Alexander Payne
1) Downsizing
Pub. Date
2018
Formats
Description
When scientists find a way to shrink humans to five inches tall, Paul Safrane and his wife Audrey decide to ditch their stressed out lives in order to get small and live large in a luxurious downsized community. Filled with life-changing adventures and endless possibilities, Leisureland offers more than riches, as Paul discovers a whole new world and realizes that we are meant for something bigger.
Publisher
SDs
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (2 hr., 14 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Follows a curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school who is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually he forms an unlikely bond with one of them--a damaged, brainy troublemaker--and with the school's head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam"--
4) Nebraska
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (114 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After receiving a sweepstakes letter in the mail, a cantankerous father thinks he's struck it rich, and wrangles his estranged son into taking a road trip to claim the fortune. Getting waylaid in the father's hometown in Nebraska, the son tries to reconnect with his impenetrable father.
5) Nebraska
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (114 min.) : Blu-ray, sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An estranged son and his alcoholic father travel from Montana to Nebraska to claim a million dollar sweepstakes prize.
6) Sideways
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 127 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Miles is a divorced man and a failed writer who teaches junior high English. He decides to take his best friend, somewhat famous actor Jack, on a weeklong drive through California's wine country. There they explore their failures and question their relationships.
7) Election
Series
Criterion collection volume 904
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in..
Description
Tracy Flick, a straight-A go-getter, is determined to be student council president, but teacher Jim McAllister decides to derail her campaign by recruiting another candidate.
8) Election
Series
Criterion collection volume 904
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Tracy Flick, a straight-A go-getter, is determined to be student council president, but teacher Jim McAllister decides to derail her campaign by recruiting another candidate.
9) Sideways
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Miles and Jack, reaching middle-age and disappointed at the state of their lives, travel together through wine country a week before Jack is to be married in search of adventure and meaning in their lives.
10) The descendants
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 DVD (115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Matt King is an indifferent husband and father of two girls, who is forced to re-examine his past and embrace his future when his wife suffers a boating accident off of Waikiki. The event leads to a rapprochement with his young daughters while Matt wrestles with a decision to sell the family's land handed down from Hawaiian royalty and missionaries.
11) The holdovers
Publisher
Focus Features
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray disc (134 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 videodisc.
Description
It follows a curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school who is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually, he forms an unlikely bond with one of them a damaged, brainy troublemaker, and with the school's head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam.
Publisher
First Look Studios
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A man is reunited with his teenage daughter after spending years in a mental institute. When he becomes obsessed that ancient treasure is buried under his home, his daughter decides to go along with his antics.
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.
14) Cedar Rapids
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A small-town, naive Midwestern insurance agent must represent his company at a regional insurance convention in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where his mind is blown by the big city experience.
15) The descendants
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Matt King is an indifferent husband and father of two girls, who is forced to re-examine his past and embrace his future when his wife suffers a boating accident off of Waikiki. The event leads to a rapprochement with his young daughters while Matt wrestles with a decision to sell the family's land handed down from Hawaiian royalty and missionaries.
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When renowned paleontologist Dr. Grant agrees to accompany a wealthy adventurer and his wife on an aerial tour of Isla Sorna, InGen's former breeding ground for prehistoric creatures, he has no idea that he was brought along for a totally different reason. When their plane crashes and they become stranded, they discover the island's native inhabitants are smarter, faster, fiercer and more brutal than imagined.