Matthew McConaughey
1) Greenlights
Author
Appears on list
Description
"Drawing on the Academy Award-winning actor's journals and diaries from the last 40 years, this book presents a uniquely McConaughey approach to achieving success and satisfaction"--
2) The Paperboy
Publisher
FilmRise
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
In this crime drama, Matthew McConaughey ("Dallas Buyers Club") stars as a reporter who returns to his Florida hometown to investigate a case involving a death row inmate. Official Selection at the **Tribeca Film Festival** and **Sundance Film Festival**.
3) Bernie
Publisher
FilmRise
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
In small-town Texas, an affable mortician strikes up a friendship with a wealthy widow who soon becomes controlling. With Jack Black, Shirley MacLaine and Matthew McConaughey. Official Selection at the **SXSW Film Festival** and **BFI London Film Festival**.
Description
Texas cowboy Ron Woodroof's free-wheeling life was overturned in 1985 when he was diagnosed as HIV-positive. Shunned and ostracized by many old friends and bereft of government-approved medicines, he decided to take matters in his own hands, tracking down alternative treatments from all over the world by means both legal and illegal. Bypassing the establishment, he joined forces with an unlikely band of renegades and outcasts and established a hugely...
7) Just because
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
From worrying when excited to forgiving while still hurting, children experience everyday paradoxes as they embrace their full potential.
Description
Martin Scorsese directs the story of New York stockbroker Jordan Belfort. From the American dream to corporate greed, Belfort goes from penny stocks and righteousness to IPOs and a life of corruption in the late '80s. Excess success and affluence in his early twenties as founder of the brokerage firm Stratton Oakmont warranted Belfort the title 'The Wolf of Wall Street.'
12) Sing
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
A koala impresario stages a grand singing competition for the world's animals in order to save his elegant theater and bring it back to its former glory.
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
Texas cowboy Ron Woodroofb2ss free-wheeling life was overturned in 1985 when he was diagnosed as HIV-positive. Shunned and ostracized by many old friends and bereft of government-approved medicines, he decided to take matters in his own hands, tracking down alternative treatments from all over the world by means both legal and illegal. Bypassing the establishment, he joined forces with an unlikely band of renegades and outcasts and established a hugely...
15) Mud
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2013
Description
Two boys, Ellis and his best friend Neckbone, find a mysterious man named Mud hiding out on a deserted island in the Mississippi. Mud tells the boys fantastic stories about his life, including how he killed a man in Texas and vengeful bounty hunters are coming to get him. He says he is planning to meet and escape with the love of his life, Juniper. The boys agree to help him, but it isn't long until their small town is besieged by bounty hunters out...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Description
Tripp is a thirty something slacker, but that doesn't mean that he is ready to give up the many benefits of living at home with his mom and dad. His desperate parents have had enough though, and after years of gentle nudging they soon realize that it is going to take a concerted effort to get Tripp out so they can enjoy their twilight years in peace. Realizing that their only hope for riding themselves of their reluctant-to-leave son, Al and Sue hope...
17) Interstellar
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
With our time on Earth coming to an end, a team of explorers undertakes the most important mission in human history: traveling beyond this galaxy to discover whether mankind has a future among the stars.
18) Contact
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1997
Description
Astronomer Dr. Ellie Arroway receives an encrypted message, apparently from a solar system many light-years away.
19) Sing 2
Publisher
Studio Distribution Services
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
The ever-optimistic koala Buster Moon and his all-star cast of performers prepare to launch their most dazzling stage extravaganza yet, all in the glittering entertainment capital of the world.
20) FOOL'S GOLD
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
Finn is looking for a lost Spanish galleon in the Caribbean. He believes he has found the galleon and has marked the location with his own sunken boat. He enlists the help of his ex-wife, Tess, who is intrigued until she finds he has no real proof of the Spanish ship's location. Fate has put the two together again, this time onboard the boat of multi-millionaire Nigel Honeycutt and his daughter, Gemma. Nigel is fascinated by Finn's story and wants...