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81) The fisher king
Series
Criterion collection volume 764
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Formats
Description
Parry is a homeless history professor who lives in a fantasy world full of castles, Red Knights, and damsels in distress. Jack is New York's number one shock deejay, until the day his off-hand arrogance triggers a tragedy that ruins his career. Penniless and without prospects, Jack finds himself plucked from disaster by the most improbable of saviors, Parry.
Author
Publisher
Gotham Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 22 cm
Description
For much of the past century, men have operated under the rules of Male Code, a rigid set of guidelines that equate masculinity with stoicism, silence, and strength. As men's roles have changed over the past few decades, this lingering pressure to hide their emotions has wreaked havoc on men's lives. Lacking the ability to communicate their needs, desires, and feelings effectively, they are more likely to suffer from depression, anger, and isolation,...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 videodiscs (330 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Twenty years after attempting an epic pub crawl, five childhood friends reunite when one of them becomes hellbent on doing it again. They are convinced by mate Gary King, who drags his reluctant pals to their hometown to once again attempt to reach the fabled pub called the World's End. As they attempt to reconcile the past and present, they realize the real struggle is for the future, not just theirs but humankind's. Reaching the pub is the least...
84) The pack
Author
Series
The pack (Jason Starr) volume 1
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
341 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
New to the role of stay-at-home-parent, Simon Burns befriends a tight-knit group of other dads at the playground whose warm welcome into their "pack" may have been literal when he begins to suspect that they are actually werewolves.
85) Turning angel
Author
Series
Penn Cage novels volume 2
Description
Lawyer Penn Cage returns to defend his best friend since childhood for the murder of a young female student, with whom his friend was intimate, at their old alma mater, St. Stephen's Prep.
86) The world's end
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
©2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Twenty years after attempting an epic pub crawl, five childhood friends reunite when one of them becomes hellbent on doing it again. They are convinced by mate Gary King, who drags his reluctant pals to their hometown to once again attempt to reach the fabled pub called The World's End. As they attempt to reconcile the past and present, they realize the real struggle is for the future, not just theirs but humankind's. Reaching the pub is the least...
87) The deer hunter
Formats
Description
Tracks a group of steelworker pals from a Pennsylvania blast furnace to the coal hunting grounds of the Alleghenies to the lethal cauldron of Vietnam. It is a drama of friendship and courage and of what happens to these qualities under stress.
88) The Turkey Bowl
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a successful businessman is convinced to return to his small hometown on Thanksgiving to finish a Turkey Bowl football game that was snowed out years ago, he learns what he has missed in his life.
Author
Pub. Date
[1945]
Description
Tells the story of the difficult loves of insular Englishman Charles Ryder, and his peculiarly intense relationship with the wealthy but dysfunctional family that inhabited Brideshead. While at Oxford, Charles Ryder meets boyish, flamboyant Sebastian Flyte, who introduces Charles to a charmed and glamorous way of life that continues until Sebastian's health deteriorates.
Author
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
416 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
This is a novel that illuminates the shadowed edges of contemporary American culture with startling and unforgettable results. Suspended in a strangely modern day version of limbo, the young man at the center of this morally complex new novel must create a life for himself in the wake of incarceration. Known in his new identity only as the Kid, and on probation after doing time for a liaison with an underage girl, he is shackled to a GPS monitoring...
91) 50/50
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Inspired by personal experiences, an original story about friendship, love, survival, and finding humor in unlikely places. Two best friends' lives change when one of them is diagnosed with cancer.
92) On the road
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
©2013
Physical Desc
1 DVD (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
As two friends head out on a cross-country trip, their lives are changed by the people they meet and the circumstances they encounter.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial USA
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
496 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Esta es la historia de una gran amistad. Tanto Rubén (el Ruby) como Roberto (el Roxy) son íntimos amigos de lo ajeno y tienen mucha prisa por devorarse la Ciudad de México al ritmo de The Clash. Corren los años ochenta. No hay teléfonos movíles, cámaras en las cailles ni mensajes de texto. El mundo es hoy tan libre que no faltan las crápulas ansiosas de torcerlo para su provecho. Y en tal medida abunda el bandidaje que confiar en tu sombra...
95) Volando bajo
Publisher
Zima Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Chuyin Venegas y Cornelio Barraza fueron las grandes estrellas de la música popular y el cine en los años 80 y 90. Después de décadas de éxito como "Los Jilgueros de Rosarito," se fueron por caminos separados - hasta la muerte prematura de Cornelio envía Chuyin tambaleando lejos de su agitada vida de estrella de rock. Con un reportero de noticias en el remolque, viaja desde su inmaculada mansión de París de regreso a su pequeña ciudad natal...
96) Talk to her
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In a private clinic, Barco and Benigno strike up a friendship while caring for comatose women.
Author
Formats
Description
"...set in rural Mississippi. In the late 1970s, Larry Ott and Silas '32' Jones were boyhood pals. Their worlds were as different as night and day: Larry, the child of lower-middle-class white parents, and Silas, the son of a poor, single black mother. Yet for a few months the boys stepped outside of their circumstances and shared a special bond. But then tragedy struck: Larry took a girl on a date to a drive-in movie, and she was never heard from...
98) Fortunate son
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
313 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Sharing a close bond in spite of very different backgrounds, Eric, a handsome white man of privilege, and Tommy, an impoverished black youth with poor health, are separated by tragedy and reunited by a common enemy years later.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Childhood friends Brian and Paulie do whatever it takes to survive in the dog-eat-dog neighborhood they live in. As they grow up they find themselves involved in organized crime and jail becomes part of doing business on the streets they call home. Brian uses his time in jail to get clean while Paulie makes plans for one last job that requires Brian's help. Brian must decide if he should stand by his friend or salvage his family.
100) The trip to Spain
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon embark on another deliciously deadpan culinary road trip. This time around, the guys head to Spain to sample the best of the country's gastronomic offerings in between rounds of their hilariously off-the-cuff banter. Over plates of pintxos and paella, the pair exchange barbs and their patented celebrity impressions, as well as more serious reflections on what it means to settle into middle age.
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