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1) Pearl Harbor
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Two childhood best friends, Rafe and Danny, grow up wanting to fly planes. When Rafe gets the chance to join the Royal Air Force during World War II, he takes it, leaving his new love, Evelyn, a dedicated Navy nurse, and Danny, also a pilot, behind. Danny and Evelyn are transferred separately to the idyllic paradise of Hawaii, where they eventually meet through a connection to Rafe, who has been declared missing. But just as the love triangle begins...
2) Coyote ugly
Pub. Date
[2001], c2000
Language
English
Description
A shy, innocent girl new to New York City gets a job as one of the barmaids at the hottest nightclub in town.
3) The waterboy
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
An oddball mama's boy who lives to carry water for football players becomes a star when a coach discovers his hidden ferocity and channels it into gridiron greatness.
Pub. Date
©2002
Language
English
Description
A trio of frat boys are accused of embezzlement by their frat brothers and kicked out. They quickly find themselves with only one option if they wish to remain on campus rent-free and nab the real culprits: the sorority Delta Omicron Gamma (D.O.G.). Undergoing physical transformations, the boys are soon passing themselves off as Daisy, Adina, and Roberta. Dave (a.k.a. "Daisy") falls in love with Leah, the head of the sorority, forcing him to confess...
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Rebecca Bloomwood is a young woman struggling with her debilitating obsession with shopping and the sudden collapse of her income source. She unintentionally lands a job writing for a Manhattan financial magazine after a drunken letter-mailing mix-up. Ironically, now Rebecca is writing about the very consumer caution of which she herself has not abided. Rebecca's innovative comparisons and unconventional metaphors for economics grants her critical...
Series
Criterion collection volume 157
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
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.
8) Con Air
Pub. Date
[1998?]
Language
English
Description
A prison parolee on his way to freedom faces impossible odds when the maximum security transport plane he's on is skyjacked by the most vicious criminals in the country, led by the infamous murderer Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom.
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
When Chris' best friend Annie loses her husband, Chris derives a scheme to memorialize him. The two women, along with some of their friends - all fiftysomething women - will make a nude calendar to raise money for the hospital where he died. The calendar becomes hugely popular. Based on actual events.
10) Gnomeo & Juliet
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Caught up in a feud between neighbors, Gnomeo and Juliet must overcome as many obstacles as their namesakes. But with flamboyant pink flamingoes and epic lawnmower races, can this young couple find lasting happiness?
"This lively little film, a comic take on Shakespeare's tragedy, is really entertaining."--Wall Street Journal
"This gently amusing, genuinely sweet animated film makes you smile from start to finish."--Los Angeles Times
"A welcome...
12) The program
Pub. Date
1993
Language
English
Description
A coach at a major university is under intense pressure to come up with a winning team. That pressure eventually causes problems with the players and the program itself.
13) The ref
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
An unfortunate cat burglar becomes trapped in a fate worse than jail when he takes a bickering couple and their annoying relatives hostage.
14) Apocalypto
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Mayan
Description
As the Mayan kingdom faces its decline, the rulers insist the key to prosperity is to build more temples and offer human sacrifices. Jaguar Paw is a young man who is captured for sacrifice, but flees to avoid his fate. He is taken on a perilous journey to a world that is ruled by fear and oppression, where a harrowing end awaits him. Through a twist of fate and spurred by the power of his love for his woman and his family he will make a desperate...
15) Bad company
Pub. Date
©2002
Language
English
Description
CIA agents Oakes and Pope are trying to purchase a suitcase-sized nuclear bomb from a Russian black marketer. Just as the partners discover that another bidder exists, they are ambushed and Pope is killed trying to protect Oakes. Now Oakes needs to recruit Pope's long lost twin brother, Jake, so that the deal can commence in ten days time. Offered a sizable payday, Jake agrees to undergo the vigorous training to impersonate his brother and helps Oakes...
16) Beloved
Series
Baruch video volume DVD 1777
Pub. Date
[1999?]
Language
English
Description
In 1873 Ohio, Sethe is a mother of three haunted by her horrific slavery past and her desperate actions for freedom. As a result, Sethe's home is haunted by a furious poltergeist, which drives away her two sons. Sethe and her daughter endure living with the spirit for 10 more years, until an old friend, Paul D. Garner, arrives to run it out. After Garner moves in, a strange woman named Beloved enters their lives, causing turmoil.
17) The Alamo
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Retells the story of the historic 1836 battle in the Texan War of Independence. Facing 4,000 Mexican troops, 186 Texan soldiers and volunteers - including William Travis, Davy Crockett, and Jim Bowie - retreat within the walls of the Alamo, a Franciscan mission that was converted into a military fort. Once inside, the men prepare themselves for what will be a bloody battle to the death. U.S. General Sam Houston leads the charge from the outside. The...
19) Reign of fire
Pub. Date
[c2002?]
Language
English
Description
In present day London dragons awake. Fast forward 20 years, to a world devastated by their destruction. Fire Chief Quinn, is responsible for warding off the beasts and keeping a community alive in what's left of the world. Into their midst comes a hotshot American, Van Zan, who says he has a way to destroy the beasts and save mankind.