Shirley Knight
Series
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Melvin Udall is an obsessive-compulsive novelist with Manhattan's meanest mouth. But when his neighbor Simon is hospitalized, Melvin is forced to babysit Simon's dog. And that unexpected act of kindness-- along with waitress Carol Connelly-- helps put Melvin back in the human race.
4) Mercy
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A supernatural thriller of family secrets and suspense. Two mischievous young brothers accompany their single mother to take care of their grandma in her remote and lonely house. What begins as an innocent gesture, leads to the discovery of terrifying secrets about Gramma's true nature.
Publisher
North American Motion Pictures, LLC
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Wes Merritt and his daughter Natalie get more than they bargained for when they buy an old house that was formerly inhabited by the nice old Mrs. Ashboro and her pet cat, Margaret. When strange things start happening in the house, all fingers point to the presence of Margaret, who died the same day as Mrs. Ashboro. But why has the cat come back? -- Container.
6) Open window
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Living a happy life in Los Angeles, Izzy's life is forever changed when a brutal crime shatters her world. As izzy battles the nightmares left behind, she finds an inner strength that transforms her and experiences the amazing power of love and forgiveness in surviving the unimaginable.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
By day, 35-year-old Alex is the world's oldest video game tester, but at night he is privately developing the next big game for the X-Box generation. When one of his roommates spends all the rent money on Filipino hookers, Alex gets kicked out of his apartment. He finds himself forced to live with his grandmother and her friends Grace and Bea. To save face with his friends and co-workers, he brags about the three hot babes living with him.
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
"Living in a comfortable retirement community in Southern Oregon, estranged from her family and generally not happy about life, Marie decides to journey 80 miles on foot to the coast and revisit the ocean of her past for the first time in 45 years. Once reluctant to attend her granddaughter's wedding, she now arrives as an unexpected guest. Along the way, she meets an extraordinary cast of characters and discovers that she's never too old to learn...
9) The sender
Publisher
Legend Films
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
A suicidal mental patient turns his nightmares into reality by choosing receivers for his demented thoughts from the local hospital.
10) Playing for time
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Fania Fenelon is a Jewish cabaret singer in Paris during the Nazi invasion. Fania and thousands of other Jewish and political prisoners are sent to the Auschwitz death camp. She and a group of other classical musicians are spared from death in exchange for performing music for their captors. They are also ordered to play for the thousands being herded to the gas chambers, a 'humane' means of easing the condemned into the next world.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Paul Blart is a mild-mannered, dutiful family man who works as a security guard in a New Jersey mall. He has applied to become a cop for years, but he always fails the physical exam because he is overweight. One day, a gang of organized criminals put the mall under siege and take hostages. Blart becomes trapped inside and because of he feels that it is his sense of duty, refuses to leave. He becomes the police department's eyes on the inside and attempts...
13) My Louisiana sky
Publisher
Showtime Engertainment
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Growing up in Saitter, Louisiana, in the 1950s, twelve-year-old Tiger Ann struggles with her feelings about her stern, but loving grandmother, her mentally slow parents, and her good friend and neighbor, Jesse.
14) Petulia
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
An unhappily married socialite woman is trying to get through to a recently divorced doctor, who in his own words just wants to feel something.
Publisher
Screen Media Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
After nearly two decades under the wing of an aging, avuncular husband, dutiful mother and housewife Pippa Lee undergoes a midlife breakthrough. Unearthing the sexually curious wild child of her teens, middle-aged Pippa sparks a relationship with a divorcee loner. Pippa Lee is a resilient woman, refusing to let life pass her by.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Like mother, like daughter. Neither a hard-as-nails New York playwright nor her flaky Louisiana mother will take the necessary steps to mend their long-time rift. No, this is a job for the Sisterhood, sworn life-long friends who stage an outlandish "intervention" to bring daughter and mother back together again.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Like mother, like daughter. Neither a hard-as-nails New York playwright nor her flaky Louisiana mother will take the necessary steps to mend their long-time rift. No, this is a job for the Sisterhood, sworn life-long friends who stage an outlandish "intervention" to bring daughter and mother back together again.
18) The rain people
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Natalie has hit the road. Unsure of herself, she is two months pregnant and feeling trapped. She leaves her sleeping husband a note and drives away from her Long Island home one rainy morning to find herself. While on her search, she meets a lonely man who brings tenderness and tragedy her way.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
News of the Poseidon disaster brings the skipper Caine, first mate Karl Malden and passenger Field to the wreckage, hoping for salvage rights. They descend into the hull of the Poseidon and discover a few people who have miraculously cheated death.
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Chance Wayne, an ambitious man craving fame, returns to his southern home with an alcoholic movie star in tow, Alexandra Del Lago. Hoping to capitalize on Del Lago's fame and checkbook, Chance seeks to reunite with his former girlfriend. He finds he is still regarded by others as an unsavory and unwelcome hustler, especially by the father of his ex-girlfriend, a local political boss." --