Radha Mitchell
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in the 1930's in war-torn China and inspired by true events. George Hogg is a young Englishman who leads sixty orphaned boys on an extraordinary journey of almost a thousand miles across the snow-bound Liu Pan Shan mountains to safety on the edge of the Mongolian desert. During his journey, George learns to rely on the support of Chen, the leader of a Chinese partisan group who becomes his closest friend. He soon finds himself falling in love...
5) Pitch black
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a group of marooned passengers must face a pack of terrifying creatures whose only weakness is the light, they turn to a vicious convict with an appetite for destruction and eerie eyes that can guide them through the darkness.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
1970s Australia: A 200-ton blue whale washes up on a local beach and it's the biggest thing that's ever happened in the lives of the local kids. Behind closed doors, the parents of this quiet suburban cul-de-sac celebrate in their own special way. It's a time of boxed wine, bad hair, bad styles, bad choices, but good times. And like the rotting whale, it's all about to go spectacularly wrong.
7) Bird people
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (128 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In an airport hotel on the outskirts of Paris, a Silicon Valley engineer abruptly quits his job, breaks up with his wife, and isolates himself in his room. But as fate draws him and a young French maid together, he may just discover the unexpected shakeup his life so desperately needs.
8) Surrogates
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
People are living their lives remotely from the safety of their own homes via robotic surrogates - sexy, physically perfect mechanical representations of themselves. It's an ideal world where crime, pain, fear and consequences don't exist. When the first murder in years jolts this utopia, FBI agent Greer discovers a vast conspiracy behind the surrogate phenomenon and must abandon his own surrogate, risking his life to unravel the mystery.
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When Henry discovers that he has only six weeks to live, he moves to the suburbs planning to spend his final days in seclusion. However, the discovery of a "miraculous" stain on the outside of Henry's house disrupts his plans and draws Henry back towards life and involvement with his neighbors.
10) Man on fire
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (146 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Hard-drinking, burnt-out CIA operative John Creasy (Washington) has given up on life -- until his friend Rayburn ... gets him a job as bodyguard to nine-year-old Pita Ramos... Bit by bit, Creasy begins to reclaim his soul, but when Pita is kidnapped, Creasy's fiery rage is released and he will stop at nothing to save her"--Container.
11) Phone booth
Pub. Date
©2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (81 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Stu Shepard, a self-centered New York City publicist, suddenly finds himself on the deadly end of a high-powered rifle scope when he picks up a ringing payphone and the man on the other end tells him that he's going to kill him if he hangs up.
12) The shack
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 132 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After suffering a family tragedy, Mack Phillips spirals into a deep depression causing him to question his innermost beliefs. Facing a crisis of faith, he receives a mysterious letter urging him to an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness.
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Well-known playwright James M. Barrie finds his career at a crossroads when his latest play flops and doubters begin to question his future. Then by chance he meets a widow and her four adventurous boys. Together they form a friendship that ignites the imagination needed to produce Barrie's greatest work. Traverses both fantasy and everyday reality, melding the difficulties of adult life with the spellbinding allure and childlike innocence of the...
14) The code
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Two thieves try to pull off a dangerous heist with FBI, NYPD, and KGB operatives on their trail, and try to escape with their loot and their lives.
15) Expecting
Author
Description
When Andie (Michelle Monaghan, SOURCE CODE) gets pregnant after a one night stand, she offers to give the baby to her best friend (Radha Mitchell, RED WIDOW), who has been unable to conceive. But can their friendship survive the pregnancy?
16) Blueback
Author
Description
BLUEBACK follows Abby, a teen girl who befriends a magnificent wild blue groper while diving. When Abby realizes that the fish is under threat, she takes inspiration from her activist Mom, Dora, and takes on poachers to save her friend.
17) Nobody's Baby
Author
Description
An outlaw, (Gary Oldman, "The Dark Knight") discovers a baby in the midst of a car wreck. With his former partner in crime out to get him, he is forced to protect the baby.
18) Fugly!
Author
Description
In this anti-romantic comedy, JESSE SANCHEZ, a frustrated comic who grew up in the shadow of his more attractive brother, channels rejection into a successful comedy and acting career. But even that can't help him with the ladies. His near-death suicide attempt to get an attention from the long-lost love of his life forces him to revisit personal and professional high and lows.
Author
Description
Returning to the middle-class neighborhood where he grew up, Henry Poole (Luke Wilson of OLD SCHOOL) chooses to live in indulgent isolation. Real life, however, refuses to cooperate with his plans. Nosy neighbors interrupt him with curious visits and prying questions. Then the situation escalates as a stain on Henry's stucco wall is seen to have miraculous powers. His last-ditch hideout becomes a shrine when his backyard turns into an arena for passionate...
20) Feast of Love
Author
Description
A rustic Oregon town is the backdrop for this tale of men and women touched by love's inescapable spell. From Bradley (Greg Kinnear), the hopeless romantic who looks for love in all the wrong places; to Harry (Morgan Freeman), a local professor with the wisdom and experience to guide those close to him; to young, beautiful Chloe, who defies fate in romancing the troubled Oscar. This ode to life and love in all its funny, sexy, crazy facets will touch...