Sissy Spacek
Author
Series
To kill a mockingbird volume 1
Language
English
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Columbia Pike Teen Book Club - Sep 2023 - Banned Books
Read-Alikes for Where the Crawdads Sing
TAB 2015 : High School
The Great American Read - 2018
Read-Alikes for Where the Crawdads Sing
TAB 2015 : High School
The Great American Read - 2018
Description
"Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird". This is a lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of this story - a black man charged with raping a white girl in the Deep South of the 1930s.
3) Carrie
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Stephen King's legendary debut, about a teenage outcast and the revenge she enacts on her classmates. Carrie White may be picked on by her classmates, but she has a gift. She can move things with her mind. Doors lock. Candles fall. This is her power and her problem. Then, an act of kindness, as spontaneous as the vicious taunts of her classmates, offers Carrie a chance to be a normal... until an unexpected cruelty turns her gift into a weapon of horror...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of Forrest Tucker's escape from San Quentin at the age of 70. The escape enchanted the public and confounded the authorities. Detective John Hunt became captivated with Forrest's commitment to his craft.
Publisher
Under the Milky Way
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Narrated by Academy Award winners Sissy Spacek and Herbie Hancock, RIVER OF GOLD is the disturbing account of a clandestine journey into Peru's Amazon rainforest to uncover the savage unraveling of pristine jungle. Guided by Peruvian biologist Enrique Ortiz, war journalists Ron Haviv and Donovan Webster bear witness to the apocalyptic destruction in pursuit of illegally mined gold with consequences on a global scale. Fast forward four years to a massive...
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Colin Farrell and Academy Award winner Sissy Spacek star in the story of two young men--best friends and former teenaged lovers--who fall in love with the same woman and find A HOME AT THE END OF THE WORLD. In suburban Cleveland of the 1960s and '70s, lonely, introspective, insecure Jonathan (Dallas Roberts) and hip, dark, inarticulate Bobby (Farrell) were more than best friends. As young adults, Jonathan has been living as an openly gay man in New...
7) Sam & Kate
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Starring Academy Award®-winners Dustin Hoffman and Sissy Spacek, Sam & Kate is a heartwarming, multi-generational family story bringing together four people who are given a second chance at love, and life.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
After a young man becomes romantically involved with an older single mother, his parents raise concern. Soon, the relationship takes a sudden and tragic turn, and his family is forced to confront the inescapable consequences of their actions.
Publisher
StudioCanal
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
English
Description
Babe has just shot her husband. Lenny worries that men will no longer find her attractive, and Meg returns from Hollywood after a nervous breakdown. The three eccentric sisters reunite, and their initial joy dissolves into a series of squabbles and arguments. But they pull together and support each other, through their exasperating succession of mistakes and misfortunes.
10) Hot Rod
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Amateur stuntman Rod Kimble (ANDY SAMBERG) has a problem - his step-father Frank (IAN MCSHANE) is a jerk. Frank picks on Rod, tosses him around like a rag doll in their weekly sparring sessions, and definitely doesn't respect him, much less his stunts. But when Frank falls ill, it's up to Rod to stage the jump of his life in order to save his step-father. The plan: Jump 15 buses, raise the money for Frank's heart operation, and then... kick his ass....
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999?]
Language
English
Description
Based on a true story about 73-year-old Alvin Straight who embarks on a dangerous and emotional journey to make amends with his 75-year-old brother Lyle before his brother dies. Alvin can no longer drive a car because of his eyesight and has to walk with 2 canes, but he climbs aboard his 1966 John Deere lawnmower and drives the 260-mile course from Laurens, Iowa to Mt. Zion, Wisconsin.
12) North country
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Josey Aimes needs a job and goes to work at a Minnesota steel mine after splitting with her violent husband. But the job proves to be almost as harrowing as her marriage. The male miners are resentful of women taking their jobs, so the men verbally abuse and play humiliating pranks on the female miners. After being physically assaulted by a coworker, Josey tries to fight against the harassment, but none of the other women will join her case, fearing...
13) 3 women
Series
Criterion collection volume 230
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
In a dusty, under-populated California resort town, Pinky Rose, a naive and impressionable Southern waif begins her life as a nursing home attendent. There, Pinky finds her role model in fellow nurse Millie, a misguided would-be sophisticate and hopeless devotee of sophisticated ladies magazines.
14) Missing
Series
Criterion collection volume 449
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
As the title screens proclaim, "This film is based on a true story. The incidents and facts are documented. Some of the names have been changed to protect the innocent and also to protect the film." In a Latin American country in the throes of a military coup, Charles Horman, an American journalist and filmmaker living there with his wife Joyce, disappears--never to be seen again. His father Ed always found his son flaky and naïve, and didn't approve...
15) Badlands
Series
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Based on the Starkweather-Fugate killing spree of 1958, in which a fifteen-year-old girl and her twenty-five-year-old boyfriend slaughtered her entire family and several others in the Dakota badlands.
16) Tuck everlasting
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], 2002.
Language
English
Description
Young Winnie Foster, stifled by the formality of her proper life and her domineering mother, escapes into the woods only to get lost. Her magical summer begins when she meets Jesse Tuck. Jesse is full of life and adventure and Winnie falls in love. The Tuck family has a powerful secret-- a spring that holds the magic of everlasting life. Now Winnie must choose whether she wants to live life as she knows it or drink from the spring.
17) Carrie
Publisher
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Pub. Date
[1976]
Language
English
Description
Based on the best-selling Stephen King novel, Carrie catches the mind, shakes it and refuses to let it go. Starring Sissy Spacek and Piper Laurie, John Travolta and Amy Irving, this ultimate revenge fantasy is one of the all-time great horror classics! At the center of the terror is Carrie, a tortured high-school misfit with no confidence, no friends ... and no idea about the extent of her secret powers of telekinesis. But when her psychotic mother...
Publisher
RHI Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"James Garner stars as Woodrow F. Call, a wizened bounty hunter who has endured the death of his son and the financial failure of his Montana ranch. When a wealthy railroad president hires him to track down a young, cold-blooded bandit, Call travels south to seek out the fugitive and along the way encounters an array of old acquaintances, including his faithful ex-comrade." --Container.
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • 50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY MARGARET ATWOOD • Stephen King's legendary debut, the bestselling smash hit that put him on the map as one of America's favorite writers • In a world where bullies rule, one girl holds a secret power. Unpopular and tormented, Carrie White's life takes a terrifying turn when her hidden abilities become a weapon...
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