Richard Masur
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Joel's wealthy suburban Chicago parents are going on vacation and leaving him in charge of the house. They trust their college-bound 17-year-old son but they shouldn't. Every kid's dream is every parent's nightmare. No sooner do Joel's parents step on the plane than he raids the liquor cabinet, has a joyride in Dad's Porsche, and has a night of passion with a young call girl named Lana.
2) 61*
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris, one was the Yankees' best loved players and the other was their most valuable. 1961 was about to be the summer that no one who loves baseball will ever forget. Both men find that they are approaching Babe Ruth's 1927 single-season 60 home-run record. Facing pressure from the media and the stands, both men know that there is only room for one winner. The fans make their choice, but the people's favorite isn't the favorite...
3) My girl
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
A precocious 11-year-old tomboy obsessed with death shares a poignant summer with her widowed father, the sexy and kind cosmetician he hires, and most importantly with the boy-next-door who idolizes her.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
It can be anything. A fanged monster that won't stay on the movie screen. Something ominous lurking in the basement. A malevolent force in a small New England town takes the shape of a clown, but It isn't clowning around. Instead, It terrifies youngsters with their innermost fears, bringing some to their untimely doom -- until a group of wily neighborhood kids fight back. Thirty years later the evil resurfaces: meaner, angrier, deadlier. And the friends...
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"For 11 years, the six-person comedy team known as The Commune has killed onstage, waiting for its big break. The team finds itself at a crossroads, when one of the group becomes a solo success and the others start to wonder if they will make it after all"--Container.
7) Tumbledown
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Years after the accidental death of her folk-singer husband, Hannah has yet to fully accept her small town life without him. Then she is approached by a charming New York writer, intent on penning a biography of her late husband's life, and Hannah finds herself opening up again.
Series
Criterion collection volume 636
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
A Harvard graduate, turned federal Marshal in Wyoming, learns of a government sanctioned plot by cattle barons to kill the area's European settlers for their land. The resulting battle is based on the Johnson County War of 1892.
9) The thing
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
©1998, 1982
Language
English
Description
Set in the winter of 1982 at a research station in Antarctica, a twelve man research team finds an alien being that has fallen from the sky and has remained buried in the snow for over 100,000 years. Unfrozen and unleashed, the THING creates havoc and terror as it changes forms and becomes one of them.
10) Adam (Not rated)
Publisher
Fremantle Media Enterprises
Pub. Date
[2011], ©1983
Language
English
Description
Adam, the son of John and Reve Walsh, disappears one day while at the mall with his mother. Within hours local police mobilize a massive search for the missing child. But to their surprise the Walshes find that there is no federal agency willing to join in the search. As hopes of finding Adam dim, John Walsh overcomes his deep despair by becoming an advocate for parents of missing children and lobbying in Congress for the Federal Missing Children...
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Francine Hughes marries her small-town high-school sweetheart Mickey only to discover his temper is short and his behavior violent. Urged to hang in there by her family and a broken social welfare system, she suffers continuous abuse, until desperation leads her to cross a threshold from which neither her nor her husband can ever return.
13) The Patriots
Author
Language
Français
Description
Espionage, personal integrity, and political commitment are the main themes running through this French thriller that chronicles a young man's journey from idealism to disillusionment and maturity.
Author
Language
English
Description
Two rooftops in suburban Ohio. A 75-year-old man and a nine-year-old girl sit on houses full of secrets. Literally. Bernard wants nothing more than to enjoy his beer (and perhaps kill a few sparrows), but Rory next door has different plans for him.
With six decades between them and only four chance encounters to connect, these unlikely new friends unearth what's buried in each other and find new ground.
The Net Will Appear features Emmy-nominated...
15) Scavenger hunt
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
To inherit a fortune, various addressees of a will must compete in a wild scavenger hunt to collect selected items that cannot simply be bought.
16) Forget Paris
Author
Language
English
Description
Mickey knows about marriage. He knows it won't work if one partner is happy and the other miserable. No, a successful marriage requires both to be miserable! Love is such sweet misery in the witty story of when basketball referee Mickey (Billy Crystal) met airline employee Ellen (Debra Winger). They fall head over croissants for each other in Paris, then reluctantly move on to pursue their careers, only to reunite passionately and make feverish domestic-bliss...
18) Rent-A-Cop
Author
Language
English
Description
Detective Tony Church is forced to retire and become a store rent-a-cop after a drug sting operation comes to a tragic end by a murderous gunman. He joins forces with a prostitute-the only one able to identify the killer-to bring the murderer to justice.