Helen Hunt
1) Ride
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When her son (Brenton Thwaites) drops out of school in New York, Jackie (Academy Award-winner Helen Hunt) will drop everything to follow him to California to seek out her son, and maybe even a fresh start of her own. With help from her limo driver (David Zayas) and an expert surfer (Luke Wilson), Jackie learns to find herself in ways she never before thought possible in this hilarious and touching film about a mother, her son, and so much more.
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Meet Marry Murder volume 1
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Savannah and Trent Paschal seem like the perfect Suburban couple. But their romance ends in suspicion, jealousy, and a countrywide police hunt after murder is caught on camera.
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Meet Marry Murder volume 2
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Handsome construction worker Greg Harris literally crashes into Chiquita Tate's life. The couple become the envy of many for their glamorous lifestyle, but after a violent murder, is Chiquita's criminal clientele responsible?
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Meet Marry Murder volume 3
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Tim and Barbara Pasa marry quickly, and 18 years later emergency services rush to their home. A life has been lost in what looks like a tragic accident caused by a lit candle. But on closer inspection, a darker truth emerges.
6) A Good Woman
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Mrs. Erlynne, a notorious seductress, enters a gossipy society and entices the husband of a faithful young woman, delighting the gossips and prompting a series of unexpected consequences.
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A decade prior to the Seneca Falls Convention, black and white women joined together at the 1837 Anti-Slavery Convention. In this historical investigation, Hunt looks at the pioneers who converged abolitionism and women's rights; incited by holy indignation to challenge slavery and patriarchy, they created a blueprint for an intersectional feminism ahead of its time.
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How we parent our children reveals a great deal about how we were parented. When a particular parent-child interaction reveals how strongly we resemble our own mother or father, that insight can be extremely disheartening. But it can also be a catalyst for exploring unresolved issues that originated in our own childhood. Giving The Love That Heals offers a unique opportunity for personal transformation that will lead us to a conscious, and thus healthier,...
10) How it ends
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[2021]
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A young woman experiences a series of mishaps when she attends one last wild party before the world ends.
11) Cast Away
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c2002
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Chuck Noland, a FedEx systems engineer, finds his ruled-by-the-clock existence ended when a harrowing plane crash leaves him isolated on a remote island. As Chuck struggles to survive, he finds that his own personal journey has only just begun.
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Many partners learn how to give love, but many more undermine their relationships by for-getting something that is equally important -- learning to receive it. According to the authors, the root of the problem is the self-rejection that began in childhood, when our parents and caretakers unintentionally failed to nurture or directly rejected traits, characteristics, or im-pulses when we were children. We end up rejecting in ourselves whatever our...
14) Twister
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c1996
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Tornadoes swirling with cliffhanging excitement and awesome special effects and scientists pursuing the most destructive weatherfronts to sweep through mid-America's Tornado Alley.
15) What Women Want
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[2001]
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A cocky, chauvinistic advertising executive magically acquires the ability to hear what women are thinking.
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c2005
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Melvin Udall is an obsessive-compulsive novelist with Manhattan's meanest mouth. But when his gay neighbor Simon is hospitalized, Melvin is forced to babysit Simon's dog. And that unexpected act of kindness-- along with waitress Carol Connelly-- helps put Melvin back in the human race.
17) Soul Surfer
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c2011
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Teen surfer Bethany Hamilton loses her arm in a shark attack and courageously overcomes all odds to become a champion again, through her sheer determination and unwavering faith.
18) Chicken Little
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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Chicken Little and his feathered friends, alarmed that the sky seems to be falling, are easy prey to hungry Foxy Loxy when he poses as a police officer in hopes of tricking them into his truck.
20) A good woman
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A notorious seductress enters a gossipy society and entices the husband of a faithful young woman, delighting the gossips and prompting a series of unexpected consequences.