Gene Hackman
Author
Language
English
Description
Academy Award–winning actor Gene Hackman spins a cinematic tale of pirates, shipwrecks, and sea adventure. Co-written with Daniel Lenihan, one of America's leading authorities on shipwrecks and diving, Wake of the Perdido Star is a moving story of a young boy's coming of age on the high seas, full of authentic nautical and historical detail. A 19th-century sea adventure in the spirit of Patrick O'Brian, Wake of the Perdido Star is a captivating...
3) Target
Author
Language
English
Description
When his mother goes missing in Paris, teen Chris has to team up with his father to find her. They engage in a deadly race against time in an odyssey across Europe. Twists and turns abound in this fast-paced, action-adventure thriller.
Author
Language
English
Description
Ted Kotcheff continues his First Blood fervor with Uncommon Valor. Gene Hackman stars as Cal Rhodes, a former Marine Colonel who has been getting the run-around for ten years from the government concerning the disappearance of his son and his buddies - all Marines who enlisted years prior and served in Vietnam. Rhodes' son was last seen in Laos, where he was fighting in the war and captured as a POW. When word gets back to Rhodes that the men may...
7) Unforgiven
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
Two retired outlaws take up their guns one last time to collect a bounty offered by a group of prostitutes seeking revenge, and run up against the sadistic sheriff of Big Whiskey Montana.
8) The birdcage
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
Armand & Albert,a middle-aged gay couple, reluctantly accept Armand's son's intention to marry the daughter of a conservative Senator, but when the fiancee's family comes to visit, the whole household is turned upside down.
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
A former Rough Rider, a lovely but shady lady-in-distress, a drifting ex-cowboy, a young reckless cowboy, a haughty English sportsman, and a gutsy Pony Express rider come together to battle the trials of the rugged West in a grueling 700-mile horse race.
10) Absolute power
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
He was where he shouldn't have been and saw what he shouldn't have seen. Now, who will believe the word of a career thief and ex-con? Who will trust Luther Whitney when he says he saw a woman killed and that the man responsible for her death is the President of the United States?
12) Hoosiers
Publisher
MGM/UA
Pub. Date
2000, 1986
Language
English
Description
A basketball coach with a checkered past leads him to a last-chance position with a last-chance team.
13) Bonnie and Clyde
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
Bonnie and Clyde rob banks and go on a violent bloody spree through the Depression-era Southwest.
15) The chamber
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
Adam Hall is an idealistic young attorney who takes on the death row clemency case of his one-time Klansman grandfather, Sam Cayhall. With just 28 days before the execution, Adam sets out to retrace the events leading to the crime for which Sam was convicted. As the impending death sentence looms closer, Adam works quickly to uncover the family's history for any hidden clues. In a white-knuckle series of twists and turns, Adam discovers deceptions...
Series
Criterion collection volume 157
Publisher
distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Language
English
Description
Three grown prodigies, all with a unique genius of some kind, and their mother are staying at the family household. Their father, Royal, had left them long ago, but now returns to make things right with his family.
17) Hoosiers
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
A basketball coach with a checkered past leads him to a last-chance position with a last-chance team.
18) Under suspicion
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
"Two men. One night. The police captain on the island of Puerto Rico interviews a prominent tax attorney and old friend - the witness to one of a shocking series of brutal crimes. But what begins as a cooperative conversation between peers descends into a night of intense interrogation between fierce adversaries. A hidden past. A secret life. Witness or suspect? Guilty or innocent?"--Container.
19) Crimson tide
Publisher
Hollywood Pictures Home Video
Pub. Date
[n.d.]
Language
English
Description
In the midst of a global crisis, the USS Alabama receives an unconfirmed order to launch its nuclear missiles. The tension quickly rises as the sub's respected commander and his brilliant executive officer clash over the validity of their orders, battling each other for control of the sub.
20) Get Shorty
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
Chili Palmer, a Miami loan shark who can make even a "slow pay" come across, follows a mark to Hollywood, ends up partners with him and makes it big in the movie business.