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Jessica Lange
2) King Kong
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c1999.
Language
English
Description
A petroleum exploration expedition comes to an isolated island and encounters a colossal giant gorilla.
3) In Secret
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Thérèse grows up with her aunt and cousin. Around 1860 the aunt decides they move to Paris and that her son and Thérèse get married. The joy- and loveless life changes when her husband brings a friend home. The affair turns ugly for all. Official Selection at the **Toronto International Film Festival**.
5) Neverwas
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
In order to learn more about his famous father's suicide, Zach Riley takes a postion at the clinic where his father ended his days and meets an inmate who claims to be king of the imaginary land described in Zach's father's book.
8) Wild Oats
Publisher
The Weinstein Company Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Eva, a widow and retired history teacher, enjoys a quiet life. Everything changes when she receives a life insurance check accidentally made out for $5,000,000 instead of the expected $50,000. At the not-so-gentle urging of her best friend Maddie, Eva deposits the money and the two friends head to the Canary Islands with every intention of living it up. But their fantasy is short-lived when they discover that they have become media sensations overnight....
9) Sweet dreams
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999.
Language
English
Description
Film biography of country singer, Patsy Cline.
10) Tootsie
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Language
English
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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.
11) Frances
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
At 16, Frances Farmer was an award-winning high-school student in Seattle--at 23, she was a rising and provocative star of stage and screen, admired for her beauty and talent--at 27, a chain of relatively insignificant events led to her arrest and eventual involuntary commital to a mental institution.
12) Grey Gardens
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Former Manhattan mother-daughter socialites the Beales end up destitute and living in squalor in their Long Island mansion.
13) A thousand acres
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
c1997.
Language
English
Description
When an aging father retires, he passes the family farm on to his three daughters. This generous gift ignites an explosive series of events that threaten to tear the family apart forever.
14) Music box
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
In this courtroom thriller, Chicago attorney Ann Talbot (Jessica Lange) agrees to defend her Hungarian immigrant father Mike Laszlo (Armin Mueller-Stahl) against accusations of heinous war crimes committed 50 years earlier. As the trial unfolds, Ann probes for evidence that will not only establish his innocence but also lay to rest her own agonizing doubts about his past.
15) The gambler
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Both an English professor and a high-stakes gambler, Jim Bennett bets it all when he borrows from a gangster and offers his own life as collateral. Always one step ahead, Bennett pits his creditor against the operator of a gambling ring and leaves his dysfunctional relationship with his wealthy mother in his wake. He plays both sides, immersing himself in an illicit, underground world while garnering the attention of Frank, a loan shark with an interest...
16) Country
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003?]
Language
English
Description
When government bureaucrats threaten to take away the farm that has bound their family together for generations, Jewell and Gil Ivy decide to fight at all costs.
17) Bonneville
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Enterrtainment
Pub. Date
c2008.
Language
English
Description
Faced with the decision of a lifetime, Arvilla Holden hijacks her two best friends and sets off in a vintage '66 Bonneville convertible across the great American West to deliver her husband's ashes to her step-daughter. What begins as a simple road trip for the trio, will end up becoming a chance to rediscover themselves, their friendship, the importance of promises and always living life to the fullest.
18) The vow
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
After a car accident puts her in a coma, Paige wakes up and cannot remember the last five years of her life, so her husband Leo works to make her fall in love with him again.
19) O pioneers!
Series
Publisher
Hallmark Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
At the turn of the century, an immigrant's daughter inherits her family's Nebraska farm and her father's fierce love for the land. Fifteen years later she has made the family a fortune through her canny management of the farm, but has never forgotten the young man who left the prairie to seek his fortune.
20) Cape Fear
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
A recently-released rapist stalks the family of the attorney who defended him.