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Dustin Hoffman
2) Hero
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Davis is ace reporter Gale Gayley, who literally falls into the story of a lifetime when she's a passenger on an airplane that crashes into a Chicago bridge. In the smoke and darkness, she's saved by a rude, foul-mouthed "hero", who promptly disappears in the night...leaving only his shoe behind.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
Kay Effiel is an author writing her latest novel. Her story revolves around an isolated man named Harold Crick. What she doesn't know is that her fictionalized character is real. Harold is an IRS agent who has lived a dull existence. One day he begins to hear Karen's voice as she narrates what she is putting down on paper. Harold enlists the help of a literary professor to find out what is happening and ends up changing things about his life. He begins...
Publisher
Showtime Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen year old Hanna Stern was a typical American teenager who ignored her family's heritage until a mystical Passover seder takes her back in time to German-occupied Poland on an emotional journey of life, death and survival.
5) Rain man
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
Selfish yuppie Charlie Babbitt's father dies and leaves a fortune -- to Raymond, the institutionalized savant brother that Charlie didn't know he had. They set out on a cross-country journey of discovery.
7) Quartet
Publisher
Anchor Bay Films
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
The rumor circling the halls is that Beecham House (the home for retired musicians) is soon to play host to a new resident. Word is, it's a star. Reginald, Wilfred and Cecily are in for a special shock when the new arrival turns out to be none other than their former singing partner, Jean. Her subsequent career as a star soloist, and the ego that accompanied it, split up their long friendship and ended her marriage to Reggie, who takes the news of...
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
The film contains clips from over 38 movies as well as many first-person interviews and a great deal of rare archival footage and photography. This film is in many ways about the American Dream itself. A truly unforgettable story of a life that shaped the entire film industry for over fifty years and a legacy that continues to entertain millions throughout the world.
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
p2005.
Language
English
Description
Well-known playwright James M. Barrie finds his career at a crossroads when his latest play flops and doubters begin to question his future. Then by chance he meets a widow and her four adventurous boys. Together they form a friendship that ignites the imagination needed to produce Barrie's greatest work. Traverses both fantasy and everyday reality, melding the difficulties of adult life with the spellbinding allure and childlike innocence of the...
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
Willy Loman has spent his entire life believing he and his family are bound for greatness. Struggling day to day as a traveling saleman, Willy begins to lose touch with reality and loses himself in the past. Meanwhile, his family, including wife Linda and sons Biff and Happy, attempt to cope with Willy's self-destruction and the still-lingering ghosts of the past.
11) Tootsie
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The story of an out of work actor who makes himself up as a woman in order to land a role in a popular soap opera.
12) Quartet
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2013.
Language
English
Description
The rumor circling the halls is that Beecham House (the home for retired musicians) is soon to play host to a new resident. Word is, it's a star. Reginald, Wilfred and Cecily are in for a special shock when the new arrival turns out to be none other than their former singing partner, Jean. Her subsequent career as a star soloist, and the ego that accompanied it, split up their long friendship and ended her marriage to Reggie, who takes the news of...
13) Meet the Fockers
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Now planning to be wed, Pam and Greg travel with her parents ex-CIA agent Jack and Dina to meet Greg's eccentric parents for the first time.
14) Midnight cowboy
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Joe Buck moves to New York from Texas to make his fortune servicing women. Instead, he's conned into partnering up with small-time huslter Ratso Rizzo. Living together on the tattered edges of society, these two outcasts develop an unlikely bond that helps them transcend their cruel existence.
16) Star wagon
Series
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
1967.
Language
English
Description
The story involves a disappointed inventor whose time-machine gives him a chance to revamp his life.
17) Straight time
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
After years behind bars, Max Dembo faces straight time. He hopes it will mean a new life, a job, a place to call home, perhaps even a girl of his own. Instead, it's a one-way ticket to disaster.
18) Marathon man
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
Hoffman plays the likeable Columbia graduate student and marathon runner of the title, unwittingly trapped in a terrifying drama revolving around a murderous Nazi fugitive.
19) I Huckabees
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
The story a husband and wife team of existential detectives who observe other people in an attempt to help them find meaning in their lives.
20) Kung fu panda
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Clumsy Po the panda dreams of becoming a kung fu master when he is invited to study with legendary fighters under the leadership of Master Shifu.