Mary Steenburgen
1) Cross Creek
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002, p1983
Language
English
Description
After ten years as a frustrated newspaper reporter and unsuccessful author of fiction, Marjorie Rawlings turns her back on financial security and takes up residence in the Florida Everglades. In this remote and untamed portion of central Florida, Rawlings is inspired to create a gallery of unforgettable characters and to produce critically-acclaimed best sellers.
Publisher
Universal Studios Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2015
Language
English
Description
Found inside a shining stalk of bamboo by an old bamboo cutter and his wife, a tiny girl grows rapidly into an exquisite young lady. The mysterious young princess enthralls all who encounter her, but ultimately she must confront her fate, the punishment for her crime.
Publisher
New Line Video
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
When happily unmarried San Francisco couple Kate and Brad find themselves socked in by fog on Christmas morning, their exotic vacation plans morph into the family-centric holiday they had, until now, gleefully avoided. Out of obligation, and unable to escape, they trudge to not one, not two, but four relative-choked festivities.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Meryl and Paul Morgan are a highly successful Manhattan couple. Their almost perfect lives have only one notable failure - their dissolving marriage. But they witness a murder and become the targets of a contract killer. The Feds, protecting their witnesses, whisk them from their beloved New York to a tiny town in Wyoming, and a relationship that was on the rocks threatens to end completely, unless with their new Blackberry-free lives, the Morgans...
Publisher
Broad Green Pictures
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Bill Bryson, instead of retiring to enjoy his loving and beautiful wife and large and happy family, challenges himself to hike the Appalachian Trail: 2,200 miles of America's most unspoiled, spectacular, and rugged countryside from Georgia to Maine. The peace and tranquility he hopes to find, though, is anything but, when the only person he can find willing to join him on the trek is his long-lost former friend Katz, a down-on-his-luck serial philanderer....
6) Elf
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
A human baby accidently ends up at the North Pole and grows up among the elf community. Buddy, as he comes to be known, knows that he's special. When he's 30, Buddy learns from Santa that he's really a human. He decides to go in search of his father, to find out where he belongs. He walks to Manhattan, and is immediately run over by a cab. His father at first rejects him and Buddy ends up in a department store where other elves are working. But all...
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Doc Brown has decided to live in the Old West of the 1880's. But when he's in danger of meeting an untimely end, Marty travels back into the past to rescue him. There's just one problem: Doc is so smitten by a schoolteacher that he's become distracted. Now, it's up to Marty to keep Doc out of trouble, get the DeLorean running, and put the past, present and future on track so they can all get back to where and when they belong.
8) Book club
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Four friends' lives are turned upside down to hilarious ends when their book club tackles the infamous Fifty Shades of Grey. From discovering new romance to rekindling old flames, they inspire each other to make their next chapter the best chapter.
9) Honeydripper
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
1950, rural Alabama. It's a make-or-break weekend for the Honeydripper Lounge and its owner Tyrone Pine Top Purvis. Deep in debt, Tyrone is desperate to lure the young cotton pickers and local Army base recruits into his juke joint and away from the rival club across the way. He lays off his regular talent and hires the famous electric guitar player, Guitar Sam, for a one night only gig. When the train arrives, Guitar Sam is no where to be found....
11) Nightmare alley
Publisher
20th Century Studios
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
From visionary filmmaker Guillermo del Toro comes a suspenseful psychological thriller about a manipulative carnival man who teams with an equally deceptive psychiatrist to grift the wealthy in 1940s New York society.
12) Clifford
Author
Language
English
Description
A mischievous and obnoxious 10-year-old boy makes life pure hell for his bachelor uncle while his parents are in Hawaii.
Series
Publisher
Vivendi Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Gulliver's travels: Set sail for a grand adventure in storytelling with Gulliver, an 18th-century Englishman who travels to mystical lands filled with cunning sorcery, talking beasts and encounters with a mysterious tiny society.
Odyssey : Join Odysseus, the king of Ithaca, on his heroic quest to return to his kingdom and family with riches much greater than gold.
15) Nobody's Baby
Author
Language
English
Description
An outlaw, (Gary Oldman, "The Dark Knight") discovers a baby in the midst of a car wreck. With his former partner in crime out to get him, he is forced to protect the baby.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The highly anticipated sequel follows our four best friends as they take their book club to Italy for the fun girl's trip they never had. When things go off the rails and secrets are revealed, their relaxing vacation turns into a once-in-a-lifetime cross-country adventure.
17) Song One
Author
Language
English
Description
Oscar winner Anne Hathaway stars as Franny in this romance set in Brooklyn's indie music scene. After her brother is in an accident, Franny returns home only to fall in love with her brother's musical idol.
18) The Book of Love
Author
Language
English
Description
To fulfill a promise he made to his late wife, an introverted architect pursues an unlikely friendship with an independent teenage girl. The architect uses his expertise to help the teen with her mysterious goal: to build a raft she intends to use to sail across the sea. Together, they help each other overcome loss and embark on an incredible adventure to do the impossible.
19) Pontiac Moon
Author
Language
English
Description
A dysfunctional family reunites during the Apollo XI moon landing in this drama starring real-life couple Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen. In 1969, eccentric teacher Washington Bellamy (Danson) turns the arrival of men on the moon into a science project for his son Andy (Ryan Todd). They drive across the country to Idaho's Spires of the Moon National Park, where the odometer of Washington's classic Pontiac Chief will read 238,857, the exact mileage...