Miramax Films
21) Fresh
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Michael (or Fresh as he's known) is a 12-year-old drug pusher who lives in a half-way house for children without their parents. His father has become a street bum, but is still there if Fresh requires his 'street' knowledge. Fresh aspires to live the good life but his sister's prostitution for the drug heavies along with the senseless murder of friends push him to re-evaluate his life. He then decides that dealing isn't what he wants and revenge is....
23) Blue
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Video
Pub. Date
1996
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A young woman is left devastated by the unexpected death of her husband and child. She retreats from the world around her, but is soon reluctantly drawn into an ever-widening web of lies and passion as the dark, secret life of her husband begins to unravel.
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A young man offends an entire town by declaring their mountain--a prized local landmark--to be a "hill." The eccentric and funny townspeople rally around their "mountain" and a fiery young woman charms the puzzled out-of-town cartographer into seeing things their way.
Description
In her mid-thirties, still single and still being set up with dates by her mom, Bridget decides she needs to make a change in her life. She falls for her boss who uses her and then dumps her. In the meantime, Bridget keeps running into the divorced guy her mom tried to set her up with, and he happens to be ex-friends with her boss. She uses her diary as a confessional and she begins to wonder if she will ever find true love.
26) Bounce
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001], c2000
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Buddy Amaral is a smooth-talking, skirt-chasing ad exec who is enjoying his high-powered career. Then, a sudden twist of fate changes everything and leads him into the life of Abby Janello, with whom he eventually falls head-over-heels in love.
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011?]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (243 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Emma: Emma Woodhouse imagines that she dominates those around her in the small town of Highbury, but her inept matchmaking creates problems for herself and others.
Shakespeare in love: When Will Shakespeare needs passionate inspiration to break a bad case of writer's block, a secret romance with the beautiful Lady Viola starts the words flowing like never before.
28) Hollywoodland
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (127 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Made famous as Superman on television, George Reeves finds it hard to not be typecast because of it. When he is found dead of a gunshot wound, rumors begin to run rampant. Based on Hollywood's most notorious unsolved mystery.
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Einar is a crusty old rancher who does what he can to hold onto his Wyoming ranch. It's been a struggle for years; his son was killed in a car crash, his wife left him, and his longtime friend and helper, Mitch was recently mauled by a bear. Now, Einar has to care for Mitch and help him recover. Jean and her daughter, Griff, have to leave Jean's current abusive boyfriend. The only place they can go is the ranch of Griff's grandfather, Einar, who only...
30) Jane Eyre
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003?]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The harshly treated orphan girl, Jane Eyre, becomes a governess in a mysterious Yorkshire mansion and falls in love with the master of the house.
31) White
Series
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Last in a trilogy of films (Trois couleurs = Three colors) by director Krzysztof Kieslowski, White presents the mysterious tale of a man whose life disintegrates when his beautiful wife of six months deserts him. Forced to begin anew, he rebuilds his life, only to plan a dangerous scheme of vengeance against her.
32) Sling blade
Series
Formats
Description
After 25 years, mildly retarded killer Karl Childers is released from the mental hospital where he was placed for killing his mother and her lover. He gets a job and is befriended by a fatherless boy and his mother, but his newfound peace is shattered by the mother's abusive boyfriend.
33) Pulp fiction
Formats
Description
Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction has been hailed by critics and audiences worldwide as a film that redefined cinema. Tarantino delivers an unforgettable cast of characters, including a pair of low-rent hitmen, their boss's sexy wife, and a desperate prizefighter, in a wildly entertaining and exhilarating blend of crime-thriller-drama-comedy that is completely original and entirely unforgettable.
34) The grifters
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
1 DVD (114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Three con artists walk on the razor's edge of life. Lilly has decided it's time to get out, and wants her son out, too. But Roy has fallen for sleek Myra, who wants him for her partner.
35) Bob Roberts
Publisher
Artisan Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A satirical comedy in which a British documentary crew follows a radical folksinger (and self-made millionaire) turned senatorial candidate as he blends singing, music videos and scandal on the campaign trail.
36) The piano
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (121 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A young mute woman and her child travel to New Zealand in the 1800s for an arranged marriage to a farmer. After the marriage she meets another man, and the competition for her love begins. Just one of the men realizes that her affections can only be won through her beloved piano.
37) Smoke signals
Series
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000?]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (89 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Depicts two young Native Americans, Victor and Thomas, who leave their small town to retrieve the remains of Victor's father.
38) Camilla
Publisher
Distributed by Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertaiment
Pub. Date
[2002?]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A retired violinist and an aspiring musician journey from Georgia to Toronto to hear a classical concert and in the process rediscover themselves. An unlikely pair, they set off down the road to do everything they always wanted. On the way, they stage a kidnapping, get duped by a con man, lose their car in a lake and have the time of their lives.
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (166 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1846, waves of Irish immigrants poured into the New York neighborhood of Five Points. "Billy the Butcher" bands his fellow "Native Americans" into a gang to take on the Irish gang "The Dead Rabbits," organized by Priest Vallon. After an bloody clash Vallon is dead and his son ends up in a brutal reform school. In 1862, that boy returns to seek vengeance against the man that killed his father.
40) Last night
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A married couple in New York City are apart for the night. Each will be confronted by temptation that may decide the fate of their marriage.