Martha Plimpton
1) Eye of God
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
SUMMARY: A lonely waitress in a small oil town in Oklahoma falls in love with a pen pal, a prisoner convicted of a brutal crime.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
On a winter night in 1964, Dr. David Henry is forced by a blizzard to deliver his own twins. His son, born first, is perfectly healthy. Yet when his daughter is born, he sees immediately that she has Down's Syndrome. Rationalizing it as a need to protect Norah, his wife, he makes a split-second decision that will alter all of their lives forever. He asks his nurse to take the baby away to an institution and never to reveal the secret. But Caroline,...
3) Mass
Publisher
Decal
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Years after an unspeakable tragedy tore their lives apart, two sets of parents agree to talk privately in an attempt to move forward. In Fran Kranz's writing and directing debut, he thoughtfully examines their journey of grief, anger, and acceptance by coming face-to-face with the ones who have been left behind.
4) The goonies
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Two kids find a treasure map just as they're about to lose their house. They and their friends go on a search for the treasure, but not without trouble from a few ne'er-do-wells.
5) Frozen II
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Why was Elsa born with magical powers? The answer is calling her and threatening her kingdom. Together with Anna, Kristoff, Olaf, and Sven, she'll set out on a dangerous but remarkable journey. In the first film, Elsa feared her powers were too much for the world. Now she must hope they are enough.
6) Retribution
Author
Language
English
Description
As prosecutor C.J. Townsend faces the most vile predator she has ever encountered, she is forced to make a painful choice between justice and vengeance.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Allie Fox is fed up. Angered by an America that "buys junk, sells junk, eats junk, " and a world whose nuclear doomsday clock is always two minutes away from midnight, the brilliant inventor leads his trusting wife and four children into the remote Central American jungles to carve out a new society.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"Things are looking up for Jimmy: Sabrina is now his girlfriend, and Hope is a normal little girl, despite her genes. Meanwhile, Virginia tries to scare away a friendly raccoon and a client's sexual urges, while Burt falls for a pair of singing coconut boobs. And while Hope's serial killer mom may not really be dead, Maw Maw's husband is--which inspires her to make out with Jimmy!"--Container.
9) Parenthood
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
The Buckmans are a modern family facing the age-old dilemma of trying to raise children the "right" way.
Publisher
Harper Children's Audio
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Taken from the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, a collection of thirty-six excerpts from the Old and New Testaments includes the creation story, the battle of Jericho, the birth and youth of Moses, and the baptism and temptation of Jesus.
11) Running on empty
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Ever since antiwar activists Arthur and Annie Pope blew up a napalm lab in 1971, the Popes and their children have been on the run from the law. Now elder son Danny is 17 and he wants to stop running from a past he had nothing to do with.
Publisher
Distributed by Monterey Video
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
When a young, unidentified woman is found dead by the lake, the victim of a brutal and violent crime, Walter, an aging small-town police officer, is called to the scene of the town's first murder investigation in decades. Haunted by his past, and hampered by the mistrust of the community and a state police officer overseeing the investigation, he sets out to solve the murder, complicated by his ex-lover and his suspicion of her current boyfriend.
Publisher
Sundance Channel Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
The story of two women who search for meaning in lost loves and missed chances. As one mother looks to her past to gain the strength to face the future, a daughter investigates the emotional wounds which have kept her from finding love. Their stories come together in surprising and deeply moving ways.
17) 200 cigarettes
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
It's New Year's Eve 1981, and a wild assortment of comic characters are looking for romance in NYC's rollicking East Village. Can a poser, a hunk, a teeny bopper, a gabby cabbie, a cute klutz, and a bevy of too-cool-to-cope artists find love before the stroke of midnight?
18) The Goonies
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Formats
Description
A band of misfit kids searches for buried treasure in a subterranean cavern. Here they cross the path of Mama Fratelli and her outlaw brood. The kids befriend Fratelli's hideously deformed (but soft-hearted) son, who comes to their rescue.
Publisher
[Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment]
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Music from another room: When a five-year old boy aids in the birth of a family friend's baby girl, he vows to marry her when she grows up. Twenty-five years later, they find each other and the comedy ensues.
Autumn in New York: A womanizing New York restaurateur falls in love with a beautiful young woman, unaware that she suffers from a fatal illness.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Wizard of Oz : When a nasty neighbor tries to have her dog put to sleep, Dorothy takes her dog, Toto, and starts to run away. A tornado appears and carries her to the magical land of Oz. Wishing to return home, she begins to travel to the city of Oz where a great wizard lives. On her way she meets a Scarecrow who needs a brain, a Tin Man who wants a heart, and a Cowardly Lion who desperately needs courage. They all hope the all-mighty Wizard of Oz...