Charles Durning
2) I.Q
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003], c1994
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Edward Walters, an auto mechanic, falls for the intelligent and beautiful Catherine Boyd but she's engaged to jerk James Moreland. Her uncle, Albert Einstein the scientific genius decides to play Einstein the matchmaker in this fun, warm-hearted romantic comedy.
3) Tootsie
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Michael Dorsey is an out-of-work actor who makes himself up as a woman to get a job. When his girlfriend, Sandy, fails an audition for a soap opera, Michael dresses up as "Dorothy Michaels" and lands the part. All goes well until "Dorothy" falls in love with beautiful co-star, Julie, and Julie's father, Les, falls for "Dorothy."
5) Sisters
Series
Criterion collection volume 89
Formats
Description
Danielle is a beautiful model separated from her Siamese twin, Dominique. When a hotshot reporter suspects Dominique of a brutal murder, she becomes dangerously ensnared in the sisters' insidious sibling bond. A scary and stylish paean to female destructiveness.
6) Sisters
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Two sisters, joined at birth as Siamese twins, are separated in late adolescence. One is lovely, gentle, kind-- the other is quite mad.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When Waring Hudsucker, head of a successful company commits suicide, the board of directors has a plan to make a lot of money, so they decide to appoint a moron to run the company. Mailroom clerk Norville Barnes is exactly what Hudsucker is looking for to be president. They hope that as soon as the stock falls low enough, the director and his friends will buy them up cheaply, take over the company and they will be successful again. However, a tough...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (122 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Tom Sharky, an under cover cop, is on a tough narcotics assignment and finds the game is rigged against him. He blows his cover by blowing away a drug dealer on a crowded bus, and buys himself a one-way ticket to Vice Squad duty.
Publisher
20th Century FOX Video
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Why does Richard Drew, eccentric violinist and American bachelor, step off a plane in Washington, D.C. wearing one red shoe? While Drew doesn't know why he's being shot at, mugged, chased and seduced, Maddy Drove spends her time trying to save him from her own employer, Copper and Ross.
12) Local color
Publisher
Monterey Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1974, in the suburb of Port Chester, New York, the teenage aspirant artist John Talia has a troubled relationship with his homophobic father who does not understand John's talent. While visiting his friend Yammi, John finds that the genius Russian painter Nicoli Seroff lives nearby. He decides to pay a visit to his idol. John finds a bitter alcoholic who is still grieving the loss of his wife Anya. Somehow, he successfully befriends the master....
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Depicts an aging pro football player who, through a woman he meets, is drawn away from the masculine, violent world in which he has lived so long. In doing so, he finds himself at odds with the team's management.
14) True confessions
Publisher
Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A 1940s Los Angeles detective hounds his monsignor brother about a pious pimp's tie to grisly murder.
Series
Controversial classics volume 2
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (124 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of a botched bank robbery that occurred August 22, 1972 in Brooklyn, New York and turned into a bizarre hostage situation lasting all day. The lead robber wishes to obtain funding for a sex-change operation for his gay lover.
16) The Hindenburg
Publisher
MCA Home Video
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (127 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A dramatization of the journey and crash of the German dirigible, the Hindenburg.
17) Tootsie
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Michael Dorsey is a talented actor, but his demanding nature and stubborn temperament have antagonized every producer in New York. Now his agent insists no one will hire him. But Michael needs money - eight thousand dollars to be exact - and to earn it, he's willing to play the role of a lifetime"--Container.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001], c1995.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Claudia Larson is a divorced single mom who just lost her job and now has to fly home for the traditional family Thanksgiving in Baltimore. From the plane, she calls for reinforcements--and her brother Tommy makes it down from Boston with a little surprise: a handsome friend named Leo. Between dropping the turkey in their sister's lap and a few fist fights on the front lawn, Claudia and Tommy recapture their childhood and Claudia and Leo explore the...
Publisher
Distributed by Koch Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (494 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Joseph Armagh is a poor Irish immigrant who is determined to create a better life for his family. He arrives in America in the mid-19th century. Through personal struggle, heartache and perseverance, he becomes one of the the wealthest and most powerful men in the country.
20) Breakheart pass
Formats
Description
When a military outpost has a severe outbreak of diphtheria, a medical train is sent to help, but before it can arrive, several of its passengers are murdered.