Jodie Foster
1) Nim's island
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Nim Rusoe is a young girl who inhabits an isolated island with her scientist father and communicates, via e-mail, with the reclusive author of the novel she has been reading. Nim's existence mirrors that of her favorite literary character, Alex Rover, the world's greatest adventurer. But Alexandra, the author of the Rover books, leads a reclusive life in the big city. When Nim's father goes missing from the island, Nim gets Alexandra to come to her...
3) Inside man
Language
English
Formats
Description
The perfect bank robbery quickly spirals into an unstable and deadly game of cat-and-mouse between a criminal mastermind, the hostages, a determined detective, and a power broker with a hidden agenda. As the minutes tick by and the situation becomes increasingly tense, one wrong move could mean disaster for any one of them.
5) Elysium
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 109 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the year 2154 two groups of people remain; the extremely wealthy who reside on an immaculate man-made space station named Elysium, and the rest, who occupy an overpopulated, destroyed Earth. Max decides to embark on a mission that could bring equality to the opposed worlds.
Author
Language
English
Description
Alice Guy-Blaché was a true pioneer who got into the movie business at the very beginning-in 1894, at the age of 21. Two years later, she was made head of production at Gaumont and started directing films. She and her husband moved to the United States, and she founded her own company, Solax, in 1910-they started in Flushing and moved to a bigger facility in Fort Lee, New Jersey. But by 1919, Guy-Blaché's career came to an abrupt end, and she and...
Author
Language
English
Description
Set in riot-torn, near-future Los Angeles, HOTEL ARTEMIS is an original, high-octane action-thriller starring Jodie Foster as The Nurse, who runs a secret, members-only hospital for criminals. Jodie Foster is joined by an all-star cast that includes Sterling K. Brown, Sofia Boutella, Jeff Goldblum, Brian Tyree Henry, Jenny Slate, Zachary Quinto, Charlie Day, and Dave Bautista.
9) Flightplan
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Flying at 40,000 feet in a cavernous, state-of-the-art 474 aircraft that she designed, Kyle Pratt faces every mother's worst nightmare when her six year-old daughter, Julia, vanishes without a trace mid-flight from Berlin to New York. Already emotionally devastated by the unexpected death of her husband, Kyle desperately struggles to prove her sanity to the disbelieving flight crew, pilot, and passengers while facing the very real possibility that...
10) The brave one
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
Full screen edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
New York City radio host Erica Bain is working and living a wonderful life. One night she and her fiancé, David, are brutally attacked. David is killed and Erica is almost beaten to death. Erica is traumatized and in order to cope and work past the tragic event, Erica becomes someone else. She buys a gun and begins to roam the streets at night looking to take her revenge on the men who were responsible for the attack. Late one night, Erica is in...
11) Taxi driver
Edition
Collector's edition.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A lonely taxi driver tries to save a child prostitute and becomes infatuated with a political campaigner. He goes on a violent rampage when his dreams don't work out.
12) Maverick
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1997.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Comedy about a handsome gambler, a charming lady scam artist and a lawman, all headed for a poker tournament held on a river boat with a $500,000 pot for the winner.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
Special edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
FBI agent Clarice Starling is assigned to help find a missing woman to save her from a psychopathic serial killer who skins his victims. Clarice attempts to gain a better insight into the twisted mind of the killer by talking to another psychopath Hannibal Lecter, who used to be a respected psychiatrist.
14) The accused
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A working-class woman is gang raped in the back room of a bar, then battles the legal system twice, going after both her attackers and the onlookers whose cheering fueled and encouraged the assualt.
15) The beaver
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A troubled family man and executive adopts a beaver hand-puppet as his sole means of communicating.
16) Contact
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
Special edition; Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (150 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After an astronomer discovers communication emanating from the star Vega, she leads an international team in deciphering it, and travels through space to contact the senders of the message.
17) Contact
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.4 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
Astronomer Dr. Ellie Arroway receives an encrypted message, apparently from a solar system many light-years away.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000]
Edition
Special edition, widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (147 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
English schoolteacher Anna Leonowens has traveled to Siam to educate the 58 children of King Mongkut. Each has preconceived ideas about the other's world. Amid the danger of political unrest, their respect for each other turns into something more.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (133 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Formats
Description
Mathilde is waiting desperately for her fiancé to return from the war. When bad news arrives she refuses to believe he is dead. Instead, she begins her own investigation into his infantry, hiring a private detective and piecing together his war stories.
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
Edition especial.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 147 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
La profesora Anna Leonowens viaja de Inglaterra a Siam para educar a los cincuenta y ocho hijos del Rey Mongkut. Al llegar se encuentra involucrada en un conflicto político que al final la une al Rey con algo más que respeto.
English schoolteacher Anna Leonowens has traveled to Siam to educate the 58 children of King Mongkut. Each has preconceived ideas about the other's world. Amid the danger of political unrest, their respect for each other turns...