Adam Arkin
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
One ordinary man's quest to become a serious man. Physics professor Larry Gopnik can't believe his life, His wife is leaving him for his best friend, his unemployed brother won't move off the couch, someone is threatening his career, his kids are a mystery and his neighbor is tormenting him by sunbathing nude. Struggling to make sense of it all, Larry consults three different rabbis and their answers lead him on a twisted journey of faith, family,...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2008
Language
English
Description
After twelve years in prison for a murder he didn't commit, offbeat detective Charlie Crews has returned to the force with a $50 million settlement, a new spiritual outlook, a strong fondness for fruit, and a highly unusual approach to solving crime.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of Horatio Nelson Jackson, an eccentric doctor from Vermont, who in 1903 became the first person to drive an automobile across the United States. Follows Jackson's adventurous journey in a 20-horsepower Winton touring car from San Francisco to New York City when the automobile was still a novelty and before most roads were paved
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
One ordinary man's quest to become a serious man. Physics professor Larry Gopnik can't believe his life. His wife is leaving him for his best friend, his unemployed brother won't move off the couch, someone is threatening his career, his kids are a mystery and his neighbor is tormenting him by sunbathing nude. Struggling to make sense of it all, Larry consults three different rabbis and their answers lead him on a twisted journey of faith, family,...
7) The war
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment [distributor]
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of ordinary people in four quintessentially American towns - Waterbury, Connecticut; Mobile, Alabama; Sacramento, California; and Luverne, Minnesota - and examines the ways in which the Second World War touched the lives of every family on every street in every town in America
8) Pig
Publisher
Decal
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A truffle hunter who lives alone in the Oregonian wilderness must return to his past in Portland in search of his beloved foraging pig after she is kidnapped.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, and Sarah Botstein's three-part, six-hour documentary series examines how the American people and leaders responded to one of the greatest humanitarian disasters of the twentieth century, and how this catastrophe challenged America's identity as a nation of immigrants and the very ideals of democracy.
The U.S. and the Holocaust examines America's response to one of the greatest humanitarian crises of the twentieth century....
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Video
Pub. Date
p1998, [2001?]
Language
English
Description
Laurie Strode, using an assumed name and now the dean of a Northern California private school, is still struggling with the horrifying 20-year-old memories of the maniacal killer Michael Meyers. When he reappears, she must conquer her fears and battle him one last time, for the life of her son hangs in the balance
11) Speed-the-Plow
Author
Publisher
L.A. Theatre Works
Language
English
Description
Speed-the-Plow is an exhilaratingly sharp, comical, disturbing play about the power of money and sex in Hollywood, and how they corrupt two movie producers. Speed-the-Plow opened at Lincoln Center to sold-out seats, rave reviews and much fanfare in March 1988 starring Madonna, Joe Mantegna, and Ron Silver and later moved to and had a long-standing run on Broadway.
12) Adam's Rib
Author
Publisher
L.A. Theatre Works
Language
English
Description
A happily married couple's relationship is put to the test when husband and wife find themselves serving as trial attorneys on opposite sides of the same headline-making, attempted murder, marital case - he as the prosecutor, she as the defender. The comical fireworks displayed in the courtroom follow these two home, creating a clever and extremely funny portrait of love and work. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Adam Arkin, Anne...