Katherine Helmond
1) Overboard
Publisher
MGM/UA Home Video
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (112 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A super-rich and pretentious socialite winds up in the world of a struggling carpenter with four kids.
2) Brazil
Series
Criterion collection volume 51
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (142 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In this surrealistic nightmare vision of a "perfect" future where technology reigns supreme, a daydreaming bureaucrat who is involved with an underground superhero and a beautiful mysterious woman becomes the tragic victim of his own romantic illusions. This is the original 142 minute director's cut edition of the film assembled from both the European and American versions.
3) Time bandits
Series
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A troupe of tiny bandits, challenged with the task of patching up the handiwork of a Supreme Being who was forced into creating the world in only six days, instead steal the priceless map of the universe. Accompanied by an English school boy, they are swept away on a whirlwind adventure through time and space, encountering bizarre incarnations of Napoleon, Robin Hood, Agamemnon, and others.
Publisher
Sony Wonder
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (150 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of the life an African American woman from Louisiana, from the time of her childhood as a slave in the pre-Civil War South to 1962, when she witnesses the birth of the civil rights movement at the age of one hundred and ten.
5) Brazil
Series
Criterion collection volume 51
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
2 blu-rays (142 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. .
Description
A daydreaming bureaucrat becomes involved with an underground superhero and a beautiful mysterious woman and becomes the tragic victim of his own romantic illusions.
6) Cars
Publisher
Disney/Pixar
Formats
Description
Hotshot rookie race car Lightning McQueen is living life in the fast lane until he hits a detour on his way to the most important race of his life. Stranded in Radiator Springs, a forgotten town on old Route 66, he meets Sally, Mater, Doc Hudson, and a variety of quirky characters who help him discover that there's more to life than trophies and fame.
Publisher
Manufactured and distributed by Sony Wonder
Pub. Date
[2002?]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Miss Jane Pittman is celebrating her 110th birthday. As the civil rights movement heats up, Miss Jane, a former slave, recounts her memories of the black experience from picking potatoes on a southern plantation to fetching water for soldiers in the Civil War to her views on the current and turbulent equal rights movement.
Author
Description
This Pulitzer Prize winner tells the powerful story of an epileptic woman in her early 40's systematically preparing her own death - and the frantic and touching efforts of her mother to stop her. This searing drama is guaranteed to keep any listener on the edge of their seat. An L.A. Theatre Works performance featuring Sharon Gless and Katherine Helmond.
9) The Gin Game
Author
Description
The quiet porch of a rest home for the aged explodes with emotion when prim Fonsia Dorsey sits down to play gin rummy with the cynical Weller Martin. Fonsia is drawn to Weller, but she just can't stop winning at cards, while Weller bemoans the bad luck that is ruining his game and has dogged him throughout his life. Tragic yet uproariously funny, this Pulitzer Prize-winning drama examines themes of individual responsibility and society's mistreatment...