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(0)Tim Robbins
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English
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Director Chris Paine takes his film crew behind the closed doors of Nissan, GM, and the Silicon Valley start-up Tesla Motors to chronicle the story of the global resurgence of electric cars. Without using a single drop of foreign oil, this new generation of car is America’s future: fast, furious, and cleaner than ever. A follow-up to the provocative documentary “Who Killed the Electric Car?”
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English
Description
In Paris, amid the chaos of preparations for the start of the world's greatest fahion show, the head of the fashion council is found dead in his limosine. Although he's really choked on a sandwich, the police think it's murder, and everyone who's touched his life is suspect, including his estranged wife and his lover, a famous designer. The media and celebrities who have come for the show are suddenly glued to the news, along with every designer and...
5) Straws
Publisher
Video Project
Language
English
Description
A powerful documentary about plastic straws and other forms of plastic pollution that inundate our waterways and oceans. The film illustrates how individuals, groups, and businesses around the globe are reducing plastic straw use through education, collaboration, policy development and utilization of non-plastic alternatives. With colorful opening animation narrated by Oscar winner Tim Robbins, STRAWS is entertaining as well as educational. Winner...
Publisher
Pacific Northwest Pictures
Language
English
Description
As Sophie (Mélanie Thierry) and her seasoned colleagues Mambru (Benicio Del Toro) and B (Tim Robbins) race against time to save the water supply for an abandoned community, they must outwit pedantic UN bureaucrats, military factions and exploitative local criminals - all the while cleverly distracting Mambru's ex-lover Katya, who has flown in from head office to shut their mission down. A dead cow, an un-cooperative supplies store and an angry dog...
Publisher
VVS Films
Language
English
Description
The wife (Jennifer Aniston) of a corrupt real estate developer (Tim Robbins) is kidnapped by two common criminals, who intend to extort him with inside information about his crooked business and off-shore accounts. But the husband decides he'd actually rather not pay the ransom to get back his wife, setting off an unbelievable sequence of double crosses and twists.
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Warner Bros
Language
English
Description
Mailroom clerk Norville Barnes is a rube, a schmo, a grade-A ding-dong - just what Hudsucker Industries wants in a president! With him at the top, the stock will hit bottom... and the fat cats on the board can take over. But Norville (Tim Robbins) has his own spiffy little plan. And if a snoopy reporter (Jennifer Jason Leigh) doesn't put the kibosh on the Hudsucker flimflam and finagling big cheese Sidney J. Mussburger (Paul Newman) doesn't squash...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Language
English
Description
"'Red' Redding [is] a lifer who knows the ropes at Maine's Shawshank State Prison.... New inmate Andy Dufresne [is] a quiet banker, unjustly convicted of murder. Andy's indomitable will earns Red's friendship; his resourcefulness brings hope and change to the entire prison. Andy is full of surprises-- and he saves his best for last."--Container.
Publisher
Warners Home Video
Language
English
Description
Red' Redding is a lifer who knows the ropes at Maine's Shawshank State Prison. New inmate Andy Dufresne [is] a quiet banker, unjustly convicted of murder. Andy's indomitable will earns Red's friendship; his resourcefulness brings hope and change to the entire prison. Andy is full of surprises-- and he saves his best for last.
12) Dead man walking
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of convicted killer Matthew Poncelet and Sister Helen Prejean, his spiritual advisor, and the journey they undertake in search of the truth.
13) Fahrenheit 451
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Nearly seventy years after its original publication, Ray Bradbury's internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 stands as a classic of world literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Today its message has grown more relevant than ever before.
Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction...
Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction...
16) Marjorie Prime
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Language
English
Description
In a near future, Marjorie has a new A.I. companion (Jon Hamm), a real life hologram of her deceased husband who is programmed to feed the story of her life back to her.
17) Elena
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Language
English
Description
Elena, a young Brazilian woman, travels to New York with the same dream as her mother, to become a movie actress. She leaves behind her childhood spent in hiding during the years of the military dictatorship. She also leaves Petra, her seven year old sister. Two decades later, Petra also becomes an actress and goes to New York in search of Elena. She only has a few clues about her: home movies, newspaper clippings, a diary and letters. At any moment...
18) A Perfect Day
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English
Description
It's just another day on the job for a band of badass war zone rescue workers as they defy death and confront war's absurdities. The setting is 1995, "somewhere in the Balkans." Over the course of 24 breathless hours, Mambrú (Benicio del Toro), leads his team of humanitarians as they deal with a most unexpected crisis, layers of bureaucratic red tape, and the reappearance of Mambrú's old flame (Olga Kurylenko). Through it all, the group handles...
19) Welcome to Me
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Language
English
Description
When Alice Klieg wins the Mega-Millions lottery, she immediately quits her psychiatric meds and buys her own talk show.