Jersey Films
Publisher
New Line Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A newly divorced woman is consumed by vindictive fantasies of her ex-husband and his young bride until she finds unexpected companionship in a bold and sassy jazz singer and a down-on-his-luck elevator operator in her fashionable Fifth Avenue building.
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 115 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
At the end of 1853, San Francisco was a city on the move. It had twelve daily newspapers, nine insurance companies, consulates of twenty-seven foreign governments, and six-story buildings where sand dunes once stood. A few years earlier, San Francisco was just a sleepy little town. But the sight of gold in the rushing waters of the American River sent a ripple around the world and set the stage for an event that would forever change a city, a fledgling...
5) Pulp fiction
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Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction has been hailed by critics and audiences worldwide as a film that redefined cinema. Tarantino delivers an unforgettable cast of characters, including a pair of low-rent hitmen, their boss's sexy wife, and a desperate prizefighter, in a wildly entertaining and exhilarating blend of crime-thriller-drama-comedy that is completely original and entirely unforgettable.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Reuben Feffer, a professional risk assessor, is not one to ever take chances in any aspect of his life. But when his new bride Lisa leaves him for French scuba instructor Claude on their honeymoon, he finally decides to a risk of his own. At a party, he meets free-spirited Polly, whom he remembers from the seventh grade. Unlike the control-freak Reuben, she's spent her life living on the edge. They reluctantly begin a romance and Polly introduces...
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (132 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Erin Brockovich is a feisty young mother who convinces attorney Ed Masry to hire her and promptly stumbles upon a momumental law case against a giant corporation. Erin's determined to take on this powerful adversary even though no law firm has dared to do it before. The two begin an incredible and sometimes hilarious fight that will bring a small town to its feet and a huge company to its knees.
8) Gattaca
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As one of the last "natural" beings born into a genetically engineered world, Vincent Freeman has none of the 'pre-ordered' DNA that will guarantee him success. Desperate to realize his dream of exploring space, Vincent assumes the identity of a genetically superior athlete. Avoiding detection using the athlete's genetic markers, Vincent becomes a rising star at Gattaca Aerospace, attracting the attention of a beautiful co-worker. When a flight director...
9) Gattaca
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
As one of the last "natural" beings born into a genetically engineered world, Vincent Freeman has none of the 'pre-ordered' DNA that will guarantee him success. Desperate to realize his dream of exploring space, Vincent assumes the identity of a genetically superior athlete. Avoiding detection using the athlete's genetic markers, Vincent becomes a rising star at Gattaca Aerospace, attracting the attention of a beautiful co-worker. When a flight director...
10) Freedom Writers
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (122 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A true story about a teacher in a racially divided school who gives her students what they've always needed, a voice. Erin Gruwell comes to a southern California high school bubbling over with naive optimism. She quickly discovers that her unruly classroom is not easily won over by her good intentions. After a few floundering attempts to connect with her students, Gruwell gives them the assignment of keeping journals about their own lives. This assignment...
11) Get Shorty
Publisher
MGM/UA Home Video
Pub. Date
1997, c1995.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 DVD (special features)
Description
Loanshark Chili Palmer has done his time as a gangster, so when "business" takes him to Los Angeles to collect a debt from down and out filmmaker Harry Zimm, he talks tough and then pitches Harry a script idea. Everything would be smooth for this cool new producer, if it were't for the drug smugglers and gangsters who won't leave him alone.
12) Garden State
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Andrew is a moderately successful TV actor living in Los Angeles. He hasn't been home to the Garden State in nine years. Even the 3,000 miles has not separated him from the domineering father Andrew left. Stunned to find himself home for his mother's funeral, "Large" finds old acquaintances around every corner, even as he does his best to avoid the inevitable confrontation with his father. By a twist of fate Large meets Sam, a girl who is everything...
13) Reality bites
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The irreverent portrayal of the harsh realities of life after college captures the misadventures of Lelaina, an ambitious TV production assistant, and her relationships with her sarcastic roommate, Vickie, friends Sammy and Troy, and an ambitious video executive, Michael.
14) 8 seconds
Publisher
New Line Home Video
Pub. Date
1999, c1994
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The heroic life story of rodeo legend Lane Frost, the bull-riding champion who fights to achieve his childhood dreams--both in and out of the rodeo ring.
15) Out of sight
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
1 DVD (123 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A career bank robber busts out of jail with the help of his buddy and kidnaps a U.S. Marshal in the process. When the two cons head for Detroit to pull off their final big heist, the Marshal is put on their case but she finds she is attracted to one of them and has second thoughts about bringing them in.
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Matt Scudder is an ex-NYPD cop who now works as an unlicensed private investigator operating just outside the law. When Scudder agrees to help a heroin trafficker hunt down the men who kidnapped and then brutally murdered his wife, the PI learns that this is not the first time these men have committed this sort of twisted crime, nor will it be the last. Blurring the lines between right and wrong, Scudder races to track the deviants through the backstreets...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (457 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Johnny Mnemonic": A data courier, literally carrying a data package inside his head, must deliver it before he dies from the burden or is killed by the Yakuza. "The fifth element": In the colorful future, a cab driver unwittingly becomes the central figure in the search for a legendary cosmic weapon to keep Evil and Mr. Zorg at bay. "Starship troopers": Humans in a fascist, militaristic future wage war with giant alien bugs. "Gattaca": A genetically...
18) Be cool
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (119 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Chili Palmer is tired of the producing movies after being forced to make a useless sequel. When a music producer friend is gunned down, he offers to help his widow run the business. Checking out a talented singer that his friend had been talking to him about puts Chili at odds with her sleazy music manager, his gay bodyguard, and his equally sleazy partner. The mismanagement of the music company also gets Chili threatened by members of the Russian...