James Caan
Pub. Date
2015
Formats
Description
Found inside a shining stalk of bamboo by an old bamboo cutter and his wife, a tiny girl grows rapidly into an exquisite young lady. The mysterious young princess enthralls all who encounter her, but ultimately she must confront her fate, the punishment for her crime.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
1 DVD (91 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Three best friends try to escape their suburban boredom through a life of crime. But these bickering, bumbling thieves are no match for the local 'godfather,' who leads them into the biggest heist of their careers"--Container.
4) T.R. Baskin
Publisher
Fun City Editions
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Candice Bergen is T.R. Baskin, a naive young woman with a droll sense of humor, who ventures from small-town Ohio to the bright lights of Chicago in search of an interesting career, intellectual stimulation, true love, and happiness... and instead discovers that the urban existence is as unfulfilling and lonely as the one she fled.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1964.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (95 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Alone in her residence over a holiday weekend, a widow is accidentally trapped in her home elevator during a power failure. Her meticulous, well organized world is shattered as the stalled elevator becomes a claustrophobic torture chamber – a cage.
7) Detachment
Publisher
Tribeca Film
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Henry Barthes is an educator with a talent to connect with his students. Yet as a substitute teacher he hides his gift to avoid emotional connections. When an assignment places him at a school with a burned-out administration and an apathetic student body, he becomes a role model as a teacher. His emotional bond with the students and teachers help him see he is not alone in a life and death struggle to find beauty in a seemingly vicious and loveless...
Formats
Description
Inventor Flint Lockwood thought he saved the world when he destroyed his machine that turned water into food causing cheeseburger rain and spaghetti tornadoes. But Flint soon learns that his invention survived and is now creating food-animals. Flint and his friends embark on a dangerously delicious mission to battle hungry tacodiles, shrimpanzees, hippotatomuses, cheespiders and other foodimals to save the world again!
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Jimmy is a New York con man fleeing the United States for Bangkok in order to avoid an insurance scam investigation. He goes to Cambodia to meet up with his former business partner and mentor, Marvin, to collect his half of the money. Along the way, he makes friends with local man, Sok, and romances Sophie, but is drawn into a lethal web of deceit and murder.
10) Misery
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2000?]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After an almost fatal car crash, novelist Paul Sheldon finds himself being nursed by a deranged fan who holds him captive.
11) Brian's song
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (74 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A drama about the deep friendship between Gale Sayers, a black halfback for the Chicago Bears, and his white teammate, Brian Piccolo, who died of cancer in 1970.
12) City of Ghosts
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (117 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
After a bogus insurance scam sparks an FBI investigation, front man Jimmy Cremmins (Matt Dillon) flees to Cambodia to meet his mentor, Marvin (James Caan). But Jimmy gets more than he bargains for when against a backdrop of raw, dangerous beauty and ever-shifting loyalties, Marvin draws him into a web of deceit and murder from which there may be no way out! Gerard Depardieu and Stellan Skarsgård also star.
13) Queen bees
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
While her house undergoes repairs, fiercely independent widow stays at the nearby retirement community and realizes it is like high school all over again: full of flirting, mean girls, and maybe another chance at love in this comedy about second chances and staying young at heart."--container.
14) Bottle rocket
Series
Criterion collection volume 450
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (91 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet .
Description
Anthony finds himself embroiled in the machinations of his best friend, who is an elaborate schemer. With the help of a getaway driver they develop a plan to rob a small bookstore.
15) Elf
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A human baby accidently ends up at the North Pole and grows up among the elf community. Buddy, as he comes to be known, knows that he's "special". When he's 30, Buddy learns from Santa that he's really a human. He decides to go in search of his father, to find out where he belongs. He walks to Manhattan, and is immediately run over by a cab. His father at first rejects him and Buddy ends up in a department store where other elves are working. But...
16) Misery
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Novelist Paul Sheldon does not remember the blinding blizzard that sent his car spinning off the road. Nor does he remember being nursed back from unconsciousness. All he remembers is waking up in the home of Annie Wilkes, a maniacal fan who is bent on keeping her favorite writer as her personal prisoner, forever.
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (119 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Convinced they'll score big money fast by kidnapping a young surrogate mother carrying the child of a wealthy Southwestern couple, two small-caliber crooks soon run into major problems.
18) For the boys
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2001], c1991
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 146 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A USO singer teams up with a song and dance man to entertain the troops, and For The Boys follows them through 3 wars and 50 years of music and memories.
19) Thief
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A professional thief is caught between Chicago organized crime families and corrupt police.
Publisher
Infinity Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (360 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In search of excitement, two young men--sheltered Yale graduate Tod Stiles and tough guy Buz Murdock--traverse the famed Route 66, which stretches from Chicago to Santa Monica, where they encounter people from all walks of life. Lincoln Case was introduced late in the third season. Shot entirely on location around the country.