Anne Heche
1) Body double
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Returning home from a trip to Paris, Boston medical examiner Maura Isles confronts a nightmarish scene. Police cruisers line her street and slumped in a car at the end of Maura's driveway is a dead woman, her head bloodied by a gunshot wound. Cops and neighbors gape at her as she approaches. Only when Maura looks at the victim does she understand why everyone is so shocked by her arrival. The dead woman looks exactly like Maura. Within a week, the...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
During a six-mile hike on the Maine-New Hampshire branch of the Appalachian Trail, nine-year-old Trisha McFarland quickly tires of the constant bickering between her older brother and her recently divorced mother. But when Trisha briefly wanders off by herself, she becomes lost in a wilderness maze full of peril and terror. As night falls, Trisha has only her ingenuity as a defense against the elements, and only her courage and faith to withstand...
Author
Language
English
Description
Psychiatrist Andrew Marlowe, devoted to his profession and the painting hobby he loves, has a solitary but ordered life. When renowned painter Robert Oliver attacks a canvas in the National Gallery of Art and becomes his patient, Marlow finds that order destroyed. Desperate to understand the secret that torments the genius, he embarks on a journey that leads him into the lives of the women closest to Oliver and a tragedy at the heart of French Impressionism....
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Racial tension runs high in 1971 Durham, North Carolina as residents continue to fight the 1954 Supreme Court decision to desegregate their schools. A series of town meetings are called to discuss the matter. Ann Atwater and C.P. Ellis, the meeting co-chairs, have very different views. Passionately advocating for school integration is a way of life for Atwater, a champion for Civil Rights. C.P. Ellis, Exalted Cyclops leading the Durham chapter of...
7) Silver bells
Publisher
Hallmark Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
It's the Christmas season, but Christy Byrne hasn't felt much joy since his wife died four years ago. When the family Christmas tree business brings him and his children from Nova Scotia to New York City, his all-work demeanor creates a family fallout.
8) Catfight
Publisher
Dark Sky Films/MPI Media Group
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A reunion between two former college friends sparks a no-holds-barred war of attrition in this outrageously madcap black comedy.
11) Arthur Newman
Publisher
New Video
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Arthur Newman; follows the mid-life travails of sad sack Wallace Avery. Refusing to face a life he hates, he stages his own death and buys himself a new identity as Arthur Newman. However, Arthur's road trip towards a new life is interrupted by the arrival of the beautiful but fragile Mike, who is also trying to leave her past behind. Through the process, Arthur and Mike discover that what they love most about each other are the identities they left...
12) Girl fight
Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
The story of Victoria 'Tori' Lindsay, a stellar Florida high school student whose life begins to spiral downward after she befriends a troubled student at the school. When Tori tells the girl she can no longer hang out with her, the girl and her friends beat Tori up and post the video on the internet. Despite little help from the police or school, Tori's mother works to make the attackers pay for what they did.
13) The vanished
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
An idyllic family vacation turns into a living nightmare for parents Paul and Wendy when their young daughter disappears without a trace. When the local sheriff fails to chase down any new leads, the frantic parents have no choice but to take matters into their own hands. As tensions mount and the list of suspects grows, the search for the truth leads to a shocking revelation where nothing is what it seems in this gripping psychological thriller.
14) Volcano
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
Something unspeakably chilling is heating up The City of Angels. Beneath the famed La Brea Tar Pits, a raging volcano has formed, raining a storm of deadly fire bombs and an endless tide of white-hot lava upon the stunned city.
Series
Publisher
Hallmark Hall Of Fame Productions
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Nell's a newly single mom who wants this Christmas to be extra - special for her two kids. It turns out to be special, indeed, but it's not what she had in mind. Everything that can go wrong does go wrong. Chaos reigns in this entertaining comedy, and the notion of 'family' takes on a whole new meaning.
16) Birth
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A widow for ten years, Anna is looking forward to getting remarried when a mysterious boy appears claiming to be the reincarnation of her late husband.
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
In this trilogy, different women face different social and political climates in choosing what to do about an unplanned pregnancy. In 1952, a recently widowed nurse (Demi Moore) must decide whether to go through with an illegal abortion. In 1974, a mother of four (Sissy Spacek) struggles to raise a family and have a career shortly after abortion was legalized. In 1996, a college student (Anne Heche) decides on getting an abortion during a climate...
19) Wag the dog
Publisher
New Line Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
When the President is caught in a sex scandal less than 2 weeks before the election, "Mr. Fix-it" decides they need a war to distract the public's attention and he calls on Hollywood's top producer to create it.
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002?]
Language
English
Description
Huck Finn, a 19th-century boy floating down the Mississippi River on a raft with Jim, a runaway slave, becomes involved with a feuding family, two scoundrels pretending to be royalty, and Tom Sawyer's aunt, who mistakes him for Tom.