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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Stacy Keach and Jane Kaczmarek star in Arthur Miller's 1949 masterpiece, a searing portrait of the physical, emotional, and psychological costs of the American dream. Willy Loman (Keach) is the play's iconic traveling salesman, whose family is torn apart by his desperate obsession with success and social acceptance. As his two sons cast about aimlessly for their station in life, Willy begins to come unraveled when the reality of his life threatens...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof first heated up Broadway in 1955 with its gothic American story of brothers vying for their dying father's inheritance amid a whirlwind of sexuality, untethered in the person of Maggie the Cat. The play also daringly showcased the burden of sexuality repressed in the agony of her husband, Brick Pollitt. In spite of the public controversy Cat stirred up, it was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the Drama Critics Circle Award for...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mr. and Mrs. Fox have a happy home life with their eccentric son Ash and visiting nephew Kristofferson until Mr. Fox decides to plan a heist of three local farms to steal all their chickens, ducks, geese, and turkeys.
5) Fences
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A black garbage collector named Troy Maxson in 1950s Pittsburgh is bitter that baseball's color barrier was only broken after his own heyday in the Negro Leagues, Maxson is prone to taking out his frustrations on his loved ones.
6) Affliction
Publisher
Largo Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1997, 1999
Language
English
Description
When events shatter the quiet of his small town, Wade Whitehouse (Nolte), with the aid of his new girlfriend (Spacek), is forced to confront his past and examine his life.
7) John Q
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
A desperate father holds a hospital emergency room hostage until the doctors will perform a heart operation on his young son that the father's insurance refuses to cover.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
After 47 years of marriage, Ben's mother leaves her husband. With no where else to turn, Ben's father Sam is forced to get to know his son. Hysterical antics ensue as Ben and Sam strengthen their relationship while Ben helps Sam romance his mother.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
LaPaglia and Janney star in a poignant look at how a woman's love and support can help a widower, who is struggling to overcome the loss of his wife, deal with his older son's decision to leave home and his younger son's destructive behavior.
10) Big fish
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
As his father Edward lies on his deathbed, William Bloom attempts to get to know him beyond the tall tales he tells about his life, and learns to understand and accept him along the way.
12) Finding Nemo
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Follows the adventures of a clown fish who battles sharks, seabirds, and sewer systems in the Great Barrier Reef, attempting to find his son, Nemo.
Publisher
Lance Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Dominic Milne is engaged to Dee Stanton whose ex-husband is serving a life sentence for murdering four women. When a girl in the class of Dee's 15 year-old son is found strangled, people begin to wonder if this is a case of "like father like son?"
14) Beginners
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Graphic designer Oliver uses memories of his father to help him open up to love and experience a true relationship.
15) The Judge
Language
English
Description
Big-city lawyer Hank Palmer returns to his childhood home where his estranged father, the town's judge, is suspected of murder. He sets out to discover the truth and along the way reconnects with the family he walked away from years before.
18) Snitch
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A father's teenage son is wrongly accused of a drug distribution crime and is looking at a mandatory minimum prison sentence of ten years. Desperate and determined to rescue his son at all costs, he makes a deal with the U.S. attorney to work as an undercover informant and infiltrate a drug cartel on a dangerous mission, risking everything, including his family and his own life.
19) Local color
Publisher
Monterey Media
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1974, an aspiring artist goes against his father's wishes and spends the summer under the tutelage of a Russian master painter.
20) Nebraska
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Formats
Description
An estranged son and his alcoholic father travel from Montana to Nebraska to claim a million dollar sweepstakes prize.