Gene Hackman
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Oscar-winning actor teams up with a shipwreck diving expert to spin a cinematic tale of nineteenth century pirates, shipwrecks, and sea adventure.
In 1805, seventeen-year-old Jack O'Reilly sets sail with his parents from America to Cuba aboard the Perdido Star. But when tragedy strikes shortly after their arrival, Jack makes a desperate escape, rejoining the departing Star as a member of the crew. On his yearslong journey...
In 1805, seventeen-year-old Jack O'Reilly sets sail with his parents from America to Cuba aboard the Perdido Star. But when tragedy strikes shortly after their arrival, Jack makes a desperate escape, rejoining the departing Star as a member of the crew. On his yearslong journey...
3) Hoosiers
Author
Language
English
Description
A man gets a last-chance job coaching a small-town Indiana high-school basketball team and faces the dual challenge of bringing this underdog team to the 1951 state championship and redeeming himself from a mysterious past.
5) Target
Author
Language
English
Description
When his mother goes missing in Paris, teen Chris has to team up with his father to find her. They engage in a deadly race against time in an odyssey across Europe. Twists and turns abound in this fast-paced, action-adventure thriller.
Author
Language
English
Description
Max (Sigourney Weaver) and Page (Jennifer Love Hewitt) are a brilliant mother/daughter con team who have their grift down to a fine science. Max targets wealthy, willing men who fall prey to her beauty and charm, and marries them. The equally gorgeous Page then seduces them. Max "catches" her wayward husbands in the act. Then it's off to palimony city - with the hapless men losing much more than their shirts - and on to the next mark, with Max and...
Author
Language
English
Description
Ted Kotcheff continues his First Blood fervor with Uncommon Valor. Gene Hackman stars as Cal Rhodes, a former Marine Colonel who has been getting the run-around for ten years from the government concerning the disappearance of his son and his buddies - all Marines who enlisted years prior and served in Vietnam. Rhodes' son was last seen in Laos, where he was fighting in the war and captured as a POW. When word gets back to Rhodes that the men may...
10) The birdcage
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1998
Edition
Widescreen and standard versions.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (119 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of a middle-aged gay couple's comic encounter with a self-righteously straight and conservative family. Armand and Albert reluctantly accept young Val's intention to marry the daughter of a conservative Senator, but when the fiancee's family comes to visit, the whole household is turned upside down.
11) Get Shorty
Publisher
MGM/UA Home Video
Pub. Date
1997, c1995
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Loanshark Chili Palmer has done his time as a gangster, so when "business" takes him to Los Angeles to collect a debt from down and out filmmakerHarry Zimm, he talks tough and then pitches Harry a script idea. Everything would be smooth for this cool new producer, if it were't for the drug smugglers and gangsters who won't leave him alone.
12) Bonnie and Clyde
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1997]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sd., col., double sided ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A mixture of comedy and brutal violence, this film is based on the exploits of the notorious American outlaws of the 1930's, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow.
13) Hoosiers
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1986
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A basketball coach with a checkered past leads him to a last-chance position with a last-chance team.
14) Unforgiven
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2002
Edition
Widescreen version; 10th anniversary ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (131 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two retired, down-on-their luck outlaws pick up their guns one last time to collect a bounty offered by the vengeful prostitutes of the remote Wyoming town of Big Whiskey.
15) Reds
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2006, c1981
Edition
Widescreen format; 25th anniversary ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (195 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Warren Beatty's award winning epic mixes drama and interviews with major social radicals of the period. "REDS" tells the story of the love affair between activists Louise Bryant and John Reed. Set against the backdrop of the tumultuous start of the twentieth century, the two journalists' on-again off-again romance is punctuated by the outbreak of WWI and the Bolshevik Revolution. Louise's assignment in France at the outbreak of the war puts an end...
16) Crimson tide
Publisher
Hollywood Pictures Home Video
Pub. Date
[199-?]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the midst of a global crisis, the USS Alabama receives an unconfirmed order to launch its nuclear missiles. The tension quickly rises as the sub's respected commander and his brilliant executive officer clash over the validity of their orders, battling each other for control of the sub.
17) Class action
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1991, 2004
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 scene index.
Language
English
Description
Two lawyers, father and daughter, face off against each other in a multimillion dollar lawsuit. The case concerns a potentially defective auto design that could involve corporate corruption and violations of legal ethics.
18) Runaway jury
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 122 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After a man dies in a shooting incident, his wife files a lawsuit against the company that manufactured the gun. Her lawyer argues that the firm in question knew the shop which sold the weapon was not following federal regulations. As the case goes to trial, the firearm manufacturer takes no chances on the outcome, and they hire Rankin Fitch, a "jury consultant" who makes it his business to see that he knows enough about the jurors to be able to guarantee...
Series
Criterion collection volume 157
Publisher
distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Edition
Widescreen version (2.35:1)
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Three grown prodigies, all with a unique genius of some kind, and their mother are staying at the family household. Their father, Royal, had left them long ago, but now returns to make things right with his family.
20) A bridge too far
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1998]
Edition
Widescreen format.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (176 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A dramatic recreation of an Allied airdrop behind German lines in Holland, and the subsequent disastrous Battle of Arnhem.