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Jack Burton, a tough-talking, wisecracking truck driver whose hum-drum life on the road takes a sudden supernatural tailspin when his best friend's fiancee is kidnapped. Speeding to the rescue, Jack finds himself deep beneath San Francisco's Chinatown, in a murky, creature-filled world ruled by Lo Pan, a 2000-year-old magician who mercilessly presides over an empire of spirits. Dodging demons and facing baffling terrors, Jack battles his way through...
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + booklet ([5] p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
Seven college housemates from the 1960s who have drifted apart reunite at the funeral of a friend. Having entered adulthood as non-conformists, most now belong to the establishment. Stunned by the death of their peer, sensing their own mortality and the loss of their innocence, each takes the opportunity to reevaluate his or her life and re-establish their bonds.
5) 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.
6) 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....
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An inksetter in New York, Quoyle returns to his family's longtime home, a small fishing town in Newfoundland, with his young daughter, after a traumatizing experience with her mother, who sold her to an illegal adoption agency. Though Quoyle has had little success thus far in life, his shipping news column in the local newspaper finds an audience, and his experiences in the town begin to change his life.
8) Rain man
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (134 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A callous young hustler living in California finds his father has died and left him only rose bushes and a '49 Buick convertible. Feeling cheated out of what he thinks should be his 3 million dollar inheritance, he kidnaps the autistic brother he never knew he had, and takes him on the ride of his life.
9) Guinevere
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A young girl from an affluent family rebels and becomes involved with a much older photographer.
11) 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.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
1 DVD (136 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Heinrich Harrer is an Austrian national and a Nazi sympathizer. He leaves Austria in 1939 to climb a mountain in the Himalayas. Through a series of circumstances (including POW camp), he and fellow climber Peter Aufschnaiter become the only two foreigners in the Tibetan holy city of Lhasa. There, Heinrich's life changes forever as he becomes a close confidant to the young Dalai Lama.
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005?]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 75 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A close-up view of a variety of insects as they hatch from eggs, search for food and cope with a rain storm. Ants race to gather food as a pheasant gobbles them up while a dung beetle moves his prize up hill and down. Makes use of time-lapse and microphotographic techniques.
14) The red shoes
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (134 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Centers on the dilemma of a young ballerina torn between the composer who loves her and the impresario determined to fashion her into a great dancer.
15) 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.
16) Bounce
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001], c2000
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Buddy Amaral is a smooth-talking, skirt-chasing ad exec who is enjoying his high-powered career. Then, a sudden twist of fate changes everything and leads him into the life of Abby Janello, with whom he eventually falls head-over-heels in love.
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.
18) The company
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (112 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A behind-the-scenes look at the world of dance as seen through the eyes of a talented young dancer on the brink of success.
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (ca. 590 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Join Sara Stanley as she journeys to Avonlea to unite her extended family, the Kings. Set at the turn of the 20th century, Tales From Avonlea tells the classic story of adventure, love, and lifelong lessons.
20) Whiplash
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Andrew Neyman is an ambitious young jazz drummer, single-minded in his pursuit to rise to the top of his elite east coast music conservatory. Plagued by the failed writing career of his father, Andrew hungers day and night to become one of the greats. Terence Fletcher, an instructor equally known for his teaching talents as for his terrifying methods, leads the top jazz ensemble in the school. Fletcher discovers Andrew and transfers the aspiring drummer...
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