Cary Elwes
Author
Formats
Description
From actor Cary Elwes, who played the iconic role of Westley in The Princess Bride, comes a first-person account and behind-the-scenes look at the making of the cult classic film filled with never-before-told stories, exclusive photographs, and interviews with costars Robin Wright, Wallace Shawn, Billy Crystal, Christopher Guest, and Mandy Patinkin, as well as author and screenwriter William Goldman, producer Norman Lear, and director Rob Reiner.
Publisher
Distributed in the USA and Canada by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 min. [i.e. 87 min.]) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A rueful, romantic tale of the awfulness of life in an ancient English public school in the 1930's. At its center is the friendship of Guy Bennett (Rupert Everett), a dark, Byronically handsome young man, who accepts the horrors of the school system in return for its rewards, and Tommy Judd (Colin Firth), who attends the school against his will, refuses to play the gentleman's game, and is already a Marxist. Guy falls in love with a handsome fellow...
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video, Shadow of the Vampire Limited
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This riveting suspense thriller is about the filming of Nosferatu and the difficult relationship between F.W. Murnau and Max Schreck. As cast and crew begin to disappear, it seems that Murnau has made a devil's bargain with Schreck, whose performance is too authentic.
5) Porco Rosso
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1930s Italy, a veteran World War I pilot is cursed to look like an anthropomorphic pig.
Series
Criterion collection volume 948
Pub. Date
[2018]
Formats
Description
When the beautiful maiden Buttercup hears that her true love Westley is dead, she reluctantly agrees to marry the loathsome Prince Humperdinck. After Westley returns to rescue Buttercup, the two begin an epic adventure filled with fencing, fighting, giants, monsters, miracles, true love and hilarity!
8) Best sellers
Publisher
Screen Media
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In a last-ditch effort to save her father's publishing house, an ambitious young editor goes on a book tour with an author who put the publishing house on the map decades before but is now bitter, booze-addled and hasn't written a new book since.
9) Glory
Description
Two idealistic young Bostonians lead the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, America's first Black regiment in the Civil War.
10) Porco Rosso
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A pilot becomes disillusioned after seeing his friends die for their country, so he leaves the armed forces, becomes a private bounty hunter, and lives cursed as half-human, half-pig.
11) Days of thunder
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c1990
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Race car driver Cole Trickle (Tom Cruise) teams with a legendary crew chief (Robert Duvall) to race at the Daytona 500. A fiery crash nearly ends his career and he must turn to a beautiful doctor (Nicole Kidman) to regain his nerve to race, to win and to live.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2023]
Formats
Description
Super spy Orson Fortune must track down and stop the sale of a deadly new weapons technology wielded by billionaire arms broker Greg Simmonds. Reluctantly teamed with some of the world's best operatives, Fortune and his crew recruit Hollywood's biggest movie star Danny Francesco to help them on their globe-trotting undercover mission to save the world.
13) The cat returns
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2018]
Formats
Description
When teenager Haru saves a cat's life, she finds she is involuntarily engaged to a cat prince and is whisked away to his magical world, where she spends her time trying to get back home.
14) Ella enchanted
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Ella lives in a fanciful and magical world where all children are given a "gift" from their fairy Godmother at birth. Ella's gift - and curse - was that of obedience. As a result, Ella cannot refuse any command, and as a result she is often taken advantage of. In a bid to regain control of her life, Ella goes on a quest to free herself from this mysterious "gift". Ella must outwit a kingdom filled with ogres, giants, wicked stepsisters, talking books...
15) Elvis & Nixon
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of the infamous meeting between Elvis Presley and Richard Nixon in 1970, which was immortalized in the most requested phonograph in the National Archives.
Publisher
Briarcliff Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Formats
Description
Inspired by true events, witness the extraordinary journey of Nat 'Sweetwater' Clifton, who made history as the first Black player to sign an NBA contract. At a time when segregation divided sports, New York Knicks coach Joe Lapchick and team executive Ned Irish see the future of basketball in Sweetwater's dazzling and unorthodox displays of entertaining athleticism. Together, they challenge convention and break through barriers that would change...
18) Neo Ned
Publisher
Codeblack Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Like most kids, Ned idolized his father and dreamed of following in his footsteps. Unfortunately, his father was a two-bit crook who spent most of his life in jail. Without a family of his own, Ned falls in with the Aryan Brotherhood.
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A schoolgirl named Shizuku, who longs to discover her true talents, meets the mysterious Seiji, a boy who is determined to follow his dreams, and The Baron, a magical cat who helps her listen to the whispers in her heart.
20) BlackBerry
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie, the two men that charted the course of the spectacular rise and catastrophic demise of the world's first smartphone maker.