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Jodie Foster
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
c1999.
Language
English
Description
"In the wake of the 1996 disaster that took eight climbers in a single day, scientists follow a team of hikers to measure, for the first time ever, the toll high-altitude climbing takes on the heart, lungs, blood and brain." --container.
Series
Publisher
Docurama
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Meet Josephine, Reena, Marie, Jeanette, Lou and Terry. These intelligent and articulate women once had secure, active and fulfilling lives. That is until one day when everything unraveled. Now living out of their cars or in cheap hotels, they exist entirely under the radar, too proud to go to shelters or to even receive public assistance.
4) Sommersby
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999.
Language
English
Description
A Civil War veteran returns to his hometown a changed man-- leading his wife and others who knew him to doubt his identity.
5) Nell
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
The backwoods of North Carolina is where Nell lives, all alone. She has her own form of language and no idea of a world beyond her small plot of land. When civilization enters her life, Nell's life will never be the same again.
6) Inside man
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
NYPD Detective Keith Frazier struggles to outsmart Dalton, a high-stakes bank robber who, along with a well-trained crew of accomplices, has seized control of a Wall Street bank. The robbers turn what initially looks like a hostage crisis into a personal crusade to expose some mysterious evil secrets. As the dangerous cat-and-mouse game unfolds, Madaline, a power broker with her own agenda, emerges and injects even more instability into an already...
7) Bugsy Malone
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A pint-sized cast with giant talents illuminates this musical that is unlike any other ever made. Set in 1929 New York City, BUGSY MALONE captures a flashy world of would-be hoodlums, showgirls, and dreamers - all played by child actors! As Tallulah, the sassy girlfriend of the owner of Fat Sam's Grand Slam Speakeasy, future superstar Jodie Foster dances and sings her way into our hearts. Award-winning pop composer Paul Williams wrote the words and...
10) Nim's island
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
When her scientist father disappears at sea, a young girl living on a remote island calls upon her favorite adventure novelist via e-mail to help her find him.
11) Freaky Friday
Pub. Date
uuuu
Language
English
Description
A mother and daughter find their personalities switched and have to live each other's lives on one strange Friday.
12) Maverick
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1997.
Language
English
Description
A poker tournament attracts gamblers of all kinds, including the legendary Maverick, that is if he can avoid the noose, outlaws, snakes & a runaway stage to get there.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Rynn (Foster) is a gifted prodigy who lives in a big old house with her reclusive father all alone. Or does she? Rynn is determined to preserve her isolated existence at any cost and stop those vicious rumors dead in their tracks!
14) Contact
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1997.
Language
English
Description
Astronomer Ellie Arroway discovers communication from the star Vega and leads an international team in deciphering it, eventually travelling through space to encounter the senders of the message.
16) Bugsy Malone
Publisher
Cine Video
Pub. Date
[200?]
Language
English
Description
In this unique mobster film, all of the gangsters are children. Bugsy Malone determines to rule over New York City and battles with "Fat Sam" and "Dandy Dan." Instead of using bullets, they shoot whipped cream to bury their enemies.
17) Candleshoe
Publisher
Anchor Bay
Pub. Date
c1999.
Language
English
Description
A young orphan, Casey, and a sly con man are determined to find a fortune in Spanish doubloons hidden centuries ago at Candleshoe, an English manor.
18) Carnage
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Two pairs of parents, one of whose child has hurt the other at a public park, meet to discuss the matter in a civilized manner. However, the evening becomes quite chaotic as the parents become increasingly childish.
19) Tom Sawyer
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
Mark Twain's boy hero enters a cave with Huck and Becky to save Muff Potter, witness to murder.
20) Candleshoe
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
A young orphan, Casey, and a sly con man are determined to find a fortune in Spanish doubloons hidden centuries ago at Candleshoe, an English manor.