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1) Biloxi blues
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"Matthew Broderick stars as a naïve army recruit looking for action - though not the battle kind - in Neil Simon's hilarious comedy about boot camp during WWII. The year is 1945 and Eugene Morris Jerome (Broderick) finds himself far from the comforts of his Brooklyn home after being sent to basic training in Biloxi, Mississippi. Expecting the army to be dolls, doughnuts and USO dances, he instead encounters a tough drill sergeant (Christopher Walken)...
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A small American army intelligence squad locates a German platoon wishing to surrender rather than die in Germany's final war offensive. The two groups, isolated from the war at present, put aside their differences and spend Christmas together before the surrender plan turns bad and both sides are forced to fight each other.
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A murder trial has upset the quiet community of San Piedro, and now this tranquil village has become the center of controversy. For Ishamael Chambers, a local reporter, the trial strikes a deep emotional chord when he finds his ex-lover is linked to the case. As he investigates the killing, he uncovers some startling clues that lead him to a shocking discovery.
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Comedy filmed on the Riviera, it's the story of two con men who compete to see who can extract $50,000 from a woman first. The victim is a naive American heiress, and the competition between the two men, one a suave and sophisticated Englishman and the other a bumbling but appealing American, heats up!
5) Trespass
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Shout select volume 24
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English
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Two firemen find a map that leads to stolen gold in an abandoned factory. The factory is in the turf of a local gang and the firemen witness a shooting. The gang spots them and they argue about how to get rid of the trespassers.
7) Suburbia
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Publisher
Shout! Factory
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English
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Evan and his younger brother leave their broken home in an attempt to escape their alcoholic mother. They fall in with 'The Rejected' (aka T.R.), a group of punks who live as squatters in an abandoned shack by the side of the highway. With the T.R.s, the boys find a new family. But their new family will be tested when they become the target of 'Citizens Against Crime', a group of unhappy suburbanites.
8) Platoon
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Shout select volume 137
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English
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A neophyte recruit in Vietnam finds himself caught in a battle of wills between two sergeants, one who believes nearby villagers are harboring Viet Cong soldiers, and one who has a more sympathetic view of the locals.
9) Midnight run
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Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Collector's edition.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (126 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Jack Walsh is a tough ex-cop turned bounty hunter. Jonathan "The Duke" Mardukas is a sensitive accountant who embezzled $15 million from the Mob, gave it to charity and then jumped bail. Jack's in for a cool $100,000 if he can deliver The Duke from New York to L.A. on time, and alive. Sounds like just another Midnight Run (a piece of cake in bounty hunter slang), but it turns into a cross-country chase. The FBI is after The Duke to testify. The Mob...
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Publisher
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
6 Blu-rays (approximately 627 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (26 pages : color illustrations ; 17 cm)
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English
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The Pink Panther: A bumbling, disaster-prone inspector invades a Swiss ski resort and becomes obsessed with capturing a jewel thief hoping the lift the legendary 'Pink Panther' diamond.
A shot in the dark: Inspector Jacques Clouseau investigates the murder of Mr. Benjamin Ballon's driver at a country estate.
The return of the Pink Panther: When the priceless Pink Panther diamond is stolen yet again, the inimitable Inspector Jacques Clousseau is...
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Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2017]
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1 DVD + 1 Blu-ray (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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When an author's research for his latest novel turns him into a paranoid wreck, he has to confront his worst fears when a film executive wants to make his novel into a movie.
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Shout select volume 15
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Blu-ray + DVD combo pack.
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1 DVD + 1 Blu-ray (approximately 109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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In the not-so-distant future, strong-willed and beautiful Kate possesses a precious commodity that most women have lost and most men want to control: fertility. Forced into a brain-washing boot camp that turns fertile women into surrogate mothers for social-elite men and their infertile wives, Kate thinks she's made out well when she's assigned to an eminent party leader. But when she learns that he's sterile, she's faced with an impossible choice:...
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Shout select volume 32
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Claudia Larson is a divorced single mom who just lost her job and now has to fly home for the traditional family Thanksgiving in Baltimore. From the plane, she calls for reinforcements--and her brother Tommy makes it down from Boston with a little surprise: a handsome friend named Leo. Between dropping the turkey in their sister's lap and a few fist fights on the front lawn, Claudia and Tommy recapture their childhood and Claudia and Leo explore the...
15) The Moderns
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Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Collector's edition.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (126 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of the life of a struggling American artist who lives amongst the expatriate community in 1920's Paris.
16) Streets of fire
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Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Collector's edition.
Physical Desc
2 Blu-rays (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Amid a brooding rock & roll landscape, the Bombers motorcycle gang, led by the vicious Raven Shaddock, kidnap diva Ellen Aim. Her hope for rescue lies with unlikely heroes: Tom Cody and his sidekick, the two-fisted beer guzzling McCoy.
17) Whale rider
Series
Shout select volume 27
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
15th anniversary edition.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (approximately 101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A small Maori village faces a crisis when the heir to the leadership of the Ngati Konohi dies at birth and is survived only by his twin sister, Pai. Although disregarded by her grandfather and shunned by the village people, twelve-year-old Pai remains certain of her calling and trains herself in the ways and customs of her people. With remarkable grace, Pai finds the strength to challenge her family and embraces a thousand years of tradition in order...
18) The blue dahlia
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Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (approximately 99 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A WWII veteran is accused of killing his unfaithful wife and races against time to find the real murderer with the help of a sympathetic stranger.
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Shout Select volume 42
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (95, 99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Farewell, my lovely: "Philip Marlowe is involved in a case of deception, double-cross and murder. When Moose Malloy, a giant ex-con fresh from prison, asks to find his missing sweetheart, Marlowe winds up unconscious on the floor with a dead man next to him. The case could very well cost Marlowe his life." -- Container.
Big sleep: "Philip Marlowe is caught in a deadly case of blackmail. General Sternwood, an aged and wealthy American, is being blackmailed...
20) Get Shorty
Series
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Collector's edition.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Loan shark Chili Palmer is bored with the business. So when he arrives in LA to collect a debt from down-and-out filmmaker Harry Zimm, Chili talks tough, and then pitches Harry a script idea. Immediately, Chili is swept into the Hollywood scene: He schmoozes film star Martin Weir, romances B-movie queen Karen Flores and even gets reservations at the hottest restaurants in town.
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