Octavia Spencer
21) The help
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
In Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962, there are lines that are not crossed. With the civil rights movement exploding all around them, three women start a movement of their own, forever changing a town and the way women--black and white, mothers and daughters--view one another.
22) Flypaper
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
When Tripp walks into a bank at the end of the business day to catch the attention of a pretty teller, his efforts are interrupted as two sets of criminals show up to rob the bank.
23) The witches
Publisher
SDS
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A boy and his grandmother encounter a coven of witches and their leader.
24) Small town crime
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A disgraced, alcoholic ex-cop tries to redeem himself by tracking down the murderer of a teen prostitute.
25) The help
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mississippi during the 1960s: Skeeter, a southern society girl, returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends' lives, and a small Mississippi town, upside down when she decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent southern families. Aibileen, Skeeter's best friend's housekeeper, is the first to open up, to the dismay of her friends in the tight-knit black community.
26) Onward
Publisher
Disney/Pixar
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Two teenage elf brothers embark on an extraordinary quest to discover if there is still a little magic left out there.
27) Gifted
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Frank Adler is a single man raising a child prodigy, his spirited young niece Mary, in a coastal town in Florida. Frank's plans for a normal school life for Mary are foiled when the seven-year-old's mathematical abilities come to the attention of Frank's formidable mother Evelyn, whose plans for her granddaughter threaten to separate Frank and Mary.
28) Black Or White
Publisher
Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
The story of a grandfather who is suddenly left to care for his beloved granddaughter, but when her paternal grandmother seeks custody with the help of her brother, the little girl is torn between two families who love her deeply. With the best intentions at heart, both families fight for what they feel is right and are soon forced to confront their true feelings about race, forgiveness, and understanding.
30) Hidden figures
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Thematic elements and some language.
As the United States raced against Russia to put a man in space, NASA found untapped talent in a group of African-American female mathematicians that served as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in U.S. history. Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, and Katherine Johnson crossed all gender, race, and professional lines while their brilliance and desire to dream big, beyond anything ever accomplished before...
31) The free world
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A recently released former convict becomes involved with a married woman with an abusive husband.
32) The Journeyman
Author
Language
English
Description
Orphaned since he and his brother were boys, a man tries to find and redeem the other who is now an outlaw in the Wild West.
34) Paradise
Author
Language
English
Description
After a nearly fatal accident, Lamb Mannerheim realizes that the world is much bigger than her small, God-fearing Montana town and heads to Las Vegas!
35) Jesus People
Author
Language
English
Description
When Pastor Jerry gets some troubling news, he sets out to create a contemporary Christian pop group that will reach his son - before his teenager dies and goes to hell.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tris must escape with Four and go beyond the wall enclosing Chicago. For the first time ever, they will leave the only city and family they have ever known. Once outside, old discoveries are quickly rendered meaningless with the revelation of shocking new truths. Tris and Four must quickly decide who they can trust as a ruthless battle ignites beyond the walls of Chicago which threatens all of humanity. In order to survive, Tris will be forced to...
38) Smashed
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Kate and Charlie are a young married couple whose bond is built on a mutual love of music, laughter and drinking-especially the drinking. When Kate's drinking leads her to dangerous places and her job as a school teacher is put into jeopardy, she decides to join AA and get sober. Her new lifestyle calls into question whether or not her relationship with Charlie is built on love or just a boozy diversion from adulthood.
Author
Language
English
Description
Frank, a baker by trade, has been consumed by grief over his wife's death. But everything changes when he pulls his bread truck over on a rural highway to help a dying stranger entangled in a car wreck. A heartfelt, nostalgic and gently humorous story about a chance encounter in which one man's dreams become another man's destiny.