Jack Warden
1) Being there
Series
Criterion collection volume no. 864
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Chance is a pure-hearted gardener forced out of moneyed seclusion and into the urban wilds of Washington, D.C., after the death of his employer. Shocked to discover that the real world doesn't respond to the click of a remote, Chance stumbles haplessly into celebrity after being taken under the wing of a tycoon who mistakes his new protégé's mumbling about horticulture for sagacious pronouncements on life and politics, and whose wife targets Chance...
Series
Controversial classics volume 2
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
True story of the Watergate break-in that led to the political scandal of the decade.
4) The Presidio
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Lt. Col. Caldwell and Police Inspector Jay Austin don't like each other because Caldwell helped run Austin out of the military police a few years before. Now these two enemies are forced to team up to solve a brutal murder at The Presidio military compound.
5) 12 angry men
Publisher
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Tempers rise as a jury of middle-aged men find themselves unable to sway a single member of their group to the majority opinion. Confronted with a seemingly clear-cut case, bolstered by opinions and assumptions, but with no verdict in sight the group threatens to become deadlocked. Will the 12th juror, stubbornly convinced of a young defendant's innocence, be able to sway the entire group to his viewpoint, or will the group ultimately force the holdout...
6) The verdict
Publisher
CBS/Fox Video
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Alcoholic lawyer finds a chance to redeem himself by accepting an unwinnable case.
7) Dirty work
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
In this outrageous, wacky comedy, two out-of-work misfits go into business for themselves dishing out cold revenge at a hot price for people who want someone else to do their dirty work.
"MacDonald's 'Saturday Night Live' zingers were on the mark!"--San Diego Tribune.
8) Bulworth
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
Believing his career is over, Senator Jay Bulworth takes out an enormous insurance policy and a contract on his own life. His impending death fills him with an outrageous desire to break the rules and tell it like it is.
10) Being there
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Chance is a secluded gardener who has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television. After a run in with a limousine, he ends up a guest of Eve and her husband Ben. Ben is an influential, but sickly businessman. Now called Chauncey Gardner, Chance becomes friend and confidante to Ben, as well as an unlikely...
11) Darby's rangers
Series
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
The cold rain is relentless. Huddled in the mountains, the GIs are soaked, weary, miserable. One might say it was hell on Earth but these men know better. They already walked through hell when they spearheaded the invasions of North Africa and Sicily. Waiting next is something worse: the brutal nightmare of Anzio.
12) 12 angry men
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Depicts a jury of men who must decide the fate of a teenage boy who has murdered his abusive father. The jurors are from all walks of life, and bring with them their own opinions, prejudices, fears, and personal demons.
Publisher
Roxbury Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
In search of excitement, two young men--sheltered Yale graduate Tod Stiles and tough guy Buz Murdock--traverse the famed Route 66, which stretches from Chicago to Santa Monica, where they encounter people from all walks of life. Shot entirely on location around the country.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
From the terrace: Paul Newman stars as a young man whose struggle for success threatens his personal happiness.
The hustler: Paul Newman plays an arrogant hustler whose unbridles ambition drives him to take on pool-playing legend Minnesota Fats regardless of the consequences.
The verdict: Paul Newman portrays an alcoholic, ambulance-chasing attorney who refuses a settlement offer and takes an impossible-to-win malpractice case to court.
Publisher
Roxbury Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
In search of excitement, two young men--sheltered Yale graduate Tod Stiles and tough guy Buz Murdock--traverse the famed Route 66, which stretches from Chicago to Santa Monica, where they encounter people from all walks of life. Shot entirely on location around the country.
16) Used cars
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001, c1980]
Language
English
Description
Two feuding brothers try to drive each other out of the used car business. To add to the problems, one salesman (who is working as a used car salesman as training for his political career) ends up creating even more problems.
17) Brian's song
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Though they are competing for the same position, two rookie football players become roommates and close friends. Their friendship deepens when one learns that he has cancer.
18) Being there
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Circumstances propel a feeble-minded gardener, whose entire knowledge of life comes from watching television, into becoming adviser to the president of the United States and a powerful but dying tycoon.
19) Carbon copy
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
When an uptight executive discovers he has a long-lost black son, his tidy world goes hopelessly and hilariously awry in this wickedly funny comedy.
20) Shampoo
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
George is one of L.A.'s most desirable men, a Beverly Hills hairdresser who makes all his female clients look, and feel, better than ever. Encouraged by his girlfriend Jill to open his own salon, George approaches conservative businessman Lester for financing. Unbeknownst to Lester, George is sleeping with his wife, his mistress and his teenage daughter.