Richard Dysart
Publisher
Sony Wonder
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
30th anniversary special ed.; full screen.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (150 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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Description
The story of the life an African American woman from Louisiana, from the time of her childhood as a slave in the pre-Civil War South to 1962, when she witnesses the birth of the civil rights movement at the age of one hundred and ten.
4) The thing
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
Collector's ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (1 hr., 49 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A research team at a remote research station in Antarctica finds an alien being that has fallen from the sky and has remained buried in the snow for over 100,000 years. Unfrozen and unleashed, it creates havoc and terror as it changes forms and becomes one of them.
5) Being there
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2001
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (130 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Circumstances propel a feeble-minded gardener, whose entire knowledge of life comes from watching television, into becoming adviser to the president of the United States and a powerful but dying tycoon.
6) Meteor
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Science fiction drama about a five-mile meteor on a collision course with the earth. A scientist is summoned to Washington by NASA and is informed that a huge meteor will smash into earth in six days. There is one slim chance to divert disaster, but it means cooperation between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, and neither side trusts the other.
7) Mask
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2004], c1985
Edition
Special ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 127 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The true story of Rocky Dennis, a personable young man who has craniodiaphyseal dysplasia, a fatal disease which causes hideous facial disfigurement. Rocky is the son of biker Rusty and he is accepted without question by his mom's boyfriends and her cycle buddies, but treated with pity and disgust by much of the outside world. The local high school principal doesn't want to enroll Rocky, but Rusty fights for her son's rights. Rocky eventually falls...