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Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
An odd couple of sorts, introspective and stern Alvin and his girlfriend's brother, Lance, dopy and insecure, leave the city behind to spend the summer of 1988 repainting traffic lines on a desolate country highway where the surrounding areas have been ravaged by wildfire. The men bicker and joke with each other, eventually developing an unlikely friendship.
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Two twenty-something stoner roommates, one a Korean-American investment banker, Harold, and the other an Indian-American medical school candidate, Kumar, go through a life changing journey. They are on a quest to satisfy their cravings for burgers and spend the night roaming the state of New Jersey in search of White Castle hamburgers running into one screwy obstacle after another.
4) House party
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Aspiring club promoters and best buds Damon and Kevin are barely keeping things together. Out of money, down on their luck, and about to lose the roofs over their heads and freshly fired from their low-lift jobs as house cleaners the pair needs a huge windfall to make their problems go away. In a 'what the hell?' move, they decide to host the party of the year at an exclusive mansion, the site of their last cleaning job, which just happens to belong...
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jesse and Chester are two bumbling stoners who wake up one morning from a night of partying and cannot remember where they parked their car. This prompts them on a journey to find it. Along the way, they encounter a variety of people who include their angry girlfriends Wilma and Wanda, whose house they trashed, an angry street gang, a transexual stripper hounding them for a suitcase full of stolen money, a cult of alien seeking fanatics, and a group...
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
"When Rick and Lindsay meet at a camp for the blind, they each have a challenge to overcome. Lindsay is coping with blindness, and Rick must prove that he can be trusted. Although they clash at first, it isn't long before they are leaning on each other for strength. As Lindsay finds the courage to compete again, Rick must choose between keeping his friends and being responsible. Together, they must break free from the past and face the future...
Series
Criterion collection volume 925
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"One of the British New Wave's most versatile directors, John Schlesinger came to New York in the late 1960s to make Midnight Cowboy, a picaresque story of friendship that captured a city in crisis and sparked a new era of Hollywood movies. Jon Voight delivers a career-making performance as Joe Buck, a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy city women; he finds a companion in Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo, an ailing swindler with a bum...
10) Unpregnant
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
When seventeen-year-old Veronica Clarke discovers she is pregnant, she enlists the help of high school misfit Bailey Butler to drive her over nine hundred miles to the closest abortion clinic.
11) The front page
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
DVD edition.
Language
English
Description
An unscurpulous newspaper editor tries to convince his star reporter to do one last story about a condemned man awaiting execution while at the same time, he tries to prevent that same reporter from marrying.
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"From the producers of Goal! and Goal 2 comes the final installment in the fast-paced, action packed trilogy. With the actual World Cup as its dramatic backdrop, this is the story of two players, Liam Adams and his best friend and Real Madrid teammate Charlie Braithwaite. Their journey playing for home country England takes them to the centre of the greatest stage on Earth and is filled with humour, romance, tragedy and redemption"--Distributor website....
13) Scarecrow
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Max, just out of prison, plans to open a car wash in Pittsburgh. Lionel, back from five years at sea, wants to visit the child he's never seen. Meeting on the road, the two men forge a touching friendship tempered through hard times.
14) Thelma & Louise
Series
Criterion collection volume 1180
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Director-approved two-Blu-ray special edition.
Language
English
Description
Two women, a turquoise Thunderbird, the ride of a lifetime. With this pop-culture landmark, screenwriter Callie Khouri and action auteur Ridley Scott rewrote the rules of the road movie, telling the story of two best friends who find themselves transformed into accidental fugitives during a weekend getaway gone wrong leading them on a high-speed Southwest odyssey as they elude police and discover freedom on their terms.
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Anamorphic widescreen presentation.
Language
English
Description
When an evil industrialist plots to turn Robosapien--invented to revolutionize global search-and-rescue missions--into a weapon, the badly damaged techno-wonder is rescued and renamed Cody by a shy young science whiz.
16) Old joy
Series
Criterion collection volume 1008
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Director approved DVD special edition.
Language
English
Description
Two old friends reunite for a quietly revelatory overnight camping trip. As they drive from Portland into the woods in search of a secluded hot spring, expectant father Mark and nomadic Kurt make fumbling attempts to reconnect, butting up against the limits of their friendship and coming to grips with just how much their paths have diverged since their shared youth.
17) Ride along
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Blu-ray combo pack.
Language
English
Description
Fast-talking security guard Ben joins his soon-to-be brother-in-law detective James on a 24-hour patrol of Atlanta in order to prove himself worthy of marrying Angela, James's sister.
18) 48 hrs
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
An experienced cop teams up with a convict in order to capture an escaped murderer.
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
One night in the tropics: Abbott and Costello play "two stooges employed by Roscoe, a crooked nightclub owner. Having financed a dubious 'love insurance' policy, Roscoe wants the boys to ensure that Steve marries his hard-to-get girlfriend as they travel to fun in the sun aboard a luxury ocean liner bound for San Marcos, South America."
Buck privates: Abbott and Costello hide in an enlistment center to elude the police, and find themselves in the...
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
A tough Hong Kong cop, Lee, and a fast-talking LAPD detective, Carter, join forces to solve the kidnapping of a Chinese diplomat's daughter, despite the fact that they can't stand each other; Lee and Carter's much needed vacation in Hong Kong is cut short when a bomb explodes at the American Embassy.
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