M. Emmet Walsh
Description
"Faith, Hope & Love is a faith-based, romantic-comedy about two broken hearted people who get a second chance at romance when they become partners in a Pro-Schmo dance contest. Faith Turley has recently divorced her unfaithful husband and enters a Pro-Schmo dance contest trying to raise money to save her dance studio. She partners with Jimmy Elpidas, a single father, who lost his wife in a car accident several years ago. Over the next few months,...
3) Camp nowhere
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An out-of-work actor is lassoed into service by a group of thrill-seeking teens. They are out to create the summer camp of their dreams, a place with no parents, no counselors, and no rules. With Lloyd's off-the-wall nuttiness in his funniest role yet, its nonstop laughs at the wackiest summer camp ever.
4) Critters
Description
Carnivorous aliens that resemble furballs with teeth invade Earth, and only a duo of bounty hunters, and a family of farmers, can stop them.
5) Silkwood
Series
Description
The story of Karen Silkwood, the Oklahoma nuclear facility worker who blew the whistle on dangerous practices at the Kerr-McGee plant and who died under circumstances which are still under debate.
6) Cannery row
Description
In a rundown California town where the inhabitants struggle to survive and better themselves, a romance develops between a quiet marine biologist and a runaway supporting herself through prostitution.
Description
Special Forces colonel James Braddock (Norris) reluctantly returns to Vietnam after the war on a fact-finding mission to search for MIA's. He himself spent 10 years in a North Vietnamese labor camp until he led his men in a daring escape. He enlists the aid of State Dept. official Ann Fitzgerald (Kasdorf) and slips away to find the location of the MIA prison camp. From Bangkok, with the help of his old Army buddy Tuck (Walsh), now a smuggler, he mounts...
Description
"Divorced, disconnected from his son and dissatisfied with his love life, Wallce Avery ... decides to make a radical change. He walks away from his old life, forges a new identity and hits the road as Arthur Newman to start over ... A cross-country odyssey of self-discovery and renewal, Arthur Newman is a comic romance about two unlikely souls who fall in love and find out who they really are"--Container.
9) Blood simple
Series
Criterion collection volume 834
Description
A man hires a private investigator to kill his wife, who he thinks is cheating on him, and her lover, but the investigator has a plan of his own. A bad situation suddenly gets worse.
10) The Mighty Quinn
Series
Description
When police officer Xavier Quinn's childhood friend, Maubee, becomes associated with murder and a briefcase full of ten thousand dollar bills, The Mighty Quinn must clear his name. Or try to catch him, which could be even trickier.
11) Ordinary people
Series
Description
The "ordinary" existence of an upper middle class family is shattered with the death of the older son and the struggle of the younger son against guilt and suicide.
13) Blade runner
Series
Description
Los Angeles, 2019: Rick Deckard of the LAPD's Blade Runner unit prowls the steel & microchip jungle of the 21st century. His job is to track down and eliminate assumed humanoids known as 'replicants.' Replicants were declared illegal after a bloody mutiny on an Off-World Colony, and are to be terminated upon detection. He wants to get out of the force, but is drawn back in when 6 "skin jobs," the slang for replicants, hijack a ship back to Earth....
14) The iron giant
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Hogarth Hughes just rescued an enormous robot that fell from the stars to Earth. Now young Hogarth has one very big friend and an even bigger problem: how do you keep a 50-foot-tall, steel-eating giant a secret?
Description
"When their only daughter Blair leaves the family nest, Luther and Nora Krank decide to book an island cruise to beat the yuletide blues and just skip the holidays. But their decision to boycott tradition has the whole neighborhood in an uproar. When Blair calls on Christmas Eve to announce a surprise visit with her new fiancé, the Kranks have just twelve hours to perform a miracle and pull themselves and their neighbors together to throw the best...
17) The jerk
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A rags-to-riches-to-rags story. Navin Johnson, adopted son of a poor black sharecropper family, produces some crazy inventions that lead him from rags to riches and right back to rags.
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Cornelius, Zira and Dr. Milo, three apes from the future, escape from their planet as it is being destroyed and land on 20th century Earth where they are taken to the Los Angeles Zoo for examination. When Zira reveals their ability to speak to a psychologist, the apes are treated as curiosities, but when the U.S. government begins to believe their story that the Earth will eventually be inherited by apes, it decides to hunt the couple down as an evolutionary...
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American servicemen are still being held captive in Vietnam: and it's up to one man to bring them home in this blistering, fast-paced action/adventure starring martial arts superstar Chuck Norris. Colonel James Braddock (Norris), armed with top-secret information and state-of-the-art weaponry, is prepared to blast his way into Vietnam ... but can he blast his way out?
Chuck Norris returns as Colonel James Braddock in this intense, action-packed prequel...