Tom Hanks
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A gentle Eastern European immigrant arrives in New York City after his family and his life have been torn apart by his country's civil war. A man who loves to bowl rolls a perfect game--and then another and then another and then many more in a row until he winds up ESPN's newest celebrity, and he must decide if the combination of perfection and celebrity has ruined the thing he loves. An eccentric billionaire and his faithful executive assistant...
Author
Language
English
Description
"From the Academy Award-winning actor and best-selling author: his debut novel. The story of the making of a colossal, star-studded, multimillion-dollar superhero action film ... and the humble comic book that inspired it. PART ONE of this story takes place in 1947. A troubled soldier, returning from the war, meets his talented five-year-old nephew, leaves an indelible impression, and then disappears for 23 years. Cut to 1970: The nephew, now drawing...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a lavish estate in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. Meant as a surprise for his wife, the house sets in motion the undoing of everyone he loves. Cyril's son Danny and his older sister Maeve are exiled from...
4) Sully
Author
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After landing US Airways Flight 1549 on the Hudson River, Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger faces criticism during the investigation into the crash while being hailed as a hero by the media.
5) Larry Crowne
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
When he suddenly finds himself without his long-standing blue-collar job, Larry Crowne enrolls at his local college to start over. There, he becomes part of an eclectic community of students and develops a crush on his teacher. Now this simple guy will discover that when you think everything worth having has passed you by, you just might find your reason to live
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
After hearing a man confess his love for his dearly departed wife on a call-in radio show, a woman falls deeply, inexplicably in love with him. Deciding he is her destiny, she treks across country on a wildly romantic impulse to meet him
Language
English
Description
Captain John Miller must take his men behind enemy lines to find Private Ryan, whose three brothers have been killed in combat. Faced with impossible odds, the men question their orders. Why are eight men risking their lives to save just one? Surrounded by the brutal realities of war, each man searches for his own answer and the strength to triumph over uncertain future with honor, decency and courage
9) Cast away
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 143 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
Chuck Noland, a FedEx systems engineer, finds his ruled-by-the-clock existence and relationship with Ph.D. candidate Kelly Frears abruptly ended when a plane crash leaves him isolated on a remote tropical island. As he struggles to survive, he finds that his personal journey has only just begun
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
In the early 1980s, Charlie Wilson is best known as a womanizing US congressional representative from Texas. He seemed to be in the minor leagues, except for the fact that he is a member of two major foreign policy and covert-ops committees. However, once Charlie is prodded by his major conservative supporter, Joanne Herring, Wilson learns about the plight of the people who are suffering from the effects of the brutal Soviet occupation of Afghanistan....
11) Splash
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
The story of a workaholic who thinks he will never find love and the mermaid who comes ashore to find him and prove him wrong
12) Punch line
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002, c1988
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 122 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
Lilah, a housewife who wants to be a comedienne, teams up with Steve, a self-centered comic who teaches Lilah how to be funny
Language
English
Description
When respected American religious symbology expert Dr. Robert Langdon is summoned to the Louvre by French Captain Bezu Fache, he soon discovers that he is the number 1 suspect for the murder of a historian with whom Langdon had been scheduled to meet. Assisted by a French cryptographer and government agent named Sophie, Langdon is challenged to decipher a chain of cryptic codes and puzzles, all the while trying to stay ahead of Fache's lawmen in...
14) Volunteers
Publisher
HBO Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Lawrence Bourne III escapes the bookies to whom he owes $28,000 by swapping places with a friend and going to Thailand with the Peace Corps.
15) Captain Phillips
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on the true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, which was the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (129 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
Oskar is convinced that his father, who died in the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center, has left a message for him hidden in the city. Feeling disconnected from his grieving mother and driven by an active mind that refuses to believe in things that can't be observed, Oskar begins searching New York City for the lock that fits a mysterious key he found in his father's closet. His journey through the five boroughs takes him beyond his loss to a...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
When a doubting young boy takes an extraordinary train ride to the North Pole, he embarks on a journey of self-discovery that shows him that the wonder of life never fades for those who believe
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2013
Physical Desc
2 Blu-ray videodiscs (266 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A League of their own (1992, 128 min.): Jimmy Dugan, a washed-up ballplayer whose big league days are over, is hired to coach in the All-American Girls Baseball League of 1943 and finds himself drawn back into the game by the hearts and heroics of his all-girl team.
The Natural (1984, 138 min.): Roy Hobbs, a promising young ballplayer, finds his dreams shattered when a mysterious woman and a silver bullet end his career prematurely. Sixteen years...
19) Why Shakespeare?
Publisher
National Endowment for the Arts
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (21 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
Various famous and not so famous individuals state the effect that Shakespeare's works have had in their lives. A main video presentation accompanied by seventeen vignettes
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Michael Sullivan works as an enforcer for his adopted father, Irish gangster John Rooney. When Sullivan's son, Mike Jr., witnesses one of his father's killings on Rooney's behalf, the gangster decides that his ward and his family are liabilities that must be removed. Sullivan tries to safeguard his son and get even with the man who betrayed him, while his son focuses on bonding with his emotionally distant father.