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41) Moby Dick
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Consumed by an insane rage, Captain Ahab has but one purpose in life-- revenge on the great white whale who maimed and disfigured him.
42) The Music man
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Edition
Widescreen special ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc ( c. 181 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Silver-tongued con artist Harold Hill hoodwinks the stubborn townsfolk of River City, Iowa into buying instruments and uniforms for a boy's band, but his game ultimately and romantically backfires.
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Edition
Widescreen version
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 169 min.) : sd., col., stereo. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Grace MacLean and her friend Judith go horseback riding in upstate New York on a winter morning, but their horses lose their footing on ice and slide onto a road, where Judith and her horse are killed by a jackknifing truck. Grace has her right leg amputated, and the frightening incident leaves a lasting trauma not only on Grace but also on her horse, Pilgrim. Grace's mother seeking Grace's recovery, feels there's a link between...
44) After the storm
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
On the run from ruthless smugglers and the police, Arno, a world-weary scavenger, is hired as a courier for a rich tycoon. When the tycoon's luxury yacht goes down in a violent storm, Arno is forced to partner with a local crook, and the race is on to salvage the bounty.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
p2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 chapter index card.
Language
English
Description
With his wedding a week away, Claudio can't wait to marry the beautiful young Hero. To distract him, his best friend Don Pedro devises mischief: a romantic trap for the sharp-tongued Beatrice and the man she loves to hate, Benedick. Their amusement is almost spoiled by the jealous scheming of Don John, but love and laughter prevail when the local constable unwittingly exposes the plot--and all the trouble proves to be much ado about nothing (111 min.)....
46) Amistad
Publisher
DreamWorks
Pub. Date
c1999
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (155 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the 1839 revolt on board a slave ship bound for America. Much of the story involves the court-room drama about the slave who led the revolt.
Publisher
Paramount
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (124 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A timeless tale of romance, friendship, and growth. Loner Zack Mayo enters Officer Candidate School to become a Navy pilot and in thirteen weeks he learns the importance of discipline, love and friendship.
Publisher
Hollywood Pictures Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (143 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A frustrated composer comes to realize that his real passion is teaching and that his legacy is not a truly memorable piece of music, but the generations of young people whose lives he affects.
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
c1990
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 227 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of T. E. Lawrence, the heroic and troubled man who organized the Arab nations to fight the Turks in World War I and then, having reached a pinnacle of power in Mideast politics, retired to postwar military obscurity.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c1998
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sd., col., ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Three mid-life Manhattanites have more than a longtime friendship in common. After years of helping their hubbies climb the corporate ladder of success, each has been dumped for a newer, curvier model. The trio is determined to turn their pain into gain. They come up with a cleverly devious plan to hit their exes where it really hurts--in the wallet!
Series
Publisher
Focus Features
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 129 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In a remote area of Northern Kenya, activist Tessa Quayle is found brutally murdered. Tessa's companion, a doctor, appears to have fled the scene, and all the evidence points to a crime of passion. Members of the British High Commission in Nairobi assume that Tessa's widower, their mild-mannered and unambitious colleague Justin Quayle, will leave the matter to them. Haunted by remorse and jarred by rumors of his late wife's infidelities, Quayle surprises...
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999
Edition
Widescreen version ; standard version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Romantic comedy about a young man who meets the girl of his dreams at a friend's wedding. However, she slips through his fingers when the timing seems wrong, and they meet at three more weddings and a funeral before the two finally connect.
Publisher
20th Century Fox
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A sports writer rescues a homeless man who turns out to be a boxing legend believed to be dead. Based on a Los Angeles Times article. Includes featurette and interviews.
55) Stepmom
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 125 min.) : sd., col., stereo. ; 4 1/2 in.
Language
English
Description
Anna and Ben, the two children of Jackie and Luke, have to cope with the fact that their parents divorced and that there is a new woman in their father's life: Isabel, a successful photographer. She does her best to treat the kids in a way that makes them still feel at home when being with their dad, but also loves her work and does not plan to give it up. But Jackie, a full-time-mother, regards Isabel's efforts as offensively insufficient. She can't...
56) Meet the parents
Publisher
Universal
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Male nurse Greg Focker wants to pop the question to his girlfried Pam Byrnes. But she's daddy's little girl, and daddy, has some old-fashioned ideas about manners and manhood. So Pam and Greg make a pilgrimage to the Byrnes' homestead on Long Island. Greg gets off the wrong foot with Mr. Byrnes and never recovers. Little white lies mushroom into ghastly whoppers. Greg finds out that Mr. Byrnes was in the CIA for 34 years. And so the weekend goes from...
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A dream vacation turns into a hilarious tropical nightmare when a rough-hewn cargo pilot takes a sharp-tongued yuppie on a quick flight to Tahiti, only to crash in a storm, stranding the two on a deserted island.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the early 1970s, Sixto Rodriguez was a Detroit folksinger who had a short-lived recording career. Unknown to him, his musical story continued in South Africa where he became a pop music icon. Long rumored there to be dead, a few fans in the 90s decided to seek out the truth of his fate. What follows is a heartening story in which they found far more in their quest than they ever hoped, while a Detroit construction laborer discovered that his lost...
60) Big daddy
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Thirty-two-year-old Sonny Koufax has spent his whole life avoiding responsibility. But when his girlfriend dumps him for an older man, he's got to find a way to prove he's ready to grow up. In a desperate last-ditch effort, Sonny adopts five-year-old Julian to impress her. She's not impressed and he can't return the kid.
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