Donald E. Thorin
2) Purple rain
Language
English
Formats
Description
Prince stars as "The Kid, " a Minneapolis club musician, who struggles with both a tumultous homelife and his own smoldering anger while taking refuge in his music and his steamy love for sultry Apollonia Kotero. Semi-autobiographical.
3) Thief
Series
Criterion collection volume 691
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Frank is a professional safecracker. He wants to quit to start a new life, but the mobsters disagree.
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
When a presidential candidate is needed just a few weeks before the election, Washington picks Mays Gilliam, a powerless politician they plan to use as their puppet, certain that he will lose. Buy Mays won't go down that easy. If he is going to run, he is going to do it his way and have fun doing it that way as well.
5) Purple rain
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A young man with a talent for music has begun a career with much promise. He meets an aspiring singer, Apollonia, and finds that talent alone isn't all that he needs. A complicated tale of his repeating his father's self destructive behavior, losing Apollonia to another singer, and his coming to grips with his own connection to other people ensues.
6) Shaft
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
To stop a racist killer Shaft's got to track down the only eyewitness that can put the bad guy behind bars. As Shaft closes in, so does the danger. Up against corrupt cops and venomous druglords Shaft's out to make crime pay up.
7) Tango & Cash
Language
English
Description
Ray Tango and Gabe Cash are rival L.A. policemen with one thing in common. Each thinks he is the best. Team them and they're like oil and water. But frame them for a crime and they're like a match and kerosene. Unjustly jailed among lowlifes they put behind bars, the two stage a prison breakout that's a breathless rush of weapons and wisecracks, then roar after the shadowy crimelord who set them up.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"[It] follows the hilarious exploits of the dedicated but hapless young Mountie as he struggles to outwit the evil Snidely Whiplash. Snidely has devised the scam of the century setting off the biggest gold rush since the Klondike. Prospector Kim J. Darling is an unsuspecting oaf who joins the millionaire wannabes streaming into the town that has since been renamed Whiplash City. It's up to the usually sweet ad naive Dudley to lead the charge, defeat...
9) Midnight run
Series
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jack Walsh is a tough ex-cop turned bounty hunter. Jonathan "The Duke" Mardukas is a sensitive accountant who embezzled $15 million from the Mob, gave it to charity and then jumped bail. Jack's in for a cool $100,000 if he can deliver The Duke from New York to L.A. on time, and alive. Sounds like just another Midnight Run (a piece of cake in bounty hunter slang), but it turns into a cross-country chase. The FBI is after The Duke to testify. The Mob...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Ace Venture pet detective: Jim Carrey is on the case to find the Miami Dolphins' missing mascot and quarterback Dan Marino. He goes eyeball to eyeball with a man-eating shark, stakes out the Miami Dolphins and woos and wows the ladies.
Ace Ventura when nature calls: Ace Ventura sets out on a mission to investigate the disappearance of a rare white bat, the symbol of an African tribe.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Determined to win her husband back, Phyllis Nefler decides to throw her lavish lifestyle to the wind, and become leader of her daughter's Wilderness Girls troop.
Flamboyantly wealthy Phyllis Nefler has everything money can buy: a drop-dead Beverly Hills mansion, a classic Rolls, furs, jewelry and designer gowns. The one thing she doesn't have is her husband, Freddy, who's leaving her. Determined to prove she's still the creative, energetic woman...