Mary Steenburgen
1) Powder
Author
Language
English
Description
Harassed by classmates who won't accept his shocking appearance, a shy young man known as Powder struggles to fit in. But the cruel taunts stop when Powder displays a mysterious power that allows him to do extraordinary things.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Video
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Nice guy Melvin Dummar is a total loser who can't keep a job. One night Melvin picks up an old man who has had a motorcycle accident in the Nevada desert. Eight years later, the hitchhiker turns out to have been Howard Hughes who has named Melvin a beneficiary of his multi-billion dollar fortune.
4) Song One
Publisher
Cineverse
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Oscar winner Anne Hathaway stars as Franny in this romantic drama set in Brooklyn's indie music scene. After her brother is in an accident, Franny returns home only to fall in love with her brother’s musical idol.
7) Elf
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Language
English
Description
A human baby accidently ends up at the North Pole and grows up among the elf community. Buddy, as he comes to be known, knows that he's "special". When he's 30, Buddy learns from Santa that he's really a human. He decides to go in search of his father, to find out where he belongs. He walks to Manhattan, and is immediately run over by a cab. His father at first rejects him and Buddy ends up in a department store where other elves are working. But...
Publisher
Shout Studios
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
After spending two decades in England, Bill Bryson (Robert Redford) returns to the U.S., where he decides the best way to connect with his homeland is to hike the Appalachian Trail with one of his oldest friends, Stephen Katz (Nick Nolte).
9) Philadelphia
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1997], c1993
Language
English
Description
A story of two lawyers who join together to sue a prestigious Philadelphia law firm when the firm fires one of them because he has AIDS.
10) Four Christmases
Publisher
New Line Home Video
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
A couple struggles to visit all four of their divorced parents on Christmas Day.
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
In Back to the future (part 1), it's the mid-80's, and Marty McFly is your average 17-year-old slacker who happens to be friends with an inventor, Doc Brown. Doc's latest invention is a time machine, that ends up transporting Mary back to 1955 where he must bring get his parents together so that he will exist when he gets back to his own time. In Back to the future II, Marty visits 2015 to straighten out the future of the McFly family, but Biff Tannen...
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
A Musical Romance starring Academy Award Winner Marisa Tomei, Robert Carlyle and John Goodman that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Frank has been consumed by grief over his wife's death. But everything changes when he pulls over on a rural highway to help a dying stranger entangled in a car wreck. En route to fulfill a forty-year promise to his childhood sweetheart, the stranger shares a compelling tale of adolescent love replete with first...
13) Life as a House
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
After being diagnosed with terminal cancer, a divorced man takes custody of his contemptuous teenage son, for whom quality time means doing drugs, engaging in small-time prostitution and avoiding his dying father. In his last chance to fulfill one of his life's dreams, the dad, who is an architect, begins to rebuild an old house.
14) The brave one
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2008, c2007
Language
English
Description
Radio host Erica Bain, who was beaten by three thugs and witnessed her fiancé's killing, decides to buy a gun to cope with the trauma of the incident and starts seeking vigilante justice in the streets of New York.
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2004], c2000
Language
English
Description
Larry's got it all: a loving wife, good friends, a successful carreer, and a great home. He is prone to speaking the unspeakable, honest to the point of insensitivity, Larry is a walking victim of misunderstandings and missed opportunities.
16) Elf
Publisher
New Line Home Video
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
A young orphan child mistakenly crawls into Santa's bag and is transported back to the North Pole to be raised as an elf. Years later, Buddy learns he is not really an elf and goes on a journey to New York to find his true identity.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Language
English
Description
Six women -- dreamy Eileen, abrasive Nan, athletic Skipper, brusque Leslie, vivacious Jennifer and patient Gayle -- are staying at a hotel in South America. Focus on the turbulent emotions these American women face surrounding the adoption of foreign babies. The six women are fed up with the long delays of the adoption system in the United States and have the common desire to adopt a child. Includes a Latina mother who is certain that her baby will...
18) Step brothers
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Brennan and Dale are two middle-aged loafers who are forced to live together when their parents get married. When their immature antics over TV privileges and personal property take their toll on their parents' marriage, the devious duo hatch a scheme to reunite the couple.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
The highly anticipated sequel follows our four best friends as they take their book dub to Italy for the fun girl's trip they never had. When things go off the rails and secrets are revealed, their relaxing vacation turns into a once-in-a-lifetime cross-country adventure.
20) Life as a house
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
A terminally ill man attempts to simultaneously reconnect with his estranged son and build the house of his dreams.