Luke Wilson
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The Most Useful Personal Finance Book Ever Written-Updated for the Modern World
Are You Ready to Learn the Secrets that Can Transform Poverty into Prosperity?
The Richest Man in Babylon is the most important and valuable personal finance book ever written. This book profoundly influenced successful entrepreneurs like Tony Robbins, Dave Ramsey, Suze Orman, and thousands of others.
George S. Clason wrote the original version of The Richest Man in Babylon...
2) Rock Dog
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When a young mastiff, Bodi (Luke Wilson), discovers a radio, it takes just a few guitar licks for his fate to be sealed: Bodi wants to be a rock 'n' roll star!
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Returning to the middle-class neighborhood where he grew up, Henry Poole (Luke Wilson of OLD SCHOOL) chooses to live in indulgent isolation. Real life, however, refuses to cooperate with his plans. Nosy neighbors interrupt him with curious visits and prying questions. Then the situation escalates as a stain on Henry's stucco wall is seen to have miraculous powers. His last-ditch hideout becomes a shrine when his backyard turns into an arena for passionate...
4) Middle Men
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Chronicles Jack Harris, one of the pioneers of internet commerce, as he wrestles with his morals, and struggles not to drown in a sea of con men, mobsters, drug addicts, and porn stars.
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When Stanley meets Diana, he instantly knows that she is the perfect girl for him. So when he finally works up the nerve to ask her out and she unexpectedly says "yes," Stanley does everything he can to make their date the perfect night! But anything that can go wrong does go wrong, thanks to the constant interruptions of an unwelcome wacko who's convinced that he's doing Stanley a favor!
6) Bad Seed
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Preston Tylk is an ordinary guy living in Seattle. When he discovers that his wife, Emily, whom he adores, is having an affair, he is devastated. Storming out of the house, he returns later only to find her brutally murdered.
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[2007]
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Wendell Baker is a dreamer and schemer whose latest scam lands him in jail and leaves him alienated from his longtime girlfriend, best friend and even his dog. Eternally optimistic, Wendell makes the most of his time behind bars and vows to turn his life around. Upon release, he gets a job at a retirement hotel, where he befriends some of the colorful residents. Wendell's new friends advise him on how to win back his girl, while he helps them battle...
9) Vocabulary cartoons: SAT word power : learn hundreds of SAT words fast with easy memory techniques
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2007
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Collects cartoons and rhyming phrases designed to improve vocabulary.
10) Ride
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When her son (Brenton Thwaites) drops out of school in New York, Jackie (Academy Award-winner Helen Hunt) will drop everything to follow him to California to seek out her son, and maybe even a fresh start of her own. With help from her limo driver (David Zayas) and an expert surfer (Luke Wilson), Jackie learns to find herself in ways she never before thought possible in this hilarious and touching film about a mother, her son, and so much more.
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Midsomer Murders volume 4
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When a body is discovered in a reservoir dropped out of a plane, Barnaby and Nelson find the world of stunt pilots and military heroes hides many dark secrets.
12) Measure of a Man
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A bullied teen experiences a turning-point summer and learns to stand up for himself.
13) Arizona
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Cassie (Rosemarie DeWitt, La La Land) is a real estate agent and single mom struggling to keep it all together during the housing crisis of 2009. Her problems go from bad to worse when disgruntled client Sonny (Danny McBride, Pineapple Express) violently confronts Cassie's boss and then kidnaps Cassie - making one outrageously bad, and bloody, decision after another. Things completely spiral out of control in this explosive action comedy, also starring...
14) Straight A's
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Compelled by his mother's ghost, a former addict (Ryan Phillippe, "Crash") returns home to face his first love (Anna Paquin, "The Piano"), who happens to be his brother's wife.
15) Phil
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Phil, a depressed dentist whose life is falling apart, is shocked when one of his patients, a man who seemed to have the perfect life, kills himself. Determined to find out what would drive a man who had everything to end his life, Phil pretends to be a handyman and integrates himself in to the dead man's life, befriending his wife and daughter. How long can Phil keep up this double life when he is already ready to end his normal one?
16) All We Had
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The unstable life and relationship of a mother and daughter seems to be looking up with the opportunity of a fresh start - until the dark side of the American dream leads them to face the prospect of homelessness, and tests their bond to the core.
17) Idiocracy
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[2007]
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Joe Bowers is an average Joe. He is not the sharpest tool in the shed. He becomes part of a government experiment to go into hibernation. The experiment goes awry and Bowers awakens in the year 2505 to find a society so dumbed-dowm by mass commercialism and mindless TV programming that he's become the smartest guy on the planet. Now it's up to this average Joe to get human evolution back on the right track.
18) Tenure
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It's time for a major mid-term crisis in this darkly humorous and thoughtful comedy. Professor Charlie Thurber loves to teach, but can't stand all the expected publishing and politicking that goes along with the position. So when his opportunity for tenure is announced, he goes out on a limb to prove his worth, but unexpectedly finds himself falling for the very person who might replace him. It's a battle of the brains where the stakes are high...
19) Committed
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When Joline discovers that her husband has abruptly left her in an effort to "find himself," she drops everything and drives out of New York City in search of her stray spouse! Then, after finally tracking him down in the west Texas desert, Joline demonstrates that she'll do anything to win him back! All roads lead to love, laughter and loyalty in this critically acclaimed comedy treat!
20) Gasoline Alley
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2022.
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Jimmy Jayne, a reformed ex-con, is the prime suspect who will stop at nothing to prove his innocence. Homicide detectives Freeman and Vargas are close on his tail as Jimmy takes on his own investigation risking his life in the dark underbelly of Los Angeles.