Miramax Home Entertainment (Firm)
21) About Adam
Publisher
distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001], c2000
Language
English
Description
Three sisters, one guy ... he's the most outrageous secret ever kept ... from each other. Lucy has had a string of boyfriends, until she meets Adam. She brings him home to meet her family and they all heartily approve. When Lucy asks Adam to marry her, he agrees, to the complete surprise of her sisters.
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Language
English
Description
In 1931, Molly and her younger cousins, Gracie and Daisy, were three half-caste children from Western Australia who were taken from their parents under government edict and sent to an institution, were taught to forget their families, their culture, and re-invent themselves as members of "white" Australian society. The three girls begin an epic journey back to Western Australia, travelling 1,500 miles on foot with no food or water, and navigating...
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
The Bride continues on her deadly pursuit of her former partners in the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad, who, in a furious assult, attempted to murder her and her unborn child on her wedding day. As the Bride faces off against allies-turned-nemeses Budd and Elle, she flashes back to the day of her deadly wedding. We learn how she was recruited and trained and about her relationship with Squad leader Bill.
24) Chicago
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
At a time when crimes of passion result in celebrity headlines, nightclub sensation Velma Kelly and spotlight-seeking Roxie Hart both find themselves on Chicago's famed Murderess Row. They also share Billy Flynn, the town's slickest lawyer with a talent for turning notorious defendants into local legends.
26) Bounce
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001], c2000
Language
English
Description
Buddy Amaral, a hotshot ad exec, gives his airplane ticket to a father hurrying to get home for the holidays. The airplane crashes that night, and guilt-ridden Buddy turns to alcohol. After going through rehab, he decides to look up the widow of the father, but after falling in love with her, he debates telling her exactly who he is.
27) Serendipity
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Language
English
Description
When Jonathan and Sara meet, it's love at first sight. Soon after meeting, they go their separate ways to test fate. If they should meet again, they would know they were meant to be together.
Publisher
distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Algernon is a gentlemen from a wealthy family. Algernon's close friend Jack, has a ward, Cecily. Both Algernon and Jack have created alter egos to make life more interesting. Algernon arrives for a weekend visit in the country posing as Earnest. Having heard of Earnest's misadventures, Cicely has developed an infatuation with the rogue, and Algernon's impersonation of him works famously on Cicely. Meanwhile, Algernon's cousin, Gwendolyn, arrives for...
29) Shall we dance
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005, c2004
Language
English
Description
An overworked lawyer begins secretly taking ballroom dancing lessons to rekindle his pasion for life.
31) The human stain
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Language
English
Description
Coleman Silk is a respected professor at a New England college who suddenly finds his life unraveling after a comment he makes about some African-American students is misinterpreted as a racial slur. As the scandal heats up, Nathan Zuckerman, a writer researching a biography of Silk, begins to dig deeply into Silk's life. Eventually, matters are made worse when Coleman's affair with a young married janitor named Faunia Farley is exposed. But amid...
32) The Queen
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
An intimate, moving portrait of Queen Elizabeth and Tony Blair following the untimely death of Princess Diana. The Queen's restrained reaction causes a public relations debacle that Prime Minister Blair must defuse. The two struggle to reach a compromise between what was a private tragedy for the Royal family and the public's demand for an open display of mourning.
33) Robinson Crusoe
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002], c1996
Language
English
Description
A film adaptation of the Daniel Dafoe novel in which an Englishman, the sole survivor of a high-seas shipwreck, takes up a solitary existence on a deserted tropical island, but finds he is not alone when he is compelled to save a member of a barbaric tribe who is slated to become a human sacrifice.
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Language
English
Description
Four years after taking a bullet in the head at her own wedding, the bride emerges from a coma and decides its time for payback ... with a vengeance. Having been gunned down by her former boss and his deadly squad of international assassins, it's a kill-or-be-killed fight. She didn't start this deadly series of events, but she is definately determined to finish the business.
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2001
Language
English
Description
A story that led to the events of the United States military involvement in Vietnam. Here, a love triangle between a British journalist, his mistress, and a mysterious CIA operative evolves into a much greater mystery that eventually leads to murder and deception.
36) Behind the sun
Publisher
distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Language
Portuguese
Description
Two families, who both grow sugar cane, have been squabbling over the ownership of a piece of land for years. The disagreement then turned violent. The Breveses, a much smaller family, have been suffering more than their rivals and a steady drop in sugar prices has also left the family with little but their pride. When the eldest son of the Breves family is killed, his father orders his next-oldest son to kill one of the Ferreira boys. He finds himself...
37) The hoax
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Pathological liar, Clifford Irving, stages a complex hoax. In the 1970's Irving managed to fool a major publisher and LIFE magazine into thinking he was writing an authorized biography of Howard Hughes. Irving and his best friend and partner, Dick Susskind, go to extreme lengths to pull off the hair-brained scheme. The more outrageous the lies they concoct, the more believable they become and the more money gets thrown at them. Inspired by the unbelievable...
38) Calle 54
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
Español
Description
Introduced to Latin jazz in the 1980s, when he was beginning his career as a director, Fernando Trueba has since become a devoted fan of the music. Noted jazz artists have scored for some of his films and he took his love of the music one step further in which he gathered together a number of his favorite Latin jazz artists for a series of interviews and performances.
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
The Bride continues on her deadly pursuit of her former partners in the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad, who, in a furious assault, attempted to murder her and her unborn child on her wedding day. As the Bride faces off against allies-turned-nemeses Budd and Elle, she flashes back to the day of her deadly wedding. We learn how she was recruited and trained and about her relationship with Squad leader Bill.