Harry Dean Stanton
Pub. Date
c1998
Summary
Below the surface, the earth burns. You wouldn't know it from looking at the peaceful Appalachian hills of Jackson, Kentucky. And you won't hear about it from the locals. They've been bought off. Or scared into silence. Meanwhile, the toxins being dumped into abandoned mines could turn Jackson into a wasteland if someone doesn't stop it. Someone's going to. EPA Marshal Jack Taggert is going to ferret out who's responsible for poisoning the land. When...
Pub. Date
[1999?]
Summary
Based on a true story about 73-year-old Alvin Straight who embarks on a dangerous and emotional journey to make amends with his 75-year-old brother Lyle before his brother dies. Alvin can no longer drive a car because of his eyesight and has to walk with 2 canes, but he climbs aboard his 1966 John Deere lawnmower and drives the 260-mile course from Laurens, Iowa to Mt. Zion, Wis.
4) Christine
Pub. Date
c2004
Summary
She was born in Detroit on an automobile assembly line. But she is no ordinary automobile. Deep within her chassis lives an unholy presence. She is Christine, a red and white 1958 Plymouth Fury whose unique standard equipment includes an evil, indestructible vengeance that will destroy anyone in her way.
Pub. Date
c2009
Summary
Minor league baseball player Carlton Garrett takes an unplanned road trip to find his estranged father, legendary baseball player Kyle Garrett, after his mother becomes ill. Knowing that his father is charming, yet extremely immature, he brings along his sometimes girlfriend for support. After father and son are reunited, Carlton must struggle to deal with the misadventures brought on by his father's antics. Frustrations from the past come to a head...
6) Lucky
Pub. Date
[2018]
Summary
The spiritual journey of a ninety year old atheist, and the quirky characters that inhabit his off-the-map desert town.
7) Rango
Pub. Date
c2011
Summary
Rango is a lizard who imagines himself an actor who literally breaks the fourth wall of his terrarium when the hatchback car in which he is riding swerves and sends him careening. Abandoned in the desert amid the shards of his former home, Rango makes his way to the nearby town of Dirt, which is experiencing a mysterious water shortage. The actor in Rango seizes the opportunity to invent a grandiloquent new image for himself, and as in many a Western,...
10) Paris, Texas
Series
Criterion collection volume 501
Pub. Date
c2009
Summary
After four years' absence, a social dropout reappears in L.A. to claim his abandoned son and then heads to Texas to reunite the boy with his mother.
11) Alice
Pub. Date
[2010]
Summary
Jack gives a rare family ring to Alice, even though he barely knows her. Soon after, Jack is kidnapped and Alice is confronted by a stranger known as the White Rabbit, who entices her to follow him through the liquid glass of an ornate mirror. Here she lands in Wonderland, an outlandish underground city of twisted towers and staircases. Discovering the ring controls the looking glass, and is the key to the power of the Queen of Hearts, Alice must...
12) Alien
Series
Summary
Part of the Alien quadrilogy collection./ Includes the original theatrical version (117 min.) and the extended cuts (116 min.) of the film./ Special features: 1979 theatrical version, 2003 director's cut version, full length audio commentary by cast and crew, several featurettes, Sigourney Weaver screen test with optional commentary by Ridley Scott, still photo galleries, deleted and extended scenes.
13) The green mile
Pub. Date
[2007]
Summary
A death row inmate in a Southern prison possesses the unusual gift of healing. A guard discovers the inmate's miraculous power and begins to question the man's guilt.
Pub. Date
[2007]
Summary
Season two finds the modern-day polygamist Bill Henrickson and his three wives struggling to pick up the pieces after first wife Barb's outing at the Beehive Mother of the Year Ceremony. Second wife Nicki, learning that it was her father, Roman Grant, Prophet of the Fundamentalist Juniper Creek compound, who betrayed them, battles conflicting family loyalties. And third wife Margene, newly pregnant, fights for a bigger piece of the family pie with...
15) Zandy's bride
Series
Pub. Date
[2013]
Summary
Zandy Allen invites his mail-order bride Hannah into his life on the ranch. He only wants an heir, but she wants a home and roots. He often mistreats his wife, until Hannah takes a stand, and Zandy must change to keep her.
Series
Criterion collection volume 414
Pub. Date
c2007
Summary
The Driver and The Mechanic roam the country in a tricked-out 1955 Chevy, drag racing for money and thrills. While stopped at a diner, The Girl climbs into their car and plants herself in the backseat. Drifting across the Southwest, they keep being buzzed by a snazzy 1970 Pontiac. GTO chats up a storm, bending the ears of the hitchhikers he regularly picks up off the side of the road. Like modern day cowboys, they just keep moving--no roots, no responsibilities--the...
17) Private Benjamin
Pub. Date
c1997
Summary
A pampered, spoiled upper-middle class widow joins the army. The army will never be the same.
18) Dead man's walk
Pub. Date
c2010
Summary
"Experience the early adventures of Gus and Call - young, bold Texas Rangers whose tough exteriors are challenged by the vicious fighting amongst three warring cultures within their region. Follow their journey through barren deserts, snowy mountainous terrain and dangerous attacks that will begin to transform them into the heroes they will soon become." --Container.