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21) Nashville
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (160 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Nashville interweaves the stories of 24 characters over 5 days during a political rally in the capital of country music.
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Depicts an aging pro football player who, through a woman he meets, is drawn away from the masculine, violent world in which he has lived so long. In doing so, he finds himself at odds with the team's management.
23) The odd couple
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Felix is fastidious to a fault. He proves that cleanliness is next to insanity. Matthau is Oscar, who wreaks havoc on a tidy room with the speed and thoroughness of a tornado. An enduring and endearing picture, with the intelligence one usually misses in comedies.
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2000]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A precursor to the reality based TV shows of America's pop culture, Brooks' film presents a hilarious account of what happens to a typical American family when a group of filmmakers moves in with them to record "real life". Brooks heads up the crew that invades the Phoenix household of Charles Grodin, Frances Lee McCain and their children.
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2000.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Colonel Terry Childers is a patriot and war hero. But when a peacekeeping mission he leads in Yemen goes terribly wrong, he finds himself facing a court martial. Accused of breaking the rules of engagement by killing unarmed civilians, Childers' only hope of vindication rests with comrade-in-arms Hays Hodges, a military lawyer of questionable abilities. Together, they face the battle of their lives.--Container.
Series
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This heart-warming film is based on the true story of a young boy who is a chess prodigy and his father, who attempts to walk the fine line between encouraging his son's talent, and preserving the love they have for each other.
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tom Ripley is a calculating young man who believes it's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. He's hired to go to Italy to bring back he playboy son of a millionaire and soon is plunged into a daring scheme of duplicity, lies and murder.
28) White Christmas
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two talented song-and-dance men team up after the war to become one of the hottest acts in show business. One winter, they join forces with a sister act and trek to Vermont for a white Christmas. They discover that the inn is run by the fella's old army general who's now in financial trouble.
29) Wonder boys
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Grady is a 50ish English professor who hasn't had a thing published in years - not since he wrote his award-winning Great American Novel seven years ago. His college's annual literary festival fills the former wonder boy with self doubt and anxiety.
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
Widescreen version enhanced for 16:9 TVs.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In order to escape Communist Hungary, a family must leave behind their infant daughter. She is then temporarily raised by a peasant Hungarian couple. When the daughter is finally brought to America to be with her family, her relationship with her real family becomes strained. The girl is torn between two mothers and two homelands. Based on a true story. The girl returns to Hungary and take an unforgettable journey of self-discovery.
31) Andre
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A Maine harbormaster witnesses the impact of a playful and appreciative seal on his hometown, his family and especially on his shy nine-year-old daughter.
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Greenwich Village butcher Leo Lemke returns from a North Carolina fishing trip, he can't wait to show off his prize catch: his beautiful new wife, a clairvoyant named Marina. But his pride turns to concern when he hears gossip about a backwoods psychic whose charms are turning hardened city dwellers into lovestruck kids.
33) Forrest Gump
Language
English
Description
Forrest Gump is a low-intelligence man who has good intentions. He struggles through childhood with his best and only friend Jenny. His mama teaches him the ways of life and leaves him to choose his destiny. Forrest joins the army and heads off to Vietnam where he becomes friends with Dan and Bubba. He wins medals, starts a table tennis craze, creates a famous shrimp fishing fleet, inspires people to jog, create the smiley, writes bumper stickers...
35) Marathon man
Language
English
Description
Thomas "Babe" Levy is a Columbia graduate student and long-distance runner who is oblivious to the fact that his older brother, Doc, is a government agent chasing down a Nazi war criminal -- that is, until Doc is murdered and Babe finds himself knee-deep in a tangle of stolen gems and sadistic madmen. Even his girlfriend, Elsa, becomes a suspect as everything Babe believed to be true is suddenly turned upside down.
36) Ordinary people
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Ordinary People is an intense examination of a family being torn apart by tension and tragedy ... the upper-middle-class couple whose 'ordinary' existence is irrevocably shattered by the death of their oldest son in a boating accident ..."--Container
38) Paint your wagon
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (164 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of a goldmining boom town centering on the work-and-play partnership of two miners and the wife they share.
39) Sabrina
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sabrina, the naive daughter of the chauffeur for an immensely wealthy family, is obsessed with David, the family's younger son. When Sabrina returns to Long Island from Paris as a sophisticated young woman, she begins a romance with David, who has meanwhile become engaged to the daughter of a wealthy family. This new romance threatens the business interests of Linus, the older son, so he pretends to court Sabrina in order to woo her away from David,...
40) The score
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Persuaded to help a desperate friend for a $6 million payday, an expert safecracker postpones his retirement to pull off one last heist with a novice thief. Their foolproof plan turns into a high risk gamble when a clash of egos threatens to bring them both down.
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