Kevin Bacon
Author
Series
Finding Your Roots volume 4
Language
English
Description
What do Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick have in common? They are both famous actors and both descend from prominent American families that have been in this country since its inception. But they share something else, too: Both had ancestors who were early opponents of slavery. Bacon's Quaker ancestors repudiated slavery long before the rest of the country, in 1780. And Sedgwick's ancestor Theodore Sedgwick argued the freedom case of Elizabeth Freeman,...
2) The Woodsman
Author
Language
English
Description
A child molester returns to his hometown after 12 years in prison and attempts to start a new life.
6) Sleepers
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Language
English
Description
Four ordinary boys. A harmless prank gone awry. Their childhood innocence forever shattered, they vow to avenge its loss in the haunting drama Sleepers. Sentenced to spend time at a reform school for their reckless behavior, four basically good boys from a bad neighborhood suffer a horrible fate while there. Forced to perform unspeakable acts by the very adults entrusted to watch over them, the young quartet barely survives the ordeal. A decade and...
Author
Language
English
Description
An aspiring writer faces up to the responsibilities of marriage and family in this romantic comedy from writer, director, and producer John Hughes. Despite the misgivings he pours out to best friend Davis McDonald (Alec Baldwin), Jake Briggs (Kevin Bacon) marries high-school sweetheart Kristy (Elizabeth McGovern). After an abortive attempt at graduate school in New Mexico, the couple settle in suburban Chicago. Jake fakes his way into a job as an...
Author
Language
English
Description
He says sex, she says romance. He says relationship, she says marriage. He says he won't but she hopes he will...lucky they both agree they've fallen in love! Kevin Bacon and Elizabeth Perkins are competing journalists who find love and success as battling co-hosts of their own talk show. But the friction that makes the show a hit threatens to cancel the romance, as the lovers discover each has a completely different concept of commitment. This...
11) Criminal Law
Author
Language
English
Description
Attorney Oldman successfully defends accused killer Kevin Bacon. It is only after proving his client's innocence by discrediting eyewitness, that Oldman discovers Bacon is guilty--and intends to kill again.
13) The Woodsman
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Language
English
Description
A child molester returns to his hometown after 12 years in prison and attempts to start a new life.
14) Space Oddity
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Language
English
Description
When Alex gives up on earth and decides to leave it all behind for a one-way mission to Mars, an unexpected romance forces him to choose between an uncertain journey to the stars or an even more uncertain journey of the heart.
Publisher
Universal Studios
Language
English
Description
Two cops are dispatched by the Rest In Peace Department (R.I.P.D.) to protect and serve the living from increasingly destructive spirits hiding among the unsuspecting Earth. When they uncover a plot that could end life as we know it, the new partners have to turn grudging respect into top-notch teamwork to restore the cosmic balance-or watch the tunnel to the afterlife begin sending angry souls the very wrong way.
16) The Woodsman
Publisher
Newmarket
Language
English
Description
After serving 12 years in prison for child abuse, Walter (Kevin Bacon) moves into a small apartment, gets a job at a lumberyard, and mostly keeps to himself. He finds unexpected solace from Vicki (Kyra Sedgwick), a tough-talking woman who promises not to judge him for his history. But Walter cannot escape his past.
17) Elephant White
Author
Language
English
Description
An assassin is hired by a businessman to avenge the murder of his daughter by white slave traders in Thailand.
18) Cavedweller
Author
Language
English
Description
After the sudden death of her husband, Delia Byrd packs her rebellious daughter Cissy and everything she owns into a car and heads back to her hometown of Cayro, Georgia, launching a journey of a thousand miles and two decades to reclaim her roots. Her wish is to regain custody of the children she abandoned years ago; but that means confronting the demons of her first marriage, the hostility of her husband's family, the bitter attitudes of an unforgiving...
19) Apollo 13
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Language
English
Description
A true story. Stranded 205,000 miles from Earth in a crippled spacecraft, astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, and Jack Swigert fight a desperate battle to survive. Meanwhile, at Mission Control, astronaut Ken Mattingly, flight director Gene Kranz and a heroic ground crew race against time, and the odds, to bring them home.
20) Losing Chase
Author
Language
English
Description
This moving story follows the intimate relationship between Chase Philips (Mirren) and Elizabeth Cole (Sedgwick) over the course of one summer on Martha's Vineyard. As Chase recovers from a nervous breakdown, she and her children are cared for by a 20-year-old mother's helper, Elizabeth, hired by her husband, Richard (Bridges). Richard spends much of the summer at work in Boston, returning to the island only on weekends.