Sydney Pollack
2) The firm
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (154 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A brilliant and ambitious Harvard Law grad joins a small, prosperous law firm in Memphis, and is soon confronted by FBI agents with evidence of corruption and murder within the firm.
3) Tootsie
Series
Criterion collection volume 738
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2014]
Formats
Description
An out-of-work actor disguises himself as a woman to get a job on a soap opera, but then complicates matters by falling in love with the lead actress.
5) The reader
Publisher
Genius Products
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (124 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Post-WWII, Germany. Michael Berg is a teenager who becomes ill and is helped home by Hanna, a stranger twice his age. Michael recovers from scarlet fever and seeks out Hanna to thank her. The two are quickly drawn into a passionate but secretive affair. Michael discovers that Hanna loves being read to and their physical relationship deepens. Hanna is enthralled as Michael reads to her from different works of literature. Despite their intense bond,...
6) Tootsie
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Michael Dorsey is an out-of-work actor who makes himself up as a woman to get a job. When his girlfriend, Sandy, fails an audition for a soap opera, Michael dresses up as "Dorothy Michaels" and lands the part. All goes well until "Dorothy" falls in love with beautiful co-star, Julie, and Julie's father, Les, falls for "Dorothy."
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Robert Redford plays an ex-world champion cowboy, reduced to huckstering breakfast food in a suit studded with flashing lights. Jane Fonda is a chic, sharp member of the electronic media, a TV newswoman who'll do anything to get a good story. When Redford rides out of a Las Vegas casino into the desert astride his sponsor's living symbol, a multi-million dollar racehorse, Jane is determined to discover why. She does, one step ahead of a posse of pursuing...
8) Havana
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
1998.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (145 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Gambling and romance in Cuba before the revolution, when American gangsters helped make Havana into the playground of the rich.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The romance and marriage of opposites-- the love that binds them together and the differences that tear them apart. A love story from college to Hollywood in the thirties, forties, and fifties.
10) Out of Africa
Publisher
Universal Studios
Formats
Description
The fascinating true story of Karen Blixen, a strong-willed woman who, with her philandering husband, runs a coffee plantation in Kenya, circa 1914. To her astonishment, she soon discovers herself falling in love with the land, its people and a mysterious white hunter.
11) Amazing grace
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Documentary presenting the live recording of the Aretha Franklin album.
12) Michael Clayton
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (119 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Michael Clayton is an in-house fixer at one of the largest corporate law firms in New York. A former criminal prosecutor, Clayton takes care of the law firm Kenner, Bach, & Ledeen's dirtiest work at the behest of the firm's co-founder, Marty Bach. Burned out with his job as a fixer, his divorce, a failed business venture, and mounting debt have left Clayton inextricably tied to the firm. At U/North, meanwhile, the career of litigator Karen Crowder...
13) Sliding doors
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A London woman's love life and career both hinge, unknown to her, on whether or not she catches a train.
14) The interpreter
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (129 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In one of the hidden corridors of power at UN headquarters, translator Silvia Broome overhears a potentially explosive secret about a planned assassination attempt. But when federal agent Tobin Keller investigates her claim, is she a victim or a suspect?
15) Avenue Montaigne
Publisher
Thinkfilm
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Jessica is a beautiful young woman from the provinces who has come to Paris and lands a job waiting tables at a chic bistro on fabled Avenue Montaigne. Jessica's customers include a popular TV actress who is courting a major Hollywood director for her first serious film role; a wealthy art collector who is about to liquidate a lifetime's worth of treasures at auction; and an illustrious classical pianist who is at odds with his manager/wife as to...
16) Eyes wide shut
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (159 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A wife's admission of unfulfilled sexual longings plunges Dr. William Harford, a New Yorker, into an erotic odyssey that could destroy his marriage and ensnare him in a lurid murder mystery.
17) The Yakuza
Publisher
Warner Bros. Turner
Pub. Date
c2014
Physical Desc
1 DVD (112 minutes) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Harry Kilmer returns to Japan after several years in order to rescue his friend George's kidnapped daughter - and ends up on the wrong side of the Yakuza, the notorious Japanese mafia.
18) Sabrina
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2001.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (127 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Sabrina, the naive daughter of the chauffeur for an immensely wealthy family, is obsessed with David, the family's younger son. When Sabrina returns to Long Island from Paris as a sophisticated young woman, she begins a romance with David, who has meanwhile become engaged to the daughter of a wealthy family. This new romance threatens the business interests of Linus, the older son, so he pretends to court Sabrina in order to woo her away from David,...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1997
Physical Desc
1 DVD (127 min) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Rusty Sabich's been swept up in an obsessive affair with a coworker in the prosecutor's office. When she is murdered, he's asked to lead the investigation. Then, astonishingly, he's accused of the crime. He's the perfect suspect and his fight to clear his name pulls him into a whirpool of lies and secrets.
20) Cold Mountain
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (154 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Inman, a young Confederate soldier, who is injured during the explosive 1864 battle of Petersburg, Virginia, is struggling to make his way home to Cold Mountain, NC, where his beloved Ada awaits him. In Inman's absence, Ada befriends Ruby, who helps her keep up her late father's farm. Meanwhile, in his travels, Inman encounters a menagerie of interesting and colorful characters.