Tim Matheson
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Tom Langdon, a weary and cash-strapped journalist, is banned from flying when a particularly thorough airport security search causes him to lose his cool. Now, he must take the train if he has any chance of arriving in Los Angeles in time for Christmas with his girlfriend. To finance the trip, he sells a story about a train ride taken during the Christmas season.
Publisher
Hen's Tooth Video
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (94 min) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jake Peterson is a man who has spent his life climbing the corporate ladder at a tractor corporation. He's a lonely man living in a big city. His boss has ordered massive downsizing a week before Christmas, and Jake's mission is to go back to his hometown and assess who should be fired at the local assembly plant. Complications arise when he meets Emma, a young widow whose father manages the factory.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Faber College has one frat house so disreputable it will take anyone. The campus's only other frat house is full of white, anglo-saxon, rich young men that no one except Dean Wormer can stand. The dean enlists the help of that fraternity to get the boys of Delta House off campus. The dean's plan comes into play just before the homecoming parade.
4) Van Wilder
Publisher
Artisan Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD)(93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Van Wilder is a seventh year student with no plans to graduate. He has a coed in every closet and a party to go to every night. He meets reporter Gwen when she decides to do a story featuring his life on campus.
5) Mary White
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In this heart-warming true story of a loving father-daughter relationship, William Allen White reflects on the last year he spent with his daughter Mary, a young social reformer and expert horsewoman, before her untimely death.
6) 1941
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Formats
Description
This zany comedy spectacular from Steven Spielberg is set in Los Angeles just days after the attack on Pearl Harbor when the fear of a Japanese invasion threw the city into a state of pandemonium.
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Navy officer Frank Beardsley meets nurse Helen North there's an undeniable attraction although both are apprehensive about any potential romantic involvement, having recently lost their spouses, leaving them responsible for raising ten and eight children respectively.
8) Child's play
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Realizing that her son Andy is lonely, Karen buys him a seemingly innocent, AI-enhanced doll named Chucky. But Chucky's safety restrictions have been disabled, and soon, a gruesome series of events unfolds. Unable to convince his mom that the doll is responsible for the carnage, Andy becomes the target of the bloodthirsty Chucky!
Publisher
Questar
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In Encountering sea monsters, marine photographer Bob Cranston investigates the realm of the Humboldt squid. Oceans of glass takes the viewer on a tour of the Monterey Bay Aquarium in Monterey, California.
Publisher
Lightyear Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Brian Cox (Golden Globe Winner for HBO's Succession) is Rory MacNeil, a rugged old Scotsman who reluctantly leaves his beloved isolated Hebridean island for San Francisco to seek medical treatment. Moving in with his estranged son, Rory's life will be unexpectedly transformed through a newly found love for his baby grandson.
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008?]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 189 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Apple dumpling gang: A roving bachelor inherits three young orphans and a wealth of problems. When the kids discover a gold nugget they must fend off the greedy townspeople, so they join forces with bumbling outlaws to stage a robbery of the gold.
Apple dumpling gang rides again: Two bumbling outlaws try to go straight, but can't even seem to get that right. They make a deposit in a bank and are accused of robbing it ; they join the U.S. Cavalry...
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (73 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tom and Jerry become involved in the world of espionage, when Tom inadvertently gets his paws on a top secret code, which all the spies are after.