David Morse
Author
Series
Edens Lost and Found volume 3
Language
English
Description
This documentary focused on Philadelphia is hosted by actor and Philadelphia resident David Morse. It describes how concerned citizens like activists Doris Doris Gualtney and Iris Brown, muralist Jane Golden, sculptor Lily Yeh, musician Kenny Gamble, and gardener Mary Corby have come together to return the city to its Eden-like state through multiple environmental projects.
Author
Language
English
Description
In 1966, Peggy Ann Bradnick was walking home from school with her siblings, until she was abducted by ex-convict and mental ward patient William Diller Hollenbaugh. Based on a true story, law enforcement and compassionate citizens race against the clock to rescue Peggy Ann before it's too late. The search for the Mountain Man still stands as the largest-scale manhunt in Pennsylvanian history.
3) McCanick
Author
Language
English
Description
An out of control narcotics detective with a secret past hunts down a harmless low level criminal who knows the real truth about his past.
4) 12th Hour
Author
Language
English
Description
Can humans solve the climate crisis? 12th Hour delves into humanity's psychological resistance to ecological change, and why such changes are needed in order to avoid an irreversible cataclysm.
Author
Language
English
Description
With decades of experience in multicultural marketing, author David Morse reviews the history of marketing to black, Hispanic, Asian, and LGBTQ consumers. He explains how including appropriate cultural cues in advertising can build brand loyalty that will pay huge dividends. He also cautions that missing the mark with advertising that excludes or is culturally offensive can be a costly mistake. Replete with scores of examples of campaigns that have...
6) 12th Hour
Publisher
Video Project
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Can humans solve the climate crisis? 12th Hour delves into humanity's psychological resistance to ecological change, and why such changes are needed in order to avoid an irreversible cataclysm. Much of our population currently lives with hopeful delusions about climate change. These delusions, many of which have developed naturally as part of human evolution, hamper our ability to meaningfully address a problem with the spatial and temporal scope...
7) Collaborator
Publisher
Giant Pictures
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
On a visit to his childhood home to look in on his mother, famous playwright Robert Longfellow (Martin Donovan) is taken hostage by Gus (David Morse), an ex-con neighbor he has avoided since he was a boy. As the drama unfolds on the cable news channels, the two men unexpectedly bond until the mood darkens and shots ring out.
Series
Publisher
Miramax
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
English
Description
"For six agonizing years, Freddy Gale has waited for John Booth, the man jailed for a crime that destroyed Freddy's life. Now, Booth is out of prison and Freddy's giving him three days before he returns ... to even the score"--Container.
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Tobe is about 16, living with her dad and younger brother in LA's San Fernando Valley. She invites a gas station attendant named Harlan to come to the beach with her and her friends. He's from South Dakota, wears a cowboy hat, talks country, and has been a ranch hand. They have a great time, his simple expressions seem like wisdom, he's attentive and polite, and even though he's more than twice her age, she wants to spend time with him. When her father...
10) The virtuoso
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A loner hitman must find his target with only a code word, but when he arrives at the location he has been given at the specific time there are several possible targets, including a deputy sheriff. The danger escalates when an erotic encounter with a local woman threatens to derail his task.
11) Messenger
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In this novel that unites characters from "The Giver" and "Gathering Blue," Matty, a young member of a utopian community that values honesty, conceals an emerging healing power that he cannot explain or understand.
12) Revival: a novel
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In a small New England town over half a century ago, a boy is playing with his new toy soldiers in the dirt in front of his house when a shadow falls over him. He looks up to see a striking man, the new minister, Jamie learns later, who with his beautiful wife, will transform the church and the town. The men and boys are a bit in love with Mrs. Jacobs; the women and girls, with the Reverend Jacobs--including Jamie's sisters and mother. Then tragedy...
13) The hurt locker
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
US Army Staff Sergeant Will James, Sergeant J.T. Sanborn and Specialist Owen Eldridge comprise the Bravo Company's bomb disposal unit stationed in Baghdad. James is the tech team leader. When he arrives on the scene, Bravo Company has thirty-nine days left on its current deployment, and it will be a long thirty-nine days for Sanborn and Eldridge whose styles do not mesh with their new leader. James' thrill of the dismantlement seems to be the ultimate...
14) Collaborator
Author
Language
English
Description
Childhood neighbors Robert, a liberal playwright, and Gus, a right-wing ex-con, experience an unusual reunion when Gus holds Robert hostage at gunpoint in this acclaimed film.
15) Proof of Life
Author
Language
English
Description
When a U.S. citizen working in South America is abducted and his employers cannot buy his release, the man's wife hires a kidnap-and-ransom specialist for a daring scheme to free him in this fast-paced thriller.
Author
Language
English
Description
Winter in the Blood is a hauntingly beautiful film that is true to the lyrical and unflinching spirit of James Welch's classic 1974 novel of Native American life. Virgil First Raise (Chaske Spencer, the Twilight trilogy) wakes in a ditch on the hardscrabble plains of Montana. He stumbles home to his ranch on the reservation only to learn that his wife, Agnes (Julia Jones), has left him. Worse, she's stolen his beloved rifle. Virgil sets out to find...
18) Extreme Measures
Author
Language
English
Description
Dr. Guy Luthan did everything right, but it turned out wrong. A patient under his care at New York's Gramercy Hospital mysteriously died, and now Luthan wants to know why. However, when he looks for postmortem details, he finds no body...and no records. Hugh Grant plays Luthan in Extreme Measures, "one of the most effective paranoid suspense movies since The Fugitive" (Chicago Tribune). Gene Hackman and Sarah Jessica Parker costar in this mystery...
19) Indian Runner
Author
Language
English
Description
In his writing and directing debut, Sean Penn delivers a profound picture of two very different brothers, one a cop, one a lawbreaking Vietnam vet, who attempt to get through life...one day at a time.
Author
Language
English
Description
For six agonizing years, Freddy Gale has waited for John Booth, the man jailed for a crime that destroyed Freddy's life. Now, Booth is out of prison and Freddy's giving him three days before he returns...to even the score! The Crossing Guard is an intense, emotionally charged thriller that delivers!