Thomas Guiry
1) The sandlot
Language
English
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The sandlot: In the early 1960s newcomer Scotty Smalls becomes part of a sandlot baseball team whose members share adventures, first kisses, and encounters with the dreaded beast and its owner who live behind the left field fence.
The sandlot 2: Ten years after the original story a new team tries to retrieve an irreplaceable model rocket that lands in Mr. Mertle's backyard behind left field.
The sandlot: heading home: An arrogant pro baseball player...
2) Mystic River
Language
English
Formats
Description
Boston childhood friends Jimmy, Sean and Dave are reunited after a brutal murder. Reformed confict Jimmy and his devoted wife Annabeth find out that their teenage daughter Katie has been beaten and killed. Jimmy's old friend Sean is the homicide detective assigned to the case. Jimmy gets his relatives, the Savage brothers to conduct their own investigation. Jimmy and Sean soon suspect their old pal Dave, who now lives a quite life, but harbors some...
3) Lassie
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this updated version of the classic story, teenage Matt and his family leave the city to start a new life in rural Virginia, where they adopt a stray collie, who helps them learn about life and love.
4) Scotland, Pa
Publisher
Sundance Channel Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Fast food and ambition make up a daily special of murder and mystery 70's style.
5) Lassie
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
In this updated version of the classic story, teenage Matt and his family leave the city to start a new life in rural Virginia, where they adopt a stray collie who helps them learn about life and love.
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Language
English
Formats
Description
Keith, a small-time drug dealer under house arrest at the home of his father in Baltimore, re-enters a community scarred by unemployment, neglect and deeply entrenched segregation. Nominated for Best Film at the **San Sebastian International Film Festival.** "*Matthew Porterfield’s achievement in this characteristically moody, downbeat essay is to hang back from expected narrative payoffs, while offering the appeal of a character study rooted in...
7) Mystic River
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Formats
Description
Boston childhood friends Jimmy, Sean and Dave are reunited after a brutal murder. Reformed convict Jimmy and his devoted wife Annabeth find out that their teenage daughter Katie has been beaten and killed. Jimmy's old friend Sean is the homicide detective assigned to the case. Jimmy gets his relatives, the Savage brothers to conduct their own investigation. Jimmy and Sean soon suspect their old pal Dave, who now lives a quiet life, but harbors some...
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
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Description
The adult siblings of the Fitzgerald family prepare for their estranged father to return home for Christmas for the first time since he walked out on them twenty years ago. Family rifts emerge, and Christmas brings a mixed bag of complicated emotions and dynamics. Alliances form, old wounds are reopened or glossed over, and the possibility for new hope and forgiveness emerges.
11) Killin smallz
Publisher
Dreamscape Media
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A mob family that is not earning as they did in the past comes up with a crazy idea after watching the movie Stealing a Survivor to kidnap someone famous for ransom.
12) Steel city
Publisher
Distributed by Peace Arch Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
When Carl Lee is involved in a fatal car accident he finds himself behind bars, cut off from his life and alienated by his family. His youngest son, PJ, confused by life without his dad, is the only person to visit him. While PJ's girlfriend stays lovingly by his side and his Uncle Vic extends a helping hand, a belligerent older brother and the reality of being on his own force PJ to grow up faster than he'd like. It's not until a devastating secret...
13) The sandlot
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
The kids' classic about a magical summer of baseball, wild adventures, first kisses, and fearsome confrontations with the dreaded Beast.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Four very different Irish-American brothers, Kevin, Jimmy, Tommy and Sean, have sworn to live by the code of "family first." But as they become increasingly involved in the ruthless world of New York organized crime, their loyalties to their friends, to their loved ones, and especially to each other will be put to the ultimate test.
15) Tigerland
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
"Just released from the base stockade, recruit Roland Bozz joins a platoon of young soldiers preparing to ship out to Vietnam. Bozz's independence and outright defiance draws fire from his own men as well as commanding officers. But when the platoon is sent to Tigerland, a hellish training ground, Bozz's leadership and loyalty bring his men together, triggering extraordinary consequences"--Container.
16) Yonkers Joe
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Joe is a great con artist and dice hustler who makes a lot of money from working the tables at Las Vegas casinos. He and his girlfriend Janice have a pretty good life. But then Joe gets a call from the institution where his son, Joe Jr., is at. Joe Jr., who has Down's Syndrome is being disruptive and thus must be taken out of the institution. Joe doesn't know how to take care of his son and this new change in his life is ruining a lot of his plans...
17) Prisoner
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
An arrogant Hollywood director announces that his next film will be a violent prison drama, but while he is scouting locations in an abandoned penitentiary, he is taken hostage by a sadistic jailer and held captive on death row.
Series
Criterion collection volume 514
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
In 1862, during the Kansas-Missouri border war, Jake and Jack Bull join the Confederate-sympathizing Bushwhackers after Jack's father is killed by marauding members of the abolitionist Jayhawkers. They are aided by unusual ally, Holt, who's fighting for the South despite being a former slave.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Sandlot: language and kids chewing tobacco.
Sandlot 2: language, rude humor, brief violence.
The Sandlot: It's the early 1960's and 5th grader Scotty Smalls has just moved into town with his folks. Kids call him a dork because he can't even throw a baseball. But that changes when the leader of the neighborhood gang recruits him to play on the nearby sandlot field. It's the beginning of a magical summer of baseball, wild adventures, first kisses,...
Publisher
Hallmark Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of the Mulvaney family. A hardworking father, a loving mother, three fine sons and a bright, pretty daughter. They are confident in their love for each other and of their position in the community of Mt. Ephraim. But then something happens on Valentine's Day 1976: an incident that is hushed up in the town and never spoken of again in the Mulvaney home.