Jim Gaffigan
Author
Language
English
Description
""What are my qualifications to write this book? None really. So why should you read it? Here's why: I'm a little fat. If a thin guy were to write about a love of food and eating I'd highly recommend that you do not read his book." Bacon. McDonalds. Cinnabon. Hot Pockets. Kale. Stand-up comedian and author Jim Gaffigan has made his career rhapsodizing over the most treasured dishes of the American diet ("choking on bacon is like getting murdered by...
2) Dad is fat
Author
Language
English
Description
"In Dad is Fat, stand-up comedian Jim Gaffigan, who's best known for his legendary riffs on Hot Pockets, bacon, manatees, and McDonald's, expresses all the joys and horrors of life with five young children--everything from cousins ("celebrities for little kids") to toddlers' communication skills ("they always sound like they have traveled by horseback for hours to deliver important news"), to the eating habits of four year olds ("there is no difference...
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The monster family embarks on a vacation on a luxury monster cruise ship so Drac can take a summer vacation from providing everyone else's vacation at the hotel. It's smooth sailing for Drac's Pack as the monsters indulge in all of the shipboard fun the cruise has to offer. But the dream vacation turns into a nightmare when Mavis realizes Drac has fallen for the mysterious captain of the ship, Ericka, who hides a dangerous secret that could destroy...
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Sometimes what's in your head isn't as crazy as you think ... that's certainly true for Craig, a stressed-out teenager who checks himself into a mental health clinic for some time out. What he finds instead is an unlikely mentor, a potential new romance and an opportunity to begin anew. Charming, witty and smart, it's a coming-of-age story that's kind of a funny story.
8) Experimenter
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The true life story of controversial psychologist Stanley Milgram, whose legendary experiment tested ordinary people's willingness to obey orders from an authority figure, even if they felt what they were doing was wrong. This led Milgram's whirring mind to delve into a parade of human behavior inquiries, including the Six Degrees Of Seperation theory.
9) Luca
Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Set in a seaside town on the Italian Riviera, a young boy experiences an unforgettable summer. Luca shares his amazing adventures with his newfound friend Alberto, but their fun is threatened by a deeply held secret: they're sea monsters from another world just below the water's surface.
10) Noble ape
Publisher
Comedy Dynamics
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In his all new stand up special album, Jim Gaffigan gets personal as he discusses the medical crisis that befell his wife and family this year, which almost led to his retirement.
11) Chappaquiddick
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on historical events, this suspenseful thriller examines the infamous 1969 death of Mary Jo Kopechne, who drowned after Senator Ted Kennedy drove off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island, and the moral and legal complexities that play out over the following week.
12) Away we go
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Burt and Verona are a loving couple. Burt has always wanted to marry Verona, but Verona resists, not seeing the point of the institution. Regardless, they are having a baby together and question their potential parenting abilities. They decide to move closer to Burt's parents so they can share the experience with the baby's grandparents. In Verona's sixth month, she and Burt learn that his parents are moving to Belgium the month before the baby is...
13) Final
Publisher
Trimark Home Video
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
When Bill wakes up in the psychiatric wing at Sumner Hospital, he has trouble distinguishing his dreams from reality. He is quite certain of his sanity, but memories of being cryogenically frozen, tissue regeneration experiments and talk of a final lethal injection race through his mind. With the help of his psychiatrist, he struggles to piece his memories together.
14) Experimenter
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Yale University, 1961. Stanley Milgram (Peter Sarsgaard) designs a psychology experiment that remains relevant to this day, in which people think they’re delivering painful electric shocks to an affable stranger (Jim Gaffigan) strapped into a chair in another room. Disregarding his pleas for mercy, the majority of subjects do not stop the experiment, administering what they think are near-fatal electric shocks, simply because they’ve been told...
15) Collide
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A gripping thriller about infidelity, theft, and revenge, Collide chronicles three couples whose paths cross over the course of one fateful evening inside an LA restaurant.
16) Light from Light
Publisher
Grasshopper Film
Language
English
Formats
Description
Gifted with sometimes-prophetic dreams and a lifelong interest in the paranormal, Shelia is asked to investigate a potential haunting at a Tennessee farmhouse. It’s there she meets Richard, a recent widower who believes his wife may still be with him. The investigation that ensues — which eventually pulls in Shelia’s son, Owen and his classmate Lucy — forces them to confront the mysteries of their own lives. Official Selection at the **Sundance...
18) Chuck
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Liev Schreiber, Naomi Watts, & Elisabeth Moss star in the incredible true story of a New Jersey liquor salesman who became the real-life inspiration for Rocky Balboa.
19) Gilbert
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures*
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Gilbert Gottfried rose to fame in the 1980's thanks to his brash stand-up act and personality. Now, after decades of flying solo in both his work and in his personal life, Gilbert has shockingly reinvented himself...as a family man. Nominated for Best Film at the **Austin Fanatastic Fest.** Official Selection at the **Tribeca Film Festival**. *"A tenderly observed, remarkably insightful keeper. No joke." - Michael Rechtshaffen, **The Los Angeles Times***...
20) Tesla
Publisher
Shout!Factory
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Brilliant, visionary Nikola Tesla fights an uphill battle to bring his revolutionary electrical system to fruition, then faces thornier challenges with his new system for worldwide wireless energy. The film tracks Tesla's uneasy interactions with his fellow inventor Thomas Edison and his patron George Westinghouse. Another thread traces Tesla's sidewinding courtship of financial titan J.P. Morgan, whose daughter Anne takes a more than casual interest...