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5) The gruffalo
Publisher
Orange Eyes Limited
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
When a courageous mouse goes for a stroll in the woods, he must outwit a series of predatory animals, including a fox, snake, owl, and the mighty Gruffalo.
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Hiccup is a Viking teenager who aspires to hunt dragons, but doesn't exactly fit in with his tribe's longstanding tradition of heroic dragon slayers. His world gets turned upside down when he encounters a dragon that challenges him and his fellow Vikings to see the world from an entirely different point of view.
8) The town
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Doug MacRay, leader of a Boston bank robber gang, decides he wants to leave town and the life of crime behind when he falls in love with the bank manager briefly taken hostage in their last heist, but he finds the choices he has to make more difficult than he imagined.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Based on the bestselling children's book by Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury. the story follows siblings Stan, Katie, Rosie, Max, the baby, and Rufus the dog, who decide one day to go on an adventure through whirling snowstorms, oozing mud, and dark forests in search of bears. But when Rosie and Rufus become separated from the rest of the family, it looks like bear hunting might not be quite as fun after all.
13) Gnomeo & Juliet
Publisher
distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Two garden gnomes from rival families fall in love and defy everyone around them in order to be together.
14) Winter's bone
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
A seventeen-year-old Ozark Mountain girl sets out to track down her drug-dealing father who put their house up for his bail bond and then disappeared.
17) High Sierra
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A gangster's hard-boiled persona finds itself at war with his compassionate side, a side that will ultimately be his downfall.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The beautiful widow Susan Vernon has come to the estate of her in-laws to wait out colorful rumors about her dalliances circulating through polite society. Whilst there, she decides to secure a husband for herself and her rather reluctant debutante daughter, Frederica.
19) The King and I
Language
English
Description
Anna Leonowens is an English school teacher who comes to teach the children of the King Mongut of Siam in the middle 1860s.
20) Summertime
Series
Criterion collection volume 22
Publisher
Classic Collection
Pub. Date
c1998, p1955
Language
English
Description
The story of a witty but lonely secretary who takes a vacation in Venice, hoping to fall in love. She does - with a very handsome but very married Italian man.
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