Miramax Films
2) Snapper
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001?]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Comedy about a close-knit, boisterous Irish family, and the commotion that follows the oldest daughter's announcement that she is pregnant. The whole town is thrown into a tizzy when she refuses to reveal the father's name.
3) 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...
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A beautiful Japanese young woman goes to Hawaii to marry a man she knows only through his picture. Although she is disappointed when he turns out to be older than his picture led her to believe, she finds that life in this new land is more exciting and satisfying than she expected.
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.
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004, c1992
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
Description
Examines the 1975 incident where armed FBI agents illegally entered the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, resulting in the deaths of a Native American and two FBI agents. Explores the controversy and potential abuse of justice surrounding the case of Leonard Peltier, who was the sole person in the incident convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison.
7) Fresh
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Michael (or Fresh as he's known) is a 12-year-old drug pusher who lives in a half-way house for children without their parents. His father has become a street bum, but is still there if Fresh requires his 'street' knowledge. Fresh aspires to live the good life but his sister's prostitution for the drug heavies along with the senseless murder of friends push him to re-evaluate his life. He then decides that dealing isn't what he wants and revenge is....
9) Blue
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Video
Pub. Date
1996
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A young woman is left devastated by the unexpected death of her husband and child. She retreats from the world around her, but is soon reluctantly drawn into an ever-widening web of lies and passion as the dark, secret life of her husband begins to unravel.
10) Baran: [Rain]
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1DVD (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of illegal Afghan immigrants living and working at a construction site in Tehran, Iran. When one of the workers is injured, his daughter, posing as a man, becomes the breadwinner. But a hot-headed 17 year-old local youth also working at the site discovers the secret.
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.
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A comedy thriller that poses an irresistible question: What would happen if a wildly successful TV producer was also a top secret CIA assassin? While a maverick creator of America's favorite game shows gains notoriety for his smash television hits, he is also drawn into a shadowy world of danger as a covert government operative! But soon his double life begins to spiral out of control. Based on Chuck Barris's cult classic autobiography, this entertaining...
13) Hollywoodland
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (127 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Made famous as Superman on television, George Reeves finds it hard to not be typecast because of it. When he is found dead of a gunshot wound, rumors begin to run rampant. Based on Hollywood's most notorious unsolved mystery.
14) 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.
15) Sling blade
Series
Formats
Description
After 25 years, mildly retarded killer Karl Childers is released from the mental hospital where he was placed for killing his mother and her lover. He gets a job and is befriended by a fatherless boy and his mother, but his newfound peace is shattered by the mother's abusive boyfriend.
16) Bob Roberts
Publisher
Artisan Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A satirical comedy in which a British documentary crew follows a radical folksinger (and self-made millionaire) turned senatorial candidate as he blends singing, music videos and scandal on the campaign trail.
17) Smoke signals
Series
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000?]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (89 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Depicts two young Native Americans, Victor and Thomas, who leave their small town to retrieve the remains of Victor's father.
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.
19) Camilla
Publisher
Distributed by Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertaiment
Pub. Date
[2002?]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A retired violinist and an aspiring musician journey from Georgia to Toronto to hear a classical concert and in the process rediscover themselves. An unlikely pair, they set off down the road to do everything they always wanted. On the way, they stage a kidnapping, get duped by a con man, lose their car in a lake and have the time of their lives.
20) 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.