Henry Gibson
Language
English
Formats
Description
After Jake Blues is release from prison, he and brother Elwood go to visit the old home where they were raised by nuns. They learn the church is no longer supporting the institution and will sell the place to the education authority. The only way to keep the place open is if the $5000 tax on the property is paid within the next 11 days. The brothers want to help and decide to put their blues band back together and raise the the money by staging a...
3) Nashville
Series
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Nashville interweaves the stories of 24 characters over 5 days during a political rally in the capital of country music.
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nanny enrolls Eloise in the prestigious Hawthorne Academy, but she soon finds out it isn't exactly what she was expecting. There are mean girls on the playground, very strict teachers, and so many rules. Eloise decides it is time to make school fun again, she's teaching her new friends to stand up to bullies, helping her teacher understand there are a lot of different ways to learn and having tons of adventures.
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Charlotte's Web (2006): A remake of the 1973 animated film mixing live action and digital special effects to tell the story of a rescued pig's bond with a young girl and a wise spider. Charlotte's Web (1973): Charlotte the spider teaches Wilbur the pig, Templeton the rat and the other barnyard animals lessons on friendship, trust and love. Charlotte's Web 2: When Wilbur befriends a lonely lamb named Cardigan and learns he has been sold to another...
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
For The Long Goodbye, Robert Altman successfully transports Philip Marlowe, incarnated by Elliott Gould, to the over-privileged, full-color 70s. Marlowe is lonely and shabby, yet does not seem an anachronism in the contemporary world. Unlike Bogart's Marlowe, this is a not especially tough Marlowe. He's a bright, conscientiously solemn nut, a guy who hopes for the best but expects the worst. This particular Philip Marlowe, despite evidence to the...
8) Magnolia
Series
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
"A mosaic of American life woven through a series of comic and poignant vignettes. Through a collusion of coincidence, chance, human action, shared media, past history and divine intervention, nine people will weave and warp through each other's lives on a day that builds to an unforgettable climax."--Container.
10) Charlotte's web
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Wilbur the pig is desolate when he discovers that he is destined to be the farmer's Christmas dinner until his spider friend, Charlotte, decides to help him.