Marcia Gay Harden
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Marcia Gay Harden knew at a young age that her life would be anything but ordinary. One of five lively children born to two Texas natives-Beverly, a proper Dallas lady, and Thad, a young naval officer-she always had a knack for storytelling, role-playing, and adventure. As a military family, the Hardens moved often, and their travels eventually took them to Yokohama, off the coast of Japan, during the Vietnam War era. It was here that Beverly, amid...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Charles, Roger, and George are museum security guards who take their jobs very seriously. But when they learn their favorite artworks are being sent to another museum, they concoct a plan to switch the real masterpieces with fakes. All goes well until a mistake forces these first-time thieves into a last-minute escapade.
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in the 1920s, Stanley, an Englishman posing as an Asian magician, attempts to debunk fake spiritualists. He then travels to the south of France to unmask a supposed medium named Sophie as a good-looking fake, but he ends up falling for her real-world charms instead.
6) Grandma
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Formats
Description
Elle, who has just gotten through breaking up with her girlfriend when Elle's granddaughter Sage unexpectedly shows up needing $600 bucks before sundown. Temporarily broke, Grandma Elle and Sage spend the day trying to get their hands on the cash as their unannounced visits to old friends and flames end up rattling skeletons and digging up secrets.
7) Gigi & Nate
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In this uplifting drama inspired by actual events, Nate suffers a near-fatal illness and is left a quadriplegic just weeks before departing or college. As Nate tries to adjust to his new life challenges, his mother helps him bring home an unlikely service animal, Gigi, a curious and intelligent capuchin monkey. Nate and Gigi form an unbreakable bond, but when it's threatened by a group trying to outlaw capuchins, Nate's family rallies behind him to...
8) Whip it
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Bliss Calendar is a small-town teenager with a big dream: to find her own path in the world. Tired of following in her family's footsteps of compliance and conformity, Bliss discovers a way to put her life on the fast track, literally. She lands a spot on a rough-and-tumble roller derby team and becomes 'Babe Ruthless', the hottest thing on eight wheels.
Series
Description
When Felicity meets Penny, a beautiful mare, she knows that she must free her from her owner. Felicity wishes for that same sureness about the rumors of revolution throughout Williamsburg. Felicity's father believes the colonies should be free from England, but her grandfather and best friend both support the king. With conflicting loyalties dividing the colonists, something as simple as a cup of tea could divide Felicity from her best friend forever....
12) Into the wild
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Freshly graduated from college with a promising future ahead, Christopher McCandless walked out of his privileged life and into the wild in search of adventure. What happened to him on the way transformed this young wanderer into an enduring symbol for countless people, a fearless risk-taker who wrestled with the precarious balance between man and nature. Based on a true story.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
1 DVD (102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Three mid-life Manhattanites have more than a longtime friendship in common. After years of helping their hubbies climb the corporate ladder of success, each has been dumped for a newer, curvier model. The trio is determined to turn their pain into gain. They come up with a cleverly devious plan to hit their exes where it really hurts--in the wallet!
14) Pollock
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (123 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Fellow artists and lovers Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner are at the center of New York's 1940's art scene, but as Krasner neglects her work to push Pollock's career forward, Pollock begins to unravel emotionally. Pollock and Krasner escape to the country to marry, and soon, Pollock creates the work that makes him the first internationally-famous modern painter in America. But with fame and fortune comes a volatile temper and severe self-doubt; before...
15) Meet Joe Black
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
1999, c1998
Physical Desc
1 DVD (180 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Death appears to claim a man who bargains for more time, during which Death falls in love with his daughter.
16) Flubber
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1998?]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Brilliant but befuddled Professor Phillip Brainard is on the brink of inventing a revolutionary energy source and missing his wedding for the third time! He develops a miraculous elastic goo, flubber, that enables anything it's applied to, to bounce super high and fast.
17) Parkland
Publisher
Millennium
Pub. Date
©2013
Physical Desc
1 DVD (87 min.) : sound., color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
November 22, 1963 is a day that changed the world forever when beloved American President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. Parkland is the true story behind that tragic day, told from the vantage point of individuals who are forced to make split-second decisions after this incomprehensible event that will change the world's landscape forever.
18) The hoax
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Pathological liar Clifford Irving stages a complex hoax. In the 1970's Irving managed to fool a major publisher and LIFE magazine into thinking he was writing an authorized biography of Howard Hughes. Irving and his best friend and partner, Dick Susskind, go to extreme lengths to pull off the hair-brained scheme. The more outrageous the lies they concoct, the more believable they become and the more money gets thrown at them. Inspired by the unbelievable...
19) The mist
Publisher
Genius Products
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (127 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When Dave Drayton notices a strange mist on the lake, he does not think much of it. Later, when his son, Billy, his neighbor Brent Norton, and he travel to the grocery store, strange things begin to happen. On their way to the market, they see the army, the local firefighters, and the police heading toward the mist. When he sees this, Brent mentions something about "Project Arrowhead," a secret military plan that no one knows about. When an elderly...
20) Confess, Fletch
Publisher
Miramax Acquisition
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When Fletch becomes the prime suspect in a murder case, he must clear his name while searching for the stolen art collection of his father-in-law who was kidnapped by a mob demanding the collection as ransom.