Jonathan Demme
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
When his army unit is ambushed during the first Gulf War, Sergeant Raymond Shaw saves his fellow soldiers just as his commanding officer, Major Ben Marco, is knocked unconscious. Using the incident for political gain, Shaw eventually becomes a vice-presidential nominee, but Marco is haunted by dreams of what really happened in Iraq. As Marco investigates, the story begins to unravel. He begins to figure that the entire unit was kidnapped and brainwashed...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Video
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Nice guy Melvin Dummar is a total loser who can't keep a job. One night Melvin picks up an old man who has had a motorcycle accident in the Nevada desert. Eight years later, the hitchhiker turns out to have been Howard Hughes who has named Melvin a beneficiary of his multi-billion dollar fortune.
6) Adaptation
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Language
English
Description
Blends fictional characters and situations with the lives of real people: obsessive orchid hunter John Laroche, "New Yorker" journalist Susan Orlean, Hollywood screenwriter Charlie Kaufman and his twin brother Donald. As Charlie struggles to adapt a best-selling book, he writes himself into the movie plot.
7) Philadelphia
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1997], c1993
Language
English
Description
A story of two lawyers who join together to sue a prestigious Philadelphia law firm when the firm fires one of them because he has AIDS.
8) Swing shift
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2004, c1984
Language
English
Description
When most of the young blue-collar men leave to fight in World War II, America's women step in to support the war effort by filling their vacancies.
Publisher
Distributed by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
FBI trainee Clarice Starling is assigned to help find a missing woman and save her from 'Buffalo Bill,' a psychopathic serial killer who skins his victims. Clarice attempts to gain a better insight into the twisted mind of the killer by talking to another psychopath, Dr. Hannibal "The Cannibal' Lecter, as he used to be a respected psychiatrist. FBI agent-in-charge Jack Crawford believes that the mind manipulator Lecter may have the answers to their...
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
p2000, c1988
Language
English
Description
After Angela DeMarco's husband Frank is iced by Mob boss Tony Russo, Angela thinks she is finally free from the Mob. Angela gets a new start in Manhattan, but Tony tracks her down and starts courting her, and Angela finds it's difficult to get a divorce from organized crime.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
In and out of rehab for the past 10 years, Kym Buchman returns to the family home for the wedding of her sister Rachel. She brings with her a long history of personal crisis and family conflict. The wedding party, friends and relatives have gathered for an idyllic weekend of feasting, music and love, but Kym's passion for the dramatic incites tension in the family.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Regina returns home to find her husband, Charlie, murdered and three violent strangers claiming Charlie cheated them out of millions. When she accepts help from a mysterious stranger, she is plunged into a world where a double-cross turns into a triple-cross and trust turns into the deadliest weapon of all.
15) Something Wild
Author
Language
English
Description
A conservative executive accepts a ride with a wild, eccentric woman, who takes him on an outrageous odyssey that turns both their worlds upside down.
Author
Language
English
Description
Mix together a small town community theatre's shy leading man and the lovely telephone worker who moves into town and you have a perfect recipe for a delightful romantic comedy. Academy Award-winners Susan Sarandon and Christopher Walken star as the couple who discover that affairs of the heart on the stage may be a bit less complicated than continuing the romance off the stage. Director Jonathan Demme, an Academy Award-winner, deftly weaves this...
17) The Center
Author
Language
English
Description
A young man becomes entangled by the radical agenda of a self-help group, only to discover the horrific truth that they are a cult bent on controlling it's members.
18) Song One
Author
Language
English
Description
Oscar winner Anne Hathaway stars as Franny in this romance set in Brooklyn's indie music scene. After her brother is in an accident, Franny returns home only to fall in love with her brother's musical idol.