Matthew McConaughey
1) Greenlights
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"Drawing on the Academy Award-winning actor's journals and diaries from the last 40 years, this book presents a uniquely McConaughey approach to achieving success and satisfaction"--
"I've been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last thirty-five." McConaughey sat down with those diaries. He found lessons he learned and forgot, poems, prayers, prescriptions,...
2) Interstellar
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (168 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A group of space travelers journey through a wormhole in search of a new habitable planet.
3) Sing 2
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1 Blu-ray videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Buster Moon and his friends must persuade a reclusive rock star to join their band for the opening of a new show.
5) U-571
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1 videodisc (approximately 117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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During World War II, a group of Navy men are sent to steal Enigma (the nazis' top-secret decoding device). When their own ship is destroyed, they must secretly make their way through hostile waters in a severely damaged Nazi U-boat to safety with the device.
6) Contact
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1 videodisc (150 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Astronomer Dr. Ellie Arroway receives an encrypted message, apparently from a solar system many light-years away.
7) Mud
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1 videodisc (130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Two boys, Ellis and his best friend Neckbone, find a mysterious man named Mud hiding out on a deserted island in the Mississippi. Mud tells the boys fantastic stories about his life, including how he killed a man in Texas and vengeful bounty hunters are coming to get him. He says he is planning to meet and escape with the love of his life, Juniper. The boys agree to help him, but it isn't long until their small town is besieged by bounty hunters out...
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1 videodisc (approximately 119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Michael 'Mick' Haller is a slick, charismatic Los Angeles criminal defense attorney who operates out of the back of his Lincoln Town Car. Having spent most of his career defending petty, gutter-variety criminals, Mick unexpectedly lands the case of a lifetime. However, what initially appears to be a straightforward case with a big money payoff swiftly develops into a deadly match between two masters of manipulation and a crisis of conscience for Haller....
9) Surfer, dude
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1 videodisc (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A surfing icon comes home to find Malibu has changed. Gone are the times when surfers lived just to catch a wave; now it's all about sponsorships, virtual reality, and money. When the waves go flat, Steve's backed into a corner and he's got to endure.
Surfing icon Steve Addington returns home, out of money and must decide whether or not to give in to his new sponsor's demands that he expand into video games and reality television.
10) Gold
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1 videodisc (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Kenny Wells, a prospector desperate for a lucky break, teams up with a similarly eager geologist and sets off on an amazing journey to find gold in the uncharted jungle of Indonesia. Getting the gold was hard but keeping it is even more difficult, sparking an adventure through the most powerful boardrooms of Wall Street.
11) Sahara
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1 videodisc (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Dirk Pitt is searching for a treasure on the River Niger. Pitt, along with his buddy Al Giordino have to thwart the attempted assassination of a beautiful U.N. scientist who is investigating a disease that is driving thousands of North Africans to death. The suspected cause of the raging epidemic is a vast, fast spreading pollution that threatens to extinguish all life in the world's seas. Racing to save the world from environmental catastrophe, Pitt...
12) The dark tower
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1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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The last Gunslinger, Roland Deschain, has been locked in an eternal battle with Walter O'Dim, also known as the Man in Black, determined to prevent him from toppling the Dark Tower, which holds the universe together. With the fate of the worlds at stake, good and evil will collide in the ultimate battle as only Roland can defend the Tower from the Man in Black.
13) Bernie
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1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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"In the tiny, rural town of Carthage, Texas, assistant funeral director Bernie Tiede was one of the town's most beloved residents. He taught Sunday school, sang in the church choir and was always willing to lend a helping hand. Everyone loved and appreciated Bernie, so it came as no surprise when he befriended Marjorie Nugent, an affluent widow who was as well known for her sour attitude as her fortune. Bernie frequently traveled with Marjorie and...
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1 videodisc (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Andi is the "How to" girl at an up-and-coming women's magazine who need to prove she can pick up any guy and dump him in 10 days. And in order for Ben to win an advertising presentation he needs to prove he can make any woman fall in love with him in 10 days. Now that they are a "couple" and the clock is ticking, anything goes ...
15) Sing 2
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1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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The ever-optimistic koala Buster Moon and his all-star cast of performers prepare to launch their most dazzling stage extravaganza yet, all in the glittering entertainment capital of the world.
16) White Boy Rick
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1 videodisc (approximately 111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Based on the moving true story of a blue-collar father and his teenage son, Rick Wershe, who became an undercover informant for the FBI during the 1980s, before he was arrested for drug trafficking, abandoned by his handlers, and sentenced to life in prison.
17) Sing
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1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
A koala impresario stages a grand singing competition for the world's animals in order to save his elegant theater and bring it back to its former glory.
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1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Texas cowboy Ron Woodroof's free-wheeling life was overturned in 1985 when he was diagnosed as HIV-positive. Shunned and ostracized by many old friends and bereft of government-approved medicines, he decided to take matters in his own hands, tracking down alternative treatments from all over the world by means both legal and illegal. Bypassing the establishment, he joined forces with an unlikely band of renegades and outcasts and established a hugely...