Tom Shadyac
1) Brian Banks
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The inspirational true story, an All-American high school football star committed to USC who finds his life upended when he is wrongly convicted of a crime he didn't commit. Despite lack of evidence, Banks is railroaded through a broken justice system and sentenced to a decade of prison and probation. Years later, with the support of Justin Brooks and the California Innocence Project, Banks fights to reclaim his life and fulfill his dreams of playing...
Publisher
Morgan Creek Productions
Pub. Date
2009.
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 locate a sacred animal god for a primitive African tribe.
3) I am
Publisher
Gaiam
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
The story of a successful Hollywood director, Tom Shadyac, who experienced a life-threatening head injury, and his ensuing journey to try and answer two very basic questions: 'What's wrong with the world?' and 'What can be done about it?' With a film crew of four, Tom visits some of today's great minds, including authors, poets, teachers, religious leaders, and scientists, searching for the fundamental endemic problem that causes all the other problems,...
4) Patch Adams
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Meet Patch Adams, a doctor who doesn't look, act or think like any doctor you've met before. For Patch, humor is the best medicine, and he's willing to do just about anything to make his patients laugh-- even if it means risking his own career. Based on a true story.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Chuck and Larry are the pride of their fire station. Two guy's guys always side-by-side and willing to do anything for each other. Widower Larry wants just one thing, to protect his kids. His buddy Chuck also wants on thing, to enjoy the single life. Grateful Chuck owes Larry for saving his life in a fire, and Larry calls in his marker when civic red tape prevents him from naming his own two kids as his life insurance beneficiaries. All that Chuck...
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Bruce Nolan is a discontented TV reporter who believes the entire universe is stacked against him. After a bad day, Bruce flies into a rage and blames God for making his life so miserable. God responds by endowing Bruce with all of His divine powers and challenges him to take on "The Big Job" to see if he can do it any better.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Newly elected to Congress, Evan Baxter has left Buffalo, New York in pursuit of a greater calling. But that calling isn't serving in the illustrious ranks of America's politics, but being summoned by the Almighty himself, who has handed Evan the task of building a new ark. With time passing by and his family belittled by Evan's newfound realization, Evan will have to do the work that God has given him in what promises to be an unusual adventure for...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertanment
Pub. Date
[2007?]
Language
English
Description
Patch Adams: A doctor emphasizes humor in his care of patients, at risk to his career.
What dreams may come: Chris Nielsen dies and is united with his children, who died before him, in a beautiful afterlife, but must risk his own future to rescue his wife from her fate.
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Murphy stars as a shy, kind, brilliant "calorically challenged" genetics professor. When beautiful Carla Purty joins the university faculty, the professor grows desperate to whittle his 400-pound frame down to size and win her heart.
13) Dragonfly
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Joe, is a physician mourning the death of his wife Emily who died in South America, where she was providing medical outreach. Wracked by grief, Joe feels obligated to check in on his wife's pediatric patients, fulfilling a promise he made before she left. Visiting the ward, Joe starts to believe that Emily is using the near-death experiences of her terminal patients to communicate with him, through images the children report seeing in their dreams,...
14) Liar liar
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Fletcher Reed is a fast-talking attorney and habitual liar. When his son Max blows out the candles on his fifth birthday cake, he has just one wish-- that his dad will stop lying for 24 hours. When Max's wish comes true, Fletcher discovers that his biggest asset-- his mouth-- has become his biggest liability.
15) Happy
Publisher
Wadi Rum Films
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"Happy takes us on a journey from the swamps of Louisiana to the slums of Kolkata in search of what really makes people happy. Combining real life stories of people from around the world and powerful interviews with the leading scientists in happiness research, Happy explores the secrets behind our most valued emotion."--Container.
Le film nous emmène sur un parcours depuis les marécages de la Louisiane jusqu'aux bidonvilles de Calcutta à la...
16) Dragonfly
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Joe, is a physician mourning the death of his wife Emily who died in South America, where she was providing medical outreach. Wracked by grief, Joe feels obligated to check in on his wife's pediatric patients, fulfilling a promise he made before she left. Visiting the ward, Joe starts to believe that Emily is using the near-death experiences of her terminal patients to communicate with him, through images the children report seeing in their dreams,...
17) Patch Adams
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Meet Patch Adams, a doctor who doesn't look, act or think like any doctor you've met before. For Patch, humor is the best medicine, and he's willing to do just about anything to make his patients laugh--even if it means risking his own career. Based on a true story.