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Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
Russell and his younger brother Rodney live in the economically depressed Rust Belt, and have always dreamed of escaping and finding better lives. But when a cruel twist of fate lands Russell in prison, his brother becomes involved with one of the most violent and ruthless crime rings in the Northeast - a mistake that will cost him everything. Once released, Russell must choose between his own freedom or risking it all to seek justice for his brother....
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English
Description
Dealing openly with anti-Semitism and Nazi atrocities, the story spans World War I, Prohibition and the preliminary volley of World War II. Fanny (Bette Davis) thrives on the adulation of countless suiters before and after she marries Job Skeffington (Claude Rains). Ravaged by age and illness, Fanny clings to Job's promise that "a woman is beautiful only when she is loved."
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English
Description
14-year-old Dani and her older sister have always shared everything, but they become rivals when a young man moves in next door and they experience a coming-of-age and sexual awakening and discovery. When tragedy strikes, their bond may be the only thing keeping them together, in a bittersweet tale of rural Louisiana of the 1950s.
7) The star
Edition
Standard version.
Language
English
Description
Bette Davis stars in the story of a fading movie star who is convinced that she needs only one good picture to reestablish her popularity and fortune.
8) Outbreak
Language
English
Description
Dustin Hoffman plays Sam Daniels, a take-charge army virologist trying to stave off global biological meltdown. A rare killer virus from the jungles of Zaire has taken hold in a California community. Its mortality rate is 100%. And some say the only way to stop its spread is to firebomb the town and everyone in it.
10) Short circuit
Language
English
Description
When a bolt of lightning zaps an experimental military robot and brings it to life, it escapes and finds companionship and danger.
13) Love potion #9
Language
English
Description
A romantic comedy about a lonely biochemist who gets a mysterious potion from a gypsy and with the help of a shy co-worker, uses it in a chimpanzee experiment and gets amorous results. They test it on themselves to see if it works on humans.
14) Sexy beast
Language
English
Description
High voltage crime thriller that crackles with chilling style and wit. A savage gangster named Don Logan is met with resistance when he tries to recruit a retired pal for "one last job". But Logan just won't take no for an answer--Container.
15) Office space
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Unable to endure another mind-numbing day at Initech Corporation, white-collar peon Peter Gibbons has had enough. Armed with a bold new attitude and a sexy new girlfriend, he neglects his job with a vengeance--and is quickly promoted to upper management"--Container.
16) Walkabout
Language
English
Description
Stranded in the Australian desert, an English girl and her small brother are rescued by an aborigine boy who has journeyed into the outback on his "walkabout"-- a tribal initiation into manhood.
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English
Description
Garp is a man whose life unfolds from cradle to grave in counterpoint to the dizzy, violent, cruel and casually destructive rhythms of our anxious age. While Garp sees himself as a "serious" writer, his mother Jenny writes a feminist manifesto at an opportune time, and finds herself as a magnet for all manner of distressed women.
19) The cutting edge
Language
English
Description
Romantic comedy about a handsome, self-centered ex-ice hockey player and a figure skater with a prima donna attitude who dislike each other intensely, but they team up because to each other they represent a last resort for their prospective careers in the rink.
20) Pulp fiction
Language
English
Description
Clever, dark film that tells 4 separate stories that are gradually brought together. Involved are two low-rent hit men, their boss and his sexy wife, a prizefighter and a pair of desperate robbers.
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