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(0)Michelle Rodriguez
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Twelve-year-old Milton Adams feels his world is in crisis. With his parents stressing about their careers and finances, and the neighborhood bully tormenting him, he is constantly anxious. But when Milton's optimistic Grandpa (Donald Sutherland) comes to visit, he learns the secret to finding true happiness from a man who has seen the world and who has committed to living life in the 'now'.
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Finding Your Roots volume 10
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Michelle Rodriguez, Adrian Grenier and Linda Chavez all share Spanish colonial roots, yet each views their own identity very differently. In this episode we ask what it means to be Hispanic-and find that the answer lies in the tangled histories of European, Native American and African peoples. Crisscrossing Mexico, Spain, the Caribbean, and the Southwest, Professor Gates reveals stories of ancestral Conquistadors, Indian rebels, and "Crypto-Jews"...
4) Widows
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2019
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1 videodisc (ca. 147 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Four women with nothing in common except a debt left by their dead husbands' criminal acts conspire to take fate into their own hands.
"With a killer cast led by Viola Davis, Cynthia Erivo, Michelle Rodriquez and Elizabeth Debicki, director Steve McQueen turns four women and a heist into the powerhouse thriller of the year."--Rolling Stone
"It presents an enjoyably dark and sleazy vision of ordinary lives intertwining with the hurly-burly of street...
5) Avatar
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2010.
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1 videodisc (162 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Jake Sully is a former Marine who uses a wheelchair. But despite his broken body, Jake is still a warrior at heart. He is recruited to travel light years to the human outpost on Pandora, where a corporate consortium is mining a rare mineral that is the key to solving Earth's energy crisis. He is given a mission to infiltrate the Na'vi, who have become a major obstacle to mining the precious ore. But a beautiful Na'vi female, Neytiri, saves Jake's...
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Las conversaciones que componen este "Álbum de familia" permiten trazar un bosquejo sobre la situación actual de la cultura en Venezuela, al tiempo que reflexionar en profundidad sobre la identidad del país: sus contenidos simbólicos, el impacto de la Revolución Bolivariana en su eventual reconfiguración y la suerte que han corrido sus intentos por reescribir las principales representaciones de la nación venezolana.
Las preguntas sobre qué...