Stacey Sher
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A stagecoach hurtles through the wintry Wyoming landscape. Bounty hunter John Ruth and his fugitive Daisy race toward the town of Red Rock, where Ruth will bring Daisy to justice. Losing their lead on the blizzard, they seek refuge at Minnie's, a stagecoach stopover on a mountain pass. When they arrive at Minnie's, they are greeted not by the proprietor but by four unfamiliar faces. As the storm overtakes the mountainside stopover, our travelers come...
2) Contagion
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A thriller centered on the threat posed by a deadly disease and an international team of doctors contracted by the CDC to deal with the outbreak.
3) Respect
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Following the rise of Aretha Franklin's career from a child singing in her father's church's choir to her international superstardom, this film tells the remarkable true story of the music icon's journey to find her voice.
4) Pulp fiction
Language
English
Description
The lives of two mob hit men, a boxer, a gangster's wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Language
English
Formats
Description
"WORLD TRADE CENTER is a film about heroism and the best in all of us," raves Good Morning America's Joel Siegel. Academy Award winner, Nicolas Cage stars in the unforgettable true story of the courageous rescue and survival of two Port Authority policemen who were trapped in the rubble on September 11, 2001 after they volunteered to go in and help. Academy Award winning director, Oliver Stone reveals an intimate look at the events of the day as seen...
7) Be cool
Language
English
Formats
Description
Chili Palmer is tired of the producing movies after being forced to make a useless sequel. When a music producer friend is gunned down, he offers to help his widow run the business. Checking out a talented singer that his friend had been talking to him about puts Chili at odds with her sleazy music manager, his gay bodyguard, and his equally sleazy partner. The mismanagement of the music company also gets Chili threatened by members of the Russian...
8) Burnt
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
Chef Adam Jones had it all, and lost it. A rockstar chef of a two-star Michelin restaurant with the bad habits to match, the former enfant terrible of the Paris restaurant scene did everything different every time out and only ever cared about the thrill of creating explosions of taste. To land his own kitchen and that third elusive Michelin star though, he₂ll need the best of the best on his side, including the beautiful Helene.
9) Gattaca
Language
English
Description
As one of the last "natural" beings born into a genetically engineered world, Vincent Freeman has none of the 'pre-ordered' DNA that will guarantee him success. Desperate to realize his dream of exploring space, Vincent assumes the identity of a genetically superior athlete. Avoiding detection using the athlete's genetic markers, Vincent becomes a rising star at Gattaca Aerospace, attracting the attention of a beautiful co-worker. When a flight director...
10) Out of sight
Language
English
Formats
Description
A career bank robber busts out of jail with the help of his buddy and kidnaps a U.S. Marshal in the process. When the two cons head for Detroit to pull off their final big heist, the Marshal is put on their case but she finds she is attracted to one of them and has second thoughts about bringing them in.
11) Freedom Writers
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
A true story about a teacher in a racially divided school who gives her students what they've always needed, a voice. Erin Gruwell comes to a southern California high school bubbling over with naive optimism. She quickly discovers that her unruly classroom is not easily won over by her good intentions. After a few floundering attempts to connect with her students, Gruwell gives them the assignment of keeping journals about their own lives, This assignment...
12) Contagion
Language
English
Formats
Description
A thriller centered on the threat posed by a deadly disease and an international team of doctors contracted by the CDC to deal with the outbreak.
13) Along came Polly
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Reuben Feffer, a professional risk assessor, is not one to ever take chances in any aspect of his life. But when his new bride Lisa leaves him for French scuba instructor Claude on their honeymoon, he finally decides to take a risk of his own. At a party, he meets free-spirited Polly, whom he remembers from the seventh grade. Unlike the control-freak Reuben, she's spent her life living on the edge. They reluctantly begin a romance and Polly introduces...
14) Erin Brockovich
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
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Description
Erin Brockovich is a feisty young mother who convinces attorney Ed Masry to hire her and promptly stumbles upon a monumental law case against a giant corporation. Erin's determined to take on this powerful adversary even though no law firm has dared to do it before. The two begin an incredible and sometimes hilarious fight that will bring a small town to its feet and a huge company to its knees.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Short-shorts bedecked Lt. Dangle and company head to Miami for the American Police Convention. No sooner can you say "bio-terrorism" than the hotel is quarantined. The Wahoe County's hapless misfits get shut out when their credentials can't be found. But the crew must step in and save the city from "complete chaos." Complete chaos ensues. The cops, with an early "814" call that does not, as the officers believe, decode as armed intruder, but actually...
16) LOL
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
A teenage girl tries to avoid her overprotective mother as she struggles with the challenges of high school, relationships, and peer pressure.
17) Get Shorty
Series
Shout select volume 51
Language
English
Formats
Description
Loan shark Chili Palmer is bored with the business. So when he arrives in LA to collect a debt from down-and-out filmmaker Harry Zimm, Chili talks tough, and then pitches Harry a script idea. Immediately, Chili is swept into the Hollywood scene: He schmoozes film star Martin Weir, romances B-movie queen Karen Flores and even gets reservations at the hottest restaurants in town. Bonus features included.
18) Wish I was here
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Aidan Bloom ... a husband and father of two, is set on pursuing his dream as an actor when his father ... reveals he's battling a serious illness. As the announcement disrupts Aidan's day-to-day existence, his decision to homeschool his children will lead him on an unexpected journey of discovery"--Container.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Erin Brockovich: Erin Brockovich is a feisty young mother who convinces attorney Ed Masry to hire her and promptly stumbles upon a monumental law case against a giant corporation. Erin's determined to take on this powerful adversary even though no law firm has dared to do it before. The two begin an incredible and sometimes hilarious fight that will bring a small town to its feet and a huge company to its knees.
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