Ethan Hawke
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
Hawke's narrator is a young man in torment, disgusted with himself after the collapse of his marriage, still half-hoping for a reconciliation that would allow him to forgive himself and move on as he clumsily, and sometimes hilariously, tries to manage the wreckage of his personal life with whiskey and sex. What saves him is theater: in particular, the challenge of performing the role of Hotspur in a production of Henry IV under the leadership of...
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Series
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English
Description
"Homecoming" takes us back to Ford County, the fictional setting of many of John Grisham's unforgettable stories. Jake Brigance is back, but he's not in the courtroom. He's called upon to help an old friend, Mack Stafford, a former lawyer in Clanton, who three years earlier became a local legend when he stole money from his clients, divorced his wife, filed for bankruptcy, and left his family in the middle of the night, never to be heard from again--until...
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English
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Adapted for a magnificent George Roy Hill film three years later (perhaps the only film adaptation of a masterpiece which exceeds its source), Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) is the now famous parable of Billy Pilgrim, a World War II veteran and POW, who has in the later stage of his life become "unstuck in time" and who experiences at will (or unwillingly) all known events of his chronology out of order and sometimes simultaneously.
Traumatized
...Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound,color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Investigates the secret crimes of Father Lawrence Murphy, a Milwaukee priest who abused more than 200 deaf children in a school under his control. The film documents the first known public protest against the pontiff himself. The investigation helped uncover documents from the secret Vatican archives that show the Pope, who must operate within the mysterious rules of the Roman Curia, as both responsible and helpless in the face of evil.
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 128 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A murder trial has upset the quiet community of San Piedro, and now this tranquil village has become the center of controversy. For a local reporter the trial strikes home when he finds his ex-lover is linked to the case.
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (80 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two stranges met by chance, spent a night together in Vienna, and parted before sunrise. Nine years later, Jesse has written a book about the encounter. During his accelerated European book tour, he meets up with Celine in Paris. Before Jesse's flight home, he joins Celine for a picturesque walk around the city and they have an intimate conversation, ending at Celine's apartment. Will they get the chance to fall in love all over again?
7) The Northman
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
From visionary director Robert Eggers comes The Northman, an action-filled epic that follows a young Viking prince on his quest to avenge his father's murder.
Language
English
Formats
Description
For generations, Welton Academy students have been groomed to live lives of conformity and tradition, until new professor John Keating inspires them to think for themselves, live life to the fullest, and 'Carpe Diem.' This unconventional approach awakens the spirits of the students, but draws the wrath of a disapproving faculty when an unexpected tragedy strikes the school. Featuring new interview footage with director Peter Weir, Ethan Hawke, Robert...
9) Boyhood
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (164 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A story of growing up as seen through the eyes of a boy named Mason, who ages from six to eighteen years old on screen. The film was shot intermittently over a twelve-year period from May 2002 to October 2013, showing the growth of Mason and his older sister, Samantha, to adulthood.
11) Gattaca
Language
English
Description
As one of the last "natural" beings born into a genetically engineered world, Vincent Freeman has none of the 'pre-ordered' DNA that will guarantee him success. Desperate to realize his dream of exploring space, Vincent assumes the identity of a genetically superior athlete. Avoiding detection using the athlete's genetic markers, Vincent becomes a rising star at Gattaca Aerospace, attracting the attention of a beautiful co-worker. When a flight director...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
172 pages : illustrations ; 16 cm
Language
English
Description
"It is 1483, and Sir Thomas Lemuel Hawke, a Cornish knight, is about to ride into battle. On the eve of his departure, he composes a letter to his four young children, consisting of twenty virtues that provide instruction on how to live a noble life, and on all the lessons, large and small, that he might have imparted to them himself were he not expecting to die on the battlefield. 'Why am I alive? Where was I before I was born? What will happen to...
13) Adopt a highway
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (81 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Russ Millings has just been released from prison after serving 21 years for a third strike conviction for possessing an ounce of marijuana. As he tries to adapt to a world he doesn't recognize, including trying to learn how to use the internet, he finds an abandoned baby in a dumpster behind the fast-food restaurant where he works as a dishwasher. Unsure of what to do, and caught between impulses of kindness and panic, Russ soon realizes this could...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
vi, 232 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
The year is 1872. The place, the Apache nations, a region torn apart by decades of war. The people, like Goyahkla, lose his family and everything he loves. After having a vision, the young Goyahkla approaches the Apache leader Cochise, and the entire Apache nation, to lead an attack against the Mexican village of Azripe. It is this wild display of courage that transforms the young brave Goyakhla into the Native American hero Geronimo. But the war...
15) Predestination
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It chronicles the life of a Temporal Agent sent on an intricate series of time-travel journeys designed to ensure the continuation of his law enforcement career. Now, on his final assignment, the Agent must recruit his younger self while pursuing the one criminal that has eluded him throughout time.
16) Before midnight
Pub. Date
[date of publication not identified]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Follows Jesse and CĂ©line nine years later in Greece, almost two decades since they first met on a train bound for Vienna.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Description
In the 28th century, Valerian and Laureline are a team of special operatives charged with maintaining order throughout the human territories. Under assignment from the Minister of Defense, the two embark on a mission to the astonishing city of Alpha. A mystery is at the center of Alpha, a dark force which threatens the peaceful existence of the city.
18) White Fang
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (109 min.) : sound, color ; 12 in.
Language
English
Description
A young man tries to fulfill his father's wish to find gold in the treacherous Yukon Valley of Alaska. Along the way he befriends a veteran gold miner and a magnificent wolf-dog named White Fang.
19) Before sunrise
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young American man meets a beautiful French student on a train bound for Paris, falls in love and asks her to share his last night in Vienna.
20) The purge
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In an America wracked by crime and overcrowded prisons, the government has sanctioned an annual 12-hour period in which any and all criminal activity, including murder, becomes legal. On this night plagued by violence and an epidemic of crime, one family wrestles with the decision of who they will become when a stranger comes.