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1) Rush
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Set against the golden age of Formula One racing in the 1970s, Rush is based on the true story of a spectacular sporting rivalry between English playboy James Hunt, and his structured, intelligent opponent, Austrian driver Niki Lauda.
"Rush ranks among the best movies about auto racing ever made, featuring two great performances from the leads."--Richard Roeper.
"As cars spin and shimmer in the rain at the climactic and astounding Grand Prix in...
Language
English
Description
Based on Charles Dickens' novel, this is a story of the love of a man for an unreachable woman. Updated to modern day New York City, the story concerns a man of modest background who falls in love with a rich girl. But when a mysterious benefactor greenlights the man to make his dreams come true, everything done has the ultimate goal of making Estella fall in love with him.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
1070L
Language
English
Description
The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald that follows a cast of characters living in the fictional town of West Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922. The story primarily concerns the young and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his quixotic passion and obsession for the beautiful former debutante Daisy Buchanan. Considered to be Fitzgerald's magnum opus, The Great Gatsby explores themes of decadence,...
Series
Language
English
Description
Ernest Bliss (Cary Grant), the bored heir of a rich family, is set the task of earning his own living for one year -- a challenge secured by a bet of 50,000 pounds. Then love, in the form of a penurious young woman trapped in an unhappy marriage (played by Mary Brian), tempts Bliss to abandon the bet.
6) Foxcatcher
Publisher
Fair Hill, LLC ; Annapurna Pictures
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Based on true events, the dark and fascinating story of the unlikely and ultimately tragic relationship between an eccentric multi-millionaire and two champion wrestlers.
7) Pals
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
When Jack and Art, two retired fishing pals, find over $3 million in cash, they're hunted by a hitman, Jack's mother is kidnapped, and both are in big trouble with federal agents.
8) The jerk
Language
English
Formats
Description
A rags-to-riches-to-rags story. Navin Johnson, adopted son of a poor black sharecropper family, has invented some crazy inventions that lead him from rags to riches and right back to rags.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
When Hank, Jacob and Lou find $4.4 million inside a crashed planein a nature preserve, they quickly come up with the plan to keep the money safe until the plane has been found by others and the dust has settled. But Jacob, Hank's brother, and Lou, a friend, do not behave the way hey decided to. Lou, constantly in financial debt, wants his share soon and Jacob wishes to renovate their parents' farm. The trusty atmosphere between the unequal partners...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
In National Lampoon's Animal house, the members of Delta Tau Chi fraternity offend the straight-arrow and up-tight people on campus in a comedy film which irreverently mocks college traditions. In The Blues Brothers, Jake Blues, recently released from prison, and his brother Elwood reassemble their blues band and stage a concert to raise money for the orphanage where they grew up. The jerk is the story of the adopted son of a poor black sharecropper...
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The jerk: A rags-to-riches-to-rags story. Navin Johnson, adopted son of a poor black sharecropper family, produces some crazy inventions that lead him from rags to riches and right back to rags.
Housesitter: Shortly after an architect's girlfriend turns down his marriage proposal, he encounters a woman who decides on her own to move into his empty dream house and pass herself off as his new wife--with hilarious and romantic consequences.
Parenthood:...
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Grandma Hattie Mae's family is poor and struggling to save her home. The Willis family is filthy rich. When Hattie's daughter, Rose, and son-in-law, Frank, go to work at the Willis estate, it appears as if their financial worries are over. But when Mrs. Willis tries to buy Frank's affections, both families learn that choices often come with a price.
Publisher
UMC
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
With family matriarch Pamela now deceased, outsider Carissa Walker is only a few scheming steps away from taking control of the powerful Sanders family and their fortune. But she didn't count on the return of Pamela's sister, Alexis, to stand in her way, with a bombshell of a secret. Haunted by his past, Cameron must come to terms with the imminent death of his father.
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