Robin Williams
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
At the high point of a soaring career in the US Army, Lt. Col. Mark Weber was tapped by General David Petraeus to serve in a high profile job within the Afghan Parliament as a military advisor. Within weeks a routine physical revealed stage IV intestinal cancer in the thirty-eight-year-old father of three. When Mark realized he was not going to survive this final tour of combat, he began to write a letter to his boys, so that as they grew up without...
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
When the Tablet of Akmenrah seems to be causing problems for his old friends, the exhibits at the Museum of Natural History, former security guard Larry Daley travels to the British Museum to solve the mystery, meeting new characters along the way.
4) Happy feet
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
A young penguin named Mumbles cannot sing like the other penguins but can he can tap dance and he learns that being different can be good.
5) Aladdin
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Video
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
After Aladdin discovers the Genie in the lamp, he uses his wishes to help win the heart of Princess Jasmine, despite the evil tricks of the Grand Vizier Jafar.
7) Jumanji
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
A magical board game serves as a door to another dimension. When a pair of orphans discover the game and start playing it they unwittingly unleash a man who's been trapped inside, as well as an array of stampeding jungle animals.
10) Patch Adams
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
1999, 1998.
Language
English
Description
Patch Adams is a doctor like no other who believes that laughter is the best medicine, even at the risk of his career.
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Circus saxophonist Vladimir Ivanoff suddenly defects from his touring troupe in that temple of "Western decadence," Bloomingdale's. He wins asylum and moves into the crowded Harlem flat of Black security guard Lionel Witherspoon. Although Vladimir learns that life in America can be cold and even painful, he grows to love what seems to him a strange and wondrous land.
12) The fisher king
Publisher
Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
A deejay who finds himself penniless is plucked from disaster by a homeless history professor, who lives in a fantasy world full of castles, Red Knights and damsels in distress. Together they begin a modern quest for redemption and the Holy Grail.
13) Father's day
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
A woman cons two old boyfriends into searching for her runaway son by convincing both that they are the boy's father.
14) Hook
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Peter Banning is a 40-year-old acquisitions attorney who has forgotten how to let the child within himself take flight. When his children are kidnapped by his old nemesis, Captain Hook, he is forced to fight his fears and make a fantastic return to Neverland to regain not only his children, but the child he once was.
15) Aladdin
Language
English
Description
Aladdin is an orphan living on the streets of the city of Agrabah, continually outwitting and avoiding local law enforcement. One day he meets a young girl--also hiding from the guards--who is actually Princess Jasmine, seeking to escape from a disagreement with her father the Sultan about her marriage. He gallantly conceals her, and promptly falls in love. Soon, the Grand Vizier Jafar divines that Aladdin represents the key to his plans, and tricks...
16) The big wedding
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
To the amusement of their adult children and friends, long divorced couple Don and Ellie Griffin are once again forced to play the happy couple for the sake of their adopted son's wedding after his ultra conservative biological mother unexpectedly decides to fly halfway across the world to attend. With all of the wedding guests looking on, the Griffins are hilariously forced to confront their past, present and future, and hopefully avoid killing each...
Series
Publisher
Fondulac District Library
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A collection of movies in the Night at the museum franchise.
Night at the museum: A newly recruited night security guard at the Museum of Natural History discovers that an ancient curse causes the animals and exhibits on display to come to life and wreak havoc.
Night at the museum battle of the Smithsonian: Security guard Larry Daley infiltrates the Smithsonian Institution in order to rescue Jedediah and Octavius, who have been shipped to the museum...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Larry Daley is a divorced father who can't seem to keep a job for more than a week. He applies for a job at the Museum of Natural History and is assigned as a night guard. However, a seemingly easy job turns out to be an adventure when he finds that an ancient curse has caused the "inhabitants" of the museum to come to life.
Series
Language
English
Description
Jaws: When the seaside community of Amity finds itself under attack by a dangerous great white shark, the town's chief of police, a young marine biologist, and a grizzled shark hunter embark on a desperate quest to destroy the beast before it strikes again. Rated PG.
Close encounters of the third kind: Roy Neary witnesses the arrival of flying saucer from an alien world. Thus begins an incredible series of events, culminating in the ultimate encounter...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
When the Museum of Natural History is closed for renovations, the museum pieces are moved into federal storage at the famous Smithsonian Institution. It houses the world's largest museum complex with more than 136 million items in its collections. These range from the plane Amelia Earhart flew on her non-stop solo flight across the Atlantic and Al Capone's rap sheet and mug shot to Dorothy's ruby slippers. From Fonzie's leather jacket to Archie Bunker's...