Stanley Tucci
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Breakfast of Champions, one of Kurt Vonnegut’s most beloved characters, the aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. What follows is murderously funny satire, as Vonnegut looks at war, sex, racism, success, politics, and pollution in America and reminds us how to see the truth.
4) 1-2-3 peas
Author
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Busy little peas engage in their favorite activities as they introduce the numbers from one to 100.
6) I'm fast!
Author
Publisher
Scholastic/Weston Woods
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Can a train pulling half a mile of heavy-duty freight cars make it to Chicago ahead of a speedy little race car? Through the desert . . . Through the mountains . . . Through a blizzard . . . Vvvrrrrrrrrrrrrrrum! Chooka chooka chooka chooka! The race is on!
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
When two pairs of star-crossed lovers, a troop of inept amateur actors, a feuding pair of supernatural sprites and a love potion gone awry all come together in an enchanted moonlit forest, the result is an unequalled mixture of merriment and magic.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Julia Child's life with her husband in Paris is intertwined with the life of thirty-year-old Queens resident Julie Powell who decides to cook every recipe in Child's book "Mastering the art of French cooking" over the course of one year.
Publisher
[Distributed by] Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
After being deemed unfit for military service, Steve Rogers volunteers to participate in an experimental program that turns him into Captain America, a Super Soldier. Now, as Captain America, Rogers joins forces with Bucky Barnes and Peggy Carter to wage war on the evil HYDRA organization, led by the villainous Red Skull.
10) Spotlight
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
It tells the riveting true story of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe investigation that would rock the city and cause a crisis in one of the world's oldest and most trusted institutions. When the newspaper's tenacious 'Spotlight' teams of reporters delve into allegations of abuse in the Catholic Church, their year-long investigation uncovers a decades-long cover-up at the highest levels of Boston's religious, legal, and government establishment....
11) Supernova
Publisher
Wolfe Video
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
When a man is diagnosed with dementia, he travels across England to the Lake District with his partner, reuniting with friends and family for the final time.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The world was saved after an epic battle that left a great city torn. As humanity picks up the pieces, a shadowy group reveals itself in an attempt to control the direction of history, while an ancient, powerful new menace sets Earth in its crosshairs. With help from a new cast of humans, Optimus Prime and the Autobots rise to meet their most fearsome challenge yet. They are swept up in a war of good and evil, ultimately leading to a climactic battle...
13) Swing vote
Publisher
Buena Vista
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
The outcome of the United States presidential election relies on the vote of one apathetic and unmotivated man.
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Discover the story of Chef Jacques Pépin (b. December 18, 1935), a young immigrant with movie-star looks, a charming Gallic accent, and a mastery of cooking and teaching so breathtaking he became an early food icon-joining James Beard and Julia Child among the handful of Americans who transformed the way the country views the food world.
15) Gambit
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
An art curator decides to seek revenge on his abusive boss by conning him into buying a fake Monet, but his plan requires the help of an eccentric and unpredictable Texas rodeo queen.
16) Burlesque
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Ali, is a small-town girl with a big voice who escapes hardship to follow her dreams to LA. After stumbling upon The Burlesque Lounge, a majestic but ailing theater that is home to an inspired musical revue, Ali lands a job as a cocktail waitress from Tess, the club's proprietor and headliner. After Ali finally makes her way from the bar to the stage, things take a dramatic turn when her larger than life voice causes a charismatic entrepreneur to...
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
A struggling single mom takes a job as a chambermaid at a luxury hotel in New York. she meets and falls in love with a sauve and sophisticated heir to an American political dynasty, who mistakes her for a society woman. When her real identity is revealed, the reality about their seperate lives sets in.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Miranda is the editor of "Runway" magazine. She is a terror to everyone who is around. Her first assistant strives to please her, but can't quite pull it off. Enter Andy, a young woman who knows nothing of the fashion industry and has never read the magazine. Nonetheless, Miranda, hires her a second assistant. When Miranda demands that she obtain the next unpublished Harry Potter manuscript, it forces Andy to dig it up in order to please her boss....
19) The terminal
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Viktor is a simple man with a mission who finds himself entrapped in JKF airport after the accidental loss of his country to villainous coup. He becomes a man without a country and is stuck in at the airport's international terminal with no visa, and is instructed that he is not allowed to leave. Slowly he encounters airport workers who come to his aid by mutual coercion. Gupta the hilarious Indian custodian; Enrique who transports food; Torres the...
20) Final portrait
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
In the 1960s, renowned artist Alberto Giacometti requests for the writer James Lord to become the subject of one of his portraits. Although this seems like an innocent suggestion at first, Lord is quickly drawn into the strange web of Giacometti's beautiful, controversial and difficult world. The portrait sitting becomes so much more than what it seems at face value, and Lord's entire life sits on the precipice due to his association with the wildly...