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(0)Harris Yulin
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No career in modern American letters is at once brilliant, varied, and controversial as that of Norman Mailer. In a span of more than six decades, Mailer has searched into subjects ranging from World War II to Ancient Egypt, from the march on the Pentagon to Marilyn Monroe, from Henry Miller and Muhammad Ali to Jesus Christ. Now, in his first major work of fiction in more than a decade, The Castle in the Forest offers what may be Mailer's consummate...
3) The gin game
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The quiet porch of a rest home for the aged explodes with emotion when prim Fonsia Dorsey sits down to play gin rummy with the cynical Weller Martin. Fonsia is drawn to Weller, but she just can't stop winning at cards, while Weller bemoans the bad luck that is ruining his game and has dogged him throughout his life. Tragic yet uproariously funny, this Pulitzer Prize-winning drama examines themes of individual responsibility and society's mistreatment...
4) Mastergate
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In this satirical comedy, playwright Larry Gelbart examines the court hearings for the Iran-contra scandal that erupted during the Reagan Administration.
5) Training day
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Jake Hoyt, a fresh-faced rookie in the Los Angeles Police Department, gets a chance to join the elite narcotics squad headed up by 13-year veteran Detective Sergeant Alonzo Harris. Jake is to prove himself during a one-day ride-along. As the day wears on, it becomes increasingly clear that Detective Harris has blurred the line between right and wrong to an alarming degree, enforcing his own code of ethics and street justice. Eventually, Hoyt begins...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Norman Oppenheimer is a small time operator who befriends a young politician at a low point in his life. Three years later, when the politician becomes an influential world leader, Norman's life dramatically changes for better and worse.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
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Description
When a new student starts in Professor Hundert's class, little does the professor know that this student will change his life forever. They start out butting heads and end up forming a friendship that will shake the controlled world of the professor. The lessons learned will last a lifetime.
8) Omni loop
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
Zoya Lowe, a quantum physicist, has been diagnosed with a black hole growing in her chest and given a week to live. But what the doctors and her family do not know is that she has already lived this week before - because she is stuck in an endless time loop. That all changes the day she meets a gifted physics student named Paula and together they team up to save her life and solve the mysteries of time travel.
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In Ghostbusters, when Doctors Venkman, Stantz and Spengler suddenly find themselves downsized from the University's parapsychology department, they decide to go the entrepreneurial route, chasing down ghostly ghosts, unappetizing apparitions and the occasional insolent succubae. In Ghostbusters 2, Doctors Venkman, Stantz and Spengler regroup to nuke the spooks in this high-spirited comedy. Sidelined after their spectacular save of New York CIty five...
10) Multiplicity
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Description
A comedy about a man who clones himself to save his marriage and then almost loses his wife to himself.
11) Rush hour
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Description
Rush hour: A wise-cracking cop from L.A. and a high-flying cop from Hong Kong join forces to track down a kidnapper.
Rush hour 2: It's vacation time for Det. Carter and he finds himself alongside Det. Lee in Hong Kong wishing for more a little more excitement. Lee is out to track down a Triad gang lord who may be responsible for killing two men at the American Embassy in Hong Kong. Things get complicated as the pair stumble onto a counterfeiting...
12) Rush hour 2
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
c2001
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Description
It's vacation time for Det. Carter and he finds himself alongside Det. Lee in Hong Kong wishing for more a little more excitement. Lee is out to track down a Triad gang lord who may be responsible for killing two men at the American Embassy in Hong Kong. Things get complicated as the pair stumble onto a counterfeiting plot between a L.A. crime boss and a Triad leader. A trip back to the U.S. may provide the answers about the bombing, the counterfeiting,...
13) Night moves
Series
Criterion collection volume 1255
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Arthur Penn's haunting neonoir reimagines the hard-boiled detective film for the disillusioned, paranoid 1970s. In one of his greatest performances, Gene Hackman oozes world-weary cynicism as a private investigator whose search for an actress's missing daughter leads him from the Hollywood Hills to the Florida Keys, where he is pulled into a sordid family drama and a sinister conspiracy he can hardly grasp
14) Doc
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Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
When two-fisted gunslinger Doc Holliday rides into Tombstone, he's ready and willing to help District Marshal Wyatt Earp clean up the unruly town, just as they did in Dodge. But to Doc's surprise, Earp has changed from a steely-eyed believer in law-and-order to a greedy opportunist who'll do anything to be elected Tombstone's sheriff. To ensure his victory, the unscrupulous Earp enlists Doc's help in double-crossing the most vicious band of outlaws...
15) Loch Ness
Publisher
Distributed by MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
A skeptical American scientist attempts to solve the mystery of the Loch Ness monster. He ruffles the feathers of the locals, but an innkeeper named Laura, and her young daughter, open his eyes and his heart.
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Turning her back on her wealthy, established family, Diane Arbus falls in with Lionel Sweeney. Sweeney is an enigmatic mentor who introduces Arbus to the marginalized people who help her become one of the most revered photographers of the twentieth century. Diane's strange, new world unlocks her deepest secrets, awakens her remarkable artistic genius, and launches her path to becoming the artist she is meant to be.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
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A motorcycle stunt rider turns to robbing banks as a way to provide for his lover and their newborn child, a decision that puts him on a collision course with an ambitious rookie cop navigating a department ruled by a corrupt detective.
20) Game 6
Publisher
Hart Sharp Video
Pub. Date
2006
Description
An intelligent, witty, unsettling tale of one man's encounter with his demons, his passions, and his infatuation with failure.Playwright Nicky Rogan is a die-hard Red Sox fan who has lived his entire life in NYC. The opening of his new play is on the same day as the historic sporting event, Game 6 of the 1986 World series. Which one will he watch?
