Laura Dern
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English
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Welcome to Jurassic Park! Discover the cinematic evolution of the Jurassic Park trilogy, with this deluxe book celebrating the saga's massive impact on pop culture. Director Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park unleashed an island of awe-inspiring dinosaurs, captivating audiences worldwide. Grossing over $900 million worldwide, the film ushered in a whole new age of digital visual effects and would go on to enthrall generations of moviegoers. The most...
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Nobodys's fool is an affectionate story of small town life in upstate New York. Sully, a fitfully employed 60-year-old construction worker, is a cheerful curmudgeon who has made a lifetime of bad decisions. He unexpectedly has a chance to make some of them right when his estranged son and grandson drop back into his life. Fat man & little boy is an adventure story about the "Manhattan project and the effort to build the atomic bomb during WWII.
84) Smooth talk
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Criterion collection volume 1068
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English
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"Suspended between carefree youth and the harsh realities of the adult world, a teenage girl experiences an unsettling awakening in this haunting version of innocence lost. Connie, the fifteen-year old black sheep of her family, whose summertime idyll of beach trips, mall hangouts, and innocent flirtations is shattered by an encounter with a mysterious stranger"--Container.
86) 99 homes
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When a single father Dennis Nash is evicted from his home, his only chance to win it back is to go to work for Rick Carver, the charismatic and ruthless businessman who evicted him in the first place. It's a deal-with-the-devil that provides security for his family; but as Nash falls deeper into Carver's web, he finds his situation grows more brutal and dangerous than he ever imagined.
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Jurassic Park: A wealthy entrepreneur invites a top paleontologist, a paleobotanist, a mathematician/theorist, and his two eager grandchildren to visit his secret island theme park featuring living dinosaurs cloned from prehistoric DNA.
The Lost world: Jurassic Park: Four years after the disaster at Jurassic Park, dinosaurs have secretly survived on a nearby island and roam free. Now there is a more ominous threat--a plan to capture and bring the...
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Season one "follows three mothers whose seemingly perfect lives in Monterey, CA, unravel to the point of murder"--Container. In season two, "the 'Monterey Five'...look to pick up the pieces of their shattered lives, just as an outsider arrives looking for answers"--Container.
90) J.T. Leroy
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Based on Savannah Knoop's memoir Girl Boy Girl: How I Became JT Leroy, this captivating true story goes beyond the headlines to tell the story of the most compelling literary hoax of recent times. Laura Albert writes as her avatar, 'a disenfranchised young queer man' named JT LeRoy. When her debut novel becomes a best-seller and JT becomes the darling of the literary world, she comes up with a unique solution to preserve her anonymity but give life...
91) Daddy and them
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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.
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Jurassic Park: Scientists develop a means of bringing dinosaurs to life using DNA taken from dino' blood, which has been preserved inside insects encased in amber.
Lost world: Four years after the failure of Jurassic Park on Isla Nublar, it is revealed that there was another island ("Site B") on which dinosaurs were bred before being transported to Isla Nublar.
Jurassic Park III: Eight years after the InGen incident, Dr. Grant is happy with his...
93) Jurassic Park
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English
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On a remote island, a wealthy entrepreneur secretly creates a theme park featuring living dinosaurs drawn from prehistoric DNA. Before opening, the park's security system breaks down, the prehistoric creatures break out, and the excitement builds to surprising results.
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Jurassic Park: "Journey to an amazing them park on a remote island where dinosaurs once again roam the Earth and five people must battle to survive among the historic predators"--Container.
Lost world: Jurassic Park: "Four years after the disaster at Jurassic Park, two groups are in a race against time that will determine the fate of the remote island's prehistoric inhabitants"--Container.
Jurassic Park III: "Adventure runs wild when a renowned...
95) Antarctic antics
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English
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A collection of 7 beloved children's stories presented in story book form.
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English
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This documentary is not only about film star Debra Winger, but also about the trials and tribulations of actresses in Hollywood who have reached "that certain age". Arquette interviews several of her colleagues, all of whom have their own personal horror stories about insensitive producers and casting directors who tend to think of over-40 actresses as being suitable only for mother, "other woman", and "hero's girlfriend" roles, if they bother to...
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"For the first time, in one collection, the complete television phenomenon 'Twin Peaks': all 29 episodes of the original groundbreaking season, all 18 parts of the 'Limited Event Series'--the return to Twin Peaks--that captivated audiences 25 years later, written by the series co-creators and entirely directed by David Lynch, and a wealth of intriguing, behind-the-scenes special features"--Container.
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Is your mama a llama? Lloyd the llama asks all kinds of baby animals his question. Will he ever get the answer he longs to hear? Leo the late bloomer: What's the matter with Leo? He can't read, write or speak like the other baby animals can. Will Leo ever bloom? Elizabeti's doll: When her new baby brother arrives, Elizabeti wants a baby of her own. She finds a rock that will make a perfect baby! Is she ready to care for her own child? Goose:...
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English
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Meet the parents: Greg is in love with Pam, and views their upcoming trip to her parents' house as a perfect opportunity to ask her to marry him. Once Greg is introduced to Pam's parents, however, things slide steadily downhill. Pam's dad, Jack, takes an instant and obvious dislike to Greg, remarking constantly about the fact that he is a male nurse. The weekend goes from bad to worse when Greg manages to, almost, destroy the house and the wedding.
Meet...