Richard Jenkins
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Brennan and Dale are two middle-aged loafers who are forced to live together when their parents get married. When their immature antics over TV privileges and personal property take their toll on their parents' marriage, the devious duo hatch a scheme to reunite the couple.
2) Dear John
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
While John, a young soldier, is home on a temporary leave, he meets and falls in love with Savannah, a college girl on her spring break. Savannah promises to write to John when he is sent overseas. Over the next seven years, the couple continues to be separated by John's increasingly dangerous deployments. Though they meet only sporadically, they continue to stay in touch through love letters that eventually bring fateful consequences.
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (146 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A happily married woman who is trying to get pregnant realizes that her life needs to go in a new direction. After a very painful divorce, she risks everything and embarks on a journey around the world that becomes a quest for self-discovery.
4) Jack Reacher
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ex-military investigator Jack Reacher leaps off the pages of Lee Child's bestselling novel and onto the big screen in this explosive thriller. When an unspeakable crime is committed, all evidence points to the suspect in custody who offers up a single note in defense: Get Jack Reacher! The law has its limits, but Reacher does not when his fight for the truth pits him against an unexpected enemy with a skill for violence and a secret to keep.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (123 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An otherworldly fairy tale, set against the backdrop of Cold War-era America circa 1962. In the hidden high-security government laboratory where she works, lonely Elisa is trapped in a life of isolation. Elisa's life is changed forever when she and co-worker Zelda discover a secret classified experiment.
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Miles Massey is a high-powered Los Angeles divorce lawyer nearing a midlife crisis. While representing his wealthy client Rex Rexroth, Miles meets his match in Rex's gold-digging wife, Marylin. He's impressed by her similarly heartless ways of using marriage to fuel an expensive lifestyle, but Miles still manages to defeat her in court. With Marylin looking to get her revenge and Miles finding himself attracted to her, the two engage in a ruthless...
7) The visitor
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Widescreen and full screen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Walter Vale is a widower who teaches economics at a Connecticut university. He lives alone and is no longer motivated by his work. In New York to present a paper at a conference, he goes to the apartment that he has not visited in some time, but has kept since his wife was alive, only to discover a young couple living there. Despite their great cultural differences, Walter befriends Tarek, a Syrian citizen and drummer, and gradually builds a friendship...
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 132 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Four men from a settlement in the old west must ride to the edge of civilization to find some local townspeople who have been abducted. What they find is an evil beyond imagination and an enemy so brutal, they will never be the same again.
9) The core
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
Full screen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (134 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A team of top scientific minds from around the world are assembled to determine what has been happening to Earth. Dr. Keyes makes the startling discovery that the Earth's electromagnetic forces have begun to collapse. If the planet is to be saved, the core of the Earth needs a jump start, and Keyes assembles a team to burrow to the center of the planet and bomb the insides back into action. However, as the crew digs deeper into the Earth, the more...
10) Changing lanes
Series
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A minor traffic accident turns two perfect strangers into vicious adversaries waging an all-out war of personal destruction.
11) Nightmare alley
Publisher
20th Century Studios
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 150 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
From visionary filmmaker Guillermo del Toro comes a suspenseful psychological thriller about a manipulative carnival man who teams with an equally deceptive psychiatrist to grift the wealthy in 1940s New York society. Del Toro co-wrote the enthralling film with Kim Morgan, based on William Lindsay Gresham's novel.
12) Let me in
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([22] pages ; 17 cm)
Language
English
Description
Abby, an eerily self-possessed young girl, emerges from her heavily curtained apartment only at night and always barefoot, seemingly immune to the bitter winter elements. Owen, an alienated 12-year-old boy, recognizes a fellow outcast and opens up to her, forming a unique bond. But as a string of grisly murders occupy his town, Owen has to confront the reality that this seemingly innocent girl might be hiding an unthinkable secret.
13) LBJ
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson from his young days in West Texas to the White House.
14) Rumor has it
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Full screen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sarah has finally agreed to marry her boyfriend Jeff, but she still isn't sure if marriage is what she wants. Now she's on her way home to attend her sister's wedding, which means spending a lot of time with the tennis-obsessed Pasadena family that she's never felt quite a part of. It isn't until Sarah stumbles into a well-kept family secret that she starts to question her roots and sets off in search of the man who may have the answers she has been...
15) The Hollars
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
John Hollar, a struggling NYC artist is forced to navigate the small middle-American town he left behind when news of his mother's illness brings him home. Back in the house he grew up in, John is immediately swept up in the problems of his dysfunctional family, high school rival, and an over-eager ex-girlfriend as he faces impending fatherhood with his girlfriend in New York.
16) Olive Kitteridge
Publisher
Home Box Office, Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 240 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"This four-part drama that tells the story of a seemingly placid New England town that is actually wrought with illicit affairs, crime and tragedy, all told through the lens of Olive..., whose wicked wit and harsh demeanor mask a warm but troubled heart and staunch moral center." -- Container.
17) Kajillionaire
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two con artists have spent 26 years training their only daughter to swindle, scam, and steal at every turn. During a desperate and hastily conceived heist, they charm a stranger into joining them, only to have their entire world turned upside down.
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Widescreen and full screen versions.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 90 min.) : anamorphic, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the year 2000, Dick gets a plum promotion as a mega-corporate communications director. His boss is preparing to bail out of the company just before stock prices plummet. Dick's wife Jane has quit her job as a travel agent, so when the corporate stocks hit rock bottom, Dick and Jane are left penniless and desperate. They decide to resort to petty thievery and this eventually gets them plotting high-stakes revenge against the greedy executives who...
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jackie Cogan is an enforcer for the mob. When a high-stakes, mob-protected card game is heisted by some small-time crooks, Cogan is called in to track them down and restore order to the local criminal economy.
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 104 min) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of a woman who loves her dog more than her husband, then her husband loses the dog. She enlists the help of the few remaining guests and a mysterious woman in a frantic search.