Karen Allen
Author
Language
English
Description
If America had a royal family, the Taylor Winthrops would wear the crown. The popular, charismatic Winthrops have captured the imagination of the world with their public service, their enormous charity, and their glamorous lives. But in the period of one year., all five members of the family are killed in a series of accidents. Beautiful young anchor woman Dana Evans begins an investigation and starts unraveling compelling evidence that she can hardly...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
Indy tries to outrace a brilliant and beautiful agent for the mystical, all-powerful Crystal Skull of Akator. Teaming up with a rebellious young biker and his spirited love Marion, Indy takes you on a breathtaking, action-packed adventure
3) Starman
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When his spacecraft is shot down over Wisconsin, Starman arrives at the remote cabin of a distraught young widow, Jenny Hayden, and clones the form of her dead husband. The alien convinces Jenny to drive him to Arizona, explaining that if he isn't picked up by his mothership in three days, he'll die. Hot on their trail are government agents, intent on capturing the alien, dead or alive. En route, Starman demonstrates the power of universal love,...
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment/ThinkFilm
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
A New York man (Crudup) wakes up one day and decides to run away from his wife, child, and home, only to discover that the people he meets out on the road teach him about the importance of family
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An unconventional archaeologist is assigned by the U.S. government to find the mystically empowered Ark of the Covenant before the Nazis can obtain it for their own evil use.
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Andrea Gail is a sword fishing boat out of Gloucester, Massachusetts. Billy Tyne is her captain, down-on-his-luck from a recent losing streak, looking to bring back one big score so he and his crew will have the money to stay ashore during the coming winter. So out they go, and they hit it big, hauling in what the crew estimates is a quarter-million-dollars worth of fish. Unfortunately, they haven't paid attention to the weather forecasts or the...
8) Wind River
Publisher
Avalanche Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001], c1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of Nick Wilson, a young white settler who is accepted as part of the Shoshone Indian tribe and becomes an original Pony Express rider. When a Shoshone warrior "kidnaps" Nick and brings him back to the tribe, Nick learns how to become a warrior himself. But when a gang of settlers, including his brother, comes looking for him, Nick has to face the toughest decision of his life ... return to his real family or stay with the...
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2003], c1978
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
Faber College has one frat house so disreputable it will take anyone. The campuses only other frat house is full of white, anglo-saxon, rich young men that no one can stand except Dean Wormer. The dean enlists the help of their fraternity to get the boys of Delta House off campus. The dean's plan comes into play just before the homecoming parade
12) Scrooged
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
©1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Modern version of Dickens' A Christmas Carol, with Bill Murray portraying a nasty, uncaring, unforgiving TV network president. On Christmas Eve he is visited by three ghosts who show him the error of his ways.
13) Colewell
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (78 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When the Colewell post office is slated for closure, Nora Pancowski is faced with sudden retirement. As she weighs relocating, a young woman causes Nora to reflect on her youth and the choices that led her to Colewell.
15) Year by the sea
Publisher
Real Women Make Waves
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Hoping to reclaim who she was before marriage and children; an empty nester (Karen Allen) retreats to Cape Cod where she embarks upon a quest to set herself free. Combines Joan Anderson's first three books into a moving film.
Series
Hallmark Hall of Fame volume 71
Publisher
Hallmark Hall Of Fame Productions
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Vanessa Marks returns to her hometown library to read to children the book that she wrote, "November Christmas." The book is about her serious illness as a child and how her family and community teamed up to move Halloween to August and Christmas to November to help her
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Scenes of the crime: When a routine delivery escalates into kidnapping, young mob driver, Lenny, finds himself holding the city's most powerful gangster hostage in a van on the busy streets of Los Angeles. But everything goes wrong when the boss is killed by a rival kingpin.
Jagged edge: An attorney falls in love with her defendant, the prime suspect in a vicious murder case.
Starman: An innocent alien from a distant planet learns what it means...
18) The sandlot
Publisher
FoxVideo
Pub. Date
c1994
Physical Desc
1 videocassette (101 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
Language
English
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (101, 97, 96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Sandlot: It's the early 1960's and 5th grader Scotty Smalls has just moved into town with his folks. Kids call him a dork because he can't even throw a baseball. But that changes when the leader of the neighborhood gang recruits him to play on the nearby sandlot field. It's the beginning of a magical summer of baseball, wild adventures, first kisses, and fearsome confrontations with the dreaded beast and its owner who live behind the left field...
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (481 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Indiana Jones and the raiders of the lost ark: Indiana Jones, an archeologist, embarks on a thrilling quest to locate the mystical Ark of the Covenant. Accompanied by his fiesty ex-flame Marion Ravenwood, Indy must discover the Ark before the Nazis do, and he has to survive poison, traps, snakes and treachery to do so.
Indiana Jones and the temple of doom: Indiana Jones, his sidekick Short Round, and nightclub singer Willie Scott go from high-flying...