innocent victims are put on trial, leading to a devastating climax.
34) The Corporation
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
One hundred and fifty years ago, the Corporation was a relatively insignificant entity. Today, it is a vivid, dramatic and pervasive presence in all our lives. Like the Church, the Monarchy and the Communist Party in other times and places, the Corporation is today's dominant institution. But history humbles dominant institutions. All have been crushed, belittled or absorbed into some new order. The Corporation is unlikely to be the first to defy...
35) Prozac Nation
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Video
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Dramatization based on the life of Elizabeth Wurtzel, a young woman with severe depression during her first year at Harvard University as she takes refuge in drugs and sex.
36) Iron man 3
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
When Tony Stark (aka Iron Man) finds his entire world reduced to rubble, he must use all his ingenuity to survive, destroy his enemy, and somehow protect those he loves. But a soul-searching question haunts him, does the man make the suit, or does the suit make the man?
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This program teaches highlighting the good parts and trouble spots, research, visualizing and dramatization, non-fiction vs. fiction, the echo effect, online reasearch vs. physical, changing directions, genre material, staying fresh and externalizing characters' thoughts. Subjects covered include:--What to include. --How to avoid the 200 page screenplay. --How faithful should you be to the original? --Is it easier to adapt fiction or non-fiction,...
38) Insurgent
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
As war surges in the dystopian society around her, Divergent Tris Prior must continue trying to save those she loves, and herself, while grappling with haunting questions of grief and forgiveness, identity and loyalty, politics and love.
39) Joe
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
A hard-living ex-con who is the unlikeliest of role models, but when he meets a troubled fifteen-year-old homeless boy in need of help from a violent and destitute father, Joe is faced with the heartbreaking choice of redemption or ruin.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Seymour 'Swede' Levov, a once-legendary high school athlete, is a successful businessman married to an ex-beauty queen, Dawn. When Swede and Dawn's daughter disappears after being accused of a violent crime, Swede's perfect life is broken forever and he is left to make sense out of the chaos.
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