Gene Hackman
Author
Language
English
Description
Academy Award–winning actor Gene Hackman spins a cinematic tale of pirates, shipwrecks, and sea adventure. Co-written with Daniel Lenihan, one of America's leading authorities on shipwrecks and diving, Wake of the Perdido Star is a moving story of a young boy's coming of age on the high seas, full of authentic nautical and historical detail. A 19th-century sea adventure in the spirit of Patrick O'Brian, Wake of the Perdido Star is a captivating...
3) Hoosiers
Author
Language
English
Description
A man gets a last-chance job coaching a small-town Indiana high-school basketball team and faces the dual challenge of bringing this underdog team to the 1951 state championship and redeeming himself from a mysterious past.
5) Target
Author
Language
English
Description
When his mother goes missing in Paris, teen Chris has to team up with his father to find her. They engage in a deadly race against time in an odyssey across Europe. Twists and turns abound in this fast-paced, action-adventure thriller.
Author
Language
English
Description
Ted Kotcheff continues his First Blood fervor with Uncommon Valor. Gene Hackman stars as Cal Rhodes, a former Marine Colonel who has been getting the run-around for ten years from the government concerning the disappearance of his son and his buddies - all Marines who enlisted years prior and served in Vietnam. Rhodes' son was last seen in Laos, where he was fighting in the war and captured as a POW. When word gets back to Rhodes that the men may...
8) Hoosiers
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
A basketball coach has a checkered past that leads him to a last-chance position with a last-chance team
9) Get Shorty
Publisher
MGM/UA Home Video
Pub. Date
1997, c1995
Language
English
Description
Loanshark Chili Palmer has done his time as a gangster, so when "business" takes him to Los Angeles to collect a debt from down and out filmmaker Harry Zimm, he talks tough and then pitches Harry a script idea. Everything would be smooth for this cool new producer, if it weren't for the drug smugglers and gangsters who won't leave him alone
10) Unforgiven
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Bill Munny, a retired, once ruthless killer-turned-hog farmer, is flat broke. A widower with two young children to tend to, he feels he has no choice but to accept one last bounty hunter mission to find and kill two young gunslingers who brutalized and cut up the face of a local prostitute. Bill teams up with his old partner Ned and the cocky greenhorn, The Schofield Kid. The three men soon find out this bounty has many more obstacles to overcome...
11) The firm
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
A brilliant and ambitious Harvard Law grad joins a small, prosperous law firm in Memphis, and is soon confronted by FBI agents with evidence of corruption and murder within the firm
14) Heist
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Language
English
Description
An accomplished thief has his career jeopardized after he's caught on security cameras during a job. Broke, he and his associates are blackmailed by their longtime fence into stealing Swiss gold bars from an airplane. As they plot the complicated score, he and his crew become suspicious of the relationship between his young wife and the fence's nephew, who has been planted on the crew to keep an eye on them for his uncle. Betrayals and backstabbings...
15) The conversation
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
A provoking mystery-suspense drama explores the morality of privacy in the story of Harry Caul, a surveillance expert, who conducts a routine surveillance job only to later find himself suspicious that he has become an unwitting player in a murder scheme
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Set in Mississippi in 1964, this is a fictionalized version of the case of the murder of three young civil rights workers, the FBI's attempts to find the missing boys and the clash between the authorities and the locals in a Klan-dominated town
17) A bridge too far
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
A dramatic recreation of an Allied airdrop behind German lines in Holland and the subsequent disastrous Battle of Arnhem
Series
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Three grown prodigies, all with a unique genius of some kind, and their mother are staying at the family household. Their father, Royal, had left them long ago, but now returns to make things right with his family ... if he can
19) Superman II
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
This epic takes up where Superman, the movie leaves off. Superman deals witha trio of villians whose powers rival Superman's own
20) The birdcage
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013], c1996
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