Melanie Griffith
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
After a pilot dies in the crash of an airliner, his wife discovers he was a bigamist. A face-to-face follows between the legal wife, Kathryn of Boston by whom he had one child, and the other woman, Muire, who lives in England with their two children. By the author of The Weight of Water.
3) Automata
Publisher
Millenium Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
When a robot overrides a protocol put in place to protect human life, ROC Robotics insurance agent Jacq Vaucan is sent out to eliminate the potential threat, but what he discovers causes him to re-evaluate the future of humaity and artificial intelligence.
5) Shade
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Three small-time grifters scheme to beat a big-time card player.
Series
Criterion collection volume 563
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
A straitlaced Wall Street tax consultant sets off on a wild and ultimately dangerous weekend with an unpredictable woman he has just met.
9) Body double
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
Wasson stars as Jake Scully, an unemployed actor, whose house-sitting job leads him to the discovery of a grisly murder, involvement with a porn star, and the world of crime.
10) Working girl
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
A bright Wall Street secretary rises to a professional position by posing as her classy but treacherous boss.
Publisher
First Look Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Rod Blue, a down-on-his-luck rock promoter, struggles to find the one act that will turn his life and business around. Just as a relationship is blooming with his assistant, Audrey, Rod secures the coup of his career: bringing Frank Sinatra to perform.
12) Celebrity
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Following their divorce, the lives of a restless writer and his inhibited ex-wife take off in unpredictable directions.
14) Now and then
Publisher
New Line Home Video
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
A heartwarming comedy about the childhood mischief of four best friends who reunite after twenty years.
15) Smile
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Barbed, merciless send-up of small-town America focusing on a group of naive California girls who compete for the 'Young American Miss' crown amid rampant commercialism.
16) Pacific Heights
Publisher
Allied Vaughn
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Psychological thriller about two homeowners battling a pathological tenant. Protected by complex eviction laws, this sadistic schemer soon has the couple fighting to save their home and then their lives.
17) Crazy in Alabama
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
In 1965, a backwoods Alabama boy named Peejoe encounters the harsh realities of the adult world through two murders--his eccentric Aunt's beheading of her husband and the killing of a young black man by a racist sheriff.
18) RKO 281
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Recounts the making of Orson Welles' masterpiece Citizen Kane, which William Randolph Hearst tried to shut down by any means possible.
19) Something wild
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
A staid Wall Street tax consultant sets off on a wild and ultimately dangerous weekend with an unpredictable woman he has just met.
20) Buffalo girls
Publisher
Platinum Disc Corporation
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Legendary Calamity Jane searches not only for her long-lost daughter, but also for the Wild West that is now waning. Her unforgettable friends include Wild Bill Hickok, Buffalo Bill Cody, Sitting Bull, and Annie Oakley.