Miramax Home Entertainment (Firm)
1) Everest
Pub. Date
[1998?]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 45 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Filmed during the infamous 1996 storm that claimed eight lives, Everest documents the filmmakers' harrowing rescue efforts to help the surviving members of the ill-fated group. The international team of climbers scale the world's tallest peak in this daring adventure of triumph and tragedy. Special features include "Making of Everest", extended Beck Weathers interview, deleted scenes, climber video journals, 3D Everest map, Titanica trailer, 5.0 surround....
3) Dear Frankie
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 105 min.) : sd. col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
To spare the feelings of her fatherless boy, Lizzie secretly authors letters from his "father" recounting seafaring adventures around the world. Torn between exposing the truth and protecting her son, Lizzie hires a handsome stranger to play the role of a father and gets more than anyone bargained for.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Poland, World War II. Innocent and naive 8-year-old Bruno is bored and restless in his new home. Ignoring his mother, he sets off on an adventure in the woods. He comes across a high fence which separates him from the people he can see through it. Soon he meets a young boy in striped pajamas, and a surprising friendship develops.
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A young man offends an entire town by declaring their mountain-- a prized local landmark-- to be a "hill." The eccentric and funny townspeople rally around their "mountain" and a fiery young woman charms the puzzled out-of-town cartographer into seeing things their way.
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Sir Robert Chiltern is a successful government minister, well-off and with a loving wife. All this is threatened when Mrs. Chieveley appears in London with damning evidence of a past misdeed. Sir Robert turns for help to his friend Lord Goring, an apparently idle philanderer and the despair of his father. Goring knows the lady of old, and, for him, takes the whole thing pretty seriously.
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Romek is a Jewish boy from Krakow hiding out with a rural Catholic family in Poland in 1943. Romek soons finds himself in an awkward position with the other children of the village, who don't know whether to view the newcomer as a friend or rival. In a catechism class taught by a local priest, Ramek meets Marka, a local thirteen-year-old whose romantic interest sparks some twists that include betrayal, murder, and revenge with religious overtones....
10) Mansfield park
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 112 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This fun and sexy comedy tells a timelessly entertaining story where wealth, secret passions, and mischievous women put love to the test, with delightfully surprising results! When a spirited young woman, Fanny Price, is sent away to live on the great country estate of her rich cousins, she's meant to learn the ways of proper society. But while Fanny learns 'their' ways, she also enlightens them with a wit and sparkle all her own!
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When circumstances bring together two bright and highly imaginative teenage schoolgirls they quickly form an unwavering bond, creating a fantasy world that only they can share. Disturbed by the intensity of the friendship, their parents threaten to keep them apart. The girls vow to stay together, devising a secret plan that leads to shocking consequences.
12) Chasing Amy
Pub. Date
©2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The complications of love and friendship among three New Jersey comic book artists: Holden, his partner Banky, and Alyssa, the woman Holden falls in love with only to be thwarted by her sexuality.
13) Muriel's wedding
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
No one ever paid much attention to Muriel and her humdrum small town life, so she and her best friend Rhonda decide to leave it behind and head for the big city ... where they end up having the exciting adventure of their lives! What's more, soon everyone takes notice when Muriel becomes engaged to a handsome and popular sports hero!
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in the 1860s, Queen Victoria has mourned her husband, Albert, for four years. In Windsor Castle, away from London and public life, she comes out of her shell by becoming friends with her husband's trusted Highland horseman, John Brown, who refuses to coddle her. An unusual relationship develops between the two - much to the consternation of everyone else.
15) Kate & Leopold
Pub. Date
2002, c2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Kate and her actor brother live in 21st century New York. Her ex-boyfriend, Stuart, has found a spot near the Brooklyn Bridge where there is a gap in time--one can return to the 19th century. Stuart goes back to the 1870s and takes pictures, then is followed back to New York by Leopold. Leopold gets help with fitting into the 21st century from Kate's brother Charlie, and meets Kate herself. Kate is climbing the corporate ladder in advertising, but...
16) Emma
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Emma Woodhouse is a young woman who, having engineered the marriage of her companion, turns her attention toward making a match for the local vicar and her new protegée, Harriet Smith. Her one voice of reason and restraint is Mr. Knightley, who has known her since she was a child and who watches her behaviour with wry amusement and sometimes with real anger. Emma presides over the small provincial world of Highbury with enthusiasm, but she will...
17) Venus
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Maurice, a still-working actor whiles away his dwindling days playing bit parts (corpses, mostly) or at the local pub with a pair of equally frail footlights friends, drama queen Ian and taciturn Donald. Ian announces that his niece has sent her wayward daughter to stay with him. Jessie is a borderline hooligan, surly, self-centered, willful, and a prodigious drinker. Maurice looks at Jessie with unapologetic longing, appreciating things she can't...
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 122 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Llewelyn Moss is a Vietnam vet who could use a break. One morning while hunting antelope, he spies several trucks surrounded by dead bodies. He decides to examine the site. He finds a case filled with $2 million and a truck loaded with heroin. Moss takes it with him, tells his wife he's going away for awhile, and hits the road until he can determine his next move. On his the way from El Paso to the Mexican border, he discovers he's being followed...
19) Jersey girl
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Ollie is madly in love with his wife. But when the Manhattan music publicist's wife dies in childbirth, Ollie's life becomes emotionally shattered. Not sure what to do next, he moves to New Jersey with his infant daughter to live with his dad. Juggling his career and single parenthood proves more than Ollie can manage, and one day he's fired after he bungles a major press event. He devotes his time to his daughter and ends up frequenting a local video...
20) Trainspotting
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A young heroin addict in Edinburgh tries to kick the habit but his junkie friends aren't making it easy for him.