Beau Bridges
1) Montana 1948
Author
Description
To 12-year-old David Hayden, his family is comfortable and familiar. But when Sioux housekeeper whispers her darkest fears in the heat of a fever, these statements, and the investigation they spark, will change David and his family forever.
2) Losing Chase
Publisher
Platinum Disc
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Follows the intimate relationship between Chase Phillips and Elizabeth Cole over the course of one summer on Martha's Vineyard. As Chase recovers from a nervous breakdown, she and her children are cared for by a 20-year-old mother's helper, Elizabeth. As the summer lazes on, the two women form a very special bond.
Publisher
David L. Brown Productions
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (68 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Nine surfers, age from 60 to 93, talk about their love of surfing. The film explores the keys to successful aging, especially the importance of staying active and involved. Provides portraits of surfers ranging in age from 60 to 93, including pioneers and legends of the sport such as Rabbit Kekai (79), Woody Brown (88), John "Doc" Ball (93), Leroy Grannis (82), and Eve Fletcher (73), who talk about how surfing has influenced their lives. Interweaves...
5) NightJohn
Publisher
Platinum Disc
Pub. Date
2005, 2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a new slave named NightJohn is brought to the plantation, he opens a whole new world for Sarny because he has forbidden talents. He can read and also he can teach. As she learns to read she learns the power of words and the unconquerable strength of the human spirit.
Series
Publisher
Distributed by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Musicians Jack and Frank Baker are stuck in a rut. Playing the same tired tunes night after night, the brothers are in desperate need of change. So when they meet a sultry singer named Susie Diamond, their future starts to sparkle. But when life in the limelight brings old rivalries to the surface as Jack and Susie's relationship heats up, the Baker boys soon find their act--and their lives--growing more entertaining than either of them may be able...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 DVD (115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Matt King is an indifferent husband and father of two girls, who is forced to re-examine his past and embrace his future when his wife suffers a boating accident off of Waikiki. The event leads to a rapprochement with his young daughters while Matt wrestles with a decision to sell the family's land handed down from Hawaiian royalty and missionaries.
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 DVD (1 hr., 43 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The true story of Olympic hopeful Jill Kinmont, who was paralyzed in a skiing accident while competing in a pre-Olympic competition in the 1950's. Left paralyzed from the neck down, she overcame self-pity and helplessness to become a teacher on a Paiute reservation.
10) The landlord
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Legendary filmmaker Hal Ashby makes his directing debut with this acclaimed social satire starring Beau Bridges as a wealthy young man who leaves his family₂s estate in Long Island to pursue love and happiness in a Brooklyn ghetto. When Elgar Enders buys a Park Slope tenement, he fully intends to evict the occupants and transform the building into a chic bachelor pad.
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Speeding along on her Daddy's lap in his 1946 Cadillac, little Shirley knew she was born to race. But little girls grow up to be women, and women have no place in the macho world of hot rod racing--until Shirley. The film takes us through her childhood as the daughter of a country western singer, a doomed marriage to an auto mechanic and, finally, her tumultuous rise to the top of drag racing. Through marriage, motherhood and competition, it's the...
12) Norma Rae
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Norma Rae, a textile worker in a small Southern town, discovers that she has a social conscience when a labor organizer arrives at her mill to establish a union.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1106
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Formats
Description
A fictional account of one amazing night where icons Muhammad Ali, Malcolm X, Sam Cooke, and Jim Brown gathered discussing their roles in the Civil Rights Movement and cultural turmoil of the '60s.
14) Inherit the wind
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Tells the story of a clash over a teacher's right to teach evolution in the famous Scopes "Monkey Trial" of 1925.
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 112 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Jack lives on the site of his abandoned island commune with his 16-year-old daughter Rose. Since the breakup of the commune, Jack has sheltered Rose completely from the influences of the outside world.
16) The landlord
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
c2019.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A wealthy young man leaves his family's estate in Long Island to pursue love and happiness in a Brooklyn ghetto. When Elgar Enders buys a Park Slope tenement, he fully intends to evict the occupants and transform the building into a chic bachelor pad. But after meeting the tenats, he adopts a "Love thy neighbor" policy instead.
17) Out of the ashes
Publisher
Showtime Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004], c2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Perl spent WWII in charge of the woman's infirmary at Auschwitz. Hoping to leave her nightmares behind her after the liberation, she applies for American citizenship in 1946. However, she is hauled into military court to explain how much she "collaborated" with the Nazis during the war. The U.S. officials are especially disturbed by the number of illegal abortions Perl performed at the camp. Perl struggles to explain how she terminated the lives of...
18) The descendants
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Matt King is an indifferent husband and father of two girls, who is forced to re-examine his past and embrace his future when his wife suffers a boating accident off of Waikiki. The event leads to a rapprochement with his young daughters while Matt wrestles with a decision to sell the family's land handed down from Hawaiian royalty and missionaries.
19) Hal
Publisher
Oscilloscope Pictures
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Hal Ashby's obsessive genius led to an unprecedented string of Oscar winning classics, including Harold and Maude, Shampoo and Being There. But as contemporaries Coppola, Scorsese and Spielberg rose to blockbuster stardom in the 1980s, Ashby's uncompromising nature played out as a cautionary tale of art versus commerce.
20) Night crossing
Publisher
Disney Home Video
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on a true story, Night Crossing chronicles the perils of two East German families as they attempt to cross over the Berlin Wall and escape to the freedom of the West in a hot-air balloon.