(0)Jennifer Jason Leigh
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
Following the suicide of her lover, art student Michael Faraday, Josie Tyrell, an art model and teenage runaway, struggles to come to terms with his death and to deal with his mother, Meredith, who holds her responsible for the tragedy.
2) Childstar
Publisher
Sundance Channel LLC
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Taylor Burns is the world's most famous child actor, thanks to his work on a popular sitcom. Life is perfect in a sitcom world, but in the real world, his parents are divorcing, and his 13th birthday approaches along with pimples and voice changes.
3) Annihilation
Publisher
Paramount Home Media Distribution
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Lena, a biologist and former soldier, joins a mission to uncover what happened to her husband inside Area X, a sinister and mysterious phenomenon that is expanding across the American coastline. Once inside, the expedition discovers a world of mutated landscape and creatures, as dangerous as it is beautiful, that threatens both their lives and their sanity.
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Chronicling the hilarious highs and devastating lows of his tumultuous life, this blackly humorous drama follows Patrick from his childhood trauma at the hands of an abusive father and neglectful mother, to the peak of his heroin addiction, and his attempts to stay sober and support his family.
5) Anomalisa
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Michael Stone, an author that specializes in customer service, is a man who is unable to interact deeply with other people. His low sensitivity to excitement, and his lack of interest made him a man with a repetitive life on his own perspective. But, when he went on a business trip, he met a stranger - an extraordinary stranger, which slowly became a cure for his negative view on life that possibly will change his mundane life.
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A stagecoach hurtles through the wintry Wyoming landscape. Bounty hunter John Ruth and his fugitive Daisy race toward the town of Red Rock, where Ruth will bring Daisy to justice. Losing their lead on the blizzard, they seek refuge at Minnie's, a stagecoach stopover on a mountain pass. When they arrive at Minnie's, they are greeted not by the proprietor but by four unfamiliar faces. As the storm overtakes the mountainside stopover, our travelers come...
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Michael Sullivan works as an enforcer for his adopted father, Irish gangster John Rooney. When Sullivan's son, Mike Jr., witnesses one of his father's killings on Rooney's behalf, the gangster decides that his ward and his family are liabilities that must be removed. Sullivan tries to safeguard his son and get even with the man who betrayed him, while his son focuses on bonding with his emotionally distant father.
8) LBJ
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The story of U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson from his young days in West Texas to the White House.
9) Good time
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
After a botched bank robbery lands his younger brother in prison, Constantine Nikas embarks on a twisted odyssey through New York City's underworld in an increasingly desperate, and dangerous attempt to get his brother out of jail. Over the course of one adrenalized night Constantine finds himself on a mad descent into violence and mayhem as he races against the clock to save his brother and himself, knowing their lives hang in the balance.
Publisher
Hateship Productions Louisiana, LLC
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Johanna Parry, a quiet caregiver, starts a new job working for an elderly Mr. McCauley and his teenage granddaughter Sabitha. A cruel trick by Sabitha lands Johanna in an awkward one-way relationship with Ken, Sabitha's estranged father but her newfound ambition and desire gives her courage to transform her awkward doom into real contentment.
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
A true story of obsession and murder. When Allen Ginsberg is accepted at Columbia, he finds stuffy tradition clashing with the daringly modern ideas and attitudes- embodied by Lucien Carr. Lucien is an object of fascination for shy, unsophisticated Allen, and soon he is drawn into Lucien's hard-drinking, jazz-clubbing circle of friends, including William Burroughs and David Kammerer, who clearly resents Allen's position as Lucien's new sidekick. A...
13) Welcome to Me
Publisher
Millennium Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A year in the life of Alice Klieg, a woman with Borderline Personality Disorder who wins Mega-millions, quits her meds and buys her own talk show.
14) White Boy Rick
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Based on the moving true story of a blue-collar father and his teenage son, Rick Wershe, who became an undercover informant for the FBI during the 1980s, before he was arrested for drug trafficking, abandoned by his handlers, and sentenced to life in prison.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Eighteen years ago the town accused Dolores Claiborne of murdering her husband in cold blood. Now a woman lies dead and a witness finds Dolores standing over the body. Her daughter is the only one who can save her life and the only thing that stands between guilt and innocence is the evil secret that made the daughter run away ten years ago.
17) In the cut
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
A lonely young woman in New York City gets tangled up in a murder investigation when a severed head is found in her garden. When she becomes involved with the homicide detective on the case, she realizes that the prime suspect may be closer than she likes to think.
Publisher
Lions Gate
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
While Aimee dreams of the future, Sutter lives in the now, and yet somehow, they're drawn together. What starts as an unlikely romance becomes a sharp-eyed, straight-up snapshot of the heady confusion and haunting passion of youth.
"Mr. Ponsoldt ably charts a journey through the high stakes of adolescence, with both Sutter and Mr. Teller showing great promise."--New York Times.
"James Ponsoldt's funny and touching coming-of-age tale covers old ground...
19) Possessor
Publisher
Well Go USA Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
From the visionary mind of writer/director Brandon Cronenberg, it is an arresting sci-fi thriller about elite corporate assassin Tasya Vos. Using brain-implant technology, Vos takes control of other peopleb2ss bodies to execute high-profile targets. As she sinks deeper into her latest assignment, Vos becomes trapped inside a mind that threatens to obliterate her.
20) Annihilation
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Biologist and former soldier Lena is shocked when her missing husband comes home near death from a top-secret mission into The Shimmer, a mysterious quarantine zone from which no one has ever returned. Now, Lena and her elite team must enter a beautiful, deadly world of mutated landscapes and creatures, to discover how to stop the growing phenomenon that threatens all life on Earth.
