William Goldman
Publisher
First Run Features
Language
English
Formats
Description
Shane Black (Lethal Weapon), John Carpenter (Halloween), Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption), William Goldman (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid), Paul Schrader (Taxi Driver), and dozens of other Hollywood screenwriters share penetrating insights and hilarious anecdotes in Peter Hanson’s Tales from the Script, the most comprehensive documentary ever made about screenwriting. By analyzing their triumphs and recalling their failures, the participants...
6) Father's day
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
c1971
Physical Desc
215 p.
Language
English
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Sundance Kid is the frontier's fastest gun. His partner, Butch Cassidy is always dreaming up new ways to get rich fast. If only they could blow open a baggage car without also blowing up the money-filled safe inside. So Butch and Sundance pack their guns, put on new duds, and, with Sundance's girlfriend, head down to Bolivia.
Series
Criterion collection volume 948
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When the beautiful maiden Buttercup hears that her true love Westley is dead, she reluctantly agrees to marry the loathsome Prince Humperdinck. After Westley returns to rescue Buttercup, the two begin an epic adventure filled with fencing, fighting, giants, monsters, miracles, true love and hilarity!
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
Special ed.; widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A kindly grandfather sits down with his grandson and reads him a bedtime story. As the grandfather reads the story, the action comes alive in a classic tale of love and adventure. The beautiful Buttercup is kidnapped and held against her will in order to marry the nasty Prince Humperdinck, while Westley (her childhood beau, now returned as the Dread Pirate Roberts) attempts to save her. Along the way he meets an accomplished swordsman and a giant,...
13) Wild card
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A bodyguard goes after the sadistic thug who beat his friend, only to find that the object of his wrath is the son of a powerful mob boss.
14) Misery
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009], c1990
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Paul Sheldon is a best-selling novelist who is on his way home from his Colorado retreat after completing his latest book. He doesn't remember the blinding blizzard that sent his car spinning off the road. Paul is critically injured, but is rescued by former nurse Annie Wilkes, who happens to be Paul's 'number one fan.' Annie takes Paul back to her house in the mountains, and he finds himself crippled, drugged and at her mercy. Unfortunately for Paul,...
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c1999
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When the daughter of a well-known and well-respected base commander is raped and murdered, an undercover detective is summoned to look into the matter and finds a slew of cover-ups at West Point.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Return to a time when men were men and swamps were fire swamps, full of quicksand and rodents of unusual size. Lagoons were inhabited by shrieking eels, and the most beautiful woman in the world was named ... Buttercup? Well, it's a bent fairy tale, complete with all the fencing, fighting, chases, and escapes.
17) A bridge too far
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
1977, 1998, 2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (176 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet
Language
English
Description
A dramatic recreation of an Allied airdrop behind German lines in Holland, and the subsequent disastrous Battle of Arnhem.
18) Absolute power
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An expert thief witnesses the President and his men committing a murder when he breaks into the home of a Washington official. Now he must run and save himself from the men after him.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Edition
Widescreen version (2.35:1).
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
As a middle-aged man's friend dies, Bobby takes a look back at his childhood memories ... When mysterious out-of-towner, Ted, moves into the boarding house that 11-year-old Bobby shares with his self-involved mother, Bobby jumps at the chance to befriend an adult who talks to him straightforwardly. Ted enlists Bobby to read him the newspaper daily--and to keep an eye out for the "low men" bent on capturing Ted, who possesses a strange mind-reading...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 136 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Four friends with an unusual power become stranded in a blizzard and are confronted by a deadly alien force. As they try to stop this unparalleled horror, the fate of the world is in their hands.