Gene Hackman
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English
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Academy Award–winning actor Gene Hackman spins a cinematic tale of pirates, shipwrecks, and sea adventure. Co-written with Daniel Lenihan, one of America's leading authorities on shipwrecks and diving, Wake of the Perdido Star is a moving story of a young boy's coming of age on the high seas, full of authentic nautical and historical detail. A 19th-century sea adventure in the spirit of Patrick O'Brian, Wake of the Perdido Star is a captivating...
4) Hoosiers
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English
Description
A man gets a last-chance job coaching a small-town Indiana high-school basketball team and faces the dual challenge of bringing this underdog team to the 1951 state championship and redeeming himself from a mysterious past.
5) Target
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English
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When his mother goes missing in Paris, teen Chris has to team up with his father to find her. They engage in a deadly race against time in an odyssey across Europe. Twists and turns abound in this fast-paced, action-adventure thriller.
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English
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Max (Sigourney Weaver) and Page (Jennifer Love Hewitt) are a brilliant mother/daughter con team who have their grift down to a fine science. Max targets wealthy, willing men who fall prey to her beauty and charm, and marries them. The equally gorgeous Page then seduces them. Max "catches" her wayward husbands in the act. Then it's off to palimony city - with the hapless men losing much more than their shirts - and on to the next mark, with Max and...
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Ted Kotcheff continues his First Blood fervor with Uncommon Valor. Gene Hackman stars as Cal Rhodes, a former Marine Colonel who has been getting the run-around for ten years from the government concerning the disappearance of his son and his buddies - all Marines who enlisted years prior and served in Vietnam. Rhodes' son was last seen in Laos, where he was fighting in the war and captured as a POW. When word gets back to Rhodes that the men may...
9) Reds
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English
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Warren Beatty's award winning epic mixes drama and interviews with major social radicals of the period. "REDS" tells the story of the love affair between activists Louise Bryant and John Reed. Set against the backdrop of the tumultuous start of the twentieth century, the two journalists' on-again off-again romance is punctuated by the outbreak of WWI and the Bolshevik Revolution. Louise's assignment in France at the outbreak of the war puts an end...
11) Unforgiven
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Language
English
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Bill Munny, a retired, once ruthless killer-turned-hog farmer, is flat broke. A widower with two young children to tend to, he feels he has no choice but to accept one last bounty hunter mission to find and kill two young gunslingers who brutalized and cut up the face of a local prostitute. Bill teams up with his old partner Ned and the cocky greenhorn, The Schofield Kid. The three men soon find out this bounty has many more obstacles to overcome...
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen 25th anniversary series.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Hollywood actress Suzanne Vale is on a slippery slope as a recovering addict. On exit from rehab, it is recommended she stay with her mother, who has become a somewhat champion drinker herself. Suzanne therefore struggles to maintain her sobriety and her sanity in the company of Doris.
13) Downhill racer
Series
Criterion collection volume 494
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([18] p. : col. ill. ; 19 cm.)
Language
English
Description
A skier desperate to win gold in the Olympics joins an American team only to find that his new coach doesn't agree with how he goes about getting it.
14) Bonnie and Clyde
Language
English
Description
The story of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, who robbed banks across the country during the Depression era.
15) Under suspicion
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Two men. One night. The police captain on the island of Puerto Rico interviews a prominent tax attorney and old friend - the witness to one of a shocking series of brutal crimes. But what begins as a cooperative conversation between peers descends into a night of intense interrogation between fierce adversaries. A hidden past. A secret life. Witness or suspect? Guilty or innocent?"--Container.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Edition
Widescreen version (2.35:1)
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Navy flight navigator Lt. Burnett and his pilot are shot down over Bosnia during a routine reconaissance mission after seeing something the Serbian forces didn't want them to see. Once on the ground, deep inside enemy territory, the chase is on as they are tracked by rebel forces who want to make sure they are dead. Meanwhile back on the aircraft carrier, the commander, who wants to mount a rescue mission, must play political games to make it happen....
17) The birdcage
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1998
Edition
Widescreen and standard versions.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (119 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of a middle-aged gay couple's comic encounter with a self-righteously straight and conservative family. Armand and Albert reluctantly accept young Val's intention to marry the daughter of a conservative Senator, but when the fiancee's family comes to visit, the whole household is turned upside down.
18) Get Shorty
Publisher
MGM/UA Home Video
Pub. Date
1997, c1995
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Loanshark Chili Palmer has done his time as a gangster, so when "business" takes him to Los Angeles to collect a debt from down and out filmmakerHarry Zimm, he talks tough and then pitches Harry a script idea. Everything would be smooth for this cool new producer, if it were't for the drug smugglers and gangsters who won't leave him alone.
19) Absolute power
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1997
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
He was where he shouldn't have been and saw what he shouldn't have seen. Now, who will believe the word of a career thief and ex-con? Who will trust Luther Whitney when he says he saw a woman killed and that the man responsible for her death is the President of the United States?
20) The chamber
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
c1996, 1998
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Adam Hall is an idealistic young attorney who takes on the death row clemency case of his one-time Klansman grandfather, Sam Cayhall. With just 28 days before the execution, Adam sets out to retrace the events leading to the crime for which Sam was convicted. As the impending death sentence looms closer, Adam works quickly to uncover the family's history for any hidden clues. In a white-knuckle series of twists and turns, Adam discovers deceptions...