Jake Gyllenhaal
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Lexile measure
AD 540L
Language
English
Description
"The art of Auntieology and Uncleology is a sacred craft, but ten-year-old Leo has an Uncle Mo--a clueless stationery supply salesman with good intentions--who just doesn't get it. Yet. The Secret Society of Aunts & Uncles is a madcap, magical adventure into the heart of what it means to have an aunt or uncle--how we learn to keep each other close and how we find love in the simplest things"--
3) Wildlife
Author
Series
Criterion collection volume 1031
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
After his father loses his job and leaves to fight wildfires, a teenage boy is left to cope with his mother's reaction to their situation.
4) Southpaw
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Billy "The Great" Hope, reigning Light Heavyweight Boxing Champion of the World, seemingly has it all: an impressive career, a beautiful and loving wife, an adorable daughter, and a lavish lifestyle. When tragedy strikes and his lifelong manager and friend leaves him behind, Hope hits rock bottom and turns to an unlikely savior at a run-down local gym: Tick Willis, a retired fighter and trainer to the city's toughest amateur boxers.
5) End of watch
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Two young officers are marked for death after confiscating a small cache of money and firearms from the members of a notorious cartel, during a routine traffic stop.
6) Source code
Language
English
Description
When soldier Captain Colter Stevens wakes up in the body of an unknown man, he discovers he's part of an experimental government program called the 'Source Code' that enables him to cross over into another man's identity in the last eight minutes of his life. Armed with the task of identifying the bomber of a Chicago commuter train, Colter must relive the incident over and over again, gathering clues until he can solve the mystery and prevent an even...
Language
English
Formats
Description
Guy Ritchie's The Covenant follows US Army Sergeant John Kinley (Jake Gyllenhaal) and Afghan interpreter Ahmed (Dar Salim). After an ambush, Ahmed goes to Herculean lengths to save Kinley's life. When Kinley learns that Ahmed and his family were not given safe passage to America as promised, he must repay his debt by returning to the war zone to retrieve them before the Taliban hunts them down first.
8) Life
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The six-member crew of the International Space Station is on the cutting edge of one of the most important discoveries in human history: the first evidence of extraterrestrial life on Mars. As the crew begins to conduct research, their methods end up having unintended consequences and the life form proves more intelligent than anyone ever expected.
9) Relic
Language
English
Formats
Description
When elderly mother Edna inexplicably vanishes, her daughter Kay and granddaughter Sam rush to their family's decaying country home, finding clues of her increasing dementia scattered around the house in her absence. After Edna returns just as mysteriously as she disappeared, Kay's concern that her mother seems unwilling or unable to say where she's been clashes with Sam's unabashed enthusiasm to have her grandma back. As Edna's behavior turns increasingly...
10) Jarhead
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Follows "Swoff, " a third-generation Marine enlistee, from a sobering stint in boot camp to active duty, sporting a sniper's rifle and a hundred-pound ruck on his back through the Middle East deserts. There is no cover from intolerable heat or from the Iraqi soldiers, who are always potentially just over the next horizon. Swoff and his fellow Marines sustain themselves with sardonic humanity and wicked comedy on blazing desert fields in a country...
11) Stronger
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Inspired by the true story. Jeff Bauman, a working-class Bostonian, was at the 2013 marathon when the bomb blast occurred and he tragically lost both of his legs. After regaining consciousness, Jeff was able to help law enforcement identify one of the bombers, but his own battle had just begun. Jeff's deeply personal journey tests a family's bond and defines a community's pride as he overcomes adversity to become the living embodiment of ''Boston...
12) Wildlife
Series
Criterion collection volume 1031
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
After his father loses his job and leaves to fight wildfires, a teenage boy is left to cope with his mother's reaction to their situation.
13) Enemy
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
After seeing his exact look-alike in a movie, a college professor tracks the actor down, with disasterous results.
14) Spirit untamed
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Spirit Untamed is the next chapter in the beloved franchise full of adventure, family and friendship. Free-spirited Lucky Prescott moves to Miradero to join her estranged father. She is decidedly unimpressed with the sleepy town until she discovers a unique tie to her late mother, who was a fearless horse-riding stunt performer. She quickly forms a bond with a wild mustang named Spirit and makes two new pals who love horses as much as she does. When...
15) Nightcrawler
Language
English
Formats
Description
A pulse-pounding thriller set in the nocturnal underbelly of contemporary Los Angeles. Jake Gyllenhaal stars as Lou Bloom, a driven young man desperate for work who discovers the high-speed world of L.A. crime journalism. Finding a group of freelance camera crews who film crashes, fires, murder and other mayhem, Lou muscles into the cut-throat, dangerous realm of nightcrawling, where each police siren wail equals a possible windfall and victims are...
16) Prisoners
Pub. Date
[2013?]
Language
English
Description
Keller Dover is facing every parent's worst nightmare. His six-year-old daughter, Anna, is missing, together with her young friend, Joy. The only lead is a dilapidated RV taht had been parked on their street. Heading the invesigation, Detective Loki arrests its driver but a lack of evidence forces his release. As the police pursue multiple leads, Dover knows his child's life is at stake and decides he must take matters into his own hands. How far...
17) Donnie Darko
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
After narrowly escaping death in a freak accident, Donnie Darko commits acts of violence at the behest of a six-foot-tall rabbit.
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A high school student must face his dark destiny as delusions bring him face to face with a demonic rabbit who has eerie visions of the past and deadly predictions for the future in this intricate web that will leave you questioning what is real and what is mere hallucination.
20) Proof
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A devoted daughter comes to terms with the death of her father--a brilliant mathematician whose genius was crippled by mental insanity-- with the help of one of her father's former students.