Patrick Swayze
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st Atria Books hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
247 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
In vivid detail, the thirty-year veteran of stage and screen describes his Texas upbringing, his personal struggles, his rise to fame with "North and South", his commercial breakthroughs in "Dirty Dancing" and "Ghost," and the soul mate who's stood by his side through it all: his wife, writer and director Lisa Niemi.
2) Green Dragon
Publisher
Relativity Media
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (113 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A story of Vietnamese refugees as they first arrive at Camp Pendleton in the United States as the Vietnam War ends in 1975.
3) Donnie Darko
Publisher
Arrow Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (113 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Fifteen years before *Stranger Things* combined science-fiction, Spielberg-ian touches and 80s nostalgia to much acclaim, Richard Kelly set the template - and the high-water mark - with his debut feature, DONNIE DARKO. Initially beset with distribution problems, it would slowly find its audience and emerge as arguably the first cult classic of the new millennium. Donnie Darko (Jake Gyllenhaal) is a disturbed adolescent from a semi-functional, upper-middle...
4) Point Break
Publisher
Shout Studios
Pub. Date
1991.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (122 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
An F.B.I. Agent goes undercover to catch a gang of surfers who may be bank robbers.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
[Collector's ed., Standard format; 5-disc].
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (ca. 1392 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This saga follows two families - the Hazards, from the North, and the Mains, from the South - through their changing fortunes at home and the harsh realities of the battlefields. When the South surrenders at the end of the Civil War, the families are reunited once again in friendship. In the final installment, the two families continue through Post-Civil War Reconstruction into pioneer Indian territories.
Publisher
Distributed by Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 177 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It's been said that whoever finds the fabled tomb will become the richest soul on earth, some say, the most cursed. One brave man has been hired to find out what is true, what is myth, and what is really buried in the darkness of King Solomon's Mines.
7) Point break
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Young FBI agent Johnny Utah goes undercover at the suggestion of his partner to learn if a group of wild surfers is actually a gang of bank robbers. He soon comes under the dangerous spell of the surfers' charismatic leader, Bodhi, a mystical mastermind who'll do absolutely anything for a thrill-- and expects his followers to do the same.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
2-disc special ed.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca.113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1983, Francis Ford Coppola's film of S.E. Hinton's novel struck a powerful chord with audiences. Coppola has revisited the film and reintegrated 22 minutes of character-enriching footage, including a new beginning and ending more true to the book.
9) Next of kin
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Edition
Standard.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Truman Gates, a cop from Appalachia, hunts for his brother's killers in Chicago.
10) Youngblood
Publisher
MGM Home Video
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Dean Youngblood has out-skated just about everybody since he was six. Now he's set his sights toward hockey fame with the ragtag Hamilton Mustangs, an amateur Canadian team just across the border from his family's farm.
11) Dirty dancing
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Ultimate ed. ; 20th anniversary ed.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1963, innocent 17-year-old Baby vacations with her parents at a Catskill's resort. One evening she is drawn to the staff quarters by stirring music. There she meets Johnny, the hotel dance instructor, who is as experienced as Baby is naive. Baby soon becomes Johnny's pupil in dance and love.
12) Keeping mum
Publisher
Thinkfilm
Pub. Date
2006, c2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An absent-minded vicar of a rural parish is so distracted by the pressures of his job that he fails to notice his wife's dalliance with her brash golf instructor, his daughter's parade of new boyfriends, and his young son's regular trouncing by the school's bullies. Enter their new housekeeper, Grace, the answer to the family's prayers. Grace is a sweet old lady with her own distinctive definition of cleaning house, with an unusual way of solving...
13) Dirty dancing
Language
English
Formats
Description
The summer of 1963 innocent 17-year-old Baby vacations with her parents at a Catskill's resort. One evening she is drawn to the staff quarters by stirring music. There she meets Johnny, the hotel dance instructor, who is as experienced as Baby is naive. Baby soon becomes Johnny's pupil in dance and love.
14) Road house
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
Deluxe ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A legendary bouncer comes to Jasper, Missouri, for a special purpose: to restore order at the notorious Double Duece bar. In one spectacular fight after another, Dalton rids the bar of thugs and henchmen. But when he runs afoul of a ruthless crime boss, the stage is set for a blistering showdown that'll leave only one man standing.
Series
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (approximately 152 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a young fox and hound meet for the first time, they become friends before they know that they are supposed to be enemies; Tod and Copper's friendship is put to the test when Copper gets a chance to howl with a hound dog chorus.
16) Road house
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
Widescreen and full screen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dalton is a bouncer with a degree in philosophy who is hired to keep order at a Road House called the Double Dutch.
17) Red dawn
Language
English
Description
From the windows of a high school classroom, students see paratroopers land on the varsity football field. The invasion of the United States has begun. As their town in overrun by foreign nationals, eight teenagers escape to the mountains. Taking the name of their high school football team, the Wolverines, they wage an unremitting guerrilla action in defense of their parents, their friends and their country.
18) Donnie Darko
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An edgy, psychological thriller about a suburban teen coming face-to-face with his dark destiny. Donnie Darko is a delusional high-school student visited by a demonic rabbit with eerie visions of the past, and deadly predictions for the future.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
8 DVDs (3 hrs., 53 min.) : color, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two families, the Hazards and the Mains, are geographically and ideologically separated by the U.S. Civil War. The hatred, prejudice, and greed that tear at the fabric of a nation also threaten to destroy the threads that have woven the lives of these two families together.
Book one: One is from a Northern industrial family, one from a Southern plantation family. They're West Point graduates whose tried-and-true loyalty helps them survive the Mexican-American...
20) Ghost
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Special collector's ed.; widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (126 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A man killed during a robbery gone wrong remains on Earth as a ghost because of his love for his girlfriend. He teams up with a psychic to uncover the truth behind his murder, and to rescue his sweetheart from a similar fate.