Henry Gibson
Language
English
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Description
After Jake Blues is release from prison, he and brother Elwood go to visit the old home where they were raised by nuns. They learn the church is no longer supporting the institution and will sell the place to the education authority. The only way to keep the place open is if the $5000 tax on the property is paid within the next 11 days. The brothers want to help and decide to put their blues band back together and raise the the money by staging a...
3) Nashville
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Language
English
Description
Nashville interweaves the stories of 24 characters over 5 days during a political rally in the capital of country music.
Edition
Full screen version.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nanny enrolls Eloise in the prestigious Hawthorne Academy, but she soon finds out it isn't exactly what she was expecting. There are mean girls on the playground, very strict teachers, and so many rules. Eloise decides it is time to make school fun again, she's teaching her new friends to stand up to bullies, helping her teacher understand there are a lot of different ways to learn and having tons of adventures.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Language
English
Description
Charlotte's Web (2006): A remake of the 1973 animated film mixing live action and digital special effects to tell the story of a rescued pig's bond with a young girl and a wise spider. Charlotte's Web (1973): Charlotte the spider teaches Wilbur the pig, Templeton the rat and the other barnyard animals lessons on friendship, trust and love. Charlotte's Web 2: When Wilbur befriends a lonely lamb named Cardigan and learns he has been sold to another...
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Language
English
Description
For The Long Goodbye, Robert Altman successfully transports Philip Marlowe, incarnated by Elliott Gould, to the over-privileged, full-color 70s. Marlowe is lonely and shabby, yet does not seem an anachronism in the contemporary world. Unlike Bogart's Marlowe, this is a not especially tough Marlowe. He's a bright, conscientiously solemn nut, a guy who hopes for the best but expects the worst. This particular Philip Marlowe, despite evidence to the...
8) Magnolia
Series
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
"A mosaic of American life woven through a series of comic and poignant vignettes. Through a collusion of coincidence, chance, human action, shared media, past history and divine intervention, nine people will weave and warp through each other's lives on a day that builds to an unforgettable climax."--Container.
Author
Language
English
Description
The charm of the crazy Clampett clan lives on! After striking oil on his land in the Ozarks, Jed Clampett decides the sophisticated life in Beverly Hills is just what he and his kin-Jethro Bodine, Elly May, and Granny-deserve. Humorous antics ensue when they proceed to shake up privileged society with their hayseed ways. This novelization of the film features all of the favorite characters from the original series-including uptight banker Mr. Drysdale...
11) Charlotte's web
Publisher
Paramount
Language
English
Description
Wilbur the pig is desolate when he discovers that he is destined to be the farmer's Christmas dinner until his spider friend, Charlotte, decides to help him.
Author
Language
English
Description
Following a contest in Miami, Florida, five beauty-contest finalists are on their way to the Bahamas when they somehow get tangled up in a plan to hijack a dangerous organism that can be used in bacterial warfare. When Mike O'Toole, the security manager of the small Miami airport the girls flew out of, finds out that the government wants nothing to do with the safe return of the girls, it's up to him to ensure their safety and save the day.
15) Kiss Me, Stupid
Author
Language
English
Description
In Billy Wilder's comic gem "Kiss Me, Stupid," when pop crooner Dino (Dean Martin) is detoured to Climax, Nevada, on his way to Las Vegas, he stumbles on fame-hungry, would-be songwriters Orville (Ray Walston) and Barney (Cliff Osmond), who encourage a cocktail waitress (Kim Novak) to coerce Dino into a song-buying mood. Felicia Farr lends support as Zelda, Orville's long-suffering wife in a comedy that is pure Wilder.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Edition
[Dual-layer format]
Language
English
Description
In ordinary Somerset County, a young farm girl named Fern rescues the runt of a litter of pigs from her father's ax. Fern names the pig Wilbur, takes care of him, and continues to visit him every day after he is moved to her Uncle Homer Zuckerman's barn across the road. But it's Wilbur's friendship with Charlotte the spider that ultimately saves him from the "smoke house" when Charlotte's talent for weaving praiseworthy words about Wilbur into her...