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1) Mean girls
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
From the comedic mind of Tina Fey comes a new twist on the modern classic. New student Cady Heron is welcomed into the top of the social food chain by the elite group of popular girls called "The Plastics," ruled by the conniving queen bee Regina George and her minions Gretchen and Karen. However, when Cady makes the major misstep of falling for Regina's ex-boyfriend Aaron Samuels, she finds herself prey in Regina's crosshairs. As Cady sets out to...
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Sammy is a single mom living in a small Catskill town with her eight-year-old son. A lot happens all at once to Sammy as she picks up with an old boyfriend, gets a new boss and her wayward brother shows up after months of no communication. A crisis ensues when the son meets his estranged father
5) Chinatown
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Private eye Jake Gittes, living off the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-war Southern California is hired by a beautiful socialite to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair. Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits, uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that come crashing together for one, unforgettable night in Chinatown
6) Wonder boys
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
During a single weekend, college professor Grady Tripp scrambles to gather together a life that has suddenly reeled out of control. An unfinished novel, a stolen car, a murdered pet and a failing marriage are just a few of the crises piling up
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Lt. Col. Hal Moore is the commander of the First Battalion, Seventh Cavalry. As part of the Pleiku Campaign of late 1965, Moore is assigned to action at Landing Zone X-Ray in the Ia Drang Valley, an area known to be overrun by North Vietnamese troops and nicknamed "The Valley of Death." Moore soon finds himself and his men contained to an area about the size of a football field, surrounded by more than 2,000 enemy troops and engaged in the first major...
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A poignant look at how a woman's love and support can help a widower, who is struggling to overcome the loss of his wife, deal with his older son's decision to leave home and his younger son's destructive behavior
10) True grit
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures Corp
Pub. Date
[2000], c1996
Language
English
Description
U.S. Marshall Rooster Cogburn is hired by a 14-year-old girl to kill the man who murdered her father and stole the family nest egg. She accepts the help of a Texas Ranger, who is intent on the reward, and accompanies them on the quest. Includes theatrical trailer
11) Ordinary people
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
The "ordinary" existence of an upper middle class family is shattered with the death of the older son and the struggle of the younger son with guilt and suicide
12) Ragtime
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
From the E.L. Doctorow novel of 1906 America, a compelling story of human emotions and a reflection of the innocence, excitement and drama of an important time in America's history. It is now an award winning Broadway musical
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c1982
Language
English
Description
The Federation Starship U.S.S. Enterprise is on routine training maneuvers, and Admiral James T. Kirk seems resigned to the fact that this may be his last space mission. But Khan, a brilliant renegade of 20th Century Earth, is back with his exiled band of genetic supermen and setting a deadly trap for his old enemy Kirk, with the threat of a universal Armageddon!
15) Romeo & Juliet
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2000?]
Language
English
Description
Film version of Shakespeare's tragedy in which two teenagers fall in love, encounter opposition from their feuding families, and take their own lives
16) Gallipoli
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
A story of how the irresistible lure of adventure and the unknown bring two young men together in the Australian army in 1915. They are sent to fight in the Gallipoli campaign in Turkey
19) Paint your wagon
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
The story of a goldmining boom town centering on the work-and-play partnership of two miners and the wife they share
20) Little Big Man
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003, c1970
Language
English
Description
Jack Crabb is 121 years old. And he's done it all. He's been a full-fledged Cheyenne, an Indian fighter, a snake oil merchant, master gunman, drinking buddy of wild Bill Hickok, colleague of Buffalo Bill, and is the only survivor of Custer's Last Stand. Crabb is either the Old West's most neglected hero or the biggest liar ever to cross the Mississippi. Little Big Man is Jack Crabb's story
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