Miramax Films
2) Emma
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (121 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Emma Woodhouse is a young woman who, having engineered the marriage of her companion, turns her attention toward making a match for the local vicar and her new protege?e, Harriet Smith. Her one voice of reason and restraint is Mr. Knightley, who has known her since she was a child and who watches her behaviour with wry amusement and sometimes with real anger. Emma presides over the small provincial world of Highbury with enthusiasm, but she will find...
3) My left foot
Series
Publisher
Miramax
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of Christy Brown, who was born with cerebral palsy. He learned to paint and write with his only controllable limb - his left foot.
Series
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (162 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on the novel by Michael Ondaatje, a complicated WWII saga told in flashback sequences. Best Picture, Best Director-Anthony Minghella, and Best Supporting Actress-Juliette Binoche. Includes exclusive bonus material and special packaging.
5) Chocolat
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001], c2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (122 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a single mother and her young daughter move to rural France and open a chocolate shop--with Sunday hours--across the street from the local church, they are met with some resistance from the rigidly moral community. But as soon as the townspeople discover their delicious products, their attitudes begin to change.
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A young man offends an entire town by declaring their mountain--a prized local landmark--to be a "hill." The eccentric and funny townspeople rally around their "mountain" and a fiery young woman charms the puzzled out-of-town cartographer into seeing things their way.
Description
In her mid-thirties, still single and still being set up with dates by her mom, Bridget decides she needs to make a change in her life. She falls for her boss who uses her and then dumps her. In the meantime, Bridget keeps running into the divorced guy her mom tried to set her up with, and he happens to be ex-friends with her boss. She uses her diary as a confessional and she begins to wonder if she will ever find true love.
8) White
Series
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Last in a trilogy of films (Trois couleurs = Three colors) by director Krzysztof Kieslowski, White presents the mysterious tale of a man whose life disintegrates when his beautiful wife of six months deserts him. Forced to begin anew, he rebuilds his life, only to plan a dangerous scheme of vengeance against her.
9) Pulp fiction
Formats
Description
Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction has been hailed by critics and audiences worldwide as a film that redefined cinema. Tarantino delivers an unforgettable cast of characters, including a pair of low-rent hitmen, their boss's sexy wife, and a desperate prizefighter, in a wildly entertaining and exhilarating blend of crime-thriller-drama-comedy that is completely original and entirely unforgettable.
10) The piano
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (121 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A young mute woman and her child travel to New Zealand in the 1800s for an arranged marriage to a farmer. After the marriage she meets another man, and the competition for her love begins. Just one of the men realizes that her affections can only be won through her beloved piano.
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (166 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1846, waves of Irish immigrants poured into the New York neighborhood of Five Points. "Billy the Butcher" bands his fellow "Native Americans" into a gang to take on the Irish gang "The Dead Rabbits," organized by Priest Vallon. After an bloody clash Vallon is dead and his son ends up in a brutal reform school. In 1862, that boy returns to seek vengeance against the man that killed his father.
12) Last night
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A married couple in New York City are apart for the night. Each will be confronted by temptation that may decide the fate of their marriage.
14) Doubt
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
1964, St. Nicholas in the Bronx. Father Flynn is a charismatic priest who is trying to upend the schools' strict customs, which have long been fiercely guarded by Sister Aloysius Beauvier. The Sister is the iron-gloved principal who believes in the power of fear and discipline. With the winds of political change, the school has just accepted its first black student, Donald Miller. But when Sister James shares with Sister Aloysius her suspicion that...
15) Dear Frankie
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 105 min.) : sd. col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
To spare the feelings of her fatherless boy, Lizzie secretly authors letters from his "father" recounting seafaring adventures around the world. Torn between exposing the truth and protecting her son, Lizzie hires a handsome stranger to play the role of a father and gets more than anyone bargained for.
16) Chasing Amy
Series
Criterion collection volume 75
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Holden thinks Alyssa is the woman of his dreams but she has someone a little different in mind--another woman. They share the kind of relationship they've been looking for all along and discover the confusing ups and downs of love, sex and friendship in the '90s.
17) Mansfield Park
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 112 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When Fanny Price is sent away to live with her rich cousins, she's meant to learn the ways of proper society but manages to enlighten them as well.
18) Jackie Brown
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (154 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A stewardess, a street-tough gun runner, a lonely bail bondsman, a shifty ex-con, a stoned-out beach bunny and an earnest federal agent converge in a quest for a missing half million dollars.
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Four years after taking a bullet in the head at her own wedding, the bride emerges from a coma and decides it's time for payback ... with a vengeance. Having been gunned down by her former boss and his deadly squad of international assassins, it's a kill-or-be-killed fight. She didn't start this deadly series of events, but she is determined to finish the business.