Matthew Modine
1) Foster Boy
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A corporate lawyer and a young man who has suffered in the foster care system must work together to expose the immorality of for-profit foster care.
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c1994
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Albert Finney plays a brilliant but stern classics instructor at a posh prep school who is forced out of his job and into the realization that he is despised in the classroom...and at home. Nominated for Best Screenplay at the **BAFTA Awards.** Nominated for the Palme d'Or at the **Cannes Film Festival.** *"Finney is a master of letting us glimpse the bruised heart of a man like Andrew Crocker-Harris, who has used his devotion to the classics to bury...
Publisher
Artisan Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1998
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (124 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Morgan Adams, the female captain of a pirate ship, is on a treasure hunt for millions of pounds of gold reportedly buried somewhere on Cutthroat Island. She and her uncles each hold sections of the map to the treasure. While Morgan is willing to make deals and agree to share the wealth in order to put the map together, her Uncle Dawg would rather kill everyone in his way, including his niece.
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An uplifting film about a legendary baseball player's struggle to choose between the love of his life and his love of the game. In the film, baseball fanatic Joe Soshack finds a Honus Wagner card that magically takes him back to the 1909 World Series.
7) The gamble
Publisher
DSSP Inc
Pub. Date
℗2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When young wanderer Francesco (Matthew Modine) returns to his Venice home with the hope that the family fortune will still be there to support him, he finds himself caught up in a tangled web of greed and deception. He soons discovers that his wealthy father has squandered the family's money on gambling and owes very penny to a ruthless and cruel German Countess (Faye Dunaway). With nothing to lose and everything to gain, the Countess decides that...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It is the story of a poet who is summoned to his friend's country manor to investigate a series of unexplained miracles. The disgruntled, cantankerous, semi-famous poet Ted Wallace is hired to investigate strange doings at Lord and Lady Logan's country manor, Swafford Hall.
Publisher
Netflix
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
1983, Indiana. A young boy vanishes into thin air. As friends, family, and local police search for answers, they are drawn into an extraordinary mystery involving top-secret government experiments, terrifying supernatural forces, and one very strange little girl.
10) Vision quest
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
High school wrestler Louden Swain is a man obsessed, trying to shed 23 pounds in a dangerously short time and take on Shute, the undefeated, tough-as-nails 168-pound champion who's the best wrestler in the state.
12) Wrinkles
Publisher
GKIDS
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on Paco Roca's award-winning graphic novel, the story opens with former bank manager Emilio being dispatched to a retirement home by his family. Like One Flew Over the Cuckoo₂s Nest in an old folks home, we are introduced to daily pill regimens, electric gates and an eccentric cast of characters who rebel against institutional authority, while doing everything in their power to avoid being assigned to the dreaded top floor assisted living...
13) Jobs
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
A riveting story of a true American visionary, a man who let nothing stand in the way of greatness. It chronicles the iconic innovator and entrepreneur₂s early days. He was a college dropout who co-founded Apple Computer Inc. and was then forced to leave. More than a decade later, Jobs returns and single-handedly sets a course that will turn the once-tiny startup into one of the world's most valuable companies. His epic journey blazes a trail that...
14) The neighbor
Publisher
First Look Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A businessman thinks his life is over when he learns his ex-wife is about to marry his best friend, and the neighbor wants to buy his condo to add to hers. When he needs a date to his ex's wedding, he makes a proposal to the neighbor she can't refuse.
15) Transporter 2
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 87 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ex-Special Forces operative Frank Martin, aka "The Transporter," is now retired from his chosen profession of moving dangerous goods with no questions asked. He now makes a living driving for a wealthy family in Miami, Florida. But when their young son is abducted, Frank must use his battle-tested combat skills to save the boy and thwart the kidnapper's nefarious master plan.
16) Redeemer
Publisher
Distributed by Artisan
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Former author Paul Freeman teaches creative writing at the local prison, where ex-Black Panther Charles is a star pupil. Sentenced to life in prison for abetting a homicide, Charles has one dream-- to become a father to the son he never met. The sister of the murdered victim is the only thing that stands in his way. With Paul's help, Charles drafts a letter to Sharon that will change their lives, offering each of them the second chance they desperately...
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Fullscreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of Charlie, a gentle mentally-handicapped man, and the repercussions he faces after undergoing brain surgery, and the unbreakable bond he has with a lab mouse, Algernon.
18) Gross anatomy
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011?]
Edition
Blu-ray.
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray disc (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
First-year med student, Joe Slovak, enrolls in Gross Anatomy - the toughest course in school. His free-wheeling life style puts him at odds with his demanding professor and creates problems when he falls in love with his no- nonsense lab partner.
19) Short cuts
Series
Criterion collection volume 265
Publisher
New Line Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
[Special ed.], widescreen presentation.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 183 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book.
Language
English
Description
While helicopters overhead spray against a Medfly infestation, a group of peoples' lives in Los Angeles intersect, some casually, some to more lasting effect. While they go out to concerts and jazz clubs and even have their pools cleaned, these same folks also lie, drink, and cheat. Death itself seems never to be far away. A look at human life and American culture with over 20 lives interweaving.
Publisher
[Parallel Lines Documentary Production & Distribution]
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 minutes) : sound., color. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"In this award-winning new documentary, director Jen Senko seeks to discover why her WWII veteran fathers personality radically transformed from that of a non-political Kennedy Democrat to an angry right-wing fanatic after his discovery of Talk Radio and Fox News. In trying to understand how this happened, Senko not only finds this to be a phenomenon, but also comes to a startling conclusion about the course of the media over the last 30-40 years....
