Universal Studios Home Video (Firm)
21) Peter and Paul
Publisher
MCA Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003?]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (194 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This epic network television mini-series brings to life the precarious existence of the early Christian church which was beset by violent opposition from without and within. Peter and Paul emerge as two key leaders and struggle to keep the faith alive. The story of Peter and Paul is a story of the meaning of faith and love, liberty and law, victory and defeat, and life and death.
22) Spotlight
Pub. Date
2016
Formats
Description
It tells the riveting true story of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe investigation that would rock the city and cause a crisis in one of the world's oldest and most trusted institutions. When the newspaper's tenacious 'Spotlight' teams of reporters delve into allegations of abuse in the Catholic Church, their year-long investigation uncovers a decades-long cover-up at the highest levels of Boston's religious, legal, and government establishment....
Series
Publisher
Focus Features
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An emotionally charged story of two brothers who struggle to find their place within their family after one of them is sent to the war in Afghanistan. The responsible brother at war is missing in action and presumed dead. His less responsible brother gravitates toward his brother's presumed widow and cares for her. When the older brother returns from prison camp with post traumatic stress, he faces problems with his role and his brother's shift.
25) Jaws
Formats
Description
When a killer shark unleashes chaos on a beach community off Cape Cod, it's up to a local sheriff, a marine biologist, and an old seafarer to hunt the beast down.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Video
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Recently orphaned, Flora ignores the sage advise of Mrs. Smiley and moves to the country to live on a decrepit farm with her eccentric relatives, where she finds ample material for the novel she wishes to write.
29) Jaws
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (124 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The 30th anniversary edition of the classic 'I'm-Never-Going-In-The-Water-Again' story of a killer shark that has taken over the waters near a seaside community, and the three men who set out to kill it.
30) Big stone gap
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
1 DVD (103 min.) : sd., col ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It's 1978 and the ever-ordinary Ave Maria Mulligan (Ashley Judd) leads a simple life. She lives with her mother, runs the pharmacy, directs The Trail of the Lonesome Pine Outdoor Drama, and hopes that her best friend will take their platonic friendship in a romantic direction. Ave Maria waits, and before she knows it, she turns 40. Now the old maid of Big Stone Gap, Ave Maria decides that happiness is for other people--that is, until a long-buried...
31) Army of darkness
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
1 DVD (87 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Back to do battle with the hideous "Deadites", Bruce Campbell reprises his role from the Evil Dead series. Demonic forces time-warp him into England's Dark Ages, where he romances a beauty and faces legions of undead beasts.
32) The family man
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2001], c2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (126 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 pamphlet.
Description
Jack Campbell, a workaholic Wall Street exec, gets to see what his life might have been like if he'd stayed with his former sweetheart, Kate. Thirteen years after they split up, Jack falls asleep in his posh New York apartment, then awakens to find himself a family man, with his now-wife Kate, daughter Annie and new baby.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
1 DVD (130 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The setting is a dusty Southern town during the Depression. A white woman accuses a black man of rape. Though he is obviously innocent, the outcome of his trial is such a foregone conclusion that no lawyer will step forward to defend him--except the town's most distinguished citizen. His compassionate defense costs him many friendships but earns him the respect and admiration of his two motherless children.
34) The deer hunter
Formats
Description
Tracks a group of steelworker pals from a Pennsylvania blast furnace to the coal hunting grounds of the Alleghenies to the lethal cauldron of Vietnam. It is a drama of friendship and courage and of what happens to these qualities under stress.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Video
Pub. Date
c2005
Formats
Description
A notorious mobster is brought into an under-manned police precinct on its last day of operation. Remaining cops and prisoners must fight for their lives against a group of rogue cops intent on taking down the mobster before he testifies against them.
36) Babe
Description
A lovable talking piglet makes friends with all the animals in the barnyard, proving to everyone on the farm that different types can get along.
38) The interpreter
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (129 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In one of the hidden corridors of power at UN headquarters, translator Silvia Broome overhears a potentially explosive secret about a planned assassination attempt. But when federal agent Tobin Keller investigates her claim, is she a victim or a suspect?
39) One true thing
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (128 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A daughter Ellen, gives up her job and boyfriend to take care of her dying mother. Her father, a gifted professor of an English department, is more occupied with having his life running as smoothly as possible than caring for his wife. Living at home, Ellen discovers many new aspects to her parents' personalities, a father who is human despite his imperfections and a mother who loves her family passionately. When her mother finally dies, Ellen is...
Formats
Description
It's the 70's and Ron Burgundy is the king of San Diego. He's the most popular news anchor in town. He and his all male news team rule the city with their sauve looks, minimal IQ's and unbelievably bad hair. In Ron's world, women don't belong in the newsroom. So when rising star reporter Veronica Corningstone fills in for Ron one night and the ratings soar, it becomes more than a battle ... it becomes war.