Tom Hanks
Author
Description
At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a lavish estate in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. Meant as a surprise for his wife, the house sets in motion the undoing of everyone he loves. Cyril's son Danny and his older sister Maeve are exiled from...
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (86 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Grab your robe and see Hanks get inducted into the exclusive "Five Timers Club" with other legendary hosts Steve Martin, Paul Simon and Elliott Gould. From playing a string of original characters like a Roadie on Wayne's world and Mr. Short Term Memory to lampooing his own movies like "Big" and "Cast away," Hanks' characters continue to run the spectrum with each one seemingly funnier than the last.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
xv, 685 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Description
On the night of July 20, 1969, our world changed forever when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon. Now the greatest event of the twentieth century is magnificently retold through the eyes and ears of the people who were there.
4) Sully
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After landing US Airways Flight 1549 on the Hudson River, Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger faces criticism during the investigation into the crash while being hailed as a hero by the media.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After hearing a man confess his love for his dearly departed wife on a call-in radio show, a woman falls deeply, inexplicably in love with him. Deciding he is her destiny, she treks across country on a wildly romantic impulse to meet him.
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (45 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Just after Christmas, Woody, Buzz Lightyear, and their friends find themselves up against a delusional set of action figures, and must find a way to return to Bonnie's room.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Formats
Description
Based on the comical and moving New York Times bestseller, it tells the story of Otto Anderson, a grumpy widower whose only joy comes from criticizing and judging his exasperated neighbors. When a lively young family moves in next door, he meets his match in quick-witted and very pregnant Marisol, leading to an unexpected friendship that will turn his world upside down.
9) The Post
Formats
Description
Determined to uphold the nation's civil liberties, Katharine Graham, publisher of the Washington Post, and hard-nosed editor Ben Bradlee join forces to expose a decades-long cover-up. However, the two must risk their careers and their freedom to bring truth to light.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Five years after the Civil War, Captain Kidd moves from town to town as a storyteller. In Texas, he crosses paths with Johanna, a ten-year-old taken in by the Kiowa people six years earlier. She is being returned to her biological aunt and uncle against her will. Kidd agrees to deliver the child where the law says she belongs. As they travel hundreds of miles, the two will face tremendous challenges of both human and natural forces as they search...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Alan Clay, a recently divorced American businessman who is sent overseas to pitch a state-of-the-art holographic teleconfrencing system to the king. Alan tries to navigate the country's unique customs and finds himself thrust into a series of wonderful misadventures.
Formats
Description
What starts out as an exciting road trip for the Toy Story gang takes an unexpected turn for the worse following a detour to a roadside motel. After Mr. Potato Head suddenly disappears, his friends find themselves caught up in a hilarious mystery that must be solved before they suffer the same fate in this thrilling story of TERROR!
13) Cast away
Description
After FedEx systems engineer Chuck Noland is ripped out of his hasty life by the clock in a plane crash, he finds himself alone on the shores of a tropical island. First, frustration gets to him and then he realizes how little his chances are to ever get back to civilization. Four years later, Chuck has learned very well how to survive on his own: mending his dental health, catching fish with a spear, predicting the weather with a selfmade calendar....
14) The 'burbs
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (1 hr., 42 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A suspense-comedy in which Tom Hanks portrays a suburbanite whose plans for a peaceful vacation are disturbed by a creepy new family on the block.
15) Punchline
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A struggling stand-up comedian mentors a housewife who aspires to become a comedienne.
16) Splash
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Allen Bauer is a successful New York businessman, knocked unconscious in a boating accident. His beautiful rescuer is the girl of his dreams. There's only one complication--Allen's fallen hook, line and sinker for a mermaid.
Publisher
Roadside Attractions LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession-scarred America, a struggling businessman named Alan Clay pursues a last-ditch attempt to stave off foreclosure, pay his daughter's college tuition, and finally do something great.
18) Forrest Gump
Formats
Description
The story follows the life of low I.Q. Forrest Gump and his meeting with the love of his life Jenny. The film chronicles his accidental experiences with some of the most important people and events in America from the late 1950's through the 1970's including a meeting with Elvis Presley, JFK, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, fighting in Vietnam, etc. The problem is, he doesn't realize the significance of his actions. Seemingly by accident Forrest comes...
19) Cloud atlas
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (172 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution. The story is a time-shifting weave of six interlinking narratives, with diverse settings from the savagery of a Pacific Island in the 1850s to a dystopian Korea of the near future.
Publisher
Sony
Pub. Date
2020.
Formats
Description
Tom Hanks portrays Mister Rogers in a timely story of kindness triumphing over cynicism, based on the true story of a real-life friendship between Fred Rogers and journalist Tom Junod. After a jaded magazine writer is assigned a profile of Fred Rogers, he overcomes his skepticism, learning about kindness, love, and forgiveness from America's most beloved neighbor.