Billy Bob Thornton
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
xvi, 272 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 24 cm.
Description
Raised in small-town Arkansas, Billy Bob Thornton grew up amid a rich storytelling tradition. See, the South is just different than other places. . . . You can feel the ghosts there. As a kid, he would sit on the porch listening to his family or some old man down the road spinning yarns about colorful neighbors. These stories didn't have to be made up. The characters were already there, so the stories just came out of the characters we knew. Thus...
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001], c2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
John Grady Cole (Damon) and his best friend Lacey Rawlins (Thomas) leave Texas, head south of the border in search of adventure, and find work as horse wranglers. But when Cole embarks on an illicit and passionate affair with the beautiful daughter (Cruz) of the wealthy ranch owner who is his employer, events are set in motion which forever change the lives of all involved.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An astronaut-in-training has to leave NASA (to save the family farm) but just can't give up on his dream of shooting into space, even if he has to do it all by himself. And that will of course get everyone up in arms, from his wife to his banker to the town gossips to the media and the Department of Homeland Security.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (1 hr. 30 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
You loved him in Shrek, now see where the one and only swashbuckling feline found his fame. Lover, fighter, and outlaw Puss in Boots is off on the adventure of his nine lives as he teams up with Kitty Softpaws and Humpty Dumpty for the ultimate showdown with the notorious Jack and Jill . Here's the true story of the Cat, the Myth, the Legend - Puss in Boots!
6) Pushing tin
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (124 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Two air traffic controllers have an intense rivalry and penchant for one-upmanship, causing hilarious havoc with their careers, marriages and planes in their airspace.
7) Dead man
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (121 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
On the run after murdering a man, accountant William Blake encounters a strange North American man named Nobody who prepares him for his journey into the spiritual world.
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (112 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Hank and Leticia inhabit stark, queasy realities of the contemporary South, he as a death row corrections officer and she as the soon-to-be widow of an inmate whose execution Hank helps conduct. In the aftermath of the execution, both lose their children to tragic deaths and they form an unlikely bond.
9) Sling blade
Series
Formats
Description
After 25 years, mildly retarded killer Karl Childers is released from the mental hospital where he was placed for killing his mother and her lover. He gets a job and is befriended by a fatherless boy and his mother, but his newfound peace is shattered by the mother's abusive boyfriend.
10) One false move
Series
Criterion collection volume 1187
Formats
Description
A small-town police chief concealing an explosive secret. A pair of ruthless drug dealers leave a bloody trail in their wake as they make their way from Los Angeles to Arkansas. And an enigmatic woman caught in the middle.
11) Faster
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A veteran cop and an egocentric hit man are on the trail of an ex-con who is determined to avenge the death of his brother, killed during a bank robbery years ago.
13) The judge
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (141 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
14) Parkland
Publisher
Millennium
Pub. Date
©2013
Physical Desc
1 DVD (87 min.) : sound., color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
November 22, 1963 is a day that changed the world forever when beloved American President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. Parkland is the true story behind that tragic day, told from the vantage point of individuals who are forced to make split-second decisions after this incomprehensible event that will change the world's landscape forever.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2022]
Formats
Description
Follow the original Dutton family as they embark on a journey west in 1883 through the Great Plains toward the last bastion of untamed America in this stark retelling of Western expansion and intense study of one family fleeing poverty for a better life in Montana.
16) Daddy and them
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004], c2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Struggling musician Claude and his wife Ruby get the news that Claude's uncle Hazel has been accused of murder and is in jail awaiting trial. Claude and Ruby head for the Arkansas town where they grew up, and, before long, there's a friendly (and sometimes not-so-friendly) war of words among the factions of the family, including Claude's mother Jewel, father O.T., and sister Rose.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2004.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Miles Massey is a high-powered Los Angeles divorce lawyer nearing a midlife crisis. While representing his wealthy client Rex Rexroth, Miles meets his match in Rex's gold-digging wife, Marilyn. He's impressed by her similarly heartless ways of using marriage to fuel an expensive lifestyle, but Miles still manages to defeat her in court. With Marilyn looking to get her revenge and Miles finding himself attracted to her, the two engage in a ruthless...
18) Puss in boots
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Years before meeting Shrek and Donkey, the adorable but tricky Puss in Boots must clear his name from all charges making him a wanted fugitive.