Lili Taylor
Author
Language
English
Description
Nancy Savoca's star-studded indie gem Household Saints is a chronicle of a spirited Italian-American New York family that perfectly balances humor, tragedy, and pathos. Joseph Santangelo (Vincent D'Onofrio) is a butcher with a wicked sense of humor who "wins" his wife Catherine (a stellar Tracey Ullman) in a pinochle game. Over the protests of his mother (Judith Malina) who talks to ghosts and makes deals with saints, Joseph marries Catherine. When...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Fairy tales for our times from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours. A poisoned apple and a monkey's paw with the power to change fate; a girl whose extraordinarily long hair causes catastrophe; a man with one human arm and one swan's wing; and a house deep in the forest, constructed of gumdrops and gingerbread, vanilla frosting and boiled sugar. In A Wild Swan and Other Tales, the people and the talismans of lands far, far away--the mythic...
Publisher
Strand Releasing Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Cole Freeman maintains an uneasy equilibrium in his Appalachian town, looking after the old and infirm in the community while selling their excess painkillers to local addicts to make ends meet. But when an old friend returns with dangerous new plans that threaten the fragile balance Cole has crafted in his declining mountain town, his world and identity are thrown into deep disarray. A moving lyrical hymn for the complex tangle of hardship and hope...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
They may have escaped the maze but Thomas and his fellow Gladers face their greatest challenge yet: searching for clues about the mysterious and powerful organization known as WCKD. Their journey takes them to the Scorch, a desolate landscape filled with unimaginable obstacles. Teaming up with resistance fighters, the Gladers take on WCKD's vastly superior forces and uncover its shocking plans for them all.
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Conjuring tells the true story of Ed and Lorraine Warren, world renowned paranormal investigators, who were called to help a family terrorized by a dark presence in a secluded farmhouse. Forced to confront a powerful demonic entity, the Warrens find themselves caught in the most horrifying case of their lives.
9) Mystic pizza
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col., stereo. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Three young women, waitresses at a pizza parlor in Mystic, Connecticut, spend a special summer discovering romance.
10) Arizona Dream
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
Widescreen presentation.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (119 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Academy Award-nominee Johnny Depp ("Pirates of the Caribbean," "Blow"), Academy Award-winner Faye Dunaway ("Network," "Chinatown"), and the legendary Jerry Lewis ("The King of Comedy," "Cinderfella"), headline this offbeat psychodrama about a group of people drawn together in a desert town. Fleeing personal problems to pursue their dreams, they come to learn something about themselves and their relationships with the others around them. The New York...
11) Factotum
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This drama centers on Hank Chinaski, the fictional alter-ego of author Charles Bukowski, who wanders around Los Angeles, trying to live off jobs which don't interfere with his primary interest, which is writing.
Publisher
Overture Films
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (132 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After having endured extremely different career paths, the lives of three disheartened Brooklyn police officers will collide with destiny when they all wind up at the same fatal crime scene.
13) Ransom
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
Special ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When the son of a wealthy businessman is kidnapped, he defies the experts and turns the tables on the kidnappers in a last-chance effort to rescue his boy.
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (ca. 735 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
One of TV's most acclaimed series concludes its groundbreaking five season run. Each of the main characters will come to embrace the cycle of life - birth, death and rebirth - in ways that are both unique and interconnected.
Author
Language
English
Description
"On an island in the Great Massasauga Swamp--an area known as "The Waters" to the residents of nearby Whiteheart, Michigan--herbalist and eccentric Hermine "Herself" Zook has healed the local women of their ailments for generations. As stubborn as her tonics are powerful, Herself inspires reverence and fear in the people of Whiteheart, and even in her own three estranged daughters. The youngest--the beautiful, inscrutable, and lazy Rose Thorn--has...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Battling illness and unable to finish a novel that has taken him ten years to write, aging novelist Leonard Schiller is slipping into literary obscurity. At one time a famous author, Schiller has been all but forgotten by the readers, colleagues and critics who once praised his works. When Heather Wolfe, an ambitious graduate student, convinces Schiller that her thesis could reintroduce his writing to the world, the reclusive writer is forced to confront...
17) Being Flynn
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A compelling exploration of the unbreakable yet fragile bonds between parent and child. Nick Flynn is a young writer seeking to define himself. His father Jonathan, however, scrapes through life on his own terms and has not seen his son in 18 years. Taking a job at a homeless shelter, Nick finds purpose in his own life and work until one night Jonathan arrives seeking a bed. To give the two of them a shot at a real future, Nick wrestles with the notion...
18) Rudy
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Edition
Widescreen special ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Although people have told Rudy all his life he's not good enough, smart enough or big enough, nothing can stop his impossible dream of playing football for Notre Dame.
20) Say anything
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
20th anniversary ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young man, recently graduated from high school, wants only one thing: a date with a fellow graduate. The catch is she's beautiful, brilliant and headed to England to study, and all his friends and her father tell him she's way out of his league. When they fall in love anyway, the result is a funny, poignant and joyous celebration of first love.