Martha Plimpton
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Formats
Description
On a winter night in 1964, Dr. David Henry is forced by a blizzard to deliver his own twins. His son, born first, is perfectly healthy. Yet when his daughter is born, he sees immediately that she has Down's Syndrome. Rationalizing it as a need to protect Norah, his wife, he makes a split-second decision that will alter all of their lives forever. He asks his nurse to take the baby away to an institution and never to reveal the secret. But Caroline,...
2) The goonies
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A band of misfit kids searches for buried treasure in a subterranean cavern. Here they cross the path of Mama Fratelli and her outlaw brood. The kids befriend Fratelli's hideously deformed (but soft-hearted) son, who comes to their rescue.
3) Parenthood
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Widescreen version ; Special edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (2 hrs., 9 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Buckmans are a modern family facing the age-old dilemma of trying to raise children the "right" way.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (DVD) (506 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A one night stand becomes a life-long commitment when twenty-three-year-old Jimmy Chance inadvertently impregnates a wanted felon and decides to raise Hope (aka Princess Beyonce) on his own. Jimmy, together with his family, face play dates, family photo shoots, rock star dreams, vasectomies and more in the uproariously irreverent, critically acclaimed first season.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (DVD) (approximately 476 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Things are looking up for Jimmy: Sabrina is now his girlfriend, and Hope is a normal little girl, despite her genes. Meanwhile, Virginia tries to scare away a friendly raccoon and a client's sexual urges, while Burt falls for a pair of singing coconut boobs. And while Hope's serial killer mom may not really be dead, Maw Maw's husband is--which inspires her to make out with Jimmy!"--Container.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003, 1997
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a five-year-old boy aids in the birth of a family friend's baby girl, he vows to marry her when she grows up. Twenty-five years later, they find each other and the comedy ensues.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Allie Fox is fed up. Angered by an America that buys junk, sells junk, eats junk, and a world whose nuclear doomsday clock is always two minutes away from midnight, the brilliant inventor leads his trusting wife and four children into the remote Central American jungles to carve out a new society.
9) Company
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (145 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set firmly in, and often about, New York, this movie follows five married, once married, or soon to be married couples and their mutual friend, Robert, a 35 year old bachelor who has been unable to connect in a long-term relationship. The relationships are presented in a series of vignettes, primarily through Bobby's eyes, so that we see the less than ideal aspects of commitment. Eventually, Bobby learns that while relationships aren't perfect, they...
10) 200 cigarettes
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c1999
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It's New Year's Eve 1981, and a wild assortment of comic characters are looking for romance in NYC's rollicking East Village. Can a poser, a hunk, a teeny bopper, a gabby cabbie, a cute klutz, and a bevy of too-cool-to-cope artists find love before the stroke of midnight?
11) Frozen II
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Why was Elsa born with magical powers? The answer is calling her and threatening her kingdom. Together with Anna, Kristoff, Olaf, and Sven, she'll set out on a dangerous but remarkable journey. In the first film, Elsa feared her powers were too much for the world. Now she must hope they are enough.
12) Frozen II
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Anna, Elsa, Kristoff, Olaf, and Sven leave Arendelle to travel to an ancient, autumn-bound forest of an enchanted land. They set out to find the origin of Elsa's powers in order to save their kingdom.
13) Parenthood
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
1998, 1989
Edition
Standard version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (124 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Buckmans are a modern family facing the age-old dilemma of trying to raise children the "right" way.