Naomi Watts
2) Sunlight Jr
Author
Language
English
Description
Academy Award nominee Naomi Watts and Matt Dillon play Melissa and Richie, a Florida couple dealing with an unexpected pregnancy while holding minimum wage jobs.
Author
Language
English
Description
As an experienced climber (Naomi Watts) ascends Mt. Washington, she turns back before she reaches the summit as a huge blizzard approaches. But on her way down, she encounters a lone, stranded man, and takes it upon herself to get them both down the mountain before nightfall arrives and they succumb to the storm. Based on a true story.
Author
Language
English
Description
I Am Heath Ledger is a feature length documentary celebrating the life of Heath Ledger: actor, artist and icon. The documentary provides an intimate look at Heath Ledger through the lens of his own camera as he films and often performs in his own personal journey - extravagant in gesture and in action. It was his creative energy and unshakable willingness to take risks that instilled such an extraordinarily deep love and affection in the people that...
5) Sunlight Jr
Publisher
Gravitas
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (95 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Financial strain, an unplanned pregnancy and an abusive ex threaten the stability of a poor couple's (Naomi Watts, Matt Dillon) relationship. SUNLIGHT JR. spotlights hard-working convenience store clerk Melissa (Naomi Watts) and her disabled boyfriend, Richie (Matt Dillon), who are trapped in a generational cycle of poverty. Their luck may be changing when they learn that Melissa has become pregnant. But as soon as she loses her job and they get evicted...
Publisher
A24
Language
English
Formats
Description
Matthew McConaughey stars as a professor with a troubled past traveling to a Japanese forest with a dark history. There he meets a mysterious stranger who takes him on a life-changing journey of love, discovery and redemption. Nominated for a Palme d'Or at the **Cannes Film Festival**. "*A sumptuous, rewarding experience. "The Sea of Trees" is quietly mesmerizing and exceedingly wise, understanding there is profundity in every direction one gazes.*"...
7) Luce
Language
English
Formats
Description
Garnering recognition for his stellar athletic abilities and intellectual accomplishments "Luce" follows the titular characters struggle of maintaining his integrity while dealing with the circumstances of his background. Adopted from a war-torn country just ten years prior, Luce becomes the very essence of what many consider to be the American Dream. However, all changes when his teacher encounters a shocking revelation upon examining the contents...
Publisher
A24
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (97 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Directed by Noah Baumbach and powered by great performances by Ben Stiller, Adam Driver, Naomi Watts and Amanda Seyfried, WHILE WE'RE YOUNG is a funny cross-generational comedy about aging, ambition and success, as well as a moving portrait of a marriage tested by the invading forces of youth. Official Selection at the **Toronto International Film Festival**. "*This delicious satire about aging hipsters and their discontents is everything we've come...
10) The glass castle
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Chronicling the adventures of an eccentric, resilient and tight-knit family. A remarkable story of unconditional love. A young woman who, influenced by the joyfully wild nature of her deeply dysfunctional father, found the fiery determination to carve out a successful life on her own terms.
Publisher
Binge Box
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (approximately 747 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Enjoy popular films based on organized crime. Titles included: The Kitchen, American Gangster, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Black Mass, The Town and Eastern Promises.
The kitchen: Based on the Vertigo comic book series from DC Entertainment, the mobster husbands of three 1978 Hell's Kitchen housewives are sent to prison by the FBI. Left with little but an ax to grind, the ladies take the Irish mafia's matters into their own hands, proving...
Publisher
Vertical
Pub. Date
2022
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 84 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Unfolding in real time, a "riveting and pulse-pounding" thriller from award-winning director Phillip Noyce. Recently widowed mother Amy Carr is doing her best to restore normalcy to the lives of her young daughter and teenage son in their small town. As she's on a jog in the woods, she finds her town thrown into chaos as shooting takes place at her son's school. Miles away, on foot in the dense forest, Amy desperately races against time to save her...
13) Le divorce
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
Full screen and widescreen versions.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Isabel Walker receives word that her pregnant stepsister Rosy has been left by her philandering French husband, artist Charles-Henri de Persand, Isabel travels to Paris to offer her help and moral support.
14) THE RING
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Video
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An journalist begins investigating allegations that people are dying seven days after watching a videotape containing cryptic images.
15) Infinite Storm
Publisher
Decal Bleecker Street
Pub. Date
2022
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a climber gets caught in a blizzard, she encounters a stranded stranger and must to get them both down the mountain before nightfall.
Language
English
Description
Interpol Agent Louis Salinger and Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Eleanor Whitman are determined to bring to justice one of the world's most powerful banks. The two uncover illegal activities including money laundering, arms trading, and the destabilization of governments, Salinger and Whitman's investigation takes them around the world. Finding themselves in a high-stakes chase across the globe, their relentless tenacity puts their own lives...
17) The ring
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A strange videotape full of bizarre and haunting images is watched by a handful of teenagers. After the viewing the tape, they receive phone calls in which they are warned they will die in seven days. Rachel, the aunt of one of the ill-fated teens, is a journalist who has decided to investigate the matter. She manages to find the cabin in the woods and watches the video herself; afterward, she receives the same phone call, and realizes she must solve...
18) Dream house
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Will Atenton quit a high-profile job in Manhattan to relocate his wife, Libby, and their two daughters to a quaint New England town. But as they settle into their new life, they discover their perfect home was once the murder scene of a mother and her children. When Will investigates, he's not sure if he's seeing ghosts or if the tragic events are somehow related to his past. The only clues come from his mysterious neighbor.
20) The impossible
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on a true story of a family caught, with tens of thousands of strangers, in the mayhem of one of the worst natural catastrophes of our time. But the true-life terror is tempered by the unexpected displays of compassion, courage, and simple kindness that Maria and her family encounter during the darkest hours of their lives.