Asa Butterfield
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Language
English
Formats
Description
Struggling to build relationships with others, a teenage math prodigy (Asa Butterfield, *Hugo, Enders Game*) develops a budding friendship with a young girl while competing at the International Mathematics Olympiad. Nominated for Best Actor (Asa Butterfield), Best Supporting Actress (Sally Hawkins), and Best Supporting Actor (Rafe Spall) at the **British Independent Film Awards**. Official Selection at the **Toronto Independent Film Festival**. *"It...
Publisher
Miramax Films
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Poland, World War II. Innocent and naive 8-year-old Bruno is bored and restless in his new home. Ignoring his mother, he sets off on an adventure in the woods. He comes across a high fence which separates him from the people he can see through it. Soon he meets a young boy in striped pajamas, and a surprising friendship develops.
3) Hugo
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tells the tale of an orphan boy living a secret life in the walls of a Paris train station. When Hugo encounters a broken machine, an eccentric girl, and the cold, reserved man who runs the toy shop, he is caught up in a magical, mysterious adventure that could put all of his secrets in jeopardy.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jacob discovers clues to a mystery and stumbles upon Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. However the mystery is deeper than he had thought, as he gets to know the residents and learn about their special powers. Jacob discovers that only his own special peculiarity can save his new friends.
5) Ender's game
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Widescreen version ; [English/Spanish dialogue version].
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A hostile alien race attacked Earth, and if not for the legendary heroics of Fleet Commander Mazer Rackham, all would have been lost. In preparation for the next attack, Colonel Hyrum Graff is training only the best young children. Ender Wiggin, a shy, but brilliant boy, is soon ordained by Graff as the military's next great hope. Once at Command School, he's trained by Mazer Rackham, himself, to lead them into an epic battle that will determine the...
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Gardner Elliot has lived his whole life with a team of scientists on Mars. He's always longed to see Earth to find the father he's never known and to meet a beautiful street-smart girl named Tulsa he's become friends with online. But when his chance finally comes, doctors discover his heart can't withstand the Earth's atmosphere. Eager to find his father, Gardner and Tulsa escape on a cross-country race against time to unravel the...
7) Time freak
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
If one could turn back time, could they win back the love of their life? That is the problem puzzling Stillman, a physics genius recently dumped by his stunning girlfriend Debbie. Therefore, after creating a timeline of their romance and a machine to rewind the past, he grabs his wingman Evan and sets off to right every wrong he made with Debbie. However, as this insane comedy proves, there are some mistakes too perfect for science to fix.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Slaughterhouse is an elite boarding school where boys and girls are groomed for power and greatness, and they're about to meet their match. This ancient and ordered world is about to be shaken to its foundations, literally. When a controversial frack site on prize school woodland causes seismic tremors, a mysterious sinkhole and an unspeakable horror is unleashed. Soon a new pecking order will be established as pupils, teachers and the school matron...
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Gardner Elliot has lived his whole life with a team of scientists on Mars. He's always longed to see Earth to find the father he's never known and to meet a beautiful street-smart girl named Tulsa he's become friends with online. But when his chance finally comes, doctors discover his heart can't withstand the Earth's atmosphere. Eager to find his father, Gardner and Tulsa escape on a cross-country race against time to unravel the...
10) Then came you
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The film tells the story of Skye, a spunky teenager with a terminal illness who befriends Calvin, a 19-year old hypochondriac who is afraid of his own shadow. Calvin helps Skye carry out her eccentric bucket list of things to do before she dies. In the process, he learns to confront and conquer his own fears, including falling in love with the beautiful, but seemingly untouchable, Izzy.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Nanny McPhee appears at the farmhouse door of a busy young mother Isabel Green, she discovers that Mrs. Green's children are in an all-out household war with their two spoiled city cousins. Relying on everything from a flying motorcycle and a statue that comes to life to a tree-climbing piglet and an elephant that turns up in the oddest places, Nanny McPhee uses her magic to show the children five valuable lessons, the most important of which...
12) 10,000 saints
Publisher
Screen Media
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in the 1980s, following tragedy, teenage Jude moves from Vermont to New York City to live with his father in the punk-fueled East Village. Caught in the chaos of city life, Jude and his friends, Eliza and Teddy embark on a journey of self-realization in a neighborhood on the verge of riots.
13) Journey's end
Publisher
Cinedigm
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Great War, March 1918. C-company arrives to take its turn in the front-line trenches of northern France, led by the war-weary Captain Stanhope. With a German offensive imminently approaching, the company anxiously awaits their unknown fate.
14) Ender's game
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Widescreen version ; [English/Spanish dialogue version].
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (Blu-ray) (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A hostile alien race attacked Earth, and if not for the legendary heroics of Fleet Commander Mazer Rackham, all would have been lost. In preparation for the next attack, Colonel Hyrum Graff is training only the best young children. Ender Wiggin, a shy, but brilliant boy, is soon ordained by Graff as the military's next great hope. Once at Command School, he's trained by Mazer Rackham, himself, to lead them into an epic battle that will determine the...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 3 hr., 18 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Nanny McPhee: Nanny McPhee can tame even the most unruly children with a tap of her magic walking stick. Her latest challenge is the bratty brood of a recent widower, Mr. Brown. He is under pressure to find a new wife or lose his much-needed allowance from wealthy Aunt Adelaide. His love for scullery maid Evangeline remains unspoken as he wincingly woos the eagerly merry widow Mrs. Quickly; but Brown's raucous rugrats have a plan to make things right,...
16) Hugo
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
[Blu-ray + DVD combo].
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (126 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An orphan boy lives a secret life in the walls of a Paris train station. When Hugo encounters a broken machine, an eccentric girl, and the cold, reserved man who runs the toy shop, he is caught up in a magical, mysterious adventure that could put all of his secrets in jeopardy. Special features: featurettes.