Clint Eastwood&s CHANGELING follows closely in the footsteps of his earlier Oscar winner MYSTIC RIVER Both films in fact centre on a missing child & can boast a dark minimalistic yet enthralling atmosphere But while MYSTIC RIVER was based on a Dennis Lehane novel CHANGELING carries a particular weight because it is inspired by a true story & one that isn&t largely known Angelina Jolie stars as Christine Collins a single mother working in 1928 Los Angeles when her son goes missing A boy is returned to her months later by the police but she is shocked & disheartened when she realizes that the boy isn&t her son Joined by a crusading pastor (John Malkovich) Christine battles for justice against the corrupt LAPD while she continues to search for her child ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play John Russell (Scott) a composer & music professor loses his wife & daughter in a tragic accident Seeking solace he moves into an old mansion unoccupied for twelve years But a child-like presence seems to be sharing the house & trying to share its secrets with him Through research into the house&s past & a seance held within Russell discovers the horrific secret of the house&s past a secret that the presence will no longer allow to be kept Actors George C Scott Trish Van Devere Melvyn Douglas Jean MArsh John Colicos Barry Morse Roberta Maxwell & J Kenneth Campbell Director Peter Medak Certificate 15 years & over Year 1980 Screen Widescreen 169 Anamorphic Languages English
- Dolby Digital (20) Stereo Additional Languages Dolby Digital (10) Mono German ; Italian ; Spanish Subtitles Dutch ; English ; German ; Italian ; Portuguese ; Spanish Duration 1 hour & 42 minutes (approx)
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Teenager Tim Ryan comes into his own as he faces danger on a remote Australia island where magic lurks in land & sea Tim Ryan can&t shake the feeling that he is different from other teens & not in a good way For one thing he seems to have his own personal poltergeist that causes fires & sets him up to be arrested for shoplifting As a result Tim has been sent to live on a rundown farm on a remote island off the coast of Australia with his crazy grandmother a woman who seems to talk to the local spirits & who refuses to cushion Tim from facing his difficulties To make matters worse Tim is expected to milk cows chase sheep & hunt fish with a spear But he&s been exiled to an island alive with ancient magic—land magic that Tim can feel in his bones & sea magic that runs in his blood If Tim can face down the danger from drug-runners sea storms & the deadly threat of a seal woman who wishes to steal him away for a lingering death in the land of Faery he may be able to claim the mysterious changeling heritage that is his birthright & take hold of a legacy of power beyond any he has ever imagined Meet the Author Dave Freer is an ichthyologist turned author who lives on Flinders Island (between mainland Australia & Tasmania) with his wife four dogs & four cats & two sons He has coauthored a range of novels with Eric Flint (Rats Bats & Vats The Rats the Bats & the Ugly Pyramid Scheme Pyramid Power & Slow Train to Arcturus) with Mercedes Lackey & Eric Flint (The Shadow of the Lion This Rough Magic The Wizard of Karres Much Fall of Blood Burdens of the Dead & Freer’s solo entry in the series A Mankind Witch) as well as writing the Dragon’s Ring fantasy novels Dragon’s Ring & Dog & Dragon ...

A new edition of an outstanding picture book by one of the most popular of all contemporary authorillustrators On Thursday morning at a quarter past ten Joseph Kaye notices something odd about the kettle Thus begins a remarkable day for Joseph a day in which everything seems to change in the most peculiar of ways The washbasin grows feet the armchair becomes a gorilla his bicycle wheel turns into an apple Joseph's father had said when he'd left that morning that everything was going to change But what had he meant? The book explores the boy's state of mind as he prepares for the return of his parents with his new baby sister ...

Drawing on the theoretical foundations laid out in earlier volumes of this series this book describes an approach to organizational change & development that is informed by a complexity perspective It clarifies the experience of being in the midst of change Unlike many books that presume clarity of foresight or hindsight the author focuses on the essential uncertainty of participating in evolving events as they happen & considers the creative possibilities of such participation Most methodologies for organizational change are firmly rooted in systems thinking as are many approaches to process consultation & facilitation This book questions the suggestion that we can choose & design new futures for our organizations in the way we often hope Avoiding the widely favoured use of two by two matrices idealized schemas & simplified typologies that characterize much of the management literature on change this book encourages the reader to live in the immediate paradoxes & complexities of organizational life where we must act with intention into the unknowable The author uses detailed reflective narrative to evoke & elaborate on the experience of participating in the conversational processes of human organizing It asserts that possibilities are perpetually sustained & changed by the conversational life of organizations This book will be valuable to consultants managers & leaders indeed all those who are dissatisfied with idealized models of change & are searching for ways to develop an effective change practice ...

Powerful narrative hooks pupils into topicsand builds a secureknowledge base fromwhich to learn historicalskills with complete confidence Exciting enquiries engage pupils with meaningfulhistorical questions & developimportant historical skills Access for all learners through carefully structured stepswith extra access & extra challengeworksheets giving both higher & lowerattainers the opportunity to demonstratereal achievement in the final enquiry activity ...

When Philip Swallow & Professor Morris Zapp participate in their universities' Anglo-American exchange scheme the Fates play a hand & each academic finds himself enmeshed in the life of his counterpart on the opposite side of the Atlantic Nobody is immune to the exchange students colleagues even wives are swapped as events spiral out of control & soon both sundrenched Euphoric State university & rain-kissed university of Rummidge are a hotbed of intrigue lawlessness & broken vows ...

Newly divorced Lily Butler joins the Ultimate Peer Group hoping to meet like-minded people & make a fresh start putting her unhappy marriage behind her The first meeting on the exotic island of Pele promised to be idyllic but is instead shaping up to be a nightmare Despite the joviality of her companions Lily feels strangely isolated & wrong-footed clearly it has been a mistake to come Attempting to slip away during the welcome reception she is intercepted by the imposing Stella an eccentric English aristocrat who takes Lily under her wing persuading her to give them all another chance Spending time on an island with a diverse group of characters
- some of whom drive her crazy & others who stir very different feelings
- challenges Lily to discover what is truly important to her Will she be able to let go of social conditioning & preconceived ideas to look at life from a different perspective?

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Changing the Food Game shows how our unsustainable food production system cannot support our population growth & argues it can only be solved by effective market transformation to achieve sustainable agriculture & food production Provocative & eye-opening it presents a game-changing solution to revolutionise the industry 268 pages Simons Lucas ...

For the residents of Ragley the small Yorkshire village the war is finally starting to feel like a distant memory A dark history lies between Freddie Lily & the truth & they begin to question how much they'll have to sacrifice along the way Travel back in time with the brilliant new novel from Jack Sheffield ...