Jennifer Jason Leigh
Publisher
Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 125 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Dorothy Parker, a brilliant writer with a razor-sharp tongue, shares a professional but intimate relationship with comic genius Robert Benchley. But when she meets Charlie McArthur, she falls hopelessly in love, a condition even literary genius can't seem to cure. The famed lunch scene at the Algonquin Hotel's Round Table. Home to a circle of mutually supportive young artists that defined New York sophistication and a literate era of wit and intellect....
2) Annihilation
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2018.
Formats
Description
Biologist and former soldier Lena is shocked when her missing husband comes home near death from a top-secret mission into The Shimmer, a mysterious quarantine zone from which no one has ever returned. Now, Lena and her elite team must enter a beautiful, deadly world of mutated landscapes and creatures, to discover how to stop the growing phenomenon that threatens all life on Earth.
3) Georgia
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000?], c1993
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of two sisters, one a successful musician, the other an aspiring rock star, and the rivalry that binds them together.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1999, c1995
Physical Desc
1 DVD (131 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Eighteen years ago the town accused Dolores Claiborne of murdering her husband in cold blood. Now a woman lies dead and a witness finds Dolores standing over the body. Her daughter is the only one who can save her life and the only thing that stands between guilt and innocence is the evil secret that made the daughter run away ten years ago.
5) Anomalisa
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2016]
Formats
Description
Michael Stone, husband, father and noted author, travels to Cincinnati to speak at a customer service conference. But once he's separated from the routine of his daily life, a chance encounter helps him to realize just what, and whom, he's been missing.
7) Miami blues
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002], c1989
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Junior Frenger, a smooth-talking, good-looking ex-con who borders on the psychotic, has Detective Hoke Moseley hot on his trail after he kills a Hare Krishna, robs a pickpocket and steals Moseley's badge and gun--Junior's running around town playing cops and robbers on both sides of the law.
9) Greenberg
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Roger Greenberg is single, fortyish and deliberately doing nothing. In search of a place to restart his life, he agrees to housesit for his brother in LA and tries to reconnect with his former bandmate and successful ex-girlfriend. But old friends aren't necessarily still best friends, and Greenberg soon finds himself forging a connection with his brother's personal assistant, Florence. Greenberg has come to realize that he may at last have found...
10) The machinist
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Trevor Reznik hasn't slept in a year. The shocking deteroration of his physical and mental health has made his every waking moment an unrelenting state of confusion, paranoia, guilt, anxiety and terror. His only solace from this living nightmare comes from an affectionate prostitute. When cryptic notes turn up mysteriously in his apartment and hallucinations of a co-worker that no one else sees causes a gruesome machine shop injury, he embarks on...
Formats
Description
A stagecoach hurtles through the wintry Wyoming landscape. Bounty hunter John Ruth and his fugitive Daisy, race towards the town of Red Rock where Ruth, will bring Daisy to justice. Losing their lead on the blizzard, they seek refuge at Minnie's, a stagecoach stopover on a mountain pass. When they arrive at Minnie's, they are greeted not by the proprietor but by four unfamiliar faces. As the storm overtakes the mountainside stopover, our travelers...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1075
Pub. Date
[2021]
Formats
Description
The wild world of adolescence has rarely been captured with as sharp an observational eye as in this frank spin on the teen comedy by director Amy Heckerling and screenwriter Cameron Crowe, launching hugely successful film careers for both.
Publisher
Hollywood Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002?]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Catherine, a lonely young woman, is swept off her feet by the handsome Morris Townsend. Suspicious of the young man's true intentions, her father threatens to disown her if she follows her heart and marries against his wishes.
14) Crossed over
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (92 min.) : digital., color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The true story of the powerful and healing friendship between a grieving mother and death row inmate Karla Faye Tucker.
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Novelist Joe and his actress wife Sally throw a party to celebrate the sixth anniversary of their turbulent marriage. At the party both guests and hosts start telling each other the truth-- something rarely heard in Hollywood.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When Waring Hudsucker, head of a successful company commits suicide, the board of directors has a plan to make a lot of money, so they decide to appoint a moron to run the company. Mailroom clerk Norville Barnes is exactly what Hudsucker is looking for to be president. They hope that as soon as the stock falls low enough, the director and his friends will buy them up cheaply, take over the company and they will be successful again. However, a tough...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When Margot and her son, Claude, come to attend the wedding of her sister, Pauline, it seems as if a family rift is being mended. Despite their best efforts, Margot and Pauline revert to their most dysfunctional selves. It does not help that Pauline's fiance? is woefully depressed and Margot's lover is as narcissistic as she is. Margot's estranged husband can't seem to recognize that Margot cringes at his every effort at reconciliation. Margot and...
18) Good time
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After a botched bank robbery lands his younger brother in prison, Constantine Nikas embarks on a twisted odyssey through New York City's underworld in an increasingly desperate and dangerous attempt to get his brother out of jail. Over the course of one adrenalized night Constantine finds himself on a mad descent into violence and mayhem as he races against the clock to save his brother and himself, knowing their lives hang in the balance.
19) The jacket
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2005.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A Gulf War veteran has returned home with amnesia only to be convicted of a murder he didn't commit. While in an institution for the criminally insane he is put on a heavy course of experimental drugs and restrained in a jacket-like device and locked away in a body drawer of the basement morgue. The process mysteriously transports him to the future where he hopes to make changes that can alter the course of history.
20) Possessor
Formats
Description
Tasya Vos, an elite corporate assassin, uses brain-implant technology to possess civilians and execute priority targets. But the tables turn when while on assignment, Vos is suddenly trapped inside a mind that threatens to obliterate her.