Mike Nichols
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Based on the novel by Carrie Fisher about her life in the Hollywood fast lane. Suzanne Vale is a wise-cracking, vulnerable actress determined to jump start her failing career. Her mother, an aging movie star is the definitive portrait of Hollywood's gutsy glamour queens and, of course, offers her daughter only razor sharp humor and searing honesty.
3) Working girl
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
A bright Wall Street secretary rises to a professional position by posing as her classy but treacherous boss.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
In the early 1980s, Charlie Wilson is best known as a womanizing US congressional representative from Texas. He seemed to be in the minor leagues, except for the fact that he is a member of two major foreign policy and covert-ops committees. However, once Charlie is prodded by his major conservative supporter, Joanne Herring, Wilson learns about the plight of the people who are suffering from the effects of the brutal Soviet occupation of Afghanistan....
7) The birdcage
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
The story of a middle-aged gay couple's comic encounter with a self-righteously straight and conservative family: Armand and Albert reluctantly accept young Val's intention to marry the daughter of a conservative Senator, but when the fiancee's family comes to visit, the whole household is turned upside down.
8) Closer
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Dan, an aspiring novelist, cannot help but feel immensely attracted to Alice, a young American waitress and stripper who is in London after escaping from a failed relationship. The two meet after Alice is involved in a car accident. But nothing last forever, and after some time Dan meets Anna, a photographer, and he feels attracted to her. Nothing happens right away, but once it does, things go downhill for Alice and Dan. The two don't break up, but...
9) Silkwood
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The Oklahoma nuclear plant worker who blew the whistle on dangerous practices at the Kerr-McGee plant and who died under circumstances which are still under debate.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
In the early 1980s, Charlie Wilson is best known as a womanizing US congressional representative from Texas. He seemed to be in the minor leagues, except for the fact that he is a member of two major foreign policy and covert-ops committees. However, once Charlie is prodded by his major conservative supporter, Joanne Herring, Wilson learns about the plight of the people who are suffering from the effects of the brutal Soviet occupation of Afghanistan....
12) Wolf
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
"Jack Nicholson and Michelle Pfeiffer star in 'Wolf', a wickedly funny, wildlly romantic, white-knuckle thriller. James Spader...Kate Nelligan...Christopher Plummer...and David Hyde Pierce...co-star in this beastly tale of love and betrayal with equal measures of humor, passion and delicious terror."--container.
15) The graduate
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
A recent college graduate from an affluent family comes of age and finds himself by being led into an affair with the wife and the daughter of his father's business partner.
16) Wit
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
An English professor, who alienates her students, has always had control over her life. That is until she is diagnosed with a devasting illness. She agrees to undergo a series of procedures that are brutal, extensive and experimental. She finds that the fine line between life and death can only be walked with wit.
17) Silkwood
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Karen Silkwood becomes contaminated with plutonium at her job, voices her protest at the indifference and denial of her company, and becomes a threat to the entire nuclear industry and the government agencies that monitor it. Based on a true story.
18) The graduate
Publisher
Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Uncertain of what he wants to do with his life, college graduate Benjamin Braddock returns home. And when the wife of his father's business partner, the sexy Mrs. Robinson, seduces him, the affair only deepens his confusion. That is, until he meets the girl of his dreams. But there's one problem-- she's Mrs. Robinson's daughter.
19) Catch-22
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
The story of a group of fliers in the Mediterranean during World War II.
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Language
English
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God has abandoned Heaven. It's 1985 and the Reagans are in the White House. Death is swinging the scythe of AIDS. In Manhattan, Prior tells Lou, his lover, he's ill and Lou decides to bolt. As disease and loneliness ravage Prior, guilt invades Lou. Joe is an attorney, who is Mormon and Republican, is pushed by right-winger Roy toward a job at the Justice Dept. Both Joe and Roy are in the closet: Joe out of shame and religious turmoil; Roy to preserve...