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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
King Leontes unjustly accuses his wife Hermione of adultery with King Polixenes. He imprisons Hermione, who falls into a swoon he believes is death, and orders her infant daughter to be abandoned on the shore. Sixteen years later, their daughter falls in love with Polixenes's son and when they come to Leontes' kingdom, her identity is revealed. Leontes and Polixenes become friends again, and Hermione is found to be alive after all.
2) The tempest
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been, written in 1610—11, and thought by many critics to be the last play that Shakespeare wrote alone. It is set on a remote island, where the sorcerer Prospero, rightful Duke of Milan, plots to restore his daughter Miranda to her rightful place using illusion and skillful manipulation. He conjures up a storm, the eponymous tempest, to cause his usurping brother Antonio and the complicit...
Publisher
ABC Studios
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
The expanded experience; widescreen.
Language
English
Description
More than three months after their fateful crash, the survivors of Oceanic flight 815 will discover that the only thing more dangerous than the island might be the people who have come to rescue them.
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
As the power of the island to both heal and destroy comes into sharp focus, the lines between good and evil are blurred and loyalties are challenged when the survivors of the crash become tangled within the lives of the Others.
7) Jumping ship
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
It's first-class adventure on the high seas for Michael Woods and his cousin when they charter a private yacht for a fun-filled cruise off the coast of Australia. But the yacht turns out to be a broken-down fishing boat complete with rusting hull! When they find themselves being chased by modern-day pirates, they decide that jumping ship with the boat's captain is the only option. Stranded on a desert island, they must cooperate if they hope to survive...
10) Pitch black
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
[Widescreen ed.].
Language
English
Description
When a group of marooned passengers must face a pack of terrifying creatures whose only weakness is the light, they turn to a vicious convict with an appetite for destruction and eerie eyes that can guide them through the darkness.
11) The red turtle
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Some thematic elements and peril.
The dialogue-less film follows the major life stages of a castaway on a deserted tropical island populated by turtles, crabs and birds.
13) Cast away
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Edition
Widescreen version, special ed. 2-disc set.
Language
English
Description
Chuck, a top international manager for FedEx, and Kelly, a Ph. D. student, are in love and heading towards marriage. Then Chuck's plane to Malaysia ditches at sea during a terrible storm. He's the only survivor, and he washes up on a tiny island with nothing but some flotsam and jetsam from the aircraft's cargo. Can he survive in this tropical wasteland? Will he ever return to woman he loves?
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