Jack Nicholson
1) The Pledge
Author
Description
A retiring police detective pledges to catch the killer of a young child.
3) Easy rider
Series
Criterion collection volume 545
Description
Hippie motorcyclists cross the Southwest and encounter a crazy quilt of good and bad people. An attorney joins their quest for awhile and articulates society's problem with freedom as the two hippies embody it.
4) Chinatown
Formats
Description
A landmark movie in the film-noir tradition, CHINATOWN stands as a true screen classic. Jack Nicholson is private eye Jake Gittes, living off the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-war Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite (Faye Dunaway) to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair, Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits, uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that come crashing together....
5) Heartburn
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A bitter romance based on Nora Ephron's autobiographical novel about her relationship with Carl Bernstein.
6) Reds
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2006, c1981
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (195 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The true story of the love affair of John Reed, American Communist, journalist and activist and Louise Bryant, writer and feminist.
Series
Criterion collection volume 546
Description
An extremely crass and frustrated oil worker, and failed child pianist hiding from his past in Texas. Robert Dupea spends his life drinking beer and sleeping with (and cheating on) his annoying but adoring wannabe girlfriend, but when he learns that his father is dying in Washington State, he leaves because leaving is what Dupea does best, from his problems, fears, and those who love him.
9) The shining
Description
A writer and his family are snowbound in a hotel and are haunted by either the hotel itself or the writer's dementia.
10) A few good men
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 138 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Cruise stars as a brash Navy lawyer who's teamed with a gung-ho litigator in a politically-explosive murder case. Charged with defending two Marines accused of killing a fellow soldier, they are confronted with complex issues of loyalty and honor - including its most sacred code and its most formidable warrior.
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.
12) The departed
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (152 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In South Boston, the state police force are waging a war on Irish-American organized crime. Undercover cop Billy Costigan is assigned to infiltrate the mob syndicate, which is run by gangland chief Frank Costello. Billy quickly gains Costello's confidence. Colin Sullivan is a hardened young criminal who has infiltrated the police department as an informer for the syndicate. Colin is rising to a position of power within the Special Investigation Unit....
13) About Schmidt
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (125 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Warren Schmidt is about to taste the not-so-sweet slice of life. When he retired, he and his wife, Helen, had big plans--but an unexpected twist changes everything. Now, all of Schmidt's attention is focused on his daughter's upcoming wedding to a loser waterbed salesman. From meeting the groom's hippie parents to sponsoring a Tanzanian foster child, Schmidt embarks on a search for answers, only to discover that life is full of trick questions.
Series
Publisher
Miramax :
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"For six agonizing years, Freddy Gale has waited for John Booth, the man jailed for a crime that destroyed Freddy's life. Now, Booth is out of prison and Freddy's giving him three days before he returns ... to even the score"--Container.
15) The bucket list
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Corporate billionaire Edward Cole and working class mechanic Carter Chambers have nothing in common, except they both have been diagnosed with terminal illnesses. While sharing a hospital room together, they decide to make a Bucket List of all the things they have ever wanted to do before they die. In the process of completing the list, both of them heal each other, become unlikely friends, and ultimately find the joy in life.
16) The pledge
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (124 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A veteran police detective, on the day of his retirement, handles the case of a seven-year-old girl who has been brutally murdered. When a mentally retarded man confesses to the murder and then kills himself, the detectives consider the case closed, but was he actually the murderer? Before long evidence is uncovered that suggests the girl was just one in a series of brutal killings involving young girls and a mysterious man.
18) Carnal knowledge
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999], p1971
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This film traces the sexual triumphs and disasters of two American men as it traces their lives from college days to middle age.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (128 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Harry Sanborn is a perennial playboy with the libido of a much younger man. During what was to be a romantic weekend with his current infatuation, Marin, at her mother's Hampton beach house, Harry develops chest pains. He winds up being nursed by Marin's reluctant mother, Erica. When Harry hesitates to act on his feelings for Erica, Harry's thirtysomething doctor steps in and starts to pursue her. Harry, who has always had the world on a string, finds...
20) Tommy
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A classic rock opera about a boy who is traumatized by the death of his father. He is "cured" several years later, only to be hailed as a "Messiah."
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