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1) The jerk
Language
English
Formats
Description
Steve Martin portrays Navin Johnson, adopted son of a poor black sharecropper family, whose crazy inventions lead him from rags to riches and right back to rags. Along the way, he's smitten with a lady motorcycle racer, survives a series of screwball attacks by a deranged killer and becomes a millionaire by inventing the ₁Opti-grab₂ handle for glasses. It's an outrageous comedy with one laugh after another!
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (44 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Say cheese and die: Greg's new camera is taking some awfully weird pictures, pictures that predict a horrifying future. When Greg tries to return it, he meets its mad creator. Say cheese and die again: Bad things happen when Greg determines to convince his English teacher of the powers of the evil camera.
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (145 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An eccentric professor invents wacky machinery but can't seem to make ends meet. When he invents a revolutionary car, a foreign government becomes interested in it, and resorts to skulduggery to get their hands on it.
4) The thin man
Series
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (91 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles investigate the mysterious disappearance of a wealthy inventor.
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The scientist father of a teenage girl and boy accidentally shrinks his and two other neighborhood teens to the size of insects. Now the teens must fight diminutive dangers as the father searches for them.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In a town where food drops from the sky like rain, young inventor Flint hopes to create something that will change everyone's life. However, when the weather takes a turn for the worse, the residents of the town of Chewandswallow will find their eating habits have drastically changed.
7) Flubber
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney
Pub. Date
[1998?]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Brilliant but befuddled Professor Phillip Brainard is on the brink of inventing a revolutionary energy source and missing his wedding for the third time! He develops a miraculous elastic goo flubber that enables anything it's applied to, to bounce super high and fast.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
℗2013.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 95 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Inventor Flint Lockwood thought he saved the world when he destroyed his machine that turned water into food causing cheeseburger rain and spaghetti tornadoes. But Flint soon learns that his invention survived and is now creating food-animals. Flint and his friends embark on a dangerously delicious mission to battle hungry tacodiles, shrimpanzees, hippotatomuses, cheespiders and other foodimals to save the world again!
10) BlackBerry
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The "true story" of the meteoric rise and catastrophic demise of the world's first smartphone, BLACKBERRY is a whirlwind ride through a ruthlessly competitive Silicon Valley at breakneck speeds.
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (66 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sam Bisbee, an inventor with a taste for the drink, meets Marie Lescaboura on the train ride back to Crystal Springs, unaware that she is a foreign princess traveling incognito. Deciding to help make her new friend a success, Marie pays a visit to Sam's hometown, where she attempts to turn an uncouth eccentric into the darling of the country club set.
12) Sell-out!
Publisher
Kani
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 CD (digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in.) + 1 booklet (28 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 15 cm)
Language
English
Description
Fony Corporation has just promoted doe-eyed Eric Tan to Head of Product Design and he's already invented a revolutionary 8-in-1 soy bean machine! Taste the silken tofu, the creamy soy milk, the crispy bean curd! It just has one reprehensible flaw: no flaws! The lack of a built-in-breakdown mechanism appalls the conglomerate's two-man executive branch who resorts to a budget exorcism to solve their problem named Eric. Also under the axe is Fony TV...
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (450 min.) : sound, color tinted and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The master mystery: Quentin Locke infiltrates a corrupt patents company, only to run into the gleaming terror of its robot protector, the Automaton. In order to save the beautiful Eva Brent and find a cure for the dreaded Madagascar Madness, Locke suffers an inhuman array of tortures and physical restraints. He is chained, tied with barbared wire, padlocked in a crate and thrown in the water, tied beneath a descending elevator, strapped to an electric...
Series
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
Three-DVD special edition.
Physical Desc
3 DVDs : sound, black and white, and color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 pamphlet (folded : illustrations ; 18 cm).
Language
Czech
Description
A journey to the beginning of time: Youngest of four boys one day finds a fossil of trilobite. So his older friend take him on journey through prehistory to see real live trilobites and dinosaurs.
Invention for destruction: An evil millionaire named Artigas plans to use a super-explosive device to conquer the world from his headquarters inside an enormous volcano.
The fabulous Baron Munchausen: The outrageous Baron Munchausen tells of his many adventures,...
15) Eureka: Season 1
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (approximately 558 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the quirky town of Eureka, America's brightest scientists are working on some of the government's best-kept secrets. Some lead to brilliant inventions, and some to total chaos. Making sense of the mysteries is Sheriff Jack Carter, a former U.S. marshal who is stranded in the surreal small town after a random car accident.
16) A bug's life
Series
Language
English
Description
Idealistic young ant Flik is a sweet-natured dreamer and inventor. But his innovative thinking makes him an outcast when one of his inventions goes awry and destroys the food sacrifice that the colony makes annually to a gang of grasshopper hooligans led by the sinister Hopper. Disgraced, Flik is sent to look for "warrior bugs," mercenaries to fight them. What he finds--and hires--are a motley crew of circus bugs including a preening master-thespian...
17) Cary Grant
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (385 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Collection of five romantic comedies starring Cary Grant.
Thirty Day Princess: In this rags-to-riches tale, a newspaper publisher finds himself falling for a foreign princess, only to suspect that there is some other power behind the throne.
Kiss and Make-up: Beauty really is only skin deep when a famed beautician marries a former client and discovers that her shallow behavior makes his faithful secretary much more attractive.
Wings in the dark:...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (351 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
You're telling me!: A hard-drinking, socially-awkward inventor wrecks his daughter's chances of marriage into a rich family and bungles his own chances of success by selling one of his more practical inventions.
The old fashioned way: The Great McGonigle and his troupe of third-rate vaudevillians manage to stay one step ahead of the bill collectors and the sheriff.
Man on the flying trapeze: Hard-working, henpecked Ambrose Wolfinger takes off from...
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray [edition] ; 35th anniversary edition.
Physical Desc
3 Blu-rays + 3 4K UltraHD Blu-rays (342 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 bonus Blu-ray.
Language
English
Description
Back to the future: Small-town California teen Marty McFly is thrown back into the '50s when an experiment by his eccentric scientist friend Doc Brown goes awry. Traveling through time in a modified DeLorean car, Marty encounters young versions of his parents and must make sure that they fall in love or he'll cease to exist. Even more dauntingly, Marty has to return to his own time and save the life of Doc Brown.
Back to the future part II: Time-traveling...
Series
Publisher
Flicker Alley
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (716 min.) : silent, black and white and tinted black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 guide (31 pages : illustrations)
Language
None
Description
His picture in the papers: Features Douglas as the meat-loving son of a vegetarian food magnate who finds love with an equally carnivorous young woman. It is also a wry and prescient commentary on fame and the lengths some will go to in order to achieve it.
The mystery of the leaping fish: A bumbling detective comes to the rescue of a damsel in distress when a drug smuggler wants to force her to marry him.
Flirting with fate: In the midst of an...
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