Darryl Ponicsan
Author
Language
English
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Description
Now a major movie starring Steve Carell, Bryan Cranston, and Laurence Fishburne, directed by Richard Linklater!
Darryl Ponicsan's debut novel The Last Detail was named one of the best of the year and widely acclaimed, catapulting him to fame when it was first published. The story of two career sailors assigned to escort a young seaman from Norfolk to the naval prison in Portsmouth, New Hampshire-and of the mayhem that ensues-was made into an award-winning...
Author
Language
English
Description
From the author of The Last Detail and Last Flag Flying, a wry, slightly surreal comic novel about love, human connection, and the trials of small-town life.
Following a high-pressure rewrite in New York City, veteran screenwriter and expert on the Romantic poets D. K. Kecskeméti finds himself not in his home in the Hollywood Hills but in an unfamiliar house in a strange town where he is greeted not by his wife but by an obsequious houseman who...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 125 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Thirty years after they served together in Vietnam, a former Navy Corpsman Larry "Doc" Shepherd re-unites with his old buddies, former Marines Sal Nealon and Reverend Richard Mueller, to bury his son, a young Marine killed in the Iraq War.
5) Vision quest
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
High school wrestler Louden Swain is a man obsessed, trying to shed 23 pounds in a dangerously short time and take on Shute, the undefeated, tough-as-nails 168-pound champion who's the best wrestler in the state.
7) School ties
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
©1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in the 1950s: David Greene, a working-class Jewish quarterback from Scranton, Pennsylvania, is offered a football scholarship to a prestigious New England prep. school. It's David's ticket to an Ivy League education and a way out of his hometown, but there's one condition: the school's elders ask him to be discreet about his religion. At first willing to do so, David struggles with his silence as his popularity grows. David strikes up a friendship...
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Blu-ray edition.
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray disc (approximately 125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Thirty years after they served together in Vietnam, a former Navy Corpsman Larry "Doc" Shepherd re-unites with his old buddies, former Marines Sal Nealon and Reverend Richard Mueller, to bury his son, a young Marine killed in the Iraq War.
Author
Language
English
Description
At a library used book sale, Ponicsán picked up a copy of Nora Ephron's bestseller, "I Feel Bad About My Neck." It inspired him over the next several years to answer her observations from the male point of view and over a different bodily part, and to direct it to Ephron's audience. Part memoir, part parody, part social analysis. (Publisher's note: This is not just a guy's book, or an old guy's book…It's amusing and full of interesting tales and...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Unlike other branches of the armed services, the Navy draws it police force from the ranks, as temporary duty called Shore Patrol. In this funny, bawdy, moving novel set during the height of the Vietnam War, two career sailors in transit in Norfolk, Virginia-Billy "Bad-Ass" Buddusky and Mule Mulhall-are assigned to escort eighteen-year-old Larry Meadows from Norfolk to the brig in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where he is to serve an eight-year sentence...
11) The last detail
Publisher
Twilight Time, Red Jam, LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Blu-ray edition.
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray disc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (7 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 15 cm)
Language
English
Description
Two Navy Petty officers are detailed to take a prisoner from Washington to jail in New Hampshire and decide to give the prisoner one last good time.
12) Last Flag Flying
Author
Language
English
Description
This Sequel to the Acclaimed Cult Novel Is Now a Major Motion Picture
Darryl Ponicsan's debut novel The Last Detail was named one of the best of the year and widely acclaimed, catapulting him to fame when it was first published. The story of two career sailors assigned to escort a young seaman from Norfolk to the naval prison in Portsmouth, New Hampshire-and of the mayhem that ensues-it was made into an award-winning movie starring Jack Nicholson....
13) Taps
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2001
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (126 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Timothy Hutton as Senior-Cadet Moreland seizes control of his military school by taking arms against the people who are trying to close his school.
