Gene Hackman
Series
Criterion collection volume 157
Publisher
distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Language
English
Description
Three grown prodigies, all with a unique genius of some kind, and their mother are staying at the family household. Their father, Royal, had left them long ago, but now returns to make things right with his family.
22) Get Shorty
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
Chili Palmer, a Miami loan shark who can make even a "slow pay" come across, follows a mark to Hollywood, ends up partners with him and makes it big in the movie business.
23) No way out
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
A powerful tale of intrigue set in the political whirl of Washington and the inner corridors of the Pentagon.
24) The firm
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
1993
Language
English
Description
A young lawyer takes a dream job only to find out he is working for the mob and that the Feds want to use him to destroy the firm.
25) Heist
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Language
English
Description
An accomplished thief has his career jeopardized after he's caught on security cameras during a job. Broke, he and his associates are blackmailed by their longtime fence into jacking Swiss gold bars from an airplane. As they plot the complicated score, he and his crew become suspicious of the relationship between his young wife and the fence's nephew, who has been planted on the crew to keep an eye on them for his uncle. Betrayals and backstabbings...
26) The conversation
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
A provoking mystery-suspense drama explores the morality of privacy in the story of Harry Caul, a surveillance expert, who conducts a routine surveillance job only to later find himself suspicious that he has become an unwitting player in a murder scheme.
27) Superman II
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
This epic takes up where Superman, the movie leaves off. Superman deals witha trio of villians whose powers rival Superman's own.
28) Wyatt Earp
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
A potrayal of the life of Wyatt Earp, from Wichita to the O.K. Corral and beyond.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Archvillain Lex Luthor, determined to make the world safe for nuclear arms merchants, creates a new being to challenge the Man of Steel, the radiation-charged Nuclear Man. The two super-powered foes clash and Superman saves the Statue of Liberty, repulses a volcanic eruption of Mount Etna, rebuilds the demolished Great Wall of China and performs many more spectacular feats.
30) Superman
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[c2001]
Language
English
Description
As an infant, Superman is sent to earth from the doomed planet Krypton. As he grows up, he learns he has super powers which he must hide from the ordinary mortals around him.
31) Runaway jury
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Language
English
Description
After a man dies in a shooting incident, his wife files a lawsuit against the company that manufactured the gun. Her lawyer argues that the firm in question knew the shop which sold the weapon was not following federal regulations. As the case goes to trial, the firearm manufacturer takes no chances on the outcome, and they hire Rankin Fitch, a "jury consultant" who makes it his business to see that he knows enough about the jurors to be able to guarantee...
32) Extreme Measures
Author
Language
English
Description
Dr. Guy Luthan did everything right, but it turned out wrong. A patient under his care at New York's Gramercy Hospital mysteriously died, and now Luthan wants to know why. However, when he looks for postmortem details, he finds no body...and no records. Hugh Grant plays Luthan in Extreme Measures, "one of the most effective paranoid suspense movies since The Fugitive" (Chicago Tribune). Gene Hackman and Sarah Jessica Parker costar in this mystery...
33) No Way Out
Author
Language
English
Description
In a fit of rage, Secretary of Defense David Brice (Gene Hackman) murders his mistress (Sean Young). To keep a lid on the scandal, Brice's loyal aide (Will Patton) creates the perfect cover-up: he "invents" a more enticing killer - a Russian spy - and then enlists Naval Commander Tom Farrell (Costner) to find him. But as a chilling twist of fate would have it, Farrell also has a strong connection to the victim... and now all the clues he's been hired...
34) Twilight
Author
Language
English
Description
Screen legend Paul Newman heads a luminous cast in this acclaimed whodunit packed with stars and suspense.
35) First To Fight
Author
Language
English
Description
U.S. Marines are dug in and ready in First to Fight, a World War II saga that takes its title from the Marine Hymn, its battle savvy from the techical guidance of a Marine veteran of Saipan and Iwo Jima–and its power from a script by Star Trek veteran Gene L. Coon, himself a Marine sergeant during World War II and the Korean War.
Jack Connell (Chad Everett) survives overwhelming battle action on Guadalcanal. Yet his toughest test lies ahead. After...
36) The Birdcage
Author
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.
37) Another Woman
Author
Language
English
Description
A 50-year-old professor of philosophy deludes herself into thinking she's got a very good life. Suddenly, through some strange, almost magical events, it all becomes unraveled.
38) The Firm
Author
Language
English
Description
Mitch joins a prosperous Memphis firm that affords Mitch and his wife an affluent lifestyle beyond their wildest dreams. But when FBI agents confront him with evidence of corruption and murder within the firm, Mitch sets out to find the truth.