Matt Dillon
1) On the road
Author
Lexile measure
940L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Behind us lay the whole of America and everything Dean and I had previously known about life, and life on the road. We had finally found the magic land at the end of the road and we never dreamed the extent of the magic. Sal Paradise, a young innocent, joins the slightly crazed Dean Moriarty on a breathless, exuberant ride back and forth across the United States. Their hedonistic search for release or fulfilment through drink, sex, drugs and jazz...
2) Crash
Language
English
Description
A provocative, unflinching look at the complexities of racial tolerance in contemporary America when a car accident brings together a group of strangers in Los Angeles.
3) Wild things
Pub. Date
1998
Edition
Standard full screen and widescreen versions.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A thriller about two high school students, the guidance counselor they accuse of rape, and the detective who knows there's more to the story.
Publisher
IFC Films, Scream Factory
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (152 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story follows Jack, a highly intelligent serial killer throughout twelve years and depicts the murders that truly develop Jack as a serial killer.
6) To die for
Pub. Date
1995
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In a small town in New Hampshire, a media sensation erupts over a murder case against Suzanne Stone, in which she is accused of persuading teenagers to kill her husband, Larry Maretto. Obsessed with becoming a TV personality, she viewed her husband's desire for children as an impediment to her career.
7) Crash
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Full screen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A car accident brings together a group of strangers in Los Angeles. Crash takes a provocative, unflinching look at the complexities of racial tolerance in contemporary America.
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Full screen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
For newlyweds Carl and Molly Peterson, life is sweet. With a nice house and established careers, nothing seems to get in the newlyweds way. However, Carl's best friend, Dupree, has just been displaced from his home and fired from his job because of attending their wedding. Taking his friend in for what should just be a few days, turns into a lot more than they bargained for. Especially when Dupree overstays his welcome and causes one hilarious catastrophe...
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Maggie Peyton wants to join her family's dynasty of race car drivers, but her father worries that she'll get hurt. As a college graduation gift, he buys Maggie a junked-out Volkswagen Beetle, which turns out to be Herbie, a car with a mind of its own. Soon Maggie and Herbie are racing against an arrogant racing champion and duking it out with monster trucks.
10) Old dogs
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dan and Charlie are two best friends who, together, have built a successful marketing empire, but have somehow managed to avoid ever really grown up. Their lives have been turned upside down when they are charged with the care of seven-year-old twins while on the verge of a big business deal. The clueless bachelors stumble in their efforts, leading to one debacle after another, with a gorilla and some pecking penguins. Dan and Charlie learn as much...
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A third-rate motorcycle daredevil and part-time art thief teams up with his sneaky brother to steal one of the most valuable books in the world.
12) Proxima
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sarah is a French astronaut training at the European Space Agency in Cologne. She is the only woman in the arduous program. She lives alone with Stella, her seven-year-old daughter. Sarah feels guilty that she cannot spend more time with her child. When Sarah is chosen to be part of the crew of a year-long space mission called "Proxima", it creates chaos in the mother-daughter relationship.
Publisher
Blue Fox Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
'An orphan boy of mixed race finds family with the newly arrived white village doctor in Hawaii. The boy can run like the wind, and begins bringing Doc's medicine to coffee pickers throughout the mountainous region. On an errand, the medicine runner meets the daughter of the plantation owner and a forbidden, young love blossoms like the white "Kona Snow" of the surrounding coffee trees."--Container.
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A volatile story about a Washington, D.C. political reporter who writes an explosive story about a government scandal in which she reveals the name of a covert CIA agent. Unexpectedly finding herself behind bars, she struggles to maintain her principles and relationship with her family when she refuses to divulge her source. Inspired by true events.
15) The outsiders
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
Standard full screen and widescreen versions.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1966 Tulsa, teenagers come two ways. You either have money, cars, and a future or you're an outsider with only your friends and a dream that someday you'll finally belong.
16) Capone
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The 47-year old Al Capone, after ten years in prison, starts suffering from dementia and comes to be haunted by his violent past.
17) Girl most likely
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 104 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After both her career and relationship hit the skids, Imogene is forced to make the humiliating move back home to New Jersey with her eccentric mother and younger brother. Adding further insult to injury, there's a strange man sleeping in her old bedroom, and an even stranger man sleeping in her mother's bed.
18) Takers
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A notorious group of criminals continue to baffle police by pulling off one perfectly executed bank robbery after another. They are in and out like clockwork, leaving no evidence behind, and laying low between heists. But when they attempt to pull off one last job with more money at stake than ever before, the crew may find their plans interrupted by a hardened detective who is hell-bent on solving the case.
19) Going in style
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Blu-ray version ; Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 videodisc (96 min. : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.)
Language
English
Description
Lifelong buddies Willie, Joe, and Al decide to buck retirement and step off the straight and narrow for the first time in their lives when their pension fund becomes a corporate casualty. To pay the bills and come through for their loved ones, the three risk it all by embarking on a daring bid to knock off the very bank that absconded with their money.
20) Going in style
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Lifelong buddies Willie, Joe, and Al decide to buck retirement and step off the straight and narrow for the first time in their lives when their pension fund becomes a corporate casualty. To pay the bills and come through for their loved ones, the three risk it all by embarking on a daring bid to knock off the very bank that absconded with their money.