Sissy Spacek
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999?]
Language
English
Description
Based on a true story about 73-year-old Alvin Straight who embarks on a dangerous and emotional journey to make amends with his 75-year-old brother Lyle before his brother dies. Alvin can no longer drive a car because of his eyesight and has to walk with 2 canes, but he climbs aboard his 1966 John Deere lawnmower and drives the 260-mile course from Laurens, Iowa to Mt. Zion, Wis.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A psychological horror series set in the Stephen King multiverse, it is an original story that combines the mythological scale and intimate character storytelling of King's best-loved works, weaving an epic saga of darkness and light, played out on a few square miles of Maine woodland. --
Series
Publisher
Alliance Atlantis
Pub. Date
[.]
Language
English
Description
Based on a true story about 73-year-old Alvin Straight who embarks on a dangerous and emotional journey to make amends with his 75-year-old brother Lyle before his brother dies. Alvin can no longer drive a car because of his eyesight and has to walk with 2 canes, but he climbs aboard his 1966 John Deere lawnmower and drives the 260-mile course from Laurens, Iowa to Mt. Zion, Wisconsin.
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
In this trilogy, different women face different social and political climates in choosing what to do about an unplanned pregnancy. In 1952, a recently widowed nurse (Demi Moore) must decide whether to go through with an illegal abortion. In 1974, a mother of four (Sissy Spacek) struggles to raise a family and have a career shortly after abortion was legalized. In 1996, a college student (Anne Heche) decides on getting an abortion during a climate...
27) JFK
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Description
The story of New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison whose investigation into the assassination of John F. Kennedy became an obsession.
28) Carrie
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
1988, 1976.
Language
English
Description
A high school wallflower with telekinetic powers terrorizes her classmates.
29) Gray matters
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Thirty-something New Yorker, Gray shares just about everything with her wisecracking brother, Sam: old movies, swing dancing and--much to her surprise--an attraction to his gorgeous new girlfriend, Charlie. Never having realized she might be gay, Gray's confusion turns to desperation as she follows the "expert" advice of clueless friends, shrinks and strangers.
30) Lake City
Publisher
Screen Media Films
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
When Billy gets into trouble with a local drug dealer, he hits the road and heads to the last place he wants to go: his childhood home. Years after a family tragedy drove them apart, Billy is reunited with his mother, Maggie and forced to confront both their past and his dangerous situation.
32) Four Christmases
Publisher
New Line Video
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
When happily unmarried San Francisco couple Kate and Brad find themselves socked in by fog on Christmas morning, their exotic vacation plans morph into the family-centric holiday they had, until now, gleefully avoided. Out of obligation, and unable to escape, they trudge to not one, not two, but four relative-choked festivities.
33) Missing
Language
English
Description
A film based on the disappearance of journalist Charles Horman. A father searches for his missing son during the oppressive and violent political chaos of the 1973 Chilean coup. Seeking help from local bureau of the U.S. State Department, family frustration grows as the situation becomes more complex.
A film based loosely on actual events. A declassified document released in 1999 by the U.S. Government appears to contradict the State Department's...
35) Katherine
Publisher
Digiview
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Based on the life of Diana Oughton, the daughter of a wealthy Illinois real estate owner and politician.
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of one of America's most complex and enduring figures and his personal and public struggle with an issue that would come to define our nation. Also examines the possible relationship between Jefferson and Monticello slave, Sally Hemings.
Publisher
RHI Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"James Garner stars as Woodrow F. Call, a wizened bounty hunter who has endured the death of his son and the financial failure of his Montana ranch. When a wealthy railroad president hires him to track down a young, cold-blooded bandit, Call travels south to seek out the fugitive and along the way encounters an array of old acquaintances, including his faithful ex-comrade." --Container.
39) Affliction
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Video
Pub. Date
2003?, 1999.
Language
English
Description
When events shatter the quiet of his small town, Wade Whitehouse, with the aid of his new girlfriend, is forced to confront his past and reexamine his life.
40) In the bedroom
Series
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
The Fowlers are a normal family in Maine. Matt is the town doctor and loves to fish, his wife, Ruth, is the school's choir leader, and their son, Frank, is home from his first year of college. Frank is in love with Natalie, a young mother who isn't quite divorced yet from her ex-husband, Richard Strout, whose family runs the local cannery. It makes Richard's blood run cold to see his wife running around with another man. And soon, an unthinkable tragedy...