Jodie Foster
1) Elysium
Pub. Date
2013
Description
In the year 2154 two groups of people remain; the extremely wealthy who reside on an immaculate man-made space station named Elysium, and the rest, who occupy an overpopulated, destroyed Earth. Max decides to embark on a mission that could bring equality to the opposed worlds.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
New York City radio host Erica Bain is working and living a wonderful life. One night she and her fiancé, David, are brutally attacked. David is killed and Erica is almost beaten to death. Erica is traumatized and in order to cope and work past the tragic event, Erica becomes someone else. She buys a gun and begins to roam the streets at night looking to take her revenge on the men who were responsible for the attack. Late one night, Erica is in...
3) The beaver
Description
Walter, once a successful and happy family man, has hit rock bottom. But, in his darkest hour, he finds a rather unusual savior: a beaver hand-puppet that takes over Walter's life in an attempt to change things for the better. Includes bonus features.
4) Inside man
Pub. Date
2006.
Appears on list
Description
NYPD Detective Keith Frazier struggles to outsmart Dalton, a high-stakes bank robber who, along with a well-trained crew of accomplices, has seized control of a Wall Street bank. The robbers turn what initially looks like a hostage crisis into a personal crusade to expose some mysterious evil secrets. As the dangerous cat-and-mouse game unfolds, Madaline, a power broker with her own agenda, emerges and injects even more instability into an already...
5) Panic Room
Description
A divorced woman and her little daughter buy a house to begin their new life together. What they think is a dream house soon becomes anything but when thieves break in shortly after they move in. But, mother and daughter make it to the steel-reinforced panic room and what they think is protection from the would be thieves. As it turns out, what they're after is in that room and they're not leaving without it.
7) Flightplan
Description
Flying at 40,000 feet in a cavernous, state-of-the-art 474 aircraft that she designed, Kyle Pratt faces every mother's worst nightmare when her six year-old daughter, Julia, vanishes without a trace mid-flight from Berlin to New York. Already emotionally devastasted by the unexpected death of her husband, Kyle desperately struggles to prove her sanity to the disbelieving flight crew, pilot, and passengers while facing the very real possiblity that...
8) Sommersby
Pub. Date
c1993
Description
A Civil War veteran returns to his hometown a changed man-- leading his wife and others who knew him to doubt his identity.
Description
A true epic story about a woman who challenged the heart of a king and inspired the destiny of a nation. English school teacher Anna Leonowens has traveled to Siam to educate the fifty-eight children of King Mongkut. If she has preconceived notions about the East, the King has similar notions about the West. But amid the danger of growing political unrest, their respect for each other slowly turns into something more.
10) Taxi Driver
Pub. Date
2007
Description
A disturbed New York City cab driver turns to vigilante violence when he fails to connect with society.
12) Nim's Island
Pub. Date
[2008]
Formats
Description
Nim Rusoe lives on a deserted island with her scientist father, Jack, and her best friends : Selkie, a sea lion ; Fred, a bearded dragon lizard ; and Galileo, a plucky pelican. When the island is 'invaded', Nim reaches out to the author of her favorite books.
13) Tom Sawyer
Series
Description
Mark Twain's boy hero enters a cave with Huck and Becky to save Muff Potter, witness to murder.
14) Mesmerized
Pub. Date
2007
Description
An orphan's arranged marriage to a deranged, possessive businessman becomes unbearable and when she attempts to free herself from the relationship, her husband dies and she is charged with his murder. Based on a true story.
15) Flightplan
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Flying at 40,000 feet in a cavernous, state-of-the-art 474 aircraft that she designed, Kyle Pratt faces every mother's worst nightmare when her six year-old daughter, Julia, vanishes without a trace mid-flight from Berlin to New York. Already emotionally devastated by the unexpected death of her husband, Kyle desperately struggles to prove her sanity to the disbelieving flight crew, pilot, and passengers while facing the very real possibility that...
16) Everest
Pub. Date
2007
Description
Discover the world's largest mountain and the highest peak in the world. "Everest, the death zone": In the wake of the 1996 disaster that took eight climbers in a single day, scientists follow a team of hikers to measure, for the first time ever, the toll high-altitude climbing takes on the heart, lungs, blood, and brain. "Everest, the mystery of Mallory and Irvine": The story of the early attempts on Mt. Everest and an exploration of the mystery...
17) Money monster
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
In the real-time high stakes thriller, financial TV host Lee Gates and his producer Patty, are put in an extreme situation when an irate investor who has lost everything forcefully takes over their studio. During a tense standoff broadcast to millions on live TV, Lee and Patty must work furiously against the clock to unravel the mystery behind a conspiracy at the heart of today's fast-paced, high-tech global markets.
18) The accused
Pub. Date
c2002
Description
A young woman is gang raped in a bar. She battles the legal system twice as she and her attorney go after both her attackers and the bystanders who cheered them on.
19) Mesmerized
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
A young orphan's arranged marriage to a deranged, possessive businessman becomes so unbearable that she attempts to free herself of the relationship and, when her husband dies, is charged with his murder. Based on a true story.
20) Contact: a novel
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.4 - AR Pts: 23
Description
In December, 1999, a multinational team journeys out to the stars, to the most awesome encounter in human history. Who, or what, is out there? In Cosmos, Carl Sagan explained the universe. In Contact, he predicts its future, and our own....