Chris Cooper
2) Matewan
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999.
Language
English
Description
A labor leader seeking to organize the workers of a company town sets off a powderkeg of racial hostility, corruption and betrayal in this tale of the bitter clash between unionist miners and the tyrannical coal company owners in West Virginia in the 1920's.
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998.
Language
English
Description
After a devastating riding accident, a young girl and her beloved horse are both left with serious physical and emotional scars. Determined to help, the girl's mother puts her busy, big-city life on hold and travels west to seek out the "horse whisperer."
4) Married life
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008.
Language
English
Description
In a late 1940's suburban world, middle-class wives, like Pat, build their lives around their husbands. Pat and Harry seem happy, but Harry confesses to his pal, Richard, that the spark is gone. He plans to leave Pat for vibrant young war widow Kay. Once Richard, a notorious ladies man, gets a look at the platinum blonde, he secretly sets out to win her affections, and Harry continues to plot to take Pat out of the picture.
6) Breach
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Film based on real events, a young FBI employee enters a power struggle with his boss who is ultimately convicted of treason.
Series
[Bourne films] volume 1
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
Film based very loosely on Robert Ludlum's novel, the Bourne Identity is the story of a man whose wounded body is discovered by fisherman who nurse him back to health. He can remember nothing and begins to try to rebuild his memory based on clues such as the Swiss bank account, the number of which, is implanted in his hip. He soon realizes that he is being hunted and takes off with Marie on a search to find out who he is and why he is being hunted....
9) The Muppets
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
While on vacation in Los Angeles, Walter and his friends, Gary and Mary, try to raise ten million dollars to save the Muppet Theater from Tex Richman, a business man who wants to demolish the theater in order to drill for oil.
10) Adaptation
Series
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
Blends fictional characters and situations with the lives of real people: obsessive orchid hunter John Laroche, "New Yorker" journalist Susan Orlean, Hollywood screenwriter Charlie Kaufman and his twin brother Donald. As Charlie struggles to adapt a best-selling book, he writes himself into the movie plot.
12) Remember me
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
A young man trying to recover from a family tragedy meets a woman whose free spirit and outlook on life causes him to fall in love with her.
13) October sky
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
Seeing the first Russian satellite, Sputnik, streak across the October sky, Homer Hickam becomes obsessed with the building and launching his own rocket, and draws his friends into his dream.
14) Seabiscuit
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
True story of the undersized Depression-era racehorse whose victories lifted not only the spirits of the three-man team behind it but also those of the nation as well.
15) Syriana
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Description
As a career CIA operative, Bob Barnes begins to uncover the disturbing truth about the work he has devoted his life to. An up-and-coming oil broker, Bryan Woodman faces an unimaginable family tragedy and finds redemption in his partnership with idealistic Gulf Prince Nasir al-Subaai. Corporate lawyer, Bennett Holiday faces a moral dilemma as he finesses the questionable merger of two powerful U.S. oil companies. Across the globe, a disenfranchised...
16) Demolition
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
While trying to work through his grief over losing his wife in a car crash, investment banker Davis makes an unlikely connection with a customer service representative, a single mother with emotional and financial struggles of her own.
17) Money train
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998.
Language
English
Description
John and Charlie are partners and foster brothers. Both are transit cops working on the New York subway. Both are quick-witted and quick-fisted. And both are in love with the same woman. But their siblng rivalry goes over the top when Charlie decides to rob the "money train"--The heavily guarded revenue train that collects millions of dollars from the subway booths. Now it's up to John to stop his bad-boy brother ... or join him for one final phenomenal...
18) Capote
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Description
In 1959, Truman Capote was a popular writer for The New Yorker. He learns about the horrific and senseless murder of a family of four in Halcomb, Kansas. Inspired by the story, Capote and his partner, Harper Lee, travel to the town to do research for an article. However, as Capote digs deeper into the story, he is inspired to expand the project into what would be his greatest work, "In Cold Blood." He arranges extensive interviews with the prisoners,...
20) The tempest
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
This modern retelling of William Shakespeare's final masterpiece is an exciting, mystical, and magical fantasy. Exiled to a magical island, the sorceress Prospera conjures up a storm that shipwrecks her enemies, and then unleashes her powers for revenge.