Tom Hanks
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The two-time Oscar winner presents a first collection of short fiction that includes the stories of a bowling champion who fears his celebrity has ruined his love of the game and an eccentric billionaire and faithful assistant who, while searching for acquisitions, discover romance and real life in a down-and-out motel.
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Part One of this story takes place in 1947. A troubled soldier, returning from the war, meets his talented five-year-old nephew, leaves an indelible impression, and then disappears for twenty-three years. Cut to 1970: The nephew, now drawing underground comic books in Oakland, California, reconnects with his uncle and, remembering the comic book he saw when he was five, draws a new version with his uncle as a World War II fighting hero. Cut to the...
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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...
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.
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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.
9) Toy story 3
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (ca. 103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 Blu-ray with special features
Description
As Andy prepares to leave for college, the toys are mistakenly delivered to Sunnyside Daycare and it is up to Woody to get everyone home.
10) Cast away
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (144 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After a plane crash that kills the crew, a FedEx system engineer finds himself stranded on a desert island.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
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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.
12) Saving Mr. Banks
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (125 min.) : Blu-ray, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in..
Description
The story of Walt Disney's struggle to obtain the rights to P.L. Travers' "Mary Poppins."
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...
14) Saving Mr. Banks
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When P.L. Travers travels from London to Hollywood in 1961 to finally discuss Walt Disney's desire to bring her beloved character, Mary Poppins to the motion picture screen (a quest he began in the 1940s as a promise to his two daughters), Disney meets a prim, uncompromising sexagenarian not only suspect of the impresario's concept for the film, but a woman struggling with her own past. During her stay in California, Travers' reflects back on her...
15) The Post
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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.
16) Apollo 13
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
1 DVD (2 hrs., 20 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 chapter selection sheet.
Description
Based on a true story. Stranded 205,000 miles from Earth in a crippled spacecraft, astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, and Jack Swigert fight a desperate battle to survive. Meanwhile, at Mission Control, astronaut Ken Mattingly, flight director Gene Kranz and a heroic ground crew race against time, and the odds, to bring them home.
17) Ithaca
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Fourteen-year-old Homer Macauley is determined to be the best and fastest bicycle telegraph messenger anyone has ever seen. His older brother has gone to war, leaving Homer to look after his widowed mother, his older sister and his four-year-old brother, Ulysses. And so it is that as spring turns to summer, 1942, Homer Macauley delivers messages of love, hope, pain, and death, to the good people of Ithaca. And Homer Macauley will grapple with one...
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.
19) 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....
20) 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.