Touchstone Pictures
Author
Language
English
Description
Melanie is a successful New York fashion designer who is dating the city's most eligible bachelor. When he pops the big question, Melanie returns to her southern hometown to tell her parents the news and convince her husband Jake to grant her a divorce. However, the more time she spends with her old flame, the more she feels sparks flying between them again, while she also learns her Eastern affectations don't fly with everyone back home.
3) Annapolis
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jake Huard, a local kid, is a shipbuilder's son who wants to prove to his father, not to mention himself, that he can cut it as a Naval officer. But at the Academy he runs afoul of a hard-nosed training officer named Cole who does all he can to drive Huard out of the school. They end up settling their differences in the boxing ring during the Academy's annual competition.
6) Hidalgo
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the 1890's Frank T. Hopkins, a former U.S. Cavalry dispatch rider who is haunted by memories of what he saw at the battle of Wounded Knee, and his mustang Hidalgo, are performing in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, billed as the greatest horse and rider the West has ever known. This leads them to be invited to run in the 3,000 mile endurance race across the Middle Eastern desert, the Ocean of Fire, by one of the leading Arabian Sheiks. The race soon...
7) The proposal
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
DVD, widescreen (2.35 1, enhanced) Dolby Digital 5.1 surround.
Language
English
Description
High-powered book editor Maggie is everyone's worst nightmare: ruthless, driven, and tactless. When she finds herself faced with deportation back to Canada, she coerces her much younger assistant into marrying her. However, when the government becomes suspicious, they embark upon a charade in order to make the marriage seem legitimate.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventeen, angry, and alienated from her estranged father, Veronica 'Ronnie' Miller's life gets turned inside out when her mother forces her to spend the summer with him in the small Georgia beach town where he lives. Here, Ronnie finds salvation, friendship, second chances, and first love.
9) Unbreakable
Language
English
Formats
Description
David Dunn is the sole survivor of an horrific train crash that killed 131. Everyone, especially David, is wondering how it could be possible. Soon, David is approached by comic book specialist Elijah Prince, who confronts David with an incredible theory that just might explain the situation.
10) The Alamo
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (137 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Retells the story of the historic 1836 battle in the Texan War of Independence. Facing 4,000 Mexican troops, 186 Texan soldiers and volunteers - including William Travis, Davy Crockett, and Jim Bowie - retreat within the walls of the Alamo, a Franciscan mission that was converted into a military fort. Once inside, the men prepare themselves for what will be a bloody battle to the death. U.S. General Sam Houston leads the charge from the outside. The...
11) Armageddon
Language
English
Description
When NASA discovers a doomsday asteroid that is on a collision course with Earth, a crew of roughneck oil drillers is sent in to plant a nuclear warhead that should destroy it.
12) Apocalypto
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (138 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Mayan
Formats
Description
As the Mayan kingdom faces its decline, the rulers insist the key to prosperity is to build more temples and offer human sacrifices. Jaguar Paw is a young man who is captured for sacrifice, but flees to avoid his fate.
13) The prestige
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two London magicians share an intense rivalry with each other and leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy.
14) Cocktail
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tom Cruise plays Brian Flanagan, a young confident and ambitious bartender who, with the help of a seasoned pro, becomes the toast of Manhattan's Upper East Side. But when he moves to Jamaica and meets an independent artist, their vivid romance brings a new perspective to the self-centered bartender's life.
15) Surrogates
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
People are living their lives remotely from the safety of their own homes via robotic surrogates - sexy, physically perfect mechanical representations of themselves. It's an ideal world where crime, pain, fear and consequences don't exist. When the first murder in years jolts this utopia, FBI agent Greer discovers a vast conspiracy behind the surrogate phenomenon and must abandon his own surrogate, risking his life to unravel the mystery.
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Loosely based on Homer's "Odyssey", this is the story of three convicts-- escapees from a prison farm in Mississippi-- and their adventure as they travel home in hopes of recovering buried loot before it's lost forever in a flood.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rebecca Bloomwood is a young woman struggling with her debilitating obsession with shopping and the sudden collapse of her income source. She unintentionally lands a job writing for a Manhattan financial magazine after a drunken letter-mailing mix-up. Ironically, now Rebecca is writing about the very consumer caution of which she herself has not abided. Rebecca's innovative comparisons and unconventional metaphors for economics grants her critical...
18) Ladder 49
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Probationary firefighter Jack Morrison matures into a seasoned veteran of the Baltimore Fire Department under the watchful eye of his mentor Chief Mike Kennedy. Responding to the worst blaze in his career, he becomes trapped inside a 20-story building. As Jack reflects on his life - seeing his first fire, bonding with fellow firefighters, the impact his job has had on his wife and kids - Chief Kennedy frantically coordinates the effort to save Jack's...
19) Bicentennial man
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 131 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A comedy about an android "household appliance" robot who just wants to be a regular guy.