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Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
Morris paints a portrait of four obsessed eccentrics: a wild animal trainer, a topiary gardener, a robot designer, and an expert on the naked mole rat, which he interweaves with cartoons and stock footage for a look at what separates madness from genius.
Series
Criterion collection volume 361
Publisher
Image Entertainment]
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Description
After Grey Gardens, the portrait of the relationship between Edith Bouvier Beale and her daughter Little Edie, spawned everything from a midnight-movie cult following to a Broadway musical to an upcoming Hollywood adaptation, the filmmakers went back to their 1976 vaults to create this tribute to both the Beale women and their legion of fans.
4) Mame
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
She'll coax the blues right out of your heart. Madcap Auntie Mame is suddenly her nephew's guardian in this sparkling adaptation of the Broadway hit.
5) Twister
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
The Cleveland family is so caught up in their private whirlwind of off-beat opulence, they are oblivious to a threatening tornado that mirrors their own personal battles.
Publisher
USA Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
Joe Mitchell is a top writer at The New Yorker, specializing in profiles o furban eccentrics. But he's never met anyone as fascinating as Joe Gould, a cantankerous, unkempt, yet possibly brilliant street philisopher. When Mitchell decides to profile Gould, he has to decide whether Gould is a fraud or a genius.
Publisher
Dreamworks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011.
Language
English
Description
When he is invited to his boss's annual Dinner for Extraordinary People, where the invitee who brings the most eccentric guest is the winner of the evening, Tim invites Barry, an acquaintance who recreates works of art with stuffed mice.
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Crackpot inventor Caractacus Potts lives in the English countryside with his two children and their dotty grandfather. Potts's various inventions, including Toot Sweets, a candy/whistle, backfire, but then Potts restores a junked race car, affectionately named "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang". Chitty flies, floats, and generally thwarts efforts by Baron Bomburst to capture her.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The eccentrically macabre family moves to a bland suburb where Wednesday Addams' friendship with the daughter of a hostile and conformist local reality show host exacerbates conflict between the families.
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Torn between a social conscience that dictates he should look after his mother in her old age and the need to live a normal life while he's still in his prime, newly divorced Arthur tries to accomodate his mother's constant demands for affection and attention.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
Garp is a man whose life unfolds from cradle to grave in counterpoint to the dizzy, violent, cruel and casually destructive rhythms of our anxious age. Whilst Garp sees himself as a "serious" writer, his mother Jenny writes a feminist manifesto at an opportune time, and finds herself as a magnet for all manner of distressed women.
15) Frank
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
An offbeat comedy about a young wannabe musician, Jon, who finds himself out of his depth when he joins an avant-garde pop band led by the mysterious and enigmatic Frank, a musical genius who hides himself inside a large fake head, and his terrifying band mate Clara.
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this all-new movie, we find Morticia and Gomez distraught that their children are growing up, skipping family dinners, and totally consumed with "scream time." To reclaim their bond they decide to cram Wednesday, Pugsley, Uncle Fester, and the crew into their haunted camper and hit the road for one last miserable family vacation. Their adventure across America takes them out of their element and into hilarious run-ins with their iconic cousin,...
18) Dina
Publisher
The Orchard
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In this 2017 Sundance and IDA award-winning film, Dina, an eccentric and outspoken 49-year-old in suburban Philadelphia, invites her fiance Scott, a Walmart door greeter, to move in with her. Having grown up neurologically diverse in a world blind to the value of their experience, the two are head-over-heels for one another, but shacking up poses a new challenge.
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