Walter Matthau
Language
English
Description
Morris Buttermaker is an alcoholic pest removal worker and for a very short period of time a former professional baseball player, is recruited to coach and train a failing baseball team. All of these twelve-year-olds have been thrown out of the league. After losing every game they have played in so far, the kids force the coach to straighten up and teach them how to win before the season is over.
Series
Language
English
Description
Neil Simon has a special genius for finding the great hilarity in ordinary people doing everyday things. Like two divorced men who decide to share a New York apartment. That's the premise of The Odd Couple, though there's nothing odd in the casting of two Oscar®-winning talents like Jack Lemmon and Walter Mathau. The two veteran funnymen work together with the precision timing of a vaudeville team, but always with bright spontaneity. Lemmon plays...
6) Charade
Language
English
Description
Regina finds herself pursued through the streets of Paris by several men in search of the fortune that her murdered husband stole from them. As her world becomes entangled with suspense, murder and plots twists, she finds herself leaning on a suave, charming stranger whose motives are unclear.
8) Hanging up
Pub. Date
©2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Three sisters struggle to deal with each other and their aging father.
9) Hopscotch
Series
Criterion collection volume 163
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Miles Kendig is fired from his top CIA job, he decides to tell all by writing a book.
10) Grumpy old men
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
Neighborhood curmudgeons' long-running feud becomes an all-out rivalry when an attractive widow moves into the house across the street.
12) The survivors
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (videodisc) (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Donald Quinelle, a rising sales executive, is sacked by his boss's pet parrot the same day that Sonny Paluso watches his gas station go up in flames. Drowning their sorrows at a coffee shop, the two New Yorkers disarm a would-be bandit, Jack Locke, and briefly become media heroes--then quickly learn about the price and perils of survival in an insane world. Jack is freed by a bureaucratic slip-up and goes gunning for Sonny and Donald, who discover...
13) I.Q
Series
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
All the world knows about Einstein the scientific genius. But what about Einstein the matchmaker? I.Q. puts this fanciful notion to the test and comes up with winning results in this fun, warm-hearted romantic comedy.
14) Charley Varrick
Series
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Charley Varrick is a small-time crook who outfoxes the mob and makes a desperate run for the Mexican border and safety.
Series
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Grouchy, harse-racing bookie Sorrowful Jones is given a child as collateral for a debt, but the debtor doesn't return. The little girl warms Jones' heart, but will his life and friends be a bad influence on her?
19) Out to sea
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two men decide to become dance instructors on a cruise ship so they can meet women and con them out of money.