Billy Bob Thornton
3) Bad Santa
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
You'd better watch out - Santa Claus Willie T. Stokes is coming to town and he doesn't care if you've been naughty or nice. Willie's favorite holiday tradition is to fill his sacks with loot lifted from shopping malls across the country. But this year his plot gets derailed by a wisecracking store detective, a sexy bartender and a kid who's convinced Willie is the real Santa Claus.
4) Parkland
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
November 22, 1963 is a day that changed the world forever when beloved American President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. Parkland is the true story behind that tragic day, told from the vantage point of individuals who are forced to make split-second decisions after this incomprehensible event that will change the world's landscape forever.
5) Fargo
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The Coen Brothers Best Picture Oscar nominee transforms into a television "true crime" story, with new characters, all chilled in the trademark dry wit, murderous mayhem and "Minnesota nice" of the original classic film. Lorne Malvo is a manipulative master criminal who changes the life of insurance salesmen Lester Nygaard. Gus Grimly and Molly Solverson are the small-town police officers who join forces to uncover Lester's secrets.
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
An astronaut-in-training has to leave NASA (to save the family farm) but just can't give up on his dream of shooting into space, even if he has to do it all by himself. And that will of course get everyone up in arms, from his wife to his banker to the town gossips to the media and the Department of Homeland Security.
7) The judge
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Big-city lawyer Hank Palmer returns to his childhood home where his estranged father, the town's judge, is suspected of murder. He sets out to discover the truth and along the way reconnects with the family he walked away from years before.
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Morris Buttermaker is an alcoholic pest removal worker and for a very short period of time a former professional baseball player, is recruited to coach and train a failing baseball team. All of these twelve-year-olds have been thrown out of the league. After losing every game they have played in so far, the kids force the coach to straighten up and teach them how to win before the season is over.
10) Devil's peak
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set in the Appalachian Mountains, Devil's Peak is a tense country-noir thriller about a family dominated by a crime lord who controls his family and his business with his fists. When his son meets the girl of his dreams, desperately wanting to escape the life he is expected to lead and free himself from the clutches of his father, he is forced to go head-to-head with the terrifying man who will stop at nothing to ensure loyalty from all of those around...
11) Sling blade
Series
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Mildly retarded killer Karl Childers is released from a mental hospital, where he was placed for killing his mother and her lover, after 25 years.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A Bolivian presidential candidate failing badly in the polls enlists the firepower of an elite American management team, led by the deeply damaged but still brilliant strategist 'Calamity' Jane Bodine. In self-imposed retirement following a scandal that earned her nickname and rocked her to her core, Jane is coaxed back into the game for the chance to beat her professional nemesis, the loathsome Pat Candy, now coaching the opposition.
13) Puss in boots
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Years before meeting Shrek and Donkey, the adorable but tricky Puss in Boots must clear his name from all charges making him a wanted fugitive.
15) Eagle eye
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jerry and Rachel are two strangers who are thrown together by a mysterious phone call from a woman they have never met. Threatening their lives and family, she pushes Jerry and Rachel into a series of increasingly dangerous situations, using the technology of everyday life to track and control their every move. Now they must carry out a high-tech assassination plot of an unscrupulous artificial intelligence system.
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Fueled by cheap whiskey, greed, and hatred, Willie teams up once again with his angry little sidekick, Marcus, to knock off a Chicago charity on Christmas Eve. Along for the ride is 'the kid,' chubby and cheery Thurman Merman, a 250-pound ray of sunshine. Mommy issues arise when the pair are joined by Willie's horror story of a mother, Sunny Soke. Sunny raises the bar for the gang's ambitions, while somehow lowering the standards of criminal behavior....
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Odessa is an oil town in the western part of Texas that is home to the Permian High School Panthers, the football team with the best winning record. The city's economy is in a tailspin, but football is the one thing that brings all the people of Odessa together, and on Friday nights, as many as 20,000 people fill Permian's football stadium to watch Coach Gary Gaines lead the team to victory. And in Odessa, a football victory is prized above all else....
19) The ice harvest
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
It's Christmas Eve in icebound Wichita, Kansas, and this year Charlie Arglist just might have something to celebrate. Charlie is an attorney for the sleazy businesses of Wichita, along with his unsavory associate, the steely Vic Cavanaugh, the two have just successfully embezzled $2 million from Kansas City boss Bill Guerrard. But the real prize for Charlie is the stunning Renata, who runs the Sweet Cage strip club. Charlie hopes to slip out of town...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
The follow-up to the band's Grammy-nominated 2021 LP, Heavy Load Blues. It's a remarkable synthesis of songs and musicality that toggles between thundering heavy rock, electric blues, soul, funk, spoken word, English chamber-folk, and psychedelia, enhanced by a fascinating assortment of contributing artists, including Billy F Gibbons, Ivan Neville, Ruthie Foster, Billy Bob Thornton, and Celisse.