Frances McDormand
Series
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 88 min.) : anamorphic, sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Establishes a diverse and dynamic range of relationships among long-time girlfriends, their spouses, and the way in which money (or lack of it) affects them all. The have-not of the group is Olivia. She is a teacher-turned pot-smoking housecleaner in the upscale neighborhoods of West Los Angeles. She's drifting on a sea of uncertainty, while her friends Franny, Christine, and Jane cope with the relatively enviable problems of wealthy discontentment....
22) Laurel Canyon
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Description
Harvard graduate Sam and his fiance?e, Alex, move into Sam's mother's house in upscale Laurel Canyon, thinking that she would not be there. Only problem is that she is still there, supposedly finishing up a record that she's producing for her boy toy, Ian's band. Sam's mom seems more interested in smoking pot and drinking than actually working, though. Alex doesn't mind, but Sam is quite upset. Alex starts off focused as she works on finishing a dissertation...
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (128 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Harry Sanborn is a perennial playboy with the libido of a much younger man. During what was to be a romantic weekend with his current infatuation, Marin, at her mother's Hampton beach house, Harry develops chest pains. He winds up being nursed by Marin's reluctant mother, Erica. When Harry hesitates to act on his feelings for Erica, Harry's thirtysomething doctor steps in and starts to pursue her. Harry, who has always had the world on a string, finds...
24) Madeline
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (89 min.) : sd., col., double sided ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Twelve little girls lived in two straight lines. The smallest one in rain or shine was the fearless Madeline. A comedy about a Parisian schoolgirl and her classmates.
25) Fargo
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A midwestern policewoman investigates a series of brutal and interconnected crimes. Steadily, she tightens the net on the killers and their accomplices in a kidnapping scheme gone wildly wrong.
26) Raising Arizona
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An ex-con and a police officer decide to get married and start a family. To their dismay, they discover that they can neither have nor adopt children. Desperate, they resort to kidnapping one of the newborn quintuplets of a wealthy Arizona family. However, their attempt at living a normal life is complicated by neurotic co-workers, two fugitives, and a mysterious bounty hunter.
27) Good omens
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
2019.
Formats
Description
In the beginning and eleven years ago, two immortal beings decide that it might not be time to start an Apocalypse. Having followed the wrong boy for years, Aziraphale and Crowley must now try to locate the whereabouts of the real Antichrist. Perhaps the story of Agnes Nutter and her famous prophecies will hold the answer?
28) Crimewave
Publisher
Quiver Distribution
Pub. Date
1985.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (86 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
A pair of whacked-out cartoon-like exterminator/hitmen kill the owner of a burglar-alarm company, and stalk the partner who hired them, his wife, and a nerd framed for the murder, who tells the story in flashback from the electric chair.
29) Hail, Caesar!
Formats
Description
An all-star comedy set during the latter years of Hollywood's Golden Age. It follows a single day in the life of a studio fixer who is presented with plenty of problems to fix.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1939 London, Miss Guinevere Pettigrew is a middle-aged governess who finds herself once again unfairly dismissed from her job. Now she must seize the day if she wants a job. She does this by intercepting an employment assignment outside of her comfort level as social secretary. Arriving at a penthouse apartment for the interview, Miss Pettigrew is catapulted into the glamorous world and dizzying social whirl of an American actress and singer, Delysia...
31) Raising Arizona
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An ex-con and a police officer decide to get married and start a family. To their dismay, they discover that they can neither have nor adopt children. Desperate, they resort to kidnapping one of the newborn quintuplets of a wealthy Arizona family. However, their attempt at living a normal life is complicated by neurotic co-workers, two fugitives, and a mysterious bounty hunter.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (approximately 96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Osbourne Cox is a CIA analyst who quits his job after being demoted. He decides to write a memoir about his life in the CIA. His wife, Katie, wants a divorce and, based on the advice of her divorce lawyer, she downloads many of his personal and financial files onto a disc. Katie's lover is Treasury agent Harry Pfarrer. The disc eventually finds its way to Hardbodies, a workout gym. An employee of the gym, Chad Feldheimer obtains the disc and ascertains...
Publisher
Turner Pictures Worldwide
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It's the early 1900s, and weather-beaten cowhand Hewey Calloway rides in from the vast Texas range after learning his brother's farm is in danger of foreclosure. Arriving in a nearby town, what the middle-aged roughrider finds amazes yet threatens him - automobiles and civilized society.
34) Lone star
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (135 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An unsolved murder in a Texas border town uncovers a tale of corruption, intrigue, and forbidden love.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (127 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in Mississippi in 1964, this is a fictionalized version of the case of the murder of three young civil rights workers, the FBI's attempts to find the missing boys and the clash between the authorities and the locals in a Klan-dominated town.
36) Paradise road
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (132 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Fact-based recounting of a group of women who are imprisoned on the island of Sumatra by the Japanese during World War II and used music as a relief to their misery.
37) City by the sea
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003], c2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Arresting killers is Manhattan detective LaMarca's job. This time is different, the fugitive suspect LaMarca is tracking ends up being his own son. LaMarca must bring the accused to justice. But as a father, he must put his job on the line to find a way to save his own son.
39) Blood simple
Series
Criterion collection volume 834
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When Texas bar owner Marty hires a killer to murder his wife and her lover, nothing prepares him for the double and triple crosses.
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001], c2000
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (159 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It's the opportunity of a lifetime when teenage reporter William Miller lands an assignment from Rolling Stone magazine. Despite the objections of his protective mother, William hits the road with an up-and-coming rock band and finds there's a lot more to write home about than the music.