Jeff Daniels
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As the ash and chaos from Mount Rainier's eruption swirled and finally settled, the story of the Greenloop massacre has passed unnoticed, unexamined, until now. But the journals of resident Kate Holland, recovered from the town's bloody wreckage, capture a tale too harrowing and too earth-shattering in its implications, to be forgotten. Because if what Kate Holland saw in those days is real, then we must accept the impossible. We must accept that...
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2022
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • John Grisham is the acknowledged master of the legal thriller. In his first collection of novellas, law is a common thread, but America’s favorite storyteller has several surprises in store.
“Homecoming” takes us back to Ford County, the fictional setting of many of John Grisham’s unforgettable stories. Jake Brigance is back, but he’s not in the...
“Homecoming” takes us back to Ford County, the fictional setting of many of John Grisham’s unforgettable stories. Jake Brigance is back, but he’s not in the...
46) The Martian
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[2015]
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1 videodisc (141 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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After a bad storm blows across Mars Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead and left behind. Now stuck on a hostile planet he must find a way to signal to Earth and in the meantime, survive on limited supplies.
48) Traitor
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When straight arrow FBI agent Roy Clayton (Guy Pearce of MOMENTO, L.A. CONFIDENTIAL) heads up the investigation into a dangerous international conspiracy, all clues seem to lead back to former U.S. Special Operations officer, Samir Horn (Academy-Award®-nominee Don Cheadle of HOTEL RWANDA, CRASH). A mysterious figure with a web of connections to terrorist organizations, Horn has a knack for emerging on the scene just as a major operation goes down....
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"NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER * The raw, candid, unvarnished memoir of an American icon. The greatest movie star of the past 75 years covers everything: his traumatic childhood, his career, his drinking, his thoughts on Marlon Brando, James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor, John Huston, his greatest roles, acting, his intimate life with Joanne Woodward, his innermost fears and passions and joys. With thoughts/comments throughout from Joanne Woodward, George Roy...
50) Radio Days
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Gripped by wild radio stories, 10-year-old Joe Needleman longs for adventure and dreams of the day he'll see enemy spies or German subs. But while Joe's life is filled with fantasies, the people behind the voices have fantasies of their own. As stars rise, careers fall and a nation hurtles toward the future, one thing is certain: The days of radio may fade...but the magic will always endure.
51) The Lookout
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Chris "Slapshot" Pratt, whose once-bright future has been dimmed by a severe head injury, is a night janitor at a bank. Lonely and frustrated, he falls prey to a con man and agrees to help rob the bank where he works.
52) Paper Man
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A washed-up writer forms an unlikely friendship with a teenager from Long Island.
53) Howl
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James Franco delivers a career defining performance as poet Allen Ginsberg. Through his search for personal and creative expression, Ginsberg writes HOWL, and must contend with attorney Jake Ehrlich (Jon Hamm) during HOWL’S bizarre obscenity trial.
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When Greenwich Village butcher Leo Lemke (George Dzundza) return from a North Carolina fishing trip, he can't wait to show off his prize catch: his beautiful new wife, a country clairvoyant names Marina (Demi Moore). But the butcher's pride turns to prime concern when her hears gossip about a backwoods psychic whose charms are turning hardened city dwellers into love struck kids. Dr. Alex Tremor (Jeff Daniels), the local psychiatrist, isn't convinced...
57) The Hours
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Three women in different times, related by a parallel in their personal lives. One throwing a party for a friend suffering from AIDS. Another in 1949, suffering as a young wife. The last, Virginia Woolf, writing "Mrs. Dalloway".