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2) Wit
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
An English professor, who alienates her students, has always had control over her life. That is until she is diagnosed with a devasting illness. She agrees to undergo a series of procedures that are brutal, extensive and experimental. She finds that the fine line between life and death can only be walked with wit
3) W;t: a play
Author
Publisher
Faber and Faber
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
A dark comedy, it portrays husband and wife George and Martha in a searing night of dangerous fun and games. By the evening's end, a stunning, almost unbearable revelation provides a climax that has shocked audiences for years. With the play's razor-sharp dialogue and the stripping away of social pretense, Newsweek rightly foresaw Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? as 'a brilliantly original work of art -- an excoriating theatrical experience, surging...
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Mona Gray is a quirky young woman who hides in a private world of numbers after her beloved mathematician father falls ill. But when Mona is offered a job as an elementary school math teacher, she will introduce the students to her own eccentric gift for numerical obsession. Can the joys of arithmetic multiplied by a shy romance with the school science teacher help Mona discover a new life she can count on?
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
In order to trap an elusive criminal Detective John Kimble, a veteran of the mean streets of Los Angeles, is forced to go undercover as a kindergarten teacher. Once he gains the respect of his class, as well as the affections of a beautiful teacher, Kimble must prepare for a final confrontation with his prey.
10) Inherit the wind
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Presents the script of the 1950s play loosely based on the events which took place in Dayton, Tennessee, during the Scopes Trial in July of 1925 which opened the debate over the teaching of creationism and evolution
13) The human stain
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Language
English
Description
Coleman Silk is a respected professor at a New England college who suddenly finds his life unraveling after a comment he makes about some African-American students is misinterpreted as a racial slur. As the scandal heats up, Nathan Zuckerman, a writer researching a biography of Silk, begins to dig deeply into Silk's life. Eventually, matters are made worse when Coleman's affair with a young married janitor named Faunia Farley is exposed. But amid...
Publisher
Dimension Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999?]
Language
English
Description
Leigh Ann Watson, the brightest girl at Grandsboro High, plots to teach her history teacher a lesson after the teacher accuses her of cheating. The plan spins hilariously out of control and becomes an endless comedy of errors.
15) The paper chase
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
A moving story of a first-year Harvard Law School student who comes to terms with his dreams in America's most competitive school. Hart finds he must survive much more than the pressures, all-night cramming and insecurities he expected. He becomes fearful of a brilliant professor, who terrorizes some, inspires others and who easily seperates the men from the boys
16) Race the sun
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
A high school teacher inspires her misfit students to believe in themselves by getting them to build a solar car and enter it in an international competition
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Walt and Jesse begin to see the extremes of the drug trafficking business. Their trademark blue meth is making them rich but it's getting more difficult for Walt to conceal the truth from his wife Skyler, his son Walter Jr., and his DEA agent brother-in-law Hank. Walt struggles to maintain control of his life as he contends with drug dealers, an increasingly distant wife and son, the impending birth of his daughter, and a strung-out business partner,...
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Lance Clayton once dreamed of a career as a rich and famous writer. He has only managed to be a single dad, and high-school poetry teacher. Kyle, his only son, is a jackass who won't give him the time of day. Lance is dating Claire, the school's adorable art teacher. She doesn't want to get serious or even acknowledge publicly that they are dating. In the wake of a freak accident, Lance suffers the worst tragedy and greatest opportunity of his life....
19) Mona Lisa smile
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Set in 1953, Katherine Watson is a free-spirited graduate of UCLA who accepts a teaching post at Wellesley College, a women-only school where the students are torn between the repressive mores of the time and their longing for intellectual freedom
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
It's a gritty drama that explores the onset of the undead apocalypse through the lens of a fractured family. Set in a city where people come to escape, shield secrets, and bury their pasts, a mysterious outbreak threatens to disrupt what little stability high school guidance counselor Madison Clark and English teacher Travis Manawa have managed to assemble.
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