Alan Arkin
Author
Description
Alan Arkin knew he was going to be an actor from the age of five. "Every film I saw, every play, every piece of music fed an unquenchable need to turn myself into something other than what I was." Following Arkin's professional journey as an actor and his personal development along the way, An Improvised Life is a revealing look into the creative mind of one of the craft's best practitioners on stage or screen.
Author
Series
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Scrooge may be alive and well and living in West Virginia in the person of Flagg Purdy. He won't pay the county phone tax, and he won't allow his wife and eleven children to celebrate any holiday. He rules his life, and theirs, by his "principles". But something has just happened to his well-ordered universe. Flagg's favorite daughter has decided to get married and to celebrate a certain winter holiday complete with a tree and presents. Christmas...
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Once upon a time in a castle high on a hill lived an inventor whose greatest creation was, Edward. Although Edward had an irresistible charm, he was not quite perfect. The inventor's sudden death left him unfinished, with sharp shears of metal for hands. Edward lived alone in the darkness until one day a kind Avon sales person took him home to live with her family. And so began Edward's fantastical adventures in a pastel paradise known as Suburbia....
5) Grudge match
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Henry 'Razor' Sharp and Billy 'The Kid' McDonnen are old boxing rivals who come out of retirement for one final match. On their first encounter in decades, their long-festering feud erupts into an unintentionally hilarious melee that instantly goes viral. The sudden social media frenzy transforms their local grudge match into a must-see HBO event. Now, if they can just survive the training, they may actually live to fight again.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Lifelong buddies Willie, Joe, and Al decide to buck retirement and step off the straight and narrow for the first time in their lives when their pension fund becomes a corporate casualty. To pay the bills and come through for their loved ones, the three risk it all by embarking on a daring bid to knock off the very bank that absconded with their money.
8) Rendition
Pub. Date
2008, c2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The policy of "extraordinary rendition" began under the Clinton administration and accelerated after September 11, 2001. The policy allows for the handing over of suspected terrorists to countries that use torture as an interrogation tool. Anwar El-Ibrahimi is an Egyptian-born man who disappears on a flight from Africa to Washington, DC. He is sent to a North African country where torture is practiced and the CIA gives approval. Anwar's pregnant American-born...
9) Argo
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
On November 4, 1979, Iranian militants stormed the American embassy in Tehran and captured dozens of American hostages, sparking a 444-day ordeal. There's a little-known footnote to the crisis: six Americans escaped and a mid level agent named Antonio Mendez devised an ingenious yet incredibly risky plan to rescue them.
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Olive is a little girl who dreams of winning the Little Miss Sunshine contest. Her family wants her dream to come true, but they are so dysfunctional that they can barely make it through a day without some disaster befalling them. Olive's father, Richard, is unsuccessful as a motivational speaker. He is barely on speaking terms with Olive's mother. Her uncle Frank has attempted suicide following an unsuccessful romance with a male graduate student....
11) Marley & me
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
John and Jen are journalists who are a newly married couple. Marley is the adopted puppy that no one wants, a high-strung lab who is virtually untrainable. Marley shreds cushions, destroys floors and walls and most everything in between. Instead of taking him to the pound, they love their dog and he faithfully loves them in return. John and Jen eventually have three children and Jen gives up her career to be a mom. John's career continues to advance...
12) Get Smart
Pub. Date
©2008
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Maxwell Smart is a bungling secret agent who works for CONTROL, whose mission is to battle the forces of their evil crime nemesis known as KAOS. After the identities of CONTROL agents are compromised, Smart along with the competent and beautiful Agent 99 must do whatever it takes to thwart KAOS's latest plot for world domination.
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (126 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story focuses on the riotous confusion created when a Russian submarine gets stuck on a New England sandbar and the landing crew goes ashore for help-only to be mistaken for an invasion force by the over-imaginative townspeople.
14) Catch-22 (1970)
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of a group of fliers in the Mediterranean during World War II.
16) The last unicorn
Pub. Date
[2004], c1982
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A unicorn, believing herself to be the last, searches for any others of her kind, while avoiding the malevolent Red Bull, the agent believed to have destroyed the rest of her herd. Along the way she is mistaken, ignored, attacked, and absessed about. She finally finds help from a magician named Schmendrick and a knight named Prince Lir.
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After nearly two decades under the wing of an aging, avuncular husband, dutiful mother and housewife Pippa Lee undergoes a midlife breakthrough. Unearthing the sexually curious wild child of her teens, middle-aged Pippa sparks a relationship with a divorcee loner. Pippa Lee is a resilient woman, refusing to let life pass her by.
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (201 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Marley & me : John and Jen are journalists who are a newly married couple. Marley is the adopted puppy that no one wants, a high-strung lab who is virtually untrainable. Marley shreds cushions, destroys floors and walls and most everything in between. Instead of taking him to the pound, they love their dog and he faithfully loves them in return. John and Jen eventually have three children and Jen gives up her career to be a mom. John's career continues...
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
With another Christmas season fast approaching, Santa Claus/Scott Calvin is feeling even more pressure. Mrs. Claus is expecting a little Claus. She is also longing for the company of some "tall people." So Scott agrees to let her parents visit as long as they believe that they're really in Canada rather than at the North Pole. Further complicating matters is a visit by Scott's ex-wife, her husband, and their daughter, Lucy. A member of the Council...