Michael Shamberg
1) Get shorty
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Loan shark Chili Palmer is bored with the business. So when he arrives in LA to collect a debt from down-and-out filmmaker Harry Zimm, Chili talks tough, and then pitches Harry a script idea. Immediately, Chili is swept into the Hollywood scene: He schmoozes film star Martin Weir, romances B-movie queen Karen Flores and even gets reservations at the hottest restaurants in town. Bonus features included.
2) Be cool
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
A sequel to Get shorty. Gangster-turned-movie producer Chili Palmer is tired of producing movies after being forced to make a useless sequel, and decides to try his hand at the music business.
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Seven college housemates from the 1960s who have drifted apart reunite at the funeral of a friend. Having entered adulthood as non-conformists, most now belong to the establishment. Stunned by the death of their peer, sensing their own mortality and the loss of their innocence, each takes the opportunity to reevaluate his or her life and re-establish their bonds.
4) Gattaca
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Story about an all-too-human man who dares to defy a system obsessed with genetic perfection. Vincent is an "In-Valid," who assumes the identity of a member of the genetic elite to pursue his goal of traveling into space with the Gattaca Aerospace Corporation. However, a week before his mission, a murder marks Vincent as a suspect. With a relentless investigator in pursuit and the colleague he has fallen in love with beginning to suspect his deception,...
5) Contagion
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
A thriller centered on the threat posed by a deadly disease and an international team of doctors contracted by the CDC to deal with the outbreak.
6) Cold pursuit
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
An action thriller infused with irreverent humor that stars Liam Neeson as Nels Coxman, a family man whose quiet life with his wife is upended following the mysterious death of their son. Nels's search for justice turns into a vengeful hunt for Viking, a drug lord he believes is connected to the death. As one by one Viking's associates 'disappear,' Nels goes from upstanding citizen to ice-cold vigilante, letting nothing, and no one, get in his way....
7) Out of sight
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Meet Jack Foley, the most successful bank robber in the country. On the day Jack busts out of jail, he finds himself stealing something far more precious than money: Karen Sisco's heart. And unfortunately for Jack, she is a U.S. Marshal.
Author
Language
English
Description
Hilary Swank stars in this story about a teacher in a racially divided school who gives her students what they've always needed - a voice. Swank plays Erin Gruwell, the real-life teacher at Long Beach's Wilson High who inspired her students to overcome the gangs that divided them and the education system that forgot them. Based on the book The Freedom Writers Diary and supported by a cast of first-time actors who drew from their actual experiences...
