Elizabeth Peña
1) Lone Star
Pub. Date
1996
Description
Everyone worships the late great legendary sheriff of a Texas border town, except his son who is the current sheriff solving a murder he suspects can be traced back to Dad.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Based on the Korean legend, unknown creatures will return and devastate the planet. Reporter Ethan Kendrick is called in to investigate the matter, and he arrives at the conclusion that a young woman, named Sarah who is stricken with a mysterious illness, is suppose to help him. The Imoogi makes its way to Los Angeles, wreaking havoc and destruction. The entire city is under arms and Ethan and Sarah need make it to Los Angeles in time to save the...
3) Transamerica
Pub. Date
2005.
Description
Bree Osborne, a pre-operative transsexual, learns she fathered a child back when she was Stanley Osborne. The wheels of fortune take Bree and her teenaged son on a cross-country trip that will change both their lives.
4) Impostor
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Description
Spencer John Olham, is a respected government scientist in the year 2079 trying to devise a secret weapon that will help his fellow humans win a decade-long war against invading aliens that are cloning human subjects and using the replicas as walking time bombs. Suddenly, Olham is accused of being an alien spy and a nationwide manhunt to capture him ensues. With even his doctor wife unsure that she can trust him, Olham must uncover the truth on his...
5) Lone star
Series
Criterion collection volume 1202
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
A keen observer of America's social fabric, writer-director John Sayles uncovers the haunted past buried beneath a small Texas border town in this sprawling neo-western mystery. When a skeleton is discovered in the desert, lawman Sam Deeds, son of a legendary local sheriff, begins an investigation that will have profound implications both for him personally and for all of Rio County, a place still reckoning with its history of racial violence. Sayles's...
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
A guard at a teen correctional facility who saw the cycle of destructive choice and racial tensions between female teen offenders, decides to do something about it. He gathered African-American, Latina, and white teens, and put together a multi-racial track team behind the bars of the detention center. The experience of belonging to his track team not only broke down the racial divides between the young women, but transformed them, putting them on...
Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
A heartwarming comedy that's all about food, family and a certain kind of magic that only happens at the dinner table. Martin is the culinary genius behind a successful restaurant and the widowed father of three daughters whom he has a compulsion to try and steer in the right direction. Hungry for their independance, the girls find themselves at odds with their traditionalist father.
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
Free Willy (1993, 112 min.): A boy risks everything to save a beloved killer whale when he learns the aquarium owners are going to kill it.
Free Willy 2 (1995, 98 min.): Jesse and Willy are reunited three years after Willy's escape as Jesse tries to rescue him and other orcas from an oil spill.
Free Willy 3 (1997, 86 min.): Jesse and his friend Randolph try to stop an illegal whaler who is trying to kill Willy and his pregnant mate.
Free Willy:...
Pub. Date
2009.
Description
For the first time in years the entire Rodriguez clan comes home to Chicago to celebrate Christmas where traditions will be celebrated. During the course of this eventful week they will celebrate one member's safe return from Iraq, secrets will be revealed, old resentments forgotten, each family member will learn something about themselves and each other, and the healing power of laughter will work its magic.
Pub. Date
2009
Description
For the first time in years the entire Rodriguez clan comes home to Chicago to celebrate Christmas where traditions will be celebrated. During the course of this eventful week they will celebrate one member's safe return from Iraq, secrets will be revealed, old resentments forgotten, each family member will learn something about themselves and each other, and the healing power of laughter will work its magic.
14) Free Willy
Pub. Date
2006
Description
Fun, excitement and the whale that captured the world's imagination add up to big family entertainment. A lonely boy understands the plaintive cries of the orca confined to an aquatic park's too-small tank and does something about it in Free Willy. Watch and understand why audiences have loved Willie. The boy rejoins Willy in his new ocean home and together they confront a burning oil spill in Free Willy 2. In Free Willy 3, the best of the Free Willy...
16) Grandma
Pub. Date
2016
Description
Elle, who has just gotten through breaking up with her girlfriend when Elle's granddaughter Sage unexpectedly shows up needing $600 bucks before sundown. Temporarily broke, Grandma Elle and Sage spend the day trying to get their hands on the cash as their unannounced visits to old friends and flames end up rattling skeletons and digging up secrets.