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Get the Summary of Ron Howard's The Boys in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Ron Howard's memoir details his early life and career, shaped by his parents, Rance and Jean Howard. His father's acting career and mother's support led to Ron's early acting roles, including "The Andy Griffith Show." Despite his father's conservative values and the family's financial prudence, Ron pursued acting and later directing. His...
3) Ransom
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (121 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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When the son of a wealthy businessman is kidnapped, he defies the experts and turns the tables on the kidnappers in a last-chance effort to rescue his boy.
4) The good lie
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
They were known simply as "The Lost Boys." Orphaned by the brutal civil war in Sudan that began in 1983, these young victims traveled as many as a thousand miles on foot in search of safety. Fifteen years later, a humanitarian effort would bring 3,600 lost boys and girls to America.
6) Changeling
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (142 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Working-class suburb Los Angeles, 1928. Christine says goodbye to her son, Walter, and departs for work. Arriving home, Christine discovers that Walter is nowhere to be found. Christine launches a desperate search for her son. Then, a boy claiming to be Christine's son appears out of thin air. Knowing the boy is not hers, Christine invites the child to stay in her home. Christine cannot accept the injustice being pushed upon her and continues to challenge...
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (ca. 782 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Widower Sheriff Andy and his young son Opie live with Andy's Aunt Bea in Mayberry, NC. Since Mayberry has virtually no crimes to solve, most of Andy's time is spent chatting with the locals and calming down his cousin Deputy Barney.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
xv, 410 p. ; 21 cm.
Description
Brings together, for the first time, the best of Gladwell's writing from The New Yorker in the past decade, including: the bittersweet tale of the inventor of the birth control pill; the dazzling inventions of the pasta sauce pioneer Howard Moscowitz; spotlighting Ron Popeil, the king of the American kitchen; and the secrets of Cesar Millan, the "dog whisperer." Gladwell also explores intelligence tests, ethnic profiling and "hindsight bias," and...
10) Aladdin
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In the heart of an enchanted city, a commoner named Aladdin and his mischievous monkey, Abu, battle to save the free-spirited Princess Jasmine. Aladdin's life changes with one rub of a magic lamp as a fun-loving, shape-shifting Genie appears and grants him three wishes. Through his adventures, Aladdin proves that he is a prince where it truly matter most - on the inside.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (767 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The widowed father of a young boy works as sheriff in the southern town of Mayberry. This sixth season's 30 episodes are in color instead of black and white. Don Knotts returns to Mayberry for the first two of five visits as Barney Fife, and here is also the first appearance of quirky County Clerk Howard Sprague.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (224 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In American graffiti, two teenage boys, scheduled to leave for college in the morning, spend a final summer night in 1962 cruising the strip. This leads to a series of misadventures for them and two other California teenagers. More American graffiti shows episodes in the same characters' lives as the 1960s continue and John Milner is drag racing, the Toad is in Vietnam, Debbie is a San Francisco hippie, and Steve and Laurie weather a domestic crisis....
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