Helen Hunt
1) 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....
2) Soul surfer
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Teen surfer Bethany Hamilton loses her arm in a shark attack and courageously overcomes all odds to become a champion again, through her sheer determination and unwavering faith.
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Desperate to start a family, New York schoolteacher, April Epner hits a midlife crisis when, in quick succession, her husband unexpectedly abandons her and her adoptive mother dies. She gets another shock when she meets her biological mother, an eccentric, self-centered talk show host, whom at first she rejects. Then the divorced dad of one of her students begins courting April. As her life is turned upside-down, April finds herself opening up in...
4) The sessions
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Paralyzed and confined to an iron lung since childhood, poet-journalist Mark O'Brien has overcome adversity time and time again. But now, at age 38, he faces his toughest challenge yet: losing his virginity. With the help of a beautiful therapist, a sympathetic priest, and his own unbridled sense of optimism and humor, Mark embarks on an extraordinary personal journey to discover the wondrous pleasures that make life worth living.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
1 DVD (139 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Melvin Udall is an obsessive-compulsive novelist with Manhattan's meanest mouth. But when his gay neighbor Simon is hospitalized, Melvin is forced to babysit Simon's dog. And that unexpected act of kindness--along with waitress Carol Connelly--helps put Melvin back in the human race.
8) 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.
9) I see you
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a twelve-year-old boy goes missing, lead investigator Greg Harper struggles to balance the pressure of the investigation and troubles with his wife, Jackie. Facing a recent affair, a great stra]in is put on the family and slowly gnaws away at Jackie's grip on reality. But after a malicious presence manifests itself in their home and puts their son, Connor, in mortal danger, the cold, hard truth about evil in the Harper household is finally uncovered....
10) Twister
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton play scientists pursuing the most destructive weather front to sweep through mid-America's Tornado Alley in 50 years.
12) What women want
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2001], c2000.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (126 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A cocky, chauvinistic ad agency exec magically acquires the ability to hear what women are thinking. He puts this to especially good use with his new superior, whose job he was in line to get. Then competition turns into romance.
13) Bobby
Publisher
Genius Products
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (119 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Revisits the night presidential-hopeful Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated at the Ambassador Hotel in 1968. As the lives of those who were present dramatically intersect, Bobby shows how the gunshots that rang out that night forever changed the course of American history.
16) Next of kin
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Truman Gates, a cop from Appalachia, hunts for his brother's killers in Chicago.
17) Soul surfer
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Teen surfer Bethany Hamilton, loses her arm in a shark attack and courageously overcomes all odds to become a champion again, through her sheer determination and unwavering faith.
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (122 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
While a middle-aged Dallas gynecologist whose wife has become mentally ill falls for his sexy new golf pro, chaos surrounds the wedding of his daughter, and his alcoholic sister-in-law arrives with three nieces in tow.
19) Twister
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Scientist Jo Harding and her crack team of tornado chasers are pursuing the most destructive weatherfront to sweep through mid-America's Tornado Alley in 50 years. TV weatherman Bill Harding is trying to get his tornado-hunter wife, Jo, to sign divorce papers so he can marry his girlfriend Melissa. But Mother Nature, in the form of a series of intense storms has other plans. Jo's team is planning to launch revolutionary electronic sensors into the...