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1) Vanilla sky
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Language
English
Description
In this steamy, intriguingly complex, psychological thriller the line between reality and fantasy is hopelessly blurred. David tries to make sense of his life after a car crash leaves his once-handsome face grotesquely disfigured. After he is placed into a psychiatric penitentiary for a murder he doesn't remember committing, David's only hope is to delve into the depths of his subconscious mind where the answer to ending his living nightmare lies...
Publisher
distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Language
English
Description
Internet love connections and mail-order brides rarely ever work out, and John should have known. Having never been lucky in love and tired of waiting for the perfect woman to come along, John decides to take his chances and orders a mail-order bride from Russia. At first, things seem perfect even though Nadia doesn't speak much English. But when Nadia's 'cousins' unexpectedly arrive to celebrate her birthday, John is drawn into their web of corruption...
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.
4) Public enemy
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Classic gangster film tells the story of two brothers, one an honorable war veteran, the other a high-class gangster that sold alcohol during the prohibition.
Publisher
distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Language
English
Description
An inksetter in New York, Quoyle returns to his family's longtime home, a small fishing town in Newfoundland, with his young daughter, after a traumatizing experience with her mother, who sold her to an illegal adoption agency. Though Quoyle has had little success thus far in life, his shipping news column in the local newspaper finds an audience, and his experiences in the town begin to change his life.
6) Airport
Publisher
GoodTimes Home Video
Pub. Date
1999, c1970
Language
English
Description
The manager of an international airport must juggle personal crises with professional responsibilities as he attempts to keep his blizzard-torn facility open to rescue a bomb-damaged jetliner.
7) Dinner rush
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003], c2000
Language
English
Description
At New York's hottest restaurant, things are really heating up. Owner and bookie Louis Cropa lost a friend to a mob hit and now his chef's gambling problem has brought the unwelcome mobsters into their restaurant.
8) Badlands
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Set in South Dakota in 1959, this is the story of Kit and his girlfriend Holly, two people alienated from everyday life, who go on a killing spree.
9) Big Eden
Publisher
Wolfe Video
Pub. Date
2002, c2000
Language
English
Description
Artist Henry Hart returns to his small Montana hometown to take care of his ill grandfather. There he must confront his unrequited passion for his best friend from high school, and his own feelings about being gay in a small town.
10) Diamond men
Publisher
Distributed by Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2000
Language
English
Description
A proud but aging jewelry salesman is forced to train his own replacement, a brash kid whose every move rubs him in the wrong way. In no time at all, the kid talks his mentor into curing his loneliness at a smalltown massage parlor. Just as quickly the traveling twosome find out that gems, girls and guns make for a dangerous combination.
Series
Criterion collection volume 95
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Cary Scott, an attractive and wealthy New England widow, creates a social outcry in her community and within her family when she becomes romantically involved with Ron Kirby, her much younger gardener.
13) Bull Durham
Publisher
Orion Home Video
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
Comedy about a romantic triangle involving two minor league baseball players and the team's unofficial trainer and handler.
14) Brush with fate
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of how a priceless Vermeer painting came to be hanging in the home of lowly college professor Cornelius Engelbrecht.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
The teen-aged son of a well-to-do family gets involved in violence when he attempts to win the approval of a gang of high-school hoodlums. Before the feature are three Behind the Cameras segments from the Warner Bros. Presents TV series, including a "safe-driving" interview withdrawn from airing following Dean's death.
17) Junebug
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006, c2005
Language
English
Description
When a worldly art dealer meets her new Southern in-laws, she finds herself questioning the things she values most.
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005], c2004
Language
English
Description
Playwright James M. Barrie's career is questioned when his latest play is ill-received. But when he meets a widow and her four adventurous boys, they form a friendship that sparks the imagination needed to produce Barrie's greatest work.
19) Seabiscuit
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Relates the true story of three men and one undersized race horse who thrilled a nation.
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006, 2005]
Language
English
Description
Einar Gilkyson lives a quiet, stoic life as a rancher in Wyoming. His estranged daughter-in-law Jean shows up unexpectedly, broke and desperate, with the grandaughter Einar never knew he had. Jean and Einar learn to put their old grievances aside and make peace, not just with each other but with themselves.
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