Tom Hanks
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"From the Academy Award-winning actor and best-selling author: his debut novel. The story of the making of a colossal, star-studded, multimillion-dollar superhero action film...and the humble comic book that inspired it. PART ONE of this story takes place in 1947. A troubled soldier, returning from the war, meets his talented five-year-old nephew, leaves an indelible impression, and then disappears for 23 years. Cut to 1970: The nephew, now drawing...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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"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...
Author
Language
English
Description
Tom Hanks stars as Joe, a squashed bug of a guy under the heel of ahideous corporation, working in an awful office with bad air, bad lightand lousy coffee...Then everything changes in this romantic comedy aboutcourage and a man's soul ... of a man coming back to life on a journeythat takes him halfway around the world. To the edge of great delight. To the brink of an exploding volcano.
5) The Terminal
Author
Language
English
Description
After arriving at New York's JFK airport, Viktor Navorski gets unwittingly caught in bureaucratic glitches that make it impossible for him to return to his home country or enter the U.S.
6) Forrest Gump
Author
Language
English
Description
Tom Hanks gives an astonishing performance as Forrest; an everyman whose simple innocence comes to embody a generation.
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Language
English
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At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a lavish estate in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. Meant as a surprise for his wife, the house sets in motion the undoing of everyone he loves. Cyril's son Danny and his older sister Maeve are exiled from...
12) 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.
13) You've got mail
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Rival book dealers unwittingly fall anonymously head over heels in love via the Internet.
14) The ladykillers
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
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.
18) Bridge of spies
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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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.
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Typewriter expert and collector Anthony Casillo presents a visual homage to the device that revolutionized correspondence" ( The Florida Times-Union ). From the creation of the QWERTY keyboard to the world's first portable typing machine, this handsome collection is a visual homage to the golden age of the typewriter. From the world's first commercially successful typewriter -- the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer of 1874 -- to the iconic electric models...
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.