Matthew McConaughey
1) Greenlights
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Drawing on the Academy Award-winning actor's journals and diaries from the last 40 years, this book presents a uniquely McConaughey approach to achieving success and satisfaction"--
"I've been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last thirty-five." McConaughey sat down with those diaries. He found lessons he learned and forgot, poems, prayers, prescriptions,...
2) Just because
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
From worrying when excited to forgiving while still hurting, children experience everyday paradoxes as they embrace their full potential.
3) The Paperboy
Publisher
FilmRise
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In this crime drama, Matthew McConaughey ("Dallas Buyers Club") stars as a reporter who returns to his Florida hometown to investigate a case involving a death row inmate. Official Selection at the **Tribeca Film Festival** and **Sundance Film Festival**.
4) Bernie
Publisher
FilmRise
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In small-town Texas, an affable mortician strikes up a friendship with a wealthy widow who soon becomes controlling. With Jack Black, Shirley MacLaine and Matthew McConaughey. Official Selection at the **SXSW Film Festival** and **BFI London Film Festival**.
6) Sing
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A koala hopes to restore his theater to its former glory by producing a singing competition.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Andi is the "How to" girl at an up-and-coming women's magazine who need to prove she can pick up any guy and dump him in 10 days. And in order for Ben to win an advertising presentation he needs to prove he can make any woman fall in love with him in 10 days. Now that they are a "couple" and the clock is ticking, anything goes ...
11) The dark tower
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
With the fate of the worlds at stake, Roland Deschain, the last Gunslinger, defends the Dark Tower from the Man in Black with the help of a young boy from New York City.
12) Sahara
Publisher
Paramount DVD
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Three intrepid adventurers, including the legendary Dirk Pitt, set out to claim a massive treasure and foil the efforts of a cadre intent on world destruction.
13) We are Marshall
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Based on true events, tells the story of the 1970 plane crash that killed almost the entire Marshall University football team and how the university rebuilt the football program while dealing with the tragic loss.
15) Amistad
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the 1839 revolt on board a slave ship bound for America. Much of the story involves the court-room drama about the slave who led the revolt.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
©2006
Language
English
Description
Tripp is a thirty something slacker, but that doesn't mean that he is ready to give up the many benefits of living at home with his mom and dad. His desperate parents have had enough though, and after years of gentle nudging they soon realize that it is going to take a concerted effort to get Tripp out so they can enjoy their twilight years in peace. Realizing that their only hope for riding themselves of their reluctant-to-leave son, Al and Sue hope...
17) Interstellar
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
With our time on Earth coming to an end, a team of explorers undertakes the most important mission in human history; traveling beyond this galaxy to discover whether mankind has a future among the stars.
18) White Boy Rick
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Based on the moving true story of a blue-collar father and his teenage son, Rick Wershe, who became an undercover informant for the FBI during the 1980s, before he was arrested for drug trafficking, abandoned by his handlers, and sentenced to life in prison.
19) Frailty
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
The Meiks brothers, Fenton and Adam, have an idyllic relationship with their father. Their world is turned upside-down when their father suddenly announces that he has been visited by an angel who entrusted him with the holy mission of destroying "demons". Now, years after terrorizing a small Texas community, the God's Hand Killer has returned - leaving in his wake a perplexing trail of fear and death.
20) U-571
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
During World War II, a group of Navy men are sent to steal Enigma (the nazis' top-secret decoding device). When their own ship is destroyed, they must secretly make their way through hostile waters in a severely damaged Nazi U-boat to safety with the device.