Paula Weinstein
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Formats
Description
When their father passes away, four grown siblings, bruised and banged up by their respective adult lives, are forced to return to their childhood home and live under the same roof together for a week. Confronting their history and the frayed states of their relationships among the people who know and love them best, they ultimately reconnect in hysterical and emotionally affecting ways amid the chaos, humor, heartache and redemption that only families...
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Description
In the winter of 1820, the New England whaling ship Essex was assaulted by something no one could believe: a whale of mammoth size and will, and an almost human sense of vengeance. The real-life maritime disaster would inspire Herman Melville's Moby-Dick. But that told only half the story. This story reveals the encounter's harrowing aftermath, as the ship's surviving crew is pushed to their limits and forced to do the unthinkable to stay alive.
Language
English
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Description
Danny Archer is an ex-mercenary turned smuggler. Solomon Vandy is a local Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sierra Leone, these men join together for two dangerous missions: recovering a rare pink diamond of immense value and rescuing the fisherman's son. The son was conscripted as a child soldier into the brutal rebel forces ripping a swath of torture and bloodshed across the alternately beautiful and ravaged countryside....
5) Analyze this
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Formats
Description
A spoof on the gangster roles that have been associated with De Niro's film career, this is the story of an anxiety-ridden Mafia boss who monopolizes the services of a family psychiatrist.
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
After years of incredibly bad dates, Charlie thinks she's met the man of her dreams. But, poor Charlie is in for a shock when she finally meets his overly possessive mother Viola. Determined to scare off her son's new fiancée, Viola hatches a scheme to become the world's worst mother-in-law. With the help of her loyal, wise-cracking assistant, Viola does everything she can to break up the happy couple. Charlie gets wise to Viola's schemes and decides...
7) Envy
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
"Tim and his best friend, Nick, shared and shared alike, until Tim turned down a chance to invest in Nick's latest crazy invention; Now Nick is raking in the millions while his buddy is green with envy. Enter a cagey and conniving vagabond who's got a plan to turn the tables and steer a little profit to himself"--Container.
8) Bandits
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
After busting out of jail and on the run, 2 bank robbers devise the perfect crime with imperfect partners. Not wanting to hurt anyone during their robberies, they go to the homes of bank personnel and end up staying the night with the families so that they can all go to the bank in the morning, hence becoming the "sleepover bandits".
Language
English
Formats
Description
Buggs and Daffy lead Elmer Fudd on a wild pursuit through famous paintings hanging in the Louvre. Everyone is out to recover "The Blue Monkey", an artifact that could end up causing universal damage. It's dasterdly evil owner wants to make certain the world is free from all human existance. The gang embarks on a journey that stretches from Las Vegas to Paris, to the wilds of Africa.
11) Liberty Heights
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
The town is Baltimore and the year is 1954, a season of dramatic social flux that Levinson explores through the eyes of a Jewish family.
12) Analyze that
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Description
"They locked up mob boss Paul Vitti in Sing Sing and that's where he sang sang -- croaking tunes from Wst Side Story and carrying on in a way that convinces the Feds Vitti is better suited for a nut house than the Big House. Better yet, they conclude, let's release Vitti into the custody of his therapist, Ben Sobel. This time, Vitti is ready to find gainful employment and go straight. Or so he says. But can high-anxiety Sobol believe Vitti, especially...
Language
English
Formats
Description
In October 1991, three raging weather fronts, one of them a powerful hurricane, combined in the North Atlantic to form the greatest storm in recorded history. Caught in the storm was the sword-fishing boat Andrea Gail. Billy Tyne is the sword-fishing boat captain of the Gail who is from Gloucester. Tyne is highly competitive, but has been stung by a string of poor outings. His crew is hardly back in port when he tells them he's going out again, even...
14) Possession
Language
English
Description
Roland is an academic researcher who discovers some important letters written by a famous Victorian poet, Randolph Henry Ash. Ash was presumed to have been totally devoted to his wife, but Roland finds letters written to another unnamed woman, and soon determines that the intended recipient was another, less well-known poet, Christabel LaMotte. Roland contacts Maud, an expert on LaMotte's life and work. Despite her skepticism, the two begin to investigate,...
15) The company men
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Language and brief nudity.
Bobby Walker is living the proverbial American dream: great job, beautiful family, shiny Porsche in the garage. When corporate downsizing leaves him and co-workers Phil Woodward and Gene McClary jobless, the three men are forced to re-define their lives as men, husbands, and fathers. Bobby soon finds himself enduring enthusiastic life coaching, a job building houses for his brother-in-law that does not play to his executive...
Series
Publisher
Distributed by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
"Jack and Frank Baker are stuck in a rut. Playing the same tired tunes night after night, the brothers are in desperate need of change. So when they meet a sultry songbird named Susie Diamond, their future starts to sparkle. But when life in the limelight brings old rivalries to the surface as Jack and Susie's relationship heats up, the Baker boys soon find their act, and their lives, growing more entertaining than either of them may be able to handle"--Container....
18) Fearless
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
A young man who survived a plane crash becomes more wildly alive and takes more risks when he discovers that the crash transformed him into a man without fear of death. Meanwhile, his wife struggles to find within him the man she married, and another survivor of the crash believes nothing and no one can heal her pain.
19) Flesh and bone
Series
Language
English
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Description
Some thirty years after Arlis witnesses his father murdering a family, he runs into Kay, who happens to be the family's baby who was spared. Kay and Arlis suspect nothing about each other, but when his father returns, old wounds are reopened.
Series
Publisher
Warner Bros. Pictures
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
The Andrea Gail is a sword fishing boat out of Gloucester, Massachusetts. Billy Tyne is her captain, down-on-his-luck from a recent losing streak, looking to bring back one big score so he and his crew will have the money to stay ashore during the coming winter. So out they go, and they hit it big, hauling in what the crew estimates is a quarter-million-dollars worth of fish. Unfortunately, they haven't paid attention to the weather forecasts or the...