Fine Line Features
1) Hoop dreams
Series
Criterion collection volume 289
Language
English
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Description
Follows the high school careers of two young, African-American men from inner-city Chicago as they pursue their dream of playing professional basketball.
2) Mother night
Publisher
New Line Home Video
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
An American playwright living in pre-World War II Berlin becomes an allied spy within the Nazi Party. After the war, when he goes back to America, he is confronted by both Nazi haters and sympathizers.
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Dorothy Parker, a brilliant writer with a razor-sharp tongue, shares a professional but intimate relationship with comic genius Robert Benchley. But when she meets Charlie McArthur, she falls hopelessly in love, a condition even literary genius can't seem to cure.
Series
Criterion collection volume 277
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Mike, a sensitive narcoleptic who dreams of the mother who abandoned him, and Scott, the rebellious son of a prominent family and the object of Mike's desire, embark on a quest from the grungy streets of Portland to the open highways of the Pacific Northwest, in search of an elusive place called home. A crazy friendship develps between the two that takes on tragic overtones when Scott falls in love and Mike realizes he's about to lose the only important...
5) Birth
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A widow for ten years, Anna is looking forward to getting remarried when a mysterious boy appears claiming to be the reincarnation of her late husband.
6) Saving Grace
Publisher
New Line Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
A recent widow joins with the caretaker of her estate on the Cornish coast to use her green thumb for fun and profit. All goes well until the business starts booming.
8) Shine
Language
English
Formats
Description
The story of Australian pianist David Helfgott. Driven by his father and his teachers he experiences a nervous breakdown and is hospitalized, but later returns to the concert hall.
10) The winter guest
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
An inside look at the lives of eight people living in a remote and icy Scottish village. The story focuses on the relationship between a mother and a daughter, played by real-life mother and daughter Emma Thompson and Phyllida Law.
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Novelist Joe and his actress wife Sally throw a party to celebrate the sixth anniversary of their turbulent marriage. At the party both guests and hosts start telling each other the truth-- something rarely heard in Hollywood.
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
A hilarious black and white comedy. A reporter who bangs out his column on an old manual typewriter and is blissfully unaware that he sticks out like a sore thumb. His girlfriend is fed up because he hasn't even kissed her, and the local mob wants to bump him off because he's hot on their trail.
13) For Roseanna
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Marcello is a trattoria proprietor in an Italian village who will stop at nothing to make sure his beloved but ailing wife, Roseanna, realizes her dream of being buried at the local cemetery.
14) Double happiness
Publisher
Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Jade must choose between family and personal happiness. Her parents want her to marry a successful Chinese man and she wants to make her own decisions. When she falls in love with a white university student, the façade of the perfect Chinese daughter begins to crack. A story about pursuing your dreams while living up to everybody else's.
15) Pecker
Publisher
New Line Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Pecker tells the story of a goofy 18-year-old who works in a Baltimore sandwich shop and takes photos of his loving but peculiar family and friends on the side. Pecker, so named for his childhood habit of "pecking" at his food, stumbles into fame when his work is "discovered" by a savvy New York art dealer.
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
This underground epic, which breaks every rule of good filmmaking and good taste, set a benchmark for the bizarre that has never been equaled. Babs Johnson, a trailer park bon vivant proudly claims the title of the filthiest person alive. The envy of every neighborhood degenerate, it isn't long before another couple set their sites on Divine's legacy, and in the proud American tradition, competition forces each contender to outdo the other.
17) Ripley's game
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Living a life of luxury, Ripley attends a party thrown by Jonathan Trevanny and overhears the host making critical comments about Ripley's fashion sense. Enraged, Ripley immediately plots his retaliation. This comes via his former business partner Reeves. Reeves seeks out Ripley's help in finding an unrecognized assassin to kill a Russian gangster, and Ripley suggests he talk to Trevanny. Trevanny reluctantly accepts the offer and the situation quickly...
19) The player
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"I was just thinking what an interesting concept it is to eliminate the writer from the artistic process. If we could just get rid of these actors and directors, maybe we've got something here."--Griffin Mill. Griffin is a slick, successful film studio vice president whose primary duty is to listen to story pitches from a constant stream of writers. Like all Hollywood producers, he's always looking over his shoulder, and he thinks up-and-comer Larry...
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Pekar is a frustrated file clerk working at the local V.A. Hospital. He is also a comic book fan who befriends the young illustrator Robert Crumb and is soon inspired to create comic books based on his own life. Along his bumpy journey he meets, marries and falls in love with Joyce, an admiring comic book seller.