Matthew Modine
Author
Language
English
Description
Most first-year med students at Chandler University's esteemed school of medicine approach gross anatomy the systematic dissection of the human body with fear, nervous stomachs, and the daunting knowledge that their futures depend on a passing grade. Joe Slovak isn't like his fellow freshmen. A cocky, bright, and outspoken rebel who doesn't believe in sacrificing his social life for long nights of studying, Joe follows his own lesson plan, a curriculum...
2) The Maker
Author
Language
English
Description
Josh is a high school kid who dabbles in small crimes. When his brother Walter resurfaces after ten years, he begins to involve Josh in various new criminal activities, including robbery.
Author
Series
Cat 8 volume 2
Language
English
Description
When an accident sends a solar flare four times larger than Earth plunging toward the planet, Military scientist Dr. Jane Brandt calls upon the one man who can possibly reverse the cataclysm: a government outsider and renegade ad-hoc scientist. He'll have to work fast, as in a matter of hours, the planet's atmosphere will ignite and the countdown to the end of the world will begin.
Author
Series
Cat 8 volume 1
Language
English
Description
When an accident sends a solar flare four times larger than Earth plunging toward the planet, Military scientist Dr. Jane Brandt calls upon the one man who can possibly reverse the cataclysm: a government outsider and renegade ad-hoc scientist. He'll have to work fast, as in a matter of hours, the planet's atmosphere will ignite and the countdown to the end of the world will begin.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
For seven long years, Jacob has labored to earn the right to marry beautiful Rachel. Now the seven years are up-but Rachel's devious father substitutes his elder daughter on the wedding night. Matthew Modine and Lara Flynn Boyle play Jacob and Rachel in one of the greater love stories from the Bible. Highlights of Jacob's life-how he usurped his brother Esau's birthright and blessing, the pillow of stone, the ladder to heaven, wrestling with God-are...
7) Redeemer
Author
Language
English
Description
A model prisoner, serving a life-sentence for murder, is contacted by the victim's sister. What happens between them becomes a poignant drama of forgiveness and salvation. With its illuminating messages of hope, Sonar Entertainment's Redeemer speaks to everyone who ever wanted a second chance.
8) Backtrace
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After suffering a brain injury from a bank heist gone wrong, Macdonald develops amnesia and is put into a prison psychiatric ward. Following his seventh year of evaluation, he is coerced by an inmate and a ward doctor to break out of prison and injected with a serum that forces him to relive the life he's forgotten. Macdonald must now elude a local detective, a tough FBI agent, and the drug's dangerous side effects in order to recover the stolen money....
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2001, c1987
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A classic depiction of war, this film follows a young Marine through the horrors of boot camp to his wisecracking days as a Vietnam soldier journalist. Directed by Stanley Kubrick, based on the novel The Short Timers by Gustav Hasford.
10) Miss Virginia
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (102 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Based on a true story, a struggling inner-city mother sacrifices everything to give her son a good education and launches a movement that could save his future - and that of thousands like him.
Publisher
GKIDS Films
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (92 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Featuring the voices of Oscar-winner Whoopi Goldberg and Oscar-nominee James Woods, "Mia and the Migoo" is a stunningly beautiful, hand-painted animated feature film. Pedro leaves his poor village and finds work drilling a tunnel through an area of exceptional natural beauty that is to become a luxurious hotel complex. But mysterious forces are working against the project. When a landslide blocks the entrance to the tunnel, Pedro is left trapped....
Publisher
American International Pictures, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After her husband goes missing, Sue Buttons, an under-appreciated suburban wife, gets a taste of being a local celebrity as she embarks on a city-wide search in Yuba County to find him. She stumbles into hilarious hijinks, dodging a wanna-be mobster, a relentless local policewoman, her half-sister a local news reporter desperate for a story, and her husband's dead-beat brother, who all set out to uncover the truth behind the disappearance.
13) Vision quest
Series
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in..
Language
English
Description
Matthew Modine stars as a high school wrestler trying to shed 23 pounds in a dangerously short time and take on the undefeated, tough as nails 168-pound champion.
14) Wrinkles
Publisher
GKIDS
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on Paco Roca's award-winning graphic novel, the story opens with former bank manager Emilio being dispatched to a retirement home by his family. Like One Flew Over the Cuckoo₂s Nest in an old folks home, we are introduced to daily pill regimens, electric gates and an eccentric cast of characters who rebel against institutional authority, while doing everything in their power to avoid being assigned to the dreaded top floor assisted living...
15) Vision quest
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
High school wrestler Louden Swain is a man obsessed, trying to shed 23 pounds in a dangerously short time and take on Shute, the undefeated, tough-as-nails 168-pound champion who's the best wrestler in the state.
16) Foster boy
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Language
English
Formats
Description
A corporate lawyer and a young man who has suffered in the foster care system must work together to expose the immorality of for-profit foster care.
18) 47 meters down
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two sisters vacationing in Mexico are trapped in a shark cage at the bottom of the ocean. With less than an hour of oxygen left and great white sharks circling nearby, they must fight to survive.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Vietnam war drama which begins with a depiction of the brutality of Marine Corps training and then shifts to Vietnam, focusing mainly on a group of Marines responding to the Tet Offensive of 1968.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1994.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (97 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Albert Finney plays a brilliant but stern classics instructor at a posh prep school who is forced out of his job and into the realization that he is despised in the classroom...and at home. Nominated for Best Screenplay at the **BAFTA Awards.** Nominated for the Palme d'Or at the **Cannes Film Festival.** *"Finney is a master of letting us glimpse the bruised heart of a man like Andrew Crocker-Harris, who has used his devotion to the classics to bury...