Talia Shire
2) Rad
Publisher
Utopia
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
English
Description
A bicycle-motocrosser (Bill Allen) tries to enter a corrupt promoter's nationally televised cash-prize race.
3) Rocky
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
An amateur boxer is given the chance to pursue his ultimate goal--compete for the world heavyweight title.
4) Rocky
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Rocky Balboa is a struggling boxer trying to make the big time. He works in a meat factory in Philadelphia for a meager wages so he also earns extra cash as a debt collector. When heavyweight champion Apollo Creed visits Philadelphia, his managers want to set up an exhibition match between Creed and a struggling boxer. The promoters are touting the fight as a chance for a "nobody" to become a "somebody". The match is supposed to be easily won by Creed,...
5) Rocky II
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment [distributor]
Pub. Date
[2004], c1979
Language
English
Description
After holding his own in the brutal fight for the heavyweight title, Rocky must now learn to cope with the realities of his success and the responsibilities of marriage and fatherhood.
7) Working Man
Author
Language
English
Description
When the last factory in a small Rust Belt town closes, an unlikely hero emerges. Against the advice of his wife (Shire), a career employee (Gerety) forms a friendship with his neighbor in order to revive the defunct factory.
Author
Language
English
Description
Arrogant Hollywood talent agent Josh Ross is sent to Guatemala to find Oscar-winning actor Jack Palladin. Having never met, the search is emotionally complicated as the long-retired star was once married to Josh's late mother. Josh's contempt for the 'old' actor mirrors his comedic distaste for the local community whose help he desperately needs to find him. What he hopes will be a quick and lucrative deal turns into a soul-searching journey for both...
10) Dunsmore
Author
Language
English
Description
When local bully Ronny Roy Pritcher is brutally murdered, the media descends on this small town, and Special Investigator Walter Taylor is sent to question the local townspeople. At first no one will talk to an outsider-but gradually Taylor learns the details of Pritcher's sadistic reign of terror and the horrifying events leading up to his death. Based on a true story.
11) New York Stories
Author
Language
English
Description
A collection of cinematic short stories directed by three of America's premier directors: Woody Allen, Francis Coppola and Martin Scorsese. . "Oedipus Wrecks" - Sheldon Mills, a successful but desperate New York attorney, begins an unusual search to discover what became of his mother who mysteriously disappeared. Sheldon is aided by his girlfriend, Lisa and his hard-of-hearing, Aunt Ceil. . "Life Without Zoe" - an irrepressible Manhattan teenager...
Author
Language
English
Description
Billionaire businessman and playboy Ferro Olivetti (Alfieri) enjoys the privileges and perks of his social stature, but on his father's deathbed he promises to obey his father's last wish and spend one month away from his identity and money. A Secret Promise stars Victor Alfieri, Ione Skye ("Say Anything", award-winning actress Talia Shire ("Rocky") and Ron Silver in what would be his final role before his death.
13) Lured Innocence
Author
Language
English
Description
Elsie Townsend is a country towns-girl who wants to leave far away and get rich. She becomes the spoiled mistress of married local businessman Rick Chambers, but when his sickly wife Martha tells her to fear he wants to kill her to be free and yet keep her money, accepts to kill him together- which is a setup to scare Martha to dead. However Rick alone is locked away, and Elsie arranges an original alibi by slipping away from the bed of decent epilepsy-sufferer...