Universal Studios Home Video (Firm)
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
2003, c1987
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An unscrupulous real estate developer sends thugs to a tenement to get rid of the last five tenants. The five are visited by tiny visitors from outer space who turn the tide with magical powers.
2) Ted
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107, 114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
As the result of a childhood wish, John Bennett's teddy bear, Ted, came to life and has been by John's side ever since. Their friendship is tested when Lori, John's girlfriend of four years, wants more from their relationship.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (11 hrs. 45 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The complete third season of what the New York Post calls 'the best detective show to come along in decades'. Tony Shalhoub plays obsessive-compulsive detective Monk, who assists police in their most baffling cases.
Publisher
MCA Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003?]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (194 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This epic network television mini-series brings to life the precarious existence of the early Christian church which was beset by violent opposition from without and within. Peter and Paul emerge as two key leaders and struggle to keep the faith alive. The story of Peter and Paul is a story of the meaning of faith and love, liberty and law, victory and defeat, and life and death.
5) Spotlight
Pub. Date
2016
Formats
Description
It tells the riveting true story of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe investigation that would rock the city and cause a crisis in one of the world's oldest and most trusted institutions. When the newspaper's tenacious 'Spotlight' teams of reporters delve into allegations of abuse in the Catholic Church, their year-long investigation uncovers a decades-long cover-up at the highest levels of Boston's religious, legal, and government establishment....
Series
Publisher
Focus Features
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An emotionally charged story of two brothers who struggle to find their place within their family after one of them is sent to the war in Afghanistan. The responsible brother at war is missing in action and presumed dead. His less responsible brother gravitates toward his brother's presumed widow and cares for her. When the older brother returns from prison camp with post traumatic stress, he faces problems with his role and his brother's shift.
8) Jaws
Formats
Description
When a killer shark unleashes chaos on a beach community off Cape Cod, it's up to a local sheriff, a marine biologist, and an old seafarer to hunt the beast down.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Video
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Recently orphaned, Flora ignores the sage advise of Mrs. Smiley and moves to the country to live on a decrepit farm with her eccentric relatives, where she finds ample material for the novel she wishes to write.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
1 DVD (130 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The setting is a dusty Southern town during the Depression. A white woman accuses a black man of rape. Though he is obviously innocent, the outcome of his trial is such a foregone conclusion that no lawyer will step forward to defend him--except the town's most distinguished citizen. His compassionate defense costs him many friendships but earns him the respect and admiration of his two motherless children.
12) The deer hunter
Formats
Description
Tracks a group of steelworker pals from a Pennsylvania blast furnace to the coal hunting grounds of the Alleghenies to the lethal cauldron of Vietnam. It is a drama of friendship and courage and of what happens to these qualities under stress.
13) Babe
Description
A lovable talking piglet makes friends with all the animals in the barnyard, proving to everyone on the farm that different types can get along.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (133 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Fact-based film about Gerry Conlon, a young Irish punk who is caught in the wrong place at the wrong time and forced to confess to a terrorist bombing. He and his father, along with friends of Gerry, are found guilty and sentenced to life in prison. There, his father shows his true strength, and Gerry works to prove their innocence and clear his father's name.
16) Saboteur
Formats
Description
Wartime thriller about a Los Angeles aircraft factory worker who witnesses his plant's firebombing by a Nazi agent, and is framed for that act himself.
17) The terminal
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (129 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Viktor is a simple man with a mission who finds himself entrapped in JKF airport after the accidental loss of his country to a villainous coup. He becomes a man without a country and is stuck in at the airport's international terminal with no visa, and is instructed that he is not allowed to leave. Slowly he encounters airport workers who come to his aid by mutual coercion. Gupta the hilarious Indian custodian; Enrique who transports food; Torres...
18) Dune
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
1998, c1984.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (2 hr., 17 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Paul Atreides, son of Duke Leto, struggles with the native inhabitants of the dry planet Arrakis (Dune) to overthrow the terrible Baron Barkonnen and his family and control the special product of the planet, a mind-altering spice produced by giant sand worms.
19) Abominable
Publisher
Dreamworks
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When teenage Yi encounters a young Yeti on the roof of her apartment building in Shanghai, she and her mischievous friends, Jin and Peng, name him "Everest" and embark on an epic quest to reunite the magical creature with his family at the highest point on Earth. But the trio of friends will have to stay one-step ahead of Burnish, a wealthy man intent on capturing a Yeti, and zoologist Dr. Zara to help Everest get home.
20) Vertigo
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
1 DVD (128 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Scottie Ferguson, a San Francisco police detective is forced to retire when a freak accident gives him a severe case of acrophobia. Ferguson is hired by a rich shipbuilder to follow his wife who is behaving suspiciously and might be planning suicide. He falls in love with her, she is later murdered and Ferguson becomes demonic in his desire to re-create her in another woman.