4 film favorites
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Published
Beverly Hills, Calif. : Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2014].
Language
English
UPC
883904320876

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Creation/Production Credits
Midnight cowboy: a Jerome Hellman-John Schlesinger production ; screenplay, Waldo Salt ; producer, Jerome Hellman ; director, John Schlesinger.
Creation/Production Credits
Usual suspects: PolyGram Filmed Entertainment and Spelling Films International present a Blue Parrot/Bad Hat production ; written by Christopher McQuarrie ; produced by Bryan Singer and Michael McDonnell ; directed by Bryan Singer.
Creation/Production Credits
Thelma & Louise: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents a Percy Main production, a Ridley Scott film in association with Star Partners III, Ltd. ; producers, Ridley Scott, Mimi Polk ; writer, Callie Khouri ; director, Ridley Scott.
Creation/Production Credits
Platoon: Hemdale Film Corporation presents ; an Arnold Kopelson production of ; an Oliver Stone film ; produced by Arnold Kopelson ; written and directed by Oliver Stone.
Participants/Performers
Midnight cowboy: Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Brenda Vaccaro, John McGiver, Ruth White, Sylvia Miles, Barnard Hughes.
Participants/Performers
Usual suspects: Stephen Baldwin, Gabriel Byrne, Chazz Palminteri, Kevin Pollak, Pete Postlethwaite, Kevin Spacey, Suzy Amis, Denicio Del Toro.
Participants/Performers
Thelma & Louise: Susan Sarandon, Geena Davis, Harvey Keitel, Michael Madsen, Christopher McDonald, Stephen Tobolowsky, Brad Pitt.
Participants/Performers
Platoon: Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Charlie Sheen, Francesco Quinn, Keith David, Forest Whitaker, Johnny Depp.
Description
Midnight cowboy: Joe Buck moves to New York from Texas to make his fortune servicing women. Instead, he's conned into partnering up with small-time hustler Ratso Rizzo. Living together on the tattered edges of society, these two outcasts develop an unlikely bond that helps them transcend their cruel existence.
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Usual suspects: Police investigating an exploded boat on a San Pedro pier discover 27 bodies and $91 million worth of drug money. The only survivors are a severely burned Hungarian terrorist and Roger Kint, a crippled con-man. Reluctantly, Kint is pressured into explaining what happened on the boat. His story begins six weeks earlier with five criminals being dragged in by New York police desperate for suspects in a truck highjacking, and ends with the possible identification of a criminal mastermind.
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Thelma & Louise: Thelma is an abused and neglected wife, while her friend Louise is a bitter, hard-edged waitress. The two decide to take a brief vacation to escape the drudgery of their everyday lives. Immediately, they run into trouble, as Louise shoots and kills a man who tries to rape Thelma in the parking lot of a country bar.
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Platoon: A grunt's view of the Vietnam War is provided in all its horrific, inexplicable detail. Follows young Chris Taylor who arrives in Vietnam and quickly discovers that his worst enemies are not just the Viet Cong, but gnawing fear, physical exhaustion, and the anger growing within himself.
System Details
DVD.
Language
Midnight cowboy: English and French dialogue with optional English, French or Spanish subtitles.
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Usual suspects: English and French dialogue with optional English, French or Spanish subtitles.
Language
Thelma & Louise: English, French or Spanish dialogue with optional English, French or Spanish subtitles.
Language
Platoon: English or Spanish dialogue with optional French or Spanish subtitles.

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LC Subjects
Crime -- United States -- Drama.
Criminals -- United States -- Drama.
Detective and mystery films.
Female friendship -- Drama.
Fiction films.
Fugitives from justice -- Drama.
Gangster films.
Male prostitutes -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama.
Police films.
Swindlers and swindling -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama.
United States. -- Army -- Military life -- Drama.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Drama.
War films.
Women outlaws -- Drama.
Other Subjects
Friendships.
Homosociality.
Women's friendships.

Citations

APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Hellman, J., Salt, W., Schlesinger, J., McQuarrie, C., Singer, B., McDonnell, M., Polk, M., Khouri, C., Scott, R., Stone, O., Kopelson, A., Hoffman, D., Voight, J., Vaccaro, B., McGiver, J., White, R., Miles, S., Hughes, B., Baldwin, S., Byrne, G., Palminteri, C., Pollak, K., Postlethwaite, P., Spacey, K., Amis, S., Toro, B. d., Sarandon, S., Davis, G., Keitel, H., Madsen, M., McDonald, C., Tobolowsky, S., Pitt, B., Berenger, T., Dafoe, W., Sheen, C., Quinn, F., David, K., Whitaker, F., & Depp, J. (2014). 4 film favorites . Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Jerome. Hellman et al.. 2014. 4 Film Favorites. Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Jerome. Hellman et al.. 4 Film Favorites Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, 2014.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Hellman, Jerome., et al. 4 Film Favorites Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, 2014.

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