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Series
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
Description
Story of a Kansas City couple, Mr. and Mrs. Bridge, whose lives are affected in different ways as their children grow up and leave home, and more adventurous friends bring new ideas into their home. Mrs. Bridge questions the life she has led, but her husband remains a firm believer in family and home, regardless of the changes in the world around him.
7) Hamlet
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
Description
Hamlet, a prince of medieval-era Denmark, senses treachery behind his royal father's death. His mother is all too dangerously entangled in that treachery. This film portrays Shakespeare's immortal tale of high adventure and evil deeds.
8) Awakenings
Series
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
Dr. Malcolm Sayer (Robin Williams) is a shy research physician who uses an experimental drug to "awaken" the catatonic victims of a rare disease. The awakening of the first patient proves a rebirth for the doctor too, as the patient reveals life's simple but sweet pleasures to the introverted doctor. Encouraged by Leonard's stunning recovery, Sayer administers the drug to other patients.
9) Total recall
Series
Language
English
Description
In the year 2084 a worker leaves Earth for the mind-bending nightmarish reality of a Martian mining colony ruled over by a dictator who can alter reality to suit his whims.
10) The grifters
Language
English
Description
"Three con artists walk on the razor's edge of life. Lilly has decided it's time to get out, and wants her son out, too. But Roy has fallen for sleek Myra, who wants him for her partner." --
Language
English
Description
A new technologically superior Soviet nuclear sub, the Red October, is heading the the United States coast under the command of Captian Ramius. The American government thinks Ramius is planning to attack. A lone CIA analyst has a different idea: he thinks Ramius is planning to defect, but he has only a few hours to find him and prove it. At the same time, the entire Russian naval and air commands are trying to find Ramius too.
12) Days of thunder
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Race car driver Cole Trickle (Tom Cruise) teams with a legendary crew chief (Robert Duvall) to race at the Daytona 500. A fiery crash nearly ends his career and he must turn to a beautiful doctor (Nicole Kidman) to regain his nerve to race, to win and to live.
13) GoodFellas
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Details the rise and fall of Henry Hill, a Brooklyn kid who grows up idolizing the "wise guys" from his neighborhood. He begins hanging around the mobsters and doing odd jobs until he gains the notice of local chieftain Paulie Cicero. In his teens, Hill distinguishes himself as a "stand-up guy" by choosing jail time over ratting on his accomplices. From that moment on, he is a part of the family. Along with his partner Tommy, he rises through the...
14) Henry & June
Series
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Explore the relationships between the writers Anaïs Nin and Henry Miller, and his wife June in Paris 1931.
15) Home alone
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eight-year-old Kevin is left alone for the holidays and must defend his house from a pair of bumbling burglars.
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
A grand day out: Wallace & Gromit decide that the discerning cheese enthusiast should holiday on the moon. But when they land in their home-made rocket they discover that a local inhabitant has other ideas.
The wrong trousers: When a sinister new lodger arrives in West Wallaby Street, Gromit is left out in the cold. The conniving penguin plans a daring diamond robbery using Wallace's Techno-Trousers and only Gromit can stop him!
A close shave: Wallace...
17) Young guns II
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Following the Lincoln County Wars, Billy the Kid has lost power to the ruthless cattle barons and crooked lawmen. Pat Garrett has been hired to bring Billy to justice, so Billy joins his outlaw pals to battle the lynch mobs and gunslingers.
18) American dream
Series
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[between 2000 and 2009?]
Language
English
Description
In this Academy Award winner for best documentary in 1991, the true-life story of the 1985-1986 workers' strike against Geo. A. Hormel & Company in Austin, Minnesota is documented from beginning to end. When Geo. A. Hormel & Company made $2 million in profits, then cut its workers' salaries by $2.00 an hour each, the workers had only one option: Go out on strike.
19) Avalon
Series
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
The story of several generations of a family, from the arrival of immigrant Sam Krichinsky in the suburb of Baltimore called Avalon, down through his children and grandchildren. The family goes from poverty to prosperity and the world changes around them, but their love and humor hold the family together.
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Once upon a time in a castle high on a hill lived an inventor whose greatest creation was named Edward. Although Edward had an irresistible charm, he wasn't quite perfect. The inventor's sudden death left him unfinished, with sharp shears of metal for hands. Edward lived alone in the darkness until one day a kind Avon Lady took him home to live with her family. And so began Edward's fantastic adventures in a pastel paradise known as Suburbia.
