Sissy Spacek
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel--a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with rich humor and unswerving honesty the irrationality of adult attitudes toward race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s. The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence, and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina and quiet...
3) Carrie
Author
Language
English
Description
Stephen King's legendary debut, about a teenage outcast and the revenge she enacts on her classmates. Carrie White may be picked on by her classmates, but she has a gift. She can move things with her mind. Doors lock. Candles fall. This is her power and her problem. Then, an act of kindness, as spontaneous as the vicious taunts of her classmates, offers Carrie a chance to be a normal... until an unexpected cruelty turns her gift into a weapon of horror...
Publisher
Under the Milky Way
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Narrated by Academy Award winners Sissy Spacek and Herbie Hancock, RIVER OF GOLD is the disturbing account of a clandestine journey into Peru’s Amazon rainforest to uncover the savage unraveling of pristine jungle. Guided by Peruvian biologist Enrique Ortiz, war journalists Ron Haviv and Donovan Webster bear witness to the apocalyptic destruction in pursuit of illegally mined gold with consequences on a global scale. Fast forward four years to a...
5) Carrie
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Based on the best-selling Stephen King novel, CARRIE (Sissy Spacek) is a high school loner with no confidence, no friends... and no idea about the extent of her secret powers of telekinesis. But when her psychotic mother and sadistic classmates finally go too far, the once-shy teen becomes an unrestrained, vengeance-seeking powerhouse who causes all hell to break loose in a frenzy of blood, fire and brimstone! Piper Laurie, John Travolta, and Amy...
6) Sam & Kate
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Starring Academy Award®-winners Dustin Hoffman and Sissy Spacek, Sam & Kate is a heartwarming, multi-generational family story bringing together four people who are given a second chance at love, and life.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
After a young man becomes romantically involved with an older single mother, his parents raise concern. Soon, the relationship takes a sudden and tragic turn, and his family is forced to confront the inescapable consequences of their actions.
Publisher
StudioCanal
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
English
Description
Babe has just shot her husband. Lenny worries that men will no longer find her attractive, and Meg returns from Hollywood after a nervous breakdown. The three eccentric sisters reunite, and their initial joy dissolves into a series of squabbles and arguments. But they pull together and support each other, through their exasperating succession of mistakes and misfortunes.
9) Affliction
Publisher
Shout Studios
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
Set in a snowy New Hampshire town, this gripping psychological drama follows Wade Whitehouse (Nick Nolte), a small-town sheriff haunted by his abusive upbringing and a troubled relationship with his domineering father, Glen (James Coburn). As Wade investigates a suspicious hunting accident, his obsession with uncovering the truth drives him deeper into paranoia and rage. His girlfriend, Margie Fogg (Sissy Spacek), a kind and patient local waitress,...
10) Deadfall
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Siblings Addison and Liza are on the run from a casino heist gone wrong. They split up and make a run for the Canadian border in blizzard conditions, vowing to reunite in Canada. Addison heads cross-country, creating mayhem, Liza is picked up by ex-boxer Jay en-route for a Thanksgiving homecoming with his parents, and retired sheriff. It's there the siblings are reunited in a tense and thrilling showdown.
12) The river
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
A farming family struggles to keep its homestead safe from the local power authority, which wants to flood the land
13) Badlands
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
In 1959, a teenage girl and her older boyfriend embark on a killing spree across South Dakota and Montana
14) 3 women
Series
Criterion collection volume 230
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A shy young nursing home attendant becomes obsessed with her coworker's sophisticated lifestyle
15) Four Christmases
Publisher
New Line Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
When a happily unmarried San Francisco couple find their flight to Fiji cancelled on Christmas morning, they are forced to celebrate four family gatherings in one hectic day
16) Carrie
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
A teenager with mysterious powers, who is abused by her classmates and her religiously fanatical mother, gets revenge
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Language
English
Formats
Description
In his first book of new writing since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016, Bob Dylan offers his extraordinary insight into the nature of popular music through a series of essays that double as meditations and reflections on the human condition