Brendan Fraser
1) The Whale
Author
Language
English
Description
A reclusive English teacher (Brendan Fraser) attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter for one last chance at redemption.
6) School Ties
Author
Language
English
Description
After receiving a scholarship to an exclusive prep school, David Greene becomes a star athlete and wins the attention of a beautiful debutante. But his newfound friendships are broken when a student reveals the secret David has tried to conceal.
7) Dragon rider
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
After learning that humans are headed toward his hidden home, Firedrake, a silver dragon, is joined by a brownie and an orphan boy in a quest to find the legendary valley known as the Rim of Heaven, encountering friendly and unfriendly creatures along the way, and struggling to evade the relentless pursuit of an old enemy.
8) Inkspell
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When Dustfinger finds a crooked storyteller who can read him back to Inkscape, he leaves his apprentice Farid behind. Farid seeks out Meggie and the two follow him back into the enchanted book.
9) The whale
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A reclusive English teacher, living alone in the wake of a tragedy, attempts to reconnect with his teenage daughter for one last chance at redemption in filmmaker Darren Aronofsky's transcendent, emotional epic. Nominated for three Academy Awards and featuring a career-defining performance from Brendan Fraser, THE WHALE is a deeply moving story of heartache, empathy, and grace.
10) With Honors
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[c1999]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Monty is a student, and when his computer crashes, he's left with only a single paper copy of his thesis. Frightened of losing it, he immediately rushes out to photocopy it, only to stumble and drop it down a grate. Searching the basement of the building, he discovers that it has been found by Simon, a squatter. Simon makes a deal with Monty: for every day's accomodation and food that Monty gives him, he will give a page of the thesis in return.
11) Crash
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005], c2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A car accident brings together a group of strangers in Los Angeles. Crash takes a provocative, unflinching look at the complexities of racial tolerance in contemporary America.
12) The scout
Publisher
20th Century Fox
Pub. Date
c2001
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Desperate Yankees scout Al Percolo stumbles on the greatest baseball player he's ever seen, but the player's goofy behavior soon has Al fearing his dream recruit has a few screwballs loose.
13) Gimme shelter
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on inspiring true events, a teenage girl flees life with her drug-addicted mother to find the wealthy father she has never known. Tells the extraordinary and courageous tale of one girl's fight against the odds to find redemption and, ultimately, to create a family she can call her own.
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2013
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Admired astronaut Scorch Supernova is a national hero to the blue alien population of planet Baab. A master of daring rescues, Scorch pulls off astonishing feats with the quiet aid of his nerdy brother, Gary, head of mission control at BASA.
15) The nut job
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Follow the travails of Surly, a mischievous squirrel, and his rat friend Buddy, who plan a nut store heist of outrageous proportions and unwittingly find themselves embroiled in a much more complicated and hilarious adventure.
16) The mummy
Language
English
Description
Set in the 1920s, adventurer Rick leads Egyptologist Evelyn and her brother Jonathan to mysterious Hamunaptra. While Johnathan is keen on finding the legendary Egyptian treasures, Evelyn wants to search for the Book of the Living, which would clarify a lot in historical knowledge about the ancient Egyptians. Unfortunately, they free Imhotep's mummy from his eternal prison. Imhotep, a former high priest to the pharaoh, wants not only to use Evelyn's...
Language
English
Formats
Description
Alex O'Connell sets out to help combat the resurrected a Han Emperor. When Alex is tricked into awakening the ruler from eternal slumber, the reckless young archaeologist must seek the help of the only people who know more than he does about taking down the undead: his parents. This time, the O'Connells must stop a mummy that has awoken from a 2,000-year-old curse who threatens to plunge the world into his merciless, unending service. As the monarch...
18) The poison rose
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Carson Philips is a hard-drinking L.A. private eye who takes a case in his old hometown of Galveston, Texas. While searching for a missing woman, Philips must confront a crime boss, a shady doctor, a sexy club singer, his former lover, and his own dark, disturbing past.
19) Inkheart
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Mo Folchart reads a story aloud, the characters leap off the page. Literally. And that's a problem. One night he brings out three characters from Inkheart, a story set in medieval times and filled with magical beings. Capricorn and Basta are two villains. Dustfinger is a fire-eater. Now, 10 years later Mo's daughter, Meggie, discovers the truth and it's up to her to escape Capricorn's evil grasp. Mo has been searching for a long lost book that...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Standard/Theatrical edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In this adaptation of Graham Greene's prophetic novel set at the beginning of the United States' disastrous entanglement in Southeast Asia, idealism, love and betrayal lead to murder for THE QUIET AMERICAN.American Alden Pyle (Brandon Fraser--Crash) arrives in Saigon in the fall of 1952, the decisive moment in the struggle by the Vietnamese to free themselves from the French yoke. Eager to succeed in his mission to help the Vietnamese people through...