Mandy Patinkin
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jiro dreams of flying and designing beautiful airplanes, inspired by the famous Italian aeronautical designer Caproni. Nearsighted from a young age and unable to be a pilot, Jiro joins a major Japanese engineering company in 1927 and becomes one of the worlds most innovative and accomplished airplane designers. Jiro meets and falls in love with Nahoko, and grows and cherishes his friendship with his colleague Honjo. The film chronicles much of his...
9) Wonder
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on the New York best seller, this tells the incredibly inspiring and heartwarming story of August Pullman, a boy with facial differences who enters fifth grade, attending a mainstream elementary school for the first time.
10) The doctor
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Jack McKee is a doctor with it all: he's successful, he's rich, and he has no problems until he is diagnosed with throat cancer. Now that he has seen medicine, hospitals, and doctors from a patient's perspective, he realizes that there is more to being a doctor than surgery and prescriptions.
16) Impromptu
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Brazenly forward George Sand and frail, romantic Frederic Chopin are drawn together as lovers by an unnerving bond that cannot be broken despite the best efforts of those around them to keep them apart.
17) Yentl
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
In turn-of-the-century Eastern Europe where women are denied higher education, Yentl disguises herself as a young man in order to gain entrance to an orthodox Jewish school.
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
When Oscar carelessly tosses Elmo's blue blanket into the trash can, Elmo dives in after it. He is suddenly plunged into Grouchland--the land of Grouches, stinky garbage and the greedy Huxley who hasn't learned how to share.
Series
The Criterion collection volume 948
Language
English
Formats
Description
A kindly grandfather sits down with his grandson and reads him a bedtime story. As the grandfather reads the story, the action comes alive in a classic tale of love and adventure. The beautiful Buttercup is kidnapped and held against her will in order to marry the nasty Prince Humperdinck, while Westley (her childhood beau, now returned as the Dread Pirate Roberts) attempts to save her. Along the way he meets an accomplished swordsman and a giant,...