Johnny Depp
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Language
English
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In this documentary, director Chuck Workman examines the lasting cultural significance of the Beats, focusing mainly on Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs and Neal Cassady. Along the way, these freethinking men became friends and associates, and their writing influenced numerous generations of questioning individuals. Workman combines interviews, TV clips and archival footage in his film, in addition to dramatic readings by notable...
5) Minamata
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English
Description
Three-time Academy Award® nominee Johnny Depp plays celebrated war photographer W. Eugene Smith in a real life David vs Goliath story, pitting Smith against a powerful corporation responsible for poisoning the people of Minamata, Japan in 1971.
6) Mortdecai
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Language
English
Description
Debonair art dealer and part time rogue Charlie Mortdecai traverses the globe armed only with his good looks and special charm in a race to recover a stolen painting rumored to contain the code to a lost bank account filled with Nazi gold.
Author
Series
Hollywood's Stories volume 10
Language
English
Description
For over three decades, Johnny Depp remains an icon in the film industry. A versatile and talented actor, Depp has starred in a variety of unique, thought-provoking, and imaginative films, and has experienced great success. No matter the chaotic storm that surrounds him, Depp personifies Neil Young's lyrics- "Rock and Roll can never die. There's more to the picture than meets the eye." to a 'T.'
8) Benny & Joon
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English
Description
Johnny Depp and Mary Stuart Masterson star in this quirky romantic drama about two misfits who come together as a result of an unusual poker game. Aidan Quinn and Julianne Moore co-star.
9) Blow
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English
Description
Johnny Depp stars as George Jung, an average small-town American boy who pursues the American Dream his way--becoming the first American to import cocaine to the United States on a large scale, exposing college kids, high-paid professionals and the Hollywood glitterati to a new, hipper form of high. Sleeping, breathing and eating money, Jung lives a fantastic, no-rules life many have dreamed about. How did a typical boy next door become Pablo Escobar's...
10) Nick Of Time
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Language
English
Description
The clock is ticking for Johnny Depp in Nick Of Time, a twist-filled, race-against-time thriller directed by John Badham (Drop Zone, Saturday Night Fever). And indeed it is a race, filmed in "real time" so that onscreen events unfold minute by nail-biting minute as they would in real life. No sooner does accountant Gene Watson (Depp) arrive at L.A.'s Union Station with his six-year-old daughter than he's plunged into a nightmare. Two shadowy strangers...
12) Blow
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Dramatization of the life of George Jung, the man who established the cocaine market in the United States.
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Language
English
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Description
"Tike and Ella May Hamlin struggle to plant roots in the arid land of the Texas Panhandle. The husband and wife live in a precarious wooden farm shack, but Tike yearns for a sturdy house that will protect them from the treacherous elements. Thanks to a five-cent government pamphlet, Tike has the know-how to build a simple adobe dwelling, a structure made from the land itself-fireproof, windproof, Dust Bowl-proof. A house of earth. Though they are...
14) The libertine
Publisher
The Weinstein Company
Pub. Date
2006, 2004
Language
English
Description
John Wilmot, a 17th century poet, is the Earl of Rochester and from the beginning he treats his wife cruelly, drinks to relentless excess, abuses his friendships, and generally wallows in dissipation, much to the dismay of King Charles II. The king hopes that Rochester will write a play glorifying his reign. But Rochester finds his true inspiration when he sees a young actress named Lizzie Barry. Rochester sets out to make her the greatest actress...
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005], c2004
Language
English
Description
Playwright James M. Barrie's career is questioned when his latest play is ill-received. But when he meets a widow and her four adventurous boys, they form a friendship that sparks the imagination needed to produce Barrie's greatest work.
16) Chocolat
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001], c2000
Language
English
Description
When a single mother and her young daughter move to rural France and open a chocolate shop - with Sunday hours - across the street from the local church, they are met with some resistance from the rigidly moral community. But as soon as the townspeople discover their delicious products, their attitudes begin to change.
17) Rango
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
A pet chameleon gets loose in the wild and ends up in a town that desperately needs a sheriff and hero.
18) Sleepy Hollow
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
In this version of Washington Irving's classic tale, Ichabod Crane is an eccentric investigator sent to Sleepy Hollow to probe a series of murders allegedly committed by a headless horseman.