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"Matthew Keating, a one-time Navy SEAL--and a past president--has always defended his family as staunchly as he has his country. Now those defenses are under attack. A madman abducts Keating's teenage daughter, Melanie--turning every parent's deepest fear into a matter of national security. As the world watches in real time, Keating embarks on a one-man special-ops mission that tests his strengths: as a leader, a warrior, and a father"--
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Read-alikes for Geraldine Brooks
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Time Travel, Loops, & Slips
Read-alikes for Geraldine Brooks
Read-Alikes for The Midnight Library
Time Travel, Loops, & Slips
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When Alice wakes up on her fortieth birthday somehow back in 1996 as her sixteen-year-old self, she finds the biggest surprise is the forty-nine-year-old version of her father with whom she is reunited, and, armed with a new perspective on life, wonders what she would change if given the chance.
"What if you could take a vacation to your past, without the filter of memory? What would you give to go back in time and relive your youth, in person, with...
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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Frank is an aging ex-jewel thief, and his two grown children are worried that he can no longer care for himself. In deciding what to do with Frank, the most likely option appears to be putting him in a nursing home. But Frank's son comes up with another option: buy Frank a walking, talking robot programmed to look after him and improve his physical and mental health. Frank resists the robot at first, but he warms to it after realizing that it could...
5) Ad astra
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Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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When a mysterious event in space threatens Earth, an astronaut sets out on a journey to find his long-lost father, who went missing during an expedition to Mars.
7) Creed
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Adonis Johnson never knew his famous father, world heavyweight champion Apollo Creed, who died before he was born. Still, there's no denying that boxing is in his blood, so Adonis heads to Philadelphia, the site of Apollo Creed's legendary match with a tough upstart named Rocky Balboa.
8) Tomb raider
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Warner Bros
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English
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Lara Croft, the fiercely independent daughter of a missing adventurer, must push herself beyond her limits when she finds herself on the island where her father disappeared.
10) Hud
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Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Hud Bannon has always preferred drinking, fighting and womanizing to the very traditional ways of his father. Hud is a man who cares more for himself than he does his young nephew, his dad, or even their understanding housekeeper. When disease threatens the cattle on the Bannon Ranch, the conflict between Hud and his old-line father reaches an all time high.
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Marvel Studios
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Shang-Chi is forced to confront the past he thought he left behind when he's drawn into the web of the mysterious Ten Rings organization controlled by his father, a man who gained immortality and a desire for unlimited power when he acquired an ancient artifact centuries before.
13) American skin
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A former Marine veteran takes justice into his own hands when the police officer who killed his son is found innocent.
14) Devil's peak
Publisher
Screen Media
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Set in the Appalachian Mountains, Devil's Peak is a tense country-noir thriller about a family dominated by a crime lord who controls his family and his business with his fists. When his son meets the girl of his dreams, desperately wanting to escape the life he is expected to lead and free himself from the clutches of his father, he is forced to go head-to-head with the terrifying man who will stop at nothing to ensure loyalty from all of those around...
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English
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In a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession-scarred America, a struggling businessman named Alan Clay pursues a last-ditch attempt to stave off foreclosure, pay his daughter's college tuition, and finally do something great.
A failed American businessman looks to regain his losses by traveling to Saudi Arabia and selling his idea to a wealthy monarch.
17) Key Largo
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Company
Pub. Date
2000-
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English
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A disillusioned returning World War II veteran has lost the will to fight ... until he arrives at a rundown hotel in Key Largo. There a mobster holes up against a raging storm, holding the veteran, the hotel owner and the owner's widowed daughter-in-law at gunpoint.
A hurricane swells outside, but that is nothing compared to the storm that rages inside the hotel at Key Largo. There, sadistic mobster Johnny Rocco holes up, holding hostage the hotel...
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
In 1981, Chris Gardner was a struggling salesman. His wife worked double shifts to support the family including their young son, Christopher. In the face of this difficult life, Chris has the desperate inspiration to try for a stockbroker internship where one in twenty has a chance of a lucrative full time career. Even when his wife leaves him because of this choice, Chris clings to this dream. The odds become more daunting by the day. Together, father...
19) East of Eden
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English
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Based on John Steinbeck's novel and directed by award-winning director Elia Kazan. The emotionally charged film tells the story of lonely youth Cal, who vies for the affection of his hardened father and favored brother, Aron.
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