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Series
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
A sea captain is locked in battle in 1840s Key West with lawyer Steve Tolliver for the affections of a beautiful ship owner. Tolliver attempts to prosecute the captain for the murder of a girl who was allegedly on board.
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
During the Great Depression, an everyday common-man hero, James J. Braddock was to become one of the most surprising sports legends in history. With the Depression going strong in the early 1930s, the impoverished ex-boxer was seemingly as broken-down and out-of-luck as the rest of the America. Driven by love and determination, he returned to the ring. He did not have much of a shot, but James was fueled by something beyond mere competition. He kept...
Language
English
Description
It's 1963, a time in the United States when life was simple, straightforward and the lines between the sexes and sex roles were crisply drawn and severely delineated. Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist find themselves thrown together when they are hired to tend sheep in the remote area of Brokeback Mountain, Wyoming. Because of the job, the two are forced to spend many hours together alone in the wild. Ennis and Jack are inexorably drawn to each other through...
5) Dreamgirls
Language
English
Description
Three young women, Deena Jones, Effie White and Lorrell Robinson desire to become pop stars. They get their wish when they are picked to be backup singers for the legendary James "Thunder" Early. When they are set free for leads, Curtis Taylor and Effie's brother C.C. decide that Deena should be the lead singer, which upsets Effie. The girls discover exactly what it takes to be in the music business and what they must give up to realize their dreams....
6) High crimes
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Claire is a high-powered attorney whose perfect life comes crashing down around her when her husband is charged with the murder of civilians during a covert Army operation fifteen years earlier. Enlisting the aid of a shrewd ex-military attorney, Claire will risk her career and her life to find out the truth.
7) Robots
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
With the help of his misfit mechanical friends, a small town robot named Rodney embarks on the adventure of a lifetime as he heads for the big city to pursue his dreams and ultimately proves that anyone can shine no matter what they're made of.
Publisher
NGHT
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
America's Great Plains wee once a vibrant grassland ecosystem, akin to the great savannahs of Africa. Here, a mere 200 years ago, Lewis and Clark stepped onto this fertile landscape and were awestruck by what they saw -- herds of bison, packs of wolves, grizzly bears, prairie dogs and more. Since Lewis and Clark's time, many of these iconic prairie creatures have all but disappeared. Now, one of the most ambitious conservation projects in American...
10) 1964
Series
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
It was the year of the Beatles and the Civil Rights Act; of the Gulf of Tonkin and Barry Goldwater's campaign for the presidency; the year that Americans learned smoking was bad for their health and Cassius Clay became Mohammed Ali; the year that cities across the country erupted in violence and Americans tried to make sense of the assassination of their president. Based on The Last Innocent Year: America in 1964, the film will follow some of the...
11) The juror
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A struggling single mother impulsively agrees to serve on a jury hoping for a little excitement in her humdrum life. She gets far more than she bargained for when she's forced to sacrifice the truth to save her son from the mob's seductive, psychotic enforcer.
12) Must love dogs
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Sarah Nolan is divorced, demoralized and dateless - until her sister posts her profile on perfectmatch.com. Now she has a lot of dates, mainly with weirdos, weepers, lechers and jocks. Then she meets Jake, a soulful boat builder whose idea of true love comes straight from the movies. Jake is attractive, smart and maybe a bit too intense for Sarah, so she passes him by. But in passing him up, she may be passing up a real chance for love.
Publisher
Brentwood Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
In "Find a place to die" a geologist and his sister discover gold in an abandoned mine on the U.S./Mexican border. After her brother is killed by a band of outlaws, the young woman seeks the aid of a vagabond gunfighter to regain the stolen treasure and avenge her brother's death. In "The Gatling gun" a group of cavalrymen attempt to transport and protect their prize weapon, a machine gun, to their fort.
14) Last holiday
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Language
English
Formats
Description
Georgia Byrd is a department store employee who leads a life of frustrated desires. She particularly likes the bashful salesman from the outdoor furnishings department. But when she learns she only has a few weeks left to live, Georgia gathers her money, quits her job, and flies to the swank European resort she's always dreamed of visiting. Naturally, her new carelessness with money and fearless candor lead everyone around her, including a senator...
15) The big trees
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Unscrupulous timber baron Jim Fallon plans to take advantage of a new law and make millions off California redwoods, but much of the land he hopes to grab has been homesteaded by a Quaker colony. An expert at manipulating others, Fallon suddenly finds that the love of a pretty Quaker girl is tempering his greed, and forcing him to stand on the side of the Quakers against other men who also want the giant trees.
16) Jack Frost
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
On the verge of making it big, long-struggling musician Jack Frost suddenly realizes he's missing something vital: time with his wife and young son Charlie. But before Jack can make up for lost time, he swerves off an icy mountain road. Then, one cold winter's night, Jack magically returns as a walking, talking, ski-slope-shredding snowman. Determined to be the father he always wanted to be, Jack embarks on a quest to show Charlie that when it comes...
17) Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
John and Jane Smith are a married couple who are beginning to get bored with their quiet domestic life. What they don't know, however, is that they are both assassins, secretly traveling around the world and killing for hire. But their separate lives are about to collide when the discover they are each other's next target.
18) Nine lives
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Nine women each face a different situation in their lives. Among the stories told by director Rodrigo Garcia are a female inmate waiting for her children's visit, a woman facing cancer surgery, and a woman reuniting with an old flame at the supermarket.
19) The weather man
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Dave Spritz is a local weatherman in his home town of Chicago. His career is going well, but his personal life is spiraling downward. His relationship with his perfectionist writer father, his neurotic ex-wife, and his now-separated children have him feeling that his life is out of control. Despite being both loathed and loved by the local masses, Dave is a guy who just doesn't seem to have it all together. An attractive job offer from New York City...
20) 1408
Language
English
Description
Renowned horror novelist Mike Enslin only believes what he can see with his own two eyes. After a string of bestsellers discrediting paranormal events in the most infamous haunted houses and graveyards around the world, he scoffs at the concept of an afterlife. Enslin's phantom-free run of long and lonely nights is about to change forever when he checks into suite 1408 of the notorious Dolphin Hotel for his latest project. Defying the warnings of...
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