New Line Home Entertainment (Firm)
1) Widows' peak
Publication Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a stranger moves to Widows' Peak, she turns the town upside down with her devious lies and shocking secrets. She seduces the men, enrages the women, and unleases a major scandal, but its all part of an astonishing plan.
2) Primer
Publication Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 77 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Primer is set in the industrial park/suburban tract-home fringes of an unnamed contemporary city where two young engineers, Abe and Aaron, are members of a small group of men who work by day for a large corporation while conducting extracurricular experiments on their own time in a garage. While tweaking their current project, a device that reduces the apparent mass of any object placed inside it by blocking gravitational pull, they accidentally discover...
Publication Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 135 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set admidst the first encounter of European and Native American cultures during the founding of the Jamestown Virginia settlement in 1607. Tell the classic tale of Pocahontas and her relationships with adventurer John Smith and aristocrat John Rolfe. This woman's journey of love lost and found again takes her from the untouched beauty of the Virginia wilderness to the upper crust of English society as we witness the dawn of a new America.
Publication Date
©2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Derek Vinyard, the charismatic leader of a group of young white supremacists, lands in prison for a brutal, hate-driven murder. Upon his release, ashamed of his past and pledging to reform, Derek realizes he must save his younger brother, Danny, from a similar fate. A groundbreaking controversial drama about the tragic consequences of racism in a family.
Publication Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (84 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Birth is a miracle, a rite of passage, a natural part of life. But birth is also big business. Compelled to explore the subject after the delivery of her first child, actress Ricki Lake recruits filmmaker Abby Epstein to question the way American women have babies. The film interlaces intimate birth stories with surprising historical, political and scientific insights and shocking statistics about the current maternity care system. When director...
Publication Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Tom is a loving, well-respected family man from a small Indiana town. When two criminals show up at his diner, Tom is forced to take action and thwart the robbery attempt. Suddenly heralded as a local hero who took the courage to stand up to crime, people look up to Tom as a man of high moral regard. But all the media attention attracts the likes of the mob, who show up at Tom's doorstep. Is it a case of mistaken identity or does Tom have a history...
Publication Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
On his first day at a new school, eleven-year-old Billy goes up against the school bully in a challenge that ends up with a total gross-out date ... to eat 10 worms in one day. As the pressure mounts, Billy must summon all his strength to meet the dare, all the while keeping his weak stomach from betraying him and his big mouth from getting him in even more trouble.
Publication Date
c2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a street magician's stunts begin to make their show look stale, superstar magicians Burt Wonderstone and Anton Marvelton look to salvage their act, and their friendship, by staging their own daring stunt.
Publication Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the Gobi Desert of Southern Mongolia, a family of nomads who keep a camel herd face trouble when one white calf is rejected by its mother. When all other attempts to reconcile the mother with the calf fail, the family sends its two young boys on a journey to a distant village, to seek a musician who will perform a ritual to set things right.
Publication Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Clare has been in love with Henry her entire life. She believes they are destined to be together, even though she never knows when they will be separated: Henry is a time traveler, cursed with a rare genetic anomaly that causes him to live his life on a shifting timeline, skipping back and forth through his lifespan with no control. Despite the fact that Henry's travels force them apart with no warning, Clare desperately tries to build a life with...
12) Take the lead
Publication Date
©2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Pierre is a ballroom-dance instructor with courtly manners whose pupils tend to be well-heeled teenagers. Partly as a dare and partly as a joke, he is offered the job of supervising a South Bronx high school detention class, where the students regard him as a visitor from the moon. They resist him, but he fascinates them, and before long, Pierre has talked them into learning a few steps. He even suggests that if they work hard enough, they might have...
Publication Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Sara and Brian live an idyllic life with their young son and daughter. Suddenly, their baby girl falls ill, and her only hope for survival rests in her parents' ability to find a compatible bone marrow donator. Their desperate decision to conceive another child raises both ethical and moral questions and begins to erode their relationship. Their actions ultimately set off a court case that threatens to tear the family apart.
14) Vera Drake
Publication Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (125 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Vera Drake tells of a woman in 1950s England who is devoted to caring for her family, but secretly aids women who want to terminate unwanted pregnancies. When the authorities find her out, Vera's world and family life rapidly unravel.
Publication Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (139 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Florentino is a poetry-writing telegraph operator who lives in a Central American city. He spots the graceful Fermina while making his rounds, and finds himself in love. While Florentino's mother encourages the courtship, Fermina's father absolutely forbids it. Years pass, and the well-born Dr. Urbino treats Fermina for a case of cholera. When Urbino proposes, Fermina accepts. A distraught Florentino decides to wait. With the help of his uncle, he...
16) Fracture
Publication Date
©2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Ted Crawford is a wealthy, brilliant, and meticulous structural engineer who lives in Los Angeles. He shoots his wife and entraps her lover. After the police arrive, he signs a confession. At his arraignment, he asserts his rights to represent himself and asks the court to move immediately to trial. The prosecutor is Willy Beachum, a hotshot D.A. who is getting ready to leave for a civil-law firm. He is told by everyone the case is open and shut....
17) Inkheart
Publication Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When Mo Folchart reads a story aloud, the characters leap off the page. Literally. And that's a problem. One night he brings out three characters from Inkheart, a story set in medieval times and filled with magical beings. Capricorn and Basta are two villains. Dustfinger is a fire-eater. Now, 10 years later Mo's daughter, Meggie, discovers the truth and it's up to her to escape Capricorn's evil grasp. Mo has been searching for a long lost book that...
Publication Date
[2006], ©1992
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Recently widowed-- and desperate to escape her oppressive, upper-class English in-laws-- free spirited Lilia Herriton finds refuge in the ancient landscapes of rural Italy. There, she impulsively marries the handsome Gino Carella. But when a child is born, tragedy strikes, and Lilia's scandalized relatives embark on a plot to bring her young son to England for a "proper" upbringing.
Publication Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (134 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Description
Brought in to investigate the mysterious death of local girl Laura Palmer, special agents Chester Desmond and Dale Cooper try to unravel the bizzarre clues, mysterious disappearances, and strange happenings in Twin Peaks. Essentially a prequel for the televison series.
20) The last Mimzy
Publication Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When Emma and Noah find a mysterious box of toys on the beach, strange things start happening. The kids develop special powers and with their parents and teachers, they realize that their mission is far more important than they had ever dreamed.

