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Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Paul Blart is a mild-mannered, dutiful family man who works as a security guard in a New Jersey mall. He has applied to become a cop for years, but he always fails the physical exam because he is overweight. One day, a gang of organized criminals put the mall under siege and take hostages. Blart becomes trapped inside and because of he feels that it is his sense of duty, refuses to leave. He becomes the police department's eyes on the inside and attempts...
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Bailey is the owner/operator of a rundown kiddie amusement park on the wintry Jersey shore. When a mysterious French stranger appears carrying the ashes of Bailey's younger sister and claiming to be her husband, dark secrets begin to be unearthed. Now with the help of his childhood best friend and former lover, Bailey must confront his own deadly past and desperate future.
4) Jersey boys
Language
English
Formats
Description
The story of four young men from the wrong side of the tracks in New Jersey who came together to form the iconic 1960s rock group The Four Seasons.
5) Chasing Amy
Series
Criterion collection volume 75
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
The complications of love and friendship among three New Jersey comic book artists; Holden, his partner Banky, and Alyssa, the woman Holden falls in love with only to be thwarted by her sexuality.
6) Jersey girl
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Ollie is madly in love with his wife. But when the Manhattan music publicist's wife dies in childbirth, Ollie's life becomes emotionally shattered. Not sure what to do next, he moves to New Jersey with his infant daughter to live with his dad. Juggling his career and single parenthood proves more than Ollie can manage, and one day he's fired after he bungles a major press event. He devotes his time to his daughter and ends up frequenting a local video...
7) Garden State
Language
English
Description
Andrew is a moderately successful TV actor living in Los Angeles. He hasn't been home to the Garden State in nine years. Even the 3,000 miles has not seperated him from the domineering father Andrew left. Stunned to find himself home for his mother's funeral, "Large" finds old acquaintances around every corner, even as he does his best to avoid the inevitable confrontation with his father. By a twist of fate Large meets Sam, a girl who is everything...
8) Freedomland
Language
English
Formats
Description
As a housing project cop who's respected for keeping the peace and being fair with the residents, Lorenzo Council stumbles onto the case of an apparent carjacking and child abduction one night that throws the projects into turmoil. But there's something strange in the details Brenda Martin slowly brings to light regarding her abductor and her missing child. The criminal investigation into the alleged kidnapping ignites long-simmering racial tension...
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
[Widescreen edition].
Language
English
Description
Ray Ferrier is a working class man living in New Jersey. He has become estranged from his family and his life isn't in order. His small town life is shaken violently by the arrival of destructive intruders: Aliens which have come up from the ground, en masse, to destroy Earth and all the humans living on it. As the aliens plow through the country in a wave of mass destruction and violence, Ray must put aside thoughts of himself and come to the defense...
10) American hustle
Language
English
Formats
Description
A fictional film set in the alluring world of one of the most stunning scandals to rock our nation, American Hustle is the story of brilliant con man Irving Rosenfeld, who along with his equally cunning and seductive British partner Sydney Prosser, is forced to work for wild FBI agent Richie DiMaso. DiMaso pushes them into a world of Jersey powerbrokers and mafia that's as dangerous as it is enchanting. Carmine Polito is the passionate, volatile,...
11) Patti Cake$
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Female rapper Patti Cake$ takes advantage of every opportunity in her New Jersey hometown as she chases her dreams of music stardom.
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Mary Elizabeth Cep, is convinced her real name is Lola. When her Mom moves her family from fashionable New York City to a small suburb in New Jersey, Lola quickly finds a friend who likes the same band that she does. Disturbed by her environment, Lola is quick to wage war against the popular Carla Santini. She's also pursued by high school hunk Stu Wolff, but chooses to focus her attention on winning back her title of Most Popular Girl in School....
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Young Anthony Soprano is growing up in one of the most tumultuous eras in Newark's history, becoming a man just as rival gangsters begin to rise and challenge the all-powerful DiMeo crime family's hold over the increasingly race-torn city. Caught up in the changing times is the uncle he idolizes, Dickie Moltisanti, who struggles to manage both his professional and personal responsibilities, and whose influence over his nephew will help make the impressionable...
15) Happiness
Pub. Date
[1999]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
Three middle-class New Jersey sisters seek love and happiness.
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Living on a small farm near Flemington, New Jersey, sixteen-year-old Lori Anderson is still mourning the loss of her father when she meets the ghost of a young man killed when his small plane crashes after taking off from nearby Sky Manor Airport, and while trying to uncover why he remains earthbound, begins to fall in love.
17) Clerks III
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
After suffering a heart attack, Randal and his friends and fellow clerks make a documentary about the convenience store in New Jersey that started it all.
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A drifter befriends an orphaned girl and her grandfather and charms the residents of Middletown, New Jersey. Features music and lyrics by Johnny Burke and Arthur Johnston including "Pennis from heaven", "So do I", "Skeleton in the closet", and "Let's call a heart a heart."
19) Humor me
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A once-acclaimed New York playwright, Nate is struggling to finish a play when his wife leaves him, taking their son. Desolate, broke and unable to pay the rent, Nate begrudgingly moves in with his widowed father, Bob, in his New Jersey retirement golf community. Nate stumbles on a senior citizen theater troupe staging a musical and agrees to help, but quickly realizes it could either turn his life around, or signal the end of his career.
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