Jon Polito
1) Big eyes
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Walter Keane became a worldwide celebrity and talk show fixture in the 1950s after he pioneered the mass production of prints of big-eyed kids, and used his marketing savvy to sell them cheaply. Unfortunately, he claimed to be the artist. That role was played by Margaret, his shy wife. The ruse broke up their marriage and led to a divorce and a dramatic courtroom battle to prove authorship of the paintings.
Publisher
Strike Productions
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The year is 2016, and America is on the verge of economic disaster. The greatest citizens are being targeted, and dark forces are working to bring about America's final days. Our only hope for salvation lies with Dagny Taggart and Henry Rearden, rugged individualists whose bold ideas may have the power to spark a revolution and reclaim the American Dream.
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Bedridden with an excruciating case of skin-rotting psoriasis, novelist Dan Dark escapes into his vivid imagination. There, gunmen and private detectives pursue their own unusual agendas, often casting himself as the titular "warbler" whose pain and anger is focused like a laser on his cheating wife and anyone else who's made his real and imaginary worlds unbearable.
4) Barton Fink
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fink is a New York playwright who reluctantly relocates to Hollywood to write screenplays. Ordered to write a low budget screenplay about wrestling, Fink manages to type one sentence and then ... nothing. Although his chatty insurance salesman neighbor Charlie helps out by teaching Fink about wrestling, the clock ticks, the temperature rises, and Fink's life spins more and more out of control.
5) Fluke
Publisher
MGM/UA Home Video
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sd., col.
Language
English
Description
Tom Johnson had it all: a loving wife, an adorable son and a parntership in a growing company. But when a car crash takes his life, he is forced to start over again, this time as ... a dog! Tom awakens in the body of Fluke, a canine who happily romps around a junkyard until visions of his former life become too strong to ignore. Compelled to find his original family, Fluke makes every attempt to work his way back into the their lives. However, there...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1997
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
During prohibition two gangland bosses struggle for control over a city, with one of the boss's lieutenants caught in the middle.
Publisher
USA Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In a sleepy Northern California town in the 1940s, Ed Crane, a humble barber, suspeacts that his wife Doris is having an affair with her boss. When a stranger comes into town hinting that there is a fortune to be made in investing in the new invention of dry cleaning, Ed hatches a blackmail scheme he hopes will make him rich and get him some revenge at the same time. His plan goes horribly awry when he accidentally commits a murder for which Doris...
Publisher
Distributed by New Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (ca. 650 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Inspired by David Simon's Edgar Award-winning account of Baltimore homicide detectives, and developed for television by Academy Award-winning director Barry Levinson and writer Paul Attanasio, this Peabody Award-winning seris focuses on the grueling work of solving murders.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Sleeping Beauty, Rapunzel, and Jack from the Beanstalk are all about to live happily ever after when the balance between good and evil gets thrown out of whack. It's up to Cinderella (a.k.a. Ella) to save the day by taking on her power-hungry stepmother. This time Ella will have to do all the work without her Prince Charming. She joins forces with an unlikely army of dwarves, fairies, and the Wizard's bumbling assistants.
10) Big nothing
Publisher
First Look Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 86 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A scam artist hopeful, a gorgeous young girl, and an ex-teacher all decide to blackmail a corrupt pastor, only to find that he has been murdered and most of the town is involved in some way.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
Special ed.; widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Harry, an ex-con turned tailor to the rich and infamous, is married to Louisa, who is smart and sexy. Andy is a suave and ruthless British spy, who had best come through this time, who forces Harry to eavesdrop on the powerful politicians he clothes. Harry's talent for storytelling is not only taken as truth, but sets off a series of events that threatens to destroy everything most important in his life.
Publisher
Univeral
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In a sleepy Northern California town in the 1940s, Ed Crane, a humble barber, suspects that his wife Doris is having an affair with her boss. When a stranger comes into town hinting that there is a fortune to be made in investing in the new invention of dry cleaning, Ed hatches a blackmail scheme he hopes will make him rich and get him some revenge at the same time. His plan goes horribly awry when he accidentally commits a murder for which Doris...
13) 29 palms
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When an undercover FBI agent uncovers illegal gambling activities at an Indian casino, he goes on the run as the mob's best hit man is hired to take him out.
14) Barton Fink
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Fink is a New York playwright who reluctantly relocates to Hollywood to write screenplays. Ordered to write a low budget screenplay about wrestling, Fink manages to type one sentence and then ... nothing. Although his chatty insurance salesman neighbor Charlie helps out by teaching Fink about wrestling, the clock ticks, the temperature rises, and Fink's life spins more and more out of control.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Leo, a likeable Irish gangster boss, rules an Eastern city along with Tom, his trusted lieutenant and counselor. But just as their authority is challenged by an Italian underboss and his ruthless henchman, Leo and Tom fall for the same woman. Tom, caught in the jaws of a gangland power struggle, walks a deadly tightrope as he tries to control and manipulate its violent outcome.
17) Locker 13
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An anthology feature film comprised of five vignettes. Each story is connected by a mysterious locker 13.
18) Homeboy
Author
Language
English
Description
Mickey Rourke stars as Johnny Walker, a washed-up boxer looking for the big fight of his life. Christopher Walken stars as high stakes promoter Wesley Pendergrass.
Author
Series
Masters of Horror volume 12
Language
English
Description
It is a time when the laws of science battle the secrets of magic, and medical student Ernst Haeckel (Derek Cecil) believes the power of life, death, and resurrection lies in his arrogant hands. But on a journey to visit his gravely ill father, he finds shelter in the home of an older man and his seductive young wife (Leela Savasta) who cannot be fulfilled by mortal hungers. Somewhere in the darkness of a nearby necropolis, a defiant necromancer (Jon...
20) Citizen Jane
Author
Language
English
Description
Based on a true story and the book, the gripping tale of Jane Alexander (Ally Sheedy), whose tenacious, 13-year journey to track down her charismatic ex ultimately brings her aunt's killer to justice.