Frances McDormand
1) Missing May
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
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After the death of the beloved aunt who has raised her, twelve-year-old Summer and her uncle Ob leave their West Virginia trailer in search of the strength to go on living.
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'Food is our common ground, a universal experience.' -James Beard. The saga of the Chili Queens of San Antonio, NASCAR kitchens tucked away in the crew pits at race tracks, the story of an unexpected kitchen-the George Foreman Grill-these stories and more from Hidden Kitchens, the popular and highly acclaimed radio series on NPR's morning edition, is now being released as an audio program based on the new book Hidden Kitchens: Stories, Recipes &...
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Academy Award winner Charlize Theron (Monster) teams with Niki Caro, the award-winning screenwriter and director of Whale Rider, for this fictionalized version of the first successful legal prosecution of asexual-harassment case in the United States.
After fleeing from her abusive husband, young mother Josey Aimes (Theron) returns home to Minnesota, where she finds work in the iron mines. Josey refuses to endure the frequent sexual innuendoes and...
8) Passed Away
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Thrown for a loop by the unexpected news that dad has suddenly gone to his reward, the grieving Scanlan clan are drawn together in a test of familial endurance that soon has them at each other's throats. As the eldest son, Johnny is tactlessly reminded that he's probably the next to go; daughter Terry is the black sheep who hasn't told anyone that the marriage they all warned her against has broken up; thick-headed but nice looking younger son Frank...
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Cheyenne (Sean Penn of MYSTIC RIVER, MILK) is a former rock star. At 50, he still dresses 'Goth' and lives in Dublin off his royalties. The death of his father, with whom he wasn't on speaking terms, brings him back to New York. While there, he discovers his father had an obsession: to seek revenge on one of his Nazi captors who humiliated him during WWII. Searching for peace with his father's death and combating a mid-life crisis, Cheyenne decides...
10) Almost Famous
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A high-school boy is given the chance to write a story for Rolling Stone Magazine about an up-and-coming rock band as he accompanies it on their concert tour.
11) Talk of Angels
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A beautiful young Irish governess, Mary, leaves home and travels to Spain to work in the residence of a wealthy family strained by conflicting political allegiances. Swept away by her new surroundings while being threatened by the turmoil of the times, Mary eventually finds a different kind of danger: the inescapable attraction she shares with the fiery, handsome and married son of her employer.
12) Aeon Flux
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Academy Award®-winner* Charlize Theron stars as Aeon Flux, the underground operative fighting totalitarian rule in 25th-century Earth's last living city.
13) Wonder Boys
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During a single hectic weekend, college professor Grady Tripp scrambles to gather together a life that has suddenly reeled out of control.
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When Greenwich Village butcher Leo Lemke (George Dzundza) return from a North Carolina fishing trip, he can't wait to show off his prize catch: his beautiful new wife, a country clairvoyant names Marina (Demi Moore). But the butcher's pride turns to prime concern when her hears gossip about a backwoods psychic whose charms are turning hardened city dwellers into love struck kids. Dr. Alex Tremor (Jeff Daniels), the local psychiatrist, isn't convinced...
15) Primal Fear
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Courtroom thriller about a slick, hotshot lawyer (Richard Gere) who takes the seemingly unwinnable case of a young altar boy (Edward Norton) accused of murdering an eminent catholic priest.