Universal Studios Home Video (Firm)
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Former police detective Adrian Monk suffers from intensified obsessive-compulsive disorder and a variety of phobias. Despite his photographic memory and his amazing ability to piece tiny clues together, he is now on psychiatric leave from the San Francisco Police Department. With the aid of his nurse Sharona Fleming, Monk works as a freelance consultant, hoping to convince his former boss to allow him to return to the force.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Audiences around the globe have been captivated by the record-breaking, award-winning productions of Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber, the worlds most successful composer for the stage. The first person to have three musicals running simultaneously in New York and London, Webber helped define the musical theatre genre with the early works in this collection.
4) Bowfinger
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
A desperate movie producer (Martin) will do anything to get his dream movie made. In fact, he's so desperate that he enlists a fairly nerdy guy with no acting experience at all (Murphy) to be his star.
6) Anchorman
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment ; Universal City, CA
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
It's the 70's and Ron Burgundy is the king of San Diego. He's the most popular news anchor in town. He and his all male news team rule the city with their sauve looks, minimal IQ's and unbelievably bad hair. In Ron's world, women don't belong in the newsroom. So when rising star reporter Veronica Corningstone fills in for Ron one night and the ratings soar, it becomes more than a battle ... it becomes war.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005], c2004
Language
English
Description
Dan is in advertising and a dedicated family man. He seems to have it all, until a younger man is hired to replace him. Before long, he is forced to be deferential to his new boss, not only in the office but also when Carter begins dating his daughter.
9) Midnight run
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2003], c1988
Language
English
Description
A bounty hunter is charged with delivering an embezzling, bail-jumping accountant to Los Angeles. What he doesn't know is that the Mob is also after said accountant for embezzling the money in the first place.
10) Monk: Season one
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Former police detective Adrian Monk suffers from intensified obsessive-compulsive disorder and a variety of phobias. Despite his photographic memory and his amazing ability to piece tiny clues together, he is now on psychiatric leave from the San Francisco Police Department. With the aid of his nurse Sharona Fleming, Monk works as a freelance consultant, hoping to convince his former boss to allow him to return to the force.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
It's 1957, and Hollywood horror director James Whale's heyday as the director of "Frankenstein," "Bride of Frankenstein" and "The invisible man" is long behind him. Retired and a semi-recluse, he lives his days accompanied only by images from his past. When his dour housekeeper Hannah hires handsome young gardener Clayton Boone, the gay director and the simple yardman develop an unlikely friendship.
13) Somewhere
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
A witty, moving, and empathetic look into the orbit of actor Johnny Marco. You have probably seen him in the tabloids; Johnny is living at the legendary Chateau Marmont hotel in Hollywood. He has a Ferrari to drive around in, and a constant stream of girls and pills to stay in with. Comfortably numbed, Johnny drifts along. Then, his 11-year-old daughter Cleo from his failed marriage arrives unexpectedly at the Chateau. Their encounters encourage Johnny...
15) The jerk
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
Navin Johnson, adopted son of a poor black sharecropper family, has invented some crazy inventions that lead him from rags to riches and right back to rags.
16) Patch Adams
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Patch Adams is a doctor who doesn't look, act or think like other doctors. For Patch, humor is the best medicine, and he's willing to do just about anything to make his patients laugh-- even if it means risking his own career. Based on a true story.
18) Darkman
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Video
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
Dr. Peyton Westlake, on the verge of a synthetic skin breakthrough, is horribly disfigured when a sadistic criminal destroys his lab.