Tom Hanks
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Description
The two-time Oscar winner presents a first collection of short fiction that includes the stories of a bowling champion who fears his celebrity has ruined his love of the game and an eccentric billionaire and faithful assistant who, while searching for acquisitions, discover romance and real life in a down-and-out motel.
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Part One of this story takes place in 1947. A troubled soldier, returning from the war, meets his talented five-year-old nephew, leaves an indelible impression, and then disappears for twenty-three years. Cut to 1970: The nephew, now drawing underground comic books in Oakland, California, reconnects with his uncle and, remembering the comic book he saw when he was five, draws a new version with his uncle as a World War II fighting hero. Cut to the...
Author
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At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a lavish estate in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. Meant as a surprise for his wife, the house sets in motion the undoing of everyone he loves. Cyril's son Danny and his older sister Maeve are exiled from...
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (86 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Grab your robe and see Hanks get inducted into the exclusive "Five Timers Club" with other legendary hosts Steve Martin, Paul Simon and Elliott Gould. From playing a string of original characters like a Roadie on Wayne's world and Mr. Short Term Memory to lampooing his own movies like "Big" and "Cast away," Hanks' characters continue to run the spectrum with each one seemingly funnier than the last.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
xv, 685 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Description
On the night of July 20, 1969, our world changed forever when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon. Now the greatest event of the twentieth century is magnificently retold through the eyes and ears of the people who were there.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 98 min.) : anamorphic, sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A Royal Air Force officer is caught between the ravages of World War II and unrequited love. Flight Lieutenant David Bradford meets and falls in love with a beautiful Jewish girl, Sarah while recuperating from a leg wound in Jerusalem. Her family rejects him, however, and wages war on the couple by trying to keep them apart.
7) Sully
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After landing US Airways Flight 1549 on the Hudson River, Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger faces criticism during the investigation into the crash while being hailed as a hero by the media.
8) Toy story 2
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The fun and adventure continues when Andy goes off to cowboy camp and the toys are left to their own devices. Things shift into high gear when an obsessive toy collector kidnaps Woody, who hasn't the slightest clue that he's a greatly valued collectible.
10) Bridge of spies
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Description
James Donovan is a Brooklyn lawyer who finds himself thrust into the center of the Cold War when the CIA sends him on the near-impossible task to negotiate the release of a captured American U-2 pilot.
11) Turner & Hooch
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002?]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A compulsively neat detective's tidy world goes to the dogs when he is forced to team up with a drooling slob of a junkyard dog named Hooch.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After hearing a man confess his love for his dearly departed wife on a call-in radio show, a woman falls deeply, inexplicably in love with him. Deciding he is her destiny, she treks across country on a wildly romantic impulse to meet him.
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (45 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Just after Christmas, Woody, Buzz Lightyear, and their friends find themselves up against a delusional set of action figures, and must find a way to return to Bonnie's room.
14) Toy story 3
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (ca. 103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 Blu-ray with special features
Description
As Andy prepares to leave for college, the toys are mistakenly delivered to Sunnyside Daycare and it is up to Woody to get everyone home.
15) Cast away
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (144 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After a plane crash that kills the crew, a FedEx system engineer finds himself stranded on a desert island.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Formats
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Based on the comical and moving New York Times bestseller, it tells the story of Otto Anderson, a grumpy widower whose only joy comes from criticizing and judging his exasperated neighbors. When a lively young family moves in next door, he meets his match in quick-witted and very pregnant Marisol, leading to an unexpected friendship that will turn his world upside down.
17) Saving Mr. Banks
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (125 min.) : Blu-ray, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in..
Description
The story of Walt Disney's struggle to obtain the rights to P.L. Travers' "Mary Poppins."
18) The 'burbs
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a resident of a suburban neighborhood cancels his vacation trip to help keep watch on his creepy new neighbor, a grouchy neighbor disappears and the watch group springs into action.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Five years after the Civil War, Captain Kidd moves from town to town as a storyteller. In Texas, he crosses paths with Johanna, a ten-year-old taken in by the Kiowa people six years earlier. She is being returned to her biological aunt and uncle against her will. Kidd agrees to deliver the child where the law says she belongs. As they travel hundreds of miles, the two will face tremendous challenges of both human and natural forces as they search...