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The pursuit of happyness by Gabriele Muccino ( Visual )
7 editions published between 2006 and 2008 in English and held by 2,017 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Chris Gardner is an intelligent, energetic guy who can't catch a break. In the sluggish Bay Area economy of 1981, he's losing ground, by investing all his family's money in high cost bone-density scanners. His wife leaves him, he loses his apartment, and with his 5-year-old son in tow joins the ranks of the homeless, if not the hopeless. Bounced from shelter to shelter, he finds himself a single dad who has to support and care for a young child. Impressing a Dean Witter higher-up by solving a Rubik's cube during a taxi ride, Chris gets a place in a stockbroker-training program. But internships don't pay, and there's no guarantee he'll be offered a job at the end of it. Against all odds, he pushes toward success, and eventually turns his life around

Spider-Man 3 by Sam Raimi ( Visual )
8 editions published in 2007 in English and held by 1,765 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Peter Parker is finally happy: he is doing well at the school, girlfriend MJ Watson loves him, and the whole city loves Spider-Man, finally bestowing upon him the praise he so rightly deserves. But peace may not be possible for a superhero. Harry Osborn has taken up his late father's mantle--becoming The New Goblin, bent on revenge. Uncle Ben's real killer, Flint Marko, has been transformed into the Sandman. An alien symbiote has attached itself to the Spider suit, turning it black, enhancing its powers, and warping Peter's personality. When Peter finally overcomes the contaminated suit, it infects rival Bugle photographer Eddie Brock, who becomes villain Venom. In this battle, Peter must conquer his personal darkness as well as Spider-Mans foes, free the compassionate hero within, and trade teenage self-absorption for adulthood

Lawrence of Arabia by David Lean ( Visual )
18 editions published between 1962 and 2002 in English and held by 1,559 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Presents the story of T.E. Lawrence (Peter O'Toole), the heroic and troubled man who organized the Arab nations to fight the Turks in World War I and then, having reached a pinnacle of power in Mideast politics, retired to postwar military obscurity

21 Jump Street by Phil Lord ( Visual )
3 editions published in 2012 in English and held by 1,263 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A pair of underachieving cops are sent back to a local high school to blend in and bring down a synthetic drug ring

Gridiron gang ( Visual )
6 editions published between 2006 and 2007 in English and held by 1,252 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Sean Porter was a football player who turned into a juvenile detention counselor. He wrestles with the seemingly insolvable problem. The vast majority of young men who leave detention fall right back into crime. Looking for a way to give these not-yet-hardened kids a taste of self-esteem and discipline, Porter manages to persuade his superiors to let him teach the kids football - and then take on other high school football teams. Based on a true story

1776 by Sherman Edwards ( Visual )
7 editions published between 1972 and 2002 in English and held by 1,125 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
1776 is a musical celebration of the founding of The United States of America. The story centers around historical characters as they organize a movement for independence from England. All events lead up to July 4, 1776, when the Declaration was signed

Silverado by Lawrence Kasdan ( Visual )
15 editions published between 1984 and 2007 in English and held by 1,064 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A fast-riding adventure story of four strangers drawn together on the Western frontier

Girl, interrupted by Susanna Kaysen ( Visual )
2 editions published in 1999 in English and held by 859 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The fascinating true story of a young woman's life-altering stay at a famous American psychiatric hospital in the late 1960's. Questionably diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, Susanna rebels against the head nurse and top psychiatrist, choosing instead to befriend the resident "loonies" -- a group of troubled women including the sociopath Lisa. But Susanna quickly learns if she wants her freedom, she'll have to face the person who terrifies her most of all: herself

Dr. Strangelove or, How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb by Stanley Kubrick ( Visual )
12 editions published between 1963 and 2004 in English and held by 780 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A satire in which the President and his military advisers struggle ineptly to avert a holocaust after a psychotic Air Force general launches a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union because he fears the Russians are poisoning the water supply in the United States

Boyz n the hood by John Singleton ( Visual )
3 editions published between 1991 and 2003 in English and held by 699 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Three friends struggle to survive in South Central Los Angeles where friendship, pain, danger and love form a true picture of life in the 'hood in this critically acclaimed, action-filled story