Jerry Weintraub
Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Here is the story of Jerry Weintraub: the self-made, Brooklyn-born, Bronx-raised impresario, Hollywood producer, legendary deal maker, and friend of politicians and stars. No matter where nature has placed him—the club rooms of Brooklyn, the Mafia dives of New York's Lower East Side, the wilds of Alaska, or the hills of Hollywood—he has found a way to put on a show and sell tickets at the door. "All life was a theater and I wanted to put it up...
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Daniel, a fatherless teenager, arrives in Los Angeles from the east coast and faces the difficult task of making new friends. However, he becomes the object of bullying by the Cobras, a menacing gang of karate students, when he strikes up a relationship with Ali, the gang leader's ex-girlfriend. Eager to fight back and impress his new girlfriend, Daniel asks his handyman Miyagi, whom he learns is a master of martial arts, to teach him karate. Miyagi...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ocean's Twelve reintroduces Danny Ocean and his perfectly trained team of con men. Dividing forces to hit Paris, Amsterdam, and Rome, the heist-meisters move beyond casinos to tackle new objectives, one of which involves stealing a famous painting.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Dre Parker finds himself in China after his mother's latest career move. He and classmate Mei Ying immediately fall for each other, but cultural differences make this friendship impossible. Even worse, his feelings make an enemy of class bully, Cheng who is quite adept at kung fu. Dre turns to maintenance man Mr. Han, who is secretly a kung fu master and learns that kung fu is not about punches and parries, but maturity and calm. However, Dre realizes...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
It has been years since the man once known as Tarzan left the jungles of Africa behind for a gentrified life as John Clayton III, Lord Greystoke, with his beloved wife, Jane at his side. Now, he has been invited back to the Congo to serve as a trade emissary of Parliament, unaware that he is a pawn in a deadly convergence of greed and revenge, masterminded by the Belgian, Captain Leon Rom. But those behind the murderous plot have no idea what they...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Formats
Description
When one of their own, Reuben Tishkoff, partners and builds a casino and hotel with known casino owner Willy Banks in Las Vegas, the last thing he ever wanted was to get cut out of the deal by the loathsome Banks. Banks' even goes so far as to finding amusement in Tishkoff's misfortune when the double crossing lands Reuben in the hospital because of a heart attack. However, Danny and his crew won't stand for Banks and what he's done to a friend. Uniting...
7) Nancy Drew
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Nancy is an iconic girl detective with a passion for mystery and all things old, but she is about to experience a serious case of culture shock as she heads to Hollywood on an extended business trip with her father, Carson Drew. Having promised him that she has given up sleuthing in favor of becoming a "normal" teenager, Nancy tries her best to resist the lure of the age-old mystery of famous actress Dehlia Draycott's death, and living in Dehlia's...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Three prestigious Las Vegas casinos. More than $160 million. Danny Ocean and his 10-man handpicked team of grifters and conmen are ready to carry out the most elaborate casino heist in history, and they just might get away with it.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Miyagi returns with Daniel to his Okinawa home for the first time in 45 years. Miyagi encounters Yukie, the woman he left behind when he immigrated to America. And just as Daniel falls in love with her teenage niece Kumiko, two enemies arise to challenge both couples' happiness. Sato is the man whom Yukie was once supposed to marry, and Chozen, his vicious nephew who's taken an instant dislike to Daniel. Now, to satisify their family honor, they've...
Publisher
Warner Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Steven Soderbergh and executive produced by Jerry Weintraub, this HBO Films drama recreates the glittering private world of Liberace, the flamboyant, phenomenally successful entertainer whose extravagant costumes, trademark candelabra, and elaborate stage shows made him the most bankable entertainer of his time.
11) The karate kid
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dre Parker finds himself in China after his mother's latest career move. He and classmate Mei Ying immediately fall for each other, but cultural differences make this friendship impossible. Even worse, his feelings make an enemy of class bully Cheng, who is quite adept at kung fu. Dre turns to maintenance man Mr. Han, who is secretly a kung fu master, and learns that kung fu is not about punches and parries, but maturity and calm. However, Dre realizes...
12) Diner
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set in 1959, a band of young men, buddies since high school, gather at a local diner to share their escapades and make sense of their lives. As one by one they drift off to join the mainstream of life they still cling to their shared boyhood dreams.
13) "Oh, God!"
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Jerry Landers, (John Denver) a supermarket assistant manager and a good yet non-religious person, suddenly finds a note in the mail one day that grants him an "interveiw" with God. Thinking it to be a hoax he tosses it away, but when it keeps reappearing he finally gives in. Skeptical at first, he ends up carrying His personal message - that the world can work with what God's given us.
14) Cruising
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
A New York City cop goes underground to lure a killer who preys on homosexuals. The real mystery begins when officer Burns thinks that he has found the murderer.
15) Vegas vacation
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Description
"When Clark Griswold puts his mind to something, we soon realize he hasn't got one. Still, nothing stops him when the vacation bug hits. This time, he's chosen Las Vegas, the new family entertainment capital of America!"--Container.
Series
Karate kid collection volume 0
Language
English
Description
Karate Kid Daniel LaRusso has an upcoming tournament in which he is the target of vicious student Mike Barnes. Mr. Karate kid, part III. Miyagi instructs Daniel not to compete, but Daniel's pride sends him to the instructor Terry Silver who secretly is setting him up to be the loser. The next Karate kid. Miyagi helps an orphaned 17-year-old tomboy to channel her anger through learning martial arts.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
It has been years since the man once known as Tarzan left the jungles of Africa behind for a gentrified life as John Clayton III, Lord Greystoke, with his beloved wife, Jane at his side. Now, he has been invited back to the Congo to serve as a trade emissary of Parliament, unaware that he is a pawn in a deadly convergence of greed and revenge, masterminded by the Belgian, Captain Leon Rom. But those behind the murderous plot have no idea what they...
19) Ocean's eleven
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Three prestigious Las Vegas casinos. More than $160 million. Danny Ocean and his 10-man handpicked team of grifters and conmen are ready to carry out the most elaborate casino heist in history, and they just might get away with it.
20) Soldier
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Galactic wars are fought by soldiers, but the action is backed by mammoth crawler vehicles. Planetary outcasts survive amid the jetsam of Earth's past while technology is almost beyond human control.