Tim Matheson
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Tom Langdon, a weary and cash-strapped journalist, is banned from flying when a particularly thorough airport security search causes him to lose his cool. Now, he must take the train if he has any chance of arriving in Los Angeles in time for Christmas with his girlfriend. To finance the trip, he sells a story about a train ride taken during the Christmas season. Thereupon begins one of the most hilarious-and heartwarming-journeys ever told. Along...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
One month before her CIA training is over, agent Annie Walker is summoned for active duty in one of the agency's most secretive branches, but unknown to her, Annie is being used as bait by her bosses to get someone or something from her past.
Publisher
Direct Source Special Products
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
An abusive husband terrorizes his wife and children and charges his wife with abandonment. She is forced to take her children and go underground to start a new life. Eventually she must face him in a final showdown to be able to live in peace.
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
A young woman who has just split from her husband is advised by her mother to try to regain her balance by returning home. However, what- or who- she discovers is her childhood imaginary friend, Fred. After being locked in a box for 21 years, Fred is bursting with energy, and is just the ticket to re-energize the depressed young woman!
9) Child's play
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A mother gives her son a toy doll for his birthday, unaware of its more sinister nature.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Dr. Zoe Hart's life was going according to plan: she was on her way to becoming a heart surgeon just like her father. But when she's told that she didn't have the bedside manner needed for an important fellowship, she's devastated. If she wants to get the fellowship next year, she must become a general practitioner. So, the New Yorker takes a chance on an offer from an admirer--in the deep south.
Publisher
Turner Hanna Barbera Productions
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Showcasing the episodes in the three-segment form as they originally aired, these stellar retro hits soar through space and time to deliver justice! First, intergalactic policeman Space Ghost navigates the cosmos in his tricked-out spaceship, The Phantom Cruiser, battling villains like Brak and Zorak in his legendary suit and powerful wristbands. Then, Dino Boy teams with caveman Ugh and dinosaur Bronty to go primeval on the ancient menaces of their...
15) Fletch
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
While working on a drug expose, investigative reporter Irwin Fletch attracts the attention of a strange businessman. The wily Fletch senses a scam and soon he's up to his byline in frameups, murder, police corruption and forbidden romance. It'll be the story of the year, if he can stay alive to meet his deadline.
16) Black sheep
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Every time Mike tries to help his brother Al during his campaign for governor it becomes a disaster. Campaign-aide Steve volunteers to baby-sit Mike and soon realizes he made a big mistake. When Mike discovers the incumbent is a crook he reaches a new level of destruction.
17) Blind fury
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Nick Parker, was blinded by an explosion in Vietnam, but rescued and trained to be a master swordsman by sympathetic villagers. Twenty years later he has become a drifter. He visits the family of Frank Devereaux (O'Quinn) an old Army buddy, now a chemist. There he foils an attempt by gangsters to kidnap the family in order to force Frank to produce designer drugs. Frank, it seems, has fallen into debt to the mob while gambling at a Reno casino. Nick...
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
TV's first animated action-adventure series is about to take viewers on a breathless ride. All 26 episodes charting the fantastic exploits of brave and brainy 11-year-old Jonathan Quest. Unlike the outrageous fantasy plots of cartoons that preceded it, Jonny Quest drew on science and detective-style logic to solve mysteries and apprehend sophisticated villains.
Publisher
Lightyear Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Brian Cox (Golden Globe Winner for HBO's Succession) is Rory MacNeil, a rugged old Scotsman who reluctantly leaves his beloved isolated Hebridean island for San Francisco to seek medical treatment. Moving in with his estranged son, Rory's life will be unexpectedly transformed through a newly found love for his baby grandson.