Alan J. Pakula
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
Rusty Sabich has been swept up in an obsessive affair with a coworker in the prosecutor's office. When she is murdered, he's asked to lead the investigation. Then, astonishingly, he's accused of the crime. He's the perfect suspect and his fight to clear his name pulls him into a whirpool of lies and secrets.
Language
English
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Formats
Description
The setting is a dusty Southern town during the Depression. A white woman accuses a black man of rape. Though he is obviously innocent, the outcome of his trial is such a foregone conclusion that no lawyer will step forward to defend him-- except the town's most distinguished citizen. His compassionate defense costs him many friendships but earns him the respect and admiration of his two motherless children.
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
A drama set in post-World War II Brooklyn revolves around Sophie, a Polish Catholic beauty who survived Auschwitz, her lover, Nathan, and Stingo, a would-be writer. As the three grow closer, Stingo discovers the captivating and moving truths that each harbor.
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
When the record books closed on Boston Red Sox outfielder Jimmy Piersall's career, it showed 17 seasons in the major leagues and an impressive lifetime batting average of .272. But before all that, Piersall faced a foe much tougher: mental illness. Based on the true story.
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
Depression-Era movie moguls and an adoring public can't hear or see enough of the tomboyish movie star, 15-year-old Daisy Clover. But there's a catch: they insist Daisy always be the girl on the screen instead of herself, which only shows they don't know Daisy, who's determined to be heard in her own right.
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Series
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Dr. Richard Kimble goes on the run from the law in an attempt to find the one-armed man he saw murder his wife; after engaging in an affair, a lawyer finds himself suspected of his ex-lover's murder; thieves threaten to kill a bank I.T. expert Jack Stanfield's family if he doesn't hack into a computer system through a firewall he designed in order to transfer 100 million dollars to an offshore account; an idealistic but eccentric American inventor...
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Consenting adults: When two neighboring couples grow too close, one of the husbands is lured into a shocking web of sexual obsession, betrayal and murder. An innocent man: A man, framed as a drug dealer and sent to prison by a pair of crooked cops, risks everything to prove he is innocent.
15) The devil's own
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
An Irish-American cop unknowingly brings in an IRA terrorist and tries to stop him before he destroys any more lives.
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Chisum: Cattle baron John Chisum joins forces with Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett to fight the Lincoln County land war--www.imdb.com.
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid: An aging Pat Garrett is hired as a lawman on behalf of a group of wealthy New Mexico cattle barons--his sole purpose being to bring down his old friend Billy the Kid--www.imdb.com.
The stalking moon: When an army scout retires to a farm in New Mexico he takes pity on a white woman and...
17) Sophie's choice
Pub. Date
1982, 1999
Language
English
Description
A drama set in post-World War II Brooklyn revolves around Sophie, a Polish Catholic beauty who survived Auschwitz, her lover, Nathan, and Stingo, a would-be writer. As the three grow closer, Stingo discovers the captivating and moving truths that each harbors.