Magnolia Pictures (Firm)
61) Food, Inc
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 94 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Lifts the veil on our nation's food industry, exposing how our nation's food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profits ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment. Reveals surprising - and often shocking truths - about what we eat, how it's produced and who we have become as a nation.
62) Flawless
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Laura Quinn is an executive at the London Diamond Corporation who finds herself routinely stifled on the corporate ladder. Hobbs is an equally overlooked nighttime janitor with an intimate knowledge of the security system. Hobbs has a score to settle with the Corporation. Sensing Laura's frustration, Hobbs convinces her to help him pull off an ingenious heist.
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Formats
Description
Throughout his life, Little Richard careened between religion, sex and rock 'n' roll. A treasure trove of archival material brings to life a revolutionary figure, one who reinvented popular music as the ultimate form of self-expression.
66) Roadie
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Jimmy, a longtime roadie for the legendary Blue Oyster Cult, has been fired by the band. With nowhere else to go, he returns home to see his aging mom in Forest Hills, Queens, where a wild encounter with two old high school friends shows him that some things never change.
67) Man on wire
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"On August 7th, 1974, a young Frenchman named Philippe Petit stepped out on a wire illegally rigged between the New York World Trade Center's Twin Towers. After dancing for nearly an hour on the wire, he was arrested, taken for psychological evaluation, and brought to jail, before finally being released. This extraordinary documentary incorporates Petit's personal footage to show how he overcame seemingly insurmountable challenges to achieve the...
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (92 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This documentary chronicles the transformation of The New York Times newsroom and the inner workings of the Media Desk, as the Internet redefines the media industry by surpassing print as the main source of news. At the heart of the film is the burning question on the minds of everyone who cares about a rigorous American press, Times lover or not: what will happen if the fast-moving future of media leaves behind the fact-based, original reporting...
69) The extra man
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Aspiring playwright Louis Ives moves to New York, taking an environmental job with a beautiful, infatuating co-worker. Louis rents a room from an eccentric former playwright who moonlights as an 'extra man,' a social escort for the wealthy widows of Manhattan high society. The two men develop a volatile mentorship, which leads to a series of comic adventures.
70) Yo-yo girl cop
Publisher
Distributed by Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Highly trained in martial arts, armed with a deadly steel yo-yo and an undercover identity, K infiltrates an elite high school, Seisen Academy. Her mission: to identify and eliminate suspected terrorists. Her only lead is an underground website with an ominous timer counting down the minutes. Wielding her deadly yo-yo, K must stop the terrorists before they achieve their apocalyptic plot to destroy the city.
71) Lemon
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (83 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
LEMON: a person or thing that proves to be defective, imperfect, or unsatisfactory. Isaac Lachmann is a LEMON. His career is going nowhere. His girlfriend of ten years is leaving him. Isaac Lachmann now just watches as his life unravels.
72) Blackfish
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (83 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A discussion on the keeping of intelligent creatures in captivity. Employs the story of Tilikum, the notorious performing whale who, unlike orcas in the wild, has taken the lives of several people while in captivity.
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Examines the issue of hunger in America and proposes new solutions to the problem. Shows how hunger poses serious economic, social and cultural implications for the U.S. Also discusses that it could be solved once and for all, if the American public decides that making healthy food available and affordable is in the best interest of all.
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Lance Clayton once dreamed of a career as a rich and famous writer. He has only managed to be a single dad, and high-school poetry teacher. Kyle is his only son who is a jackass that won't give him the time of day. Lance is dating Claire, the school's adorable art teacher. She doesn't want to get serious or even acknowledge publicly that they are dating. In the wake of a freak accident, Lance suffers the worst tragedy and greatest opportunity of his...
75) Two lovers
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After Leonard moves back into the home he grew up in to mend a broken heart, he meets two women in quick succession. Michelle is a mysterious and beautiful neighbor. Sandra is the lovely and caring daughter of a businessman who is buying out his family's dry-cleaning business. Leonard is forced to make an impossible decision, between desire and the comfort of love, or risk falling back into the same darkness that nearly killed him.
Formats
Description
Tthe story of media firebrand Molly Ivins, six feet of Texas trouble who took on Good Old Boy corruption wherever she found it. Her razor-sharp wit left both sides of the aisle laughing, and craving ink in her columns. She knew the Bill of Rights was in peril and said 'Polarizing people is a good way to win an election and a good way to wreck a country.' Molly's words have proved prescient.
77) Exiled
Publisher
Distributed by Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The time is 1998. The setting is Macau. Every living soul jumps at every chance to make quick money before the Portuguese colony ushers in a new era under the Chinese rule. A relationship is formed between an ex-gangster trying to turn over a new leaf with his wife and newborn baby and two groups of hitmen - those who want to protect him and those who were sent to kill him.
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Hip, Manhattan couple Marion and Mingus, each with children from prior relationships, find their comfortable family dynamic jostled by a visit from Marion's quirky relatives from France.
79) The eclipse
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Michael Farr (Ciarán Hinds), a teacher raising his two kids alone since his wife died two years earlier, has been seeing and hearing strange things late at night. He isn't sure if he is having nightmares, or if he's experiencing a haunting. Working as a volunteer for an international literary festival, he is assigned to Lena Morelle (Iben Hjejle), an author of books about ghosts and the supernatural. Establishing a rapport with one another, Michael...
80) The final year
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Documents the events of Barack Obama's final year in office.