Tom Hanks
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A gentle Eastern European immigrant arrives in New York City after his family and his life have been torn apart by his country's civil war. A man who loves to bowl rolls a perfect game--and then another and then another and then many more in a row until he winds up ESPN's newest celebrity, and he must decide if the combination of perfection and celebrity has ruined the thing he loves. An eccentric billionaire and his faithful executive assistant...
3) Mike Nichols
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The life and 50th-year of director Mike Nichols, one of only two people who have won Peabody, Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony awards.
6) Big
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
A 12-year-old boy's wish comes true when he asks a mechanical carnival genie to make him 'big'. He manages to land a job at a toy company where he experiences the complications of being an adult.
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Marva Munson is a spry, elderly woman who is looking for a tenant for the spare room in her house. Goldthwait H. Dorr moves in and gains Munson's permission to use the basement for rehearsals with his "medieval music ensemble." Dorr is masterminding the robbery of a riverboat casino, and the fellow musicians in his ensemble are actually the crew he's assembled to pull off the job. Despite their best efforts, Munson finds out about their scheme and...
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Language
English
Description
Michael Sullivan works as an enforcer for his adopted father, Irish gangster John Rooney. When Sullivan's son, Mike Jr., witnesses one of his father's killings on Rooney's behalf, the gangster decides that his ward and his family are liabilities that must be removed. Sullivan tries to safeguard his son and get even with the man who betrayed him, while his son focuses on bonding with his emotionally distant father.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The story begins with World War II's historic D-Day invasion of Normandy beach. Once the men move beyond the beach, Captain John Miller must take his men behind the German lines to find Private James Ryan, whose three brothers have already been killed in combat. Faced with impossible odds, the men question their orders. Why are eight men risking their lives to save just one? Surrounded by the brutal realities of war, each man searches for his own...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Follows nine-year-old Oskar Schell as he encounters a number of interesting characters in his search for information about his father, who died in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, and tries to find the lock that fits the mysterious key he left behind.
13) The Pacific
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
A ten-part miniseries that delivers a realistic portrait of WWII's Pacific Theatre as seen through the intertwined odysseys of three U.S. Marines - Robert Leckie, John Basilone, and Eugene Sledge.
14) Toy story 3
Publisher
distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Andy's toys are accidently donated to Sunnyside Daycare when he leaves for college, and while Buzz and the others are first excited by the prospect of kids to play with, they find that being thrown, smashed, and slobbered on is not a lot of fun.
15) Bridge of spies
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
James Donovan is a Brooklyn lawyer who finds himself thrust into the center of the Cold War when the CIA sends him on the near-impossible task to negotiate the release of a captured American U-2 pilot.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
1997, c1992
Language
English
Description
A washed-up ballplayer is hired to coach in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League while the male pros are at war in 1943, and finds himself drawn back into the game by the heart and heroics of his team.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008, c2007
Language
English
Description
Congressman Charlie Wilson, Houston socialite Joanne Herring, and CIA agent Gust Avrakotos conspire to bring about one of the United States' biggest covert operations in history, involving Afghanistan's fight against the invasion of the Soviet Union in the 1980s.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Max, sent to bed without his dinner, runs away, finds a boat, and sails off--still wearing his wolf suit--to a faraway land inhabited by gigantic, fuzzy monsters that welcome Max as their king, but he finds being a ruler more difficult than it looks and must decide whether to stay or return home.
20) Volunteers
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
A young man escapes the bookies he owes $28,000 by fleeing to Thailand with a group of Peace Corps volunteers.
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