Gene Hackman
21) 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.
22) 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.
23) Absolute power
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1997
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
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?
24) 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...
25) Runaway jury
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 122 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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...
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (127 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in Mississippi in 1964, this is a fictionalized version of the case of the murder of three young civil rights workers, the FBI's attempts to find the missing boys and the clash between the authorities and the locals in a Klan-dominated town.
27) The conversation
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
©2000
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
28) Bonnie and Clyde
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1997]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sd., col., double sided ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A mixture of comedy and brutal violence, this film is based on the exploits of the notorious American outlaws of the 1930's, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow.
29) No way out
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A powerful tale of intrigue set in the political whirl of Washington and the inner corridors of the Pentagon.
Series
Criterion collection volume 157
Publisher
distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Edition
Widescreen version (2.35:1)
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
Publisher
Distributed by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A local plumber is plunged into the national spotlight when he takes on the former President of the United States, who can't believe he's running against a man who installed his toilets. To make matters worse, the ex-president is trying to steal the election -- and the affection of the handyman's girlfriend. Whoever wins, one thing's for sure, this town is not small enough for both of them.
33) The Firm
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2000
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (154 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A brilliant and ambitious Harvard Law grad joins a small, prosperous law firm in Memphis, and is soon confronted by FBI agents with evidence of corruption and murder within the firm.
34) Crimson tide
Language
English
Formats
Description
On board a nuclear submarine headed for Russia where radicals are threatening to start World War 3, Captain Ramsey and First officer Hunter clash over the validity of an unverified message to launch their missiles. With nuclear holocaust close at hand, mutiny erupts, pitting the entire crew against each other in a showdown that will decide the fate of the world.
35) The replacements
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Shane Falco, a washed-out all-American QB, guides a team of misfits assembled by veteran coach Jimmy McGinty to replace striking pro players.
36) Hoosiers
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (1 hr., 55 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A basketball coach with a checkered past leads him to a last-chance position with a last-chance team.
37) Unforgiven
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Blu-ray edition.
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray disc (131 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two retired, down-on-their luck outlaws pick up their guns one last time to collect a bounty offered by the vengeful prostitutes of the remote Wyoming town of Big Whiskey.
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Widescreen special extended ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 140 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A suspenseful story of espionage and corruption. Robert Clayton Dean is a successful attorney with a happy home life, until he unknowingly receives top-secret information about a murder and becomes the target of a pursuit.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (videodisc) (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Lately, FLoyd is experiencing more than his fair share of hard times. The Blue Water Grill, his Gulf Coast cafe, is about to be seized for back taxes owed to the government. His wife disappears without a trace, leaving behind her father, who lives in and out of senility. And a potential buyer won't give up until the cafe is his. As Floyd begins to accept his new way of life, in walks Louise, a beautiful, smart woman who has big plans for the Blue...
40) Unforgiven
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2002
Edition
Widescreen version; 10th anniversary ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (131 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two retired, down-on-their luck outlaws pick up their guns one last time to collect a bounty offered by the vengeful prostitutes of the remote Wyoming town of Big Whiskey.