Mike Nichols
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the humble beginnings of a frontier army camp, Fort Worth transformed into a city as cattle drives, railroads, oil and national defense drove its economy. During the tremendous growth, the landscape and cultural imprint of the city changed drastically, and much of Cowtown was lost to history. Witness the birth of western swing music and the death of a cloud dancer. See mansions of the well-heeled and saloons of the well-armed. Meet two gunfighters,...
3) Wit
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
English professor Vivian Bearing reflects on life when she is diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer.
4) Working girl
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
A bright Wall Street secretary rises to a professional position by posing as her classy but treacherous boss.
5) The graduate
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
A young man graduates with honors, meets and has an affair with one of his parents' friends, and is urged to date her daughter. He falls in love with the daughter.
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.
7) Closer
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Dan, an aspiring novelist, cannot help but feel immensely attracted to Alice, a young American waitress and stripper who is in London after escaping from a failed relationship. The two meet after Alice is involved in a car accident. But nothing last forever, and after some time Dan meets Anna, a photographer, and he feels attracted to her. Nothing happens right away, but once it does, things go downhill for Alice and Dan. The two don't break up,...
8) The birdcage
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this hysterical comedy, Armand (Robin Williams) and Albert (Nathan Lane) have built the perfect life for themselves tending to their gaudy Miami nightclub. But their pastel tranquility is shaken when Armand's son announces that he's getting married to the daughter of ultra-conservative Senator Keeley (Gene Hackman)...and they're all getting together for dinner! Can Armand and Albert transform themselves into Mr. and Mrs. Family Values in time?...
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
When music is your whole life, and suddenly life gets interrupted… In raw, emotional interviews, 80s rock icon John Waite reflects on his 5-decade career. When performing live is not an option - he’s forced to finally confront himself.
10) Catch-22
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1970.
Language
English
Description
**Oscar** winner Mike Nichols superbly directs this cinematic adaptation of Joseph Heller’s scathing black comedy about a small group of pilots in the Mediterranean in 1944. There are winners and losers, opportunists and survivors. Separately and together they are nervous, frightened, often profane and sometimes pathetic. Almost all are a little crazy. CATCH-22 is an anti-war satire of epic proportions. Nominated for The UN Award and Best Cinematography...
11) Silkwood
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003, c1983
Language
English
Description
Based on the story of Karen Silkwood who is poisoned by plutonium in the Kerr-McGee Nuclear plant, where she works. She speaks out against the plant's safety hazards and loses her job, many of her friends, and her life in a mysterious accident.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1974.
Language
English
Description
Jake Terrell (George C. Scott), a biologist who devotes his life to dolphin research, has concentrated his efforts for four years on Alpha, an animal born and brought up in the center, and for whom he feels an almost fatherly affection. Regrettably, the outside world insists on trying to use his research for political ends and Jake finds himself trapped tragically between these forces and his own beliefs. Nominated for Best Sound and Best Original...
16) Robert Catch 22
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
An evening of readings and discussion: Heller's friends and colleagues including Christopher Buckley, Robert Gottlieb, and Mike Nichols. They revisit his classic black comedy set at the end of World War II, one of the most important books about patriotism, honor, and the absurdities of war and beauracracy of the 20th century. The conversation is led by Lesley Stahl. An excerpt is performed by Scott Shepherd (Gatz).
17) The Birdcage
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Language
English
Description
Robin Williams, Gene Hackman, Nathan Lane and Dianne Wiest lead the laughs in this wild comedy that insists you don't have to be a woman to be a mother.
18) Regarding Henry
Author
Language
English
Description
Henry Turner is a successful but ruthless New York lawyer who needs to win at any cost, even at the expense of his wife and daughter. But a single gun shot brings Henry's fast-track rise to a dead stop, leaving him incapacitated and with no memory of the life he used to lead. Now, faced with starting over, Henry Turner is about to learn the hard truth about a total stranger…himself.
19) Catch-22
Author
Language
English
Description
Mike Nichols superbly directed this cinematic adaptation of Joseph Heller’s scathing black comedy, a tale of a small group of flyers in the Mediterranean in 1944. There are winners and losers, opportunists and survivors. Separately and together they are nervous, frightened, often profane and sometimes pathetic. Almost all are a little crazy. Catch-22 is an anti-war satire of epic proportions.