Bill Paxton
1) Mean Dreams
Author
Description
Mean Dreams follows courageous local farm boy Jonas and the new girl next door, Casey, as they embark on a journey away from Casey's abusive father, Officer Caraway (Bill Paxton). Under relentless pursuit from her father and corrupt law enforcement, the duo learns the hard truth of what it will take in order to survive.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (516 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
For years, Bill Henrickson wished for a world free from the corrupt 'Prophet' of Juniper Creek, Roman Grant. Now that Roman appears to be out of the picture, Bill and his family can breathe easily, or can they? Season 4 continues the Henricksons' story, as Bill launches another business venture: a Mormon-friendly casino. At the same time, Bill eschews a chance to seize the Prophet mantle at Juniper Creek in favor of an even more high-profile calling:...
5) Nightcrawler
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (1 hr., 58 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A pulse-pounding thriller set in the nocturnal underbelly of contemporary Los Angeles. Jake Gyllenhaal stars as Lou Bloom, a driven young man desperate for work who discovers the high-speed world of L.A. crime journalism. Finding a group of freelance camera crews who film crashes, fires, murder and other mayhem, Lou muscles into the cut-throat, dangerous realm of nightcrawling, where each police siren wail equals a possible windfall and victims are...
6) Tombstone
Pub. Date
1993
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (130 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
U.S. Marshall Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday team up to bring law to the lawless in a showdown with ruthless outlaws at the O.K. Corral.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
JB Bernstein is a once-successful sports agent who may have to close his business. To save it, he comes up with an idea so radical it just might work. Setting off for Mumbai, JB stages a televised nationwide competition called "Million dollar arm" where two young finalists emerge as winners. JB brings them back to the US with a goal: get them signed as pitchers to a major league team. While the boys learn the game, they teach JB the meaning of teamwork...
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In a near future, an alien race has hit the Earth in an unbeatable assault. Major William Cage has never seen a day of combat, but is dropped into a suicide mission and killed within minutes. Cage now finds himself thrown into a time loop-forcing him to live out the same day over and over, fighting and dying each time. With each "life", Cage learns more fighting skills, so that when he and warrior Rita Vrataski take the fight to the aliens, they are...
9) Predator 2
Pub. Date
©2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Predator is a savage alien, invisible and armed with advanced weapons. On this, his second visit to Earth, he lands in Los Angeles and begins a series of ghastly murders. It's up to a determined police lieutenant to learn what is going on, even when he is warned off by a mysterious government agent.
10) The Circle
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When Mae is hired to work for the world's largest and most powerful tech and social media company, she sees it as an opportunity. As she rises through the ranks, she is encouraged by the company's founder, Eamon Bailey, to engage in a groundbreaking experiment that pushes the boundaries of privacy, ethics and ultimately her personal freedom. Her participation in the experiment, and every decision she makes begin to affect the lives and future of her...
11) Apollo 13
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (140 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A true story. Stranded 205,000 miles from Earth in a crippled spacecraft, astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, and Jack Swigert fight a desperate battle to survive. Meanwhile, at Mission Control, astronaut Ken Mattingly, flight director Gene Kranz and a heroic ground crew race against time, and the odds, to bring them home.
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (600 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
On election night, new state senator Bill Henrickson shook Utah to its core by announcing he was a polygamist. Now, instead of being embraced for their honesty, the Henrickson family is engulfed by hostility from neighbors, Home Plus employees, casino partners, students at their kids' schools and even fellow polygamists hoping to keep their personal lives private. Meanwhile, at Juniper Creek, Alby Grant returns from a self-imposed desert exile with...
13) The Terminator
Pub. Date
[2001], c1984
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 2029, giant super-computers dominate the planet and to destroy man's future by changing the past, they send an indestructible cyborg, a Terminator, back in time to kill a woman whose unborn son will become mankind's only hope. Can Sarah protect herself from this unstoppable menace?
15) U-571
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
During World War II, a group of Navy men are sent to steal Enigma (the nazis' top-secret decoding device). When their own ship is destroyed, they must secretly make their way through hostile waters in a severely damaged Nazi U-boat to safety with the device.
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (ca. 720 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Season two finds the modern-day polygamist Bill Henrickson and his three wives struggling to pick up the pieces after first wife Barb's outing at the Beehive Mother of the Year Ceremony. Second wife Nicki, learning that it was her father, Roman Grant, Prophet of the Fundamentalist Juniper Creek compound, who betrayed them, battles conflicting family loyalties. And third wife Margene, newly pregnant, fights for a bigger piece of the family pie with...
17) True Lies
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (141 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Harry Tasker is a top spy for the ultra-secret Omega Sector, but his wife thinks he's just a boring computer salesman. Then his two lives collide when he and his wife find themselves kidnapped by international terrorists.
18) The evening star
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (129 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The generations grow, but life still spins around Aurora like a cyclone: her rebellious granddaughter wants to run off with Mr. Wrong; a snooty rival has come up with new ways to meddle in Aurora's life; her longtime spinster housekeeper is ready to ditch domestic work for the domestic bliss of matrimony; her great-grandson is like a poison pill; and her shrink is more than eager to cross the line separating client relationships and romantic entanglement....
19) Weird science
Pub. Date
[2003], c1985
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Two nerdy best friends have the power to create the "perfect woman". Like a computer-generated fairy godmother, the two use their creation to learn about the pleasures and pitfalls of adolescences.
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (600 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Bill Henrickson returns as the enterprising suburban polygamist who has more than his hands full with three wives, a potential fourth, a growing brood of eight children, and a struggling gaming business meant to safeguard his family should they be 'outed' and his Home Plus superstores left vulnerable.