Jon Peters
Author
Description
When dreams collapse...
Jon Peters had it all: record-breaking high school baseball pitcher, on the cover of Sports Illustrated, a beautiful girlfriend. He was going to play professional baseball. He was going to have everything he'd ever wanted. Until a shoulder injury and four surgeries changed his life.
With dreams shattered, Jon struggled to find value and happiness. After years of searching vainly to make sense of it all, alcohol, a suicide...
3) Tango & Cash
Pub. Date
1997
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Two rival L.A. policemen who have one thing in common -- each thinks "he" is the best -- team up to pursue a vicious international crimelord who has set them up.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (140 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Rock star John Norman Howard has noticed that his career has begun to decline. Too many years of concerts, bad managers and life on the road have made him cynical. Then he meets the innocent, pure and very talented singer Esther Hoffman. John shows Esther the way to stardom while forsaking his own career. As they fall in love, her success only makes his decline even more apparent.
5) Caddyshack
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Greenskeeper Carl Spackler is about to start World War III, against a gopher. Pompous Judge Smalls plays to win but his nubile niece Lacey Underall wants to score her own way. Playboy Ty Webb shoots perfect golf by becoming the ball. And country club loudmouth Al Czervik just doubled a $20,000 bet on a 10-foot putt. Insanity? No. Caddyshack.
7) Batman
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (126 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A millionaire's son witnesses his parents' murder and grows up fighting the emotional trauma of that fateful night. To compensate, he develops a dual personality. During the day he's a playboy philanthropist, but at night, he becomes the dark persona Batman, a masked crusader for justice. While fighting crime in Gotham, he eventually has to face an arch-criminal known as The Joker.
8) Ali
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (157 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Dramatic biography of boxing great Muhammad Ali, which focuses on the ten-year period of 1964-1974. In that time, the brash, motor-mouthed athlete quickly dominates his sport, meets and marries his first wife, converts to Islam (changing his name from Cassius Clay), and defies the United States government by refusing to submit to military conscription for duty in Vietnam. His world heavyweight champion title thus stripped from him entirely for political...