Robert Joy
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this **Oscar**-nominated romantic thriller, Atlantic City has been revitalized with the legalization of gambling. But the new industry also brings unsettling changes for its citizens. One of these citizens is Lou (Burt Lancaster), a longtime mob flunkey and bodyguard/boyfriend to aging beauty queen Grace (Kate Reid). Lou's romantic interests begin to waver when he meets Sally (Susan Sarandon), a young casino croupier, after she unwillingly gets...
Publisher
Weinstein Company
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (85 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Rick Riker is a high school student who is bitten by a genetically altered dragonfly while on a field trip to the local laboratory. Rick soon realizes that he's developing super powers, including the ability to break-dance vertically on a building wall and the development of lightening fast reflexes. Disguised in a green and black suit and going by the name Dragonfly, Rick uses his abilities to fight crime all over the city. His archenemy is Lou Landers,...
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Theodore 'Theo' Decker was thirteen years old when his mother was killed in a bombing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The tragedy changes the course of his life, sending him on a stirring odyssey of grief and guilt, reinvention and redemption, and even love. Through it all, he holds on to one tangible piece of hope from that terrible day, a painting of a tiny bird chained to its perch.
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Shout Factory under license from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Blu-ray edition.
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray disc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"To debunk the Amityville house's infamous reputation and take advantage of a rock-bottom asking price, skeptical journalist John Baxter buys the place and settles in to write his first novel. But as soon as the ink on the deed has dried, people who have come into contact with him and the house begin to meet with a shocking fate. Is it coincidence or is this house really the gateway to hell?"--Container.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Annie Proulx's The Shipping News is a vigorous, darkly comic, and at times magical portrait of the contemporary North American family. Quoyle, a third-rate newspaper hack, with a 'head shaped like a crenshaw, no neck, reddish hair...features as bunched as kissed fingertips,' is wrenched violently out of his workaday life when his two-timing wife meets her just desserts. An aunt convinces Quoyle and his two emotionally...
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
©2005
Edition
Widescreen unrated director's cut.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 97 min.) : sd., color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Zombies have become the dominant population, and they've begun to show signs of undead intelligence and gathering power. The wealthiest human survivors live comfortably in a luxury high-rise building that is barricaded within a safe zone. The wealthy ignore the horrors of the outside world while armed scavengers stage raids in the zombie-zone to gather much-needed food and supplies. Riley and Cholo are mercenaries-for-hire; Kaufman is their nefarious...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
7 videodiscs (1063 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dectective Mac Taylor and his CSI team use high-tech science to follow the evidence and solve crimes in The Big Apple. The team contends with radiation poison deaths; a fugitive that poses as a Federal Air Marshal; incriminating information of some of New York's most influential people; Stella's life is threatened with the discovery of a rare ancient Greek coin; and other cases involving murder, kidnapping and crime solving.
11) Harriet, the spy
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2003], c1996
Edition
Widescreen version (16x9).
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Harriet is probably the most accomplished 11-year-old spy. She dreams of being a writer and her nanny told her to start by writing down everything she sees. It's all in good fun, that is until her friends find her private writings. Now they don't like Harriet much. Can Harriet win back her friends or is she doomed to be considered an outsider, a rejected writer and forgotten spy?
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Harriet is probably the most accomplished 11-year-old spy. She dreams of being a writer and her nanny told her to start by writing down everything she sees. It's all in good fun, that is until her friends find her private writings. Now they don't like Harriet much. Can Harriet win back her friends or is she doomed to be considered an outsider, a rejected writer and forgotten spy?
Publisher
Weinstein Co
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
[Unrated version ; Widescreen ed.].
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (165 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Cindy Campbell and her self-serving, sex-crazed pal Brenda are joined by Tom Ryan, a cute, but utterly clueless guy. Together, they battle to save the world from a ruthless alien invasion. Cindy moves in next to Tom because she's taking care of an elderly lady. She finds out the house is haunted by a little boy and goes on a quest in the village to find out who killed him and why. Also, Alien "Tr-iPods" are invading the world and Cindy has to uncover...
14) Radio Days
Author
Language
English
Description
Gripped by wild radio stories, 10-year-old Joe Needleman longs for adventure and dreams of the day he'll see enemy spies or German subs. But while Joe's life is filled with fantasies, the people behind the voices have fantasies of their own. As stars rise, careers fall and a nation hurtles toward the future, one thing is certain: The days of radio may fade...but the magic will always endure.
15) Harriet the Spy
Author
Language
English
Description
Harriet M. Welsch is probably the world's most accomplished 11-year-old spy. Harriet dreams of being a writer, and her nanny and best friend Golly told her to start by writing down everything she sees.
