Lauren Shuler-Donner
Pub. Date
[2002?]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Funnyman Martin Short plays an inept, klutzy bank robber who, on his first heist, grabs Nick Nolte as a hostage. Nolte plays a notorious ex-con who is trying to go straight, so naturally no one believes he's innocent nor Short guilty, forcing the mismatched pair to become reluctant partners in crime"--Container.
2) Dave
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Kevin Kline stars as an off-the-wall, temporary replacement for the missing president. His unusual style of governing and decision making tip off the opposition that something is definitely "out-of-order" in Washington.
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In this terrifying, action-fueled film based on the Marvel comic series, five young people who demonstrate special powers are brought to a secret institution to undergo treatments they are told will cure them of the dangers of their powers. Invited by Dr. Cecilia Reyes to share their stories about when their powers first manifested, the five ₁patients₂ come to understand that they are in a class of people called mutants, who have historically...
4) Ladyhawke
Pub. Date
[1997]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on a 13th century European legend about a beautiful maiden, a stalwart knight and a pickpocket. The knight and the lady were once lovers, but the curse of the jealous Bishop of Aquila has fated them to be "always together, eternally apart". By day, she is a hawk; by night he is a wolf.
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Somewhere in the wilds of northwest Canada in the early 1800s, Logan and Victor, two half-brothers with special powers grow up amid violence. Eventually they will become the near-indestructible warriors known as Wolverine and Sabretooth. William Stryker is a sinister government operative whose Weapon X program experiments keep pulling Wolverine back in. Kayla Silverfox shares a peaceful Canadian co-existence with Wolverine as he tries to drop out...
6) Deadpool
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based upon Marvel Comics' most unconventional anti-hero, the film tells the origin story of former Special Forces operative turned mercenary Wade Wilson, who after being subjected to a rogue experiment that leaves him with accelerated healing powers, adopts the alter ego Deadpool. Armed with his new abilities and a dark, twisted sense of humor, Deadpool hunts down the man who nearly destroyed his life.
7) X-Men
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A war is brewing between those with special powers ("mutants") and the rest of humanity -- and the only ones who can save the humans from certain destruction are a special group of mutants- the "X-Men."
8) X-Men: 1.5
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (315 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Chronicles the beginnings of professor Xavier's super-powered X-students. The battle focuses on their primary sinister foe, Magneto, who has his mutant minions at his side. A George Wallace-like senator launches a campaign against mutantkind which, of course, only complicates things for our heroes.
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
With the help of their new recruits, The Beast and Angel, the X-Men must face evolution itself in the form of their former teammate, Jean Grey. Possessed with the cosmic power of the Dark Phoenix, the resurrected Jean Grey has become a danger to herself, her mutant comrades, and the entire planet. A potential cure is discovered and processed to treat and ultimately eliminate the genetic mutations, once and for all. As the battle lines are drawn, the...
Pub. Date
©2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
To escape her lonely life and troubled relationship with her father T-Ray, Lily flees with Rosaleen, her caregiver and friend, to a South Carolina town that holds the secret to her mother's past. Taken in by the intelligent and independent Boatwright sisters, Lily finds solace in their mesmerizing world of beekeeping.
11) Pretty in Pink
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A poor girl falls in love with a rich guy, and it angers both their families and their friends.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 114 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of one of the X-Men's most beloved characters, Jean Grey, as she evolves into her iconic alter ego. During a life-threatening rescue mission in space, Jean is hit by a cosmic force that transforms her into one of the most powerful mutants of all. Wrestling with this increasingly unstable power as well as her own personal demons, Jean spirals out of control, tearing the X-Men family apart and threatening to destroy the very fabric of our...
13) X2: X-men united
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 133 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An assassination attempt is made on the life of the president by a teleporting mutant. This act upsets the entire world and entices the president to begin the mutant-human war as predicted by Charles Xavier earlier. In an effort to get to the bottom of the attack and prevent world-wide war, Xavier sends out Storm and Dr. Jean Grey to search for the teleporting mutant and discover the truth behind the assassination attempt.
14) X-Men Apocalypse
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (144 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After the re-emergence of the world's first mutant, world-destroyer Apocalypse, the X-Men must unite to defeat his extinction level plan.
15) The Wolverine
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 126 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Summoned to Japan by an old acquaintance, Wolverine becomes embroiled in a conflict that forces him to confront his own demons.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (132 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Before Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their superhuman powers for the first time, working together in a desperate attempt to stop the Hellfire Club and a global nuclear war.
17) Deadpool 2
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (119 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Deadpool organizes a team to protect a mutant boy from a time-traveling cyborg.
18) She's the man
Pub. Date
©2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Viola becomes furious when she learns that her high school, Cornwall, has just cut the girl's soccer team. So furious, in fact, that she takes advantage of her twin brother Sebastian skipping town for a few weeks to take his place at his school, Illyria, so she can join the soccer team there. But her disguise as her brother leads to major complications when she falls in love with her soccer-playing roommate and the girl he's in love with falls in...