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Alan Arkin
Author
Language
English
Description
In this insightful memoir, Oscar-winning actor Alan Arkin reflects back on finding his place as an actor and what theater—specifically the improvisational sort—has taught him about the craft and life. Alan Arkin knew he was going to be an actor from the age of five. From this early age, he recognized that “every film I saw, every play, every piece of music fed an unquenchable need to turn myself into something other than what I was.” An Improvised...
3) The in-laws
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
In preparation for his daughter's wedding, dentist Sheldon Kornpett meets Vince Ricardo, the groom's father. Vince, a manic fellow who claims to be a government agent, then proceeds to drag Sheldon into a series of chases and misadventures from New York to Central America.
Publisher
Lightning Video
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Gently comic story of a fourth wise man, Artaban, who sells all he has to buy a gift for the new king whose star has just appeared in the heavens, and pursues him all his life long, only to miss him--until the very end of both lives.
Series
Publisher
Monterey Media
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Flagg and Ada Purdy are a rural couple with eleven children. Flagg runs his life and family according to strict principles. But when Flagg's family decides to make Christmas happen for the first time at the Purdy house, Flagg's principles cause trouble in his household.
9) Popi
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
The story of Popi, a struggling Puerto Rican widower working three jobs to support his two sons, and his outrageous scheme to give the boys a better life.
10) Get Smart
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Secret agent Maxwell Smart and his fellow spies Agent 99 and Agent 23 work to protect their agency and the world from the evil masterminds at KAOS.
11) Marley & me
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Follows the growth of a married couple and the antics of their lovable, but mischievous dog.
12) Love the Coopers
Publisher
Entertainment One
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
It follows the Cooper clan as four generations of extended family come together for their annual Christmas Eve celebration. As the evening unfolds, a series of unexpected visitors and unlikely events turn the night upside down, leading them all toward a surprising rediscovery of family bonds and the spirit of the holiday.
13) Naples ’44
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In 1943 a young British officer, Norman Lewis, entered a war-torn Naples with the American Fifth Army. Lewis began writing down everything that happened to him during his one-year stay, observing the complex social cauldron of a city that contrived unbelievable methods of survival on a daily basis. These notes turned into his masterpiece, a memoir titled NAPLES ‘44. Francesco Patierno's new documentary imagines Lewis returning many years later to...
14) The last unicorn
Language
English
Description
A beautiful white unicorn has never shared the love and comfort of her own kind and sets out to find the secret of the other lost unicorns. The last unicorn retraces her roots and frees her mythical "people."
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Description
Olive is a little girl who dreams of winning the Little Miss Sunshine contest. Her family wants her dream to come true, but they are so dysfunctional that they can barely make it through a day without some disaster befalling them. Olive's father, Richard, is unsuccessful as a motivational speaker. He is barely on speaking terms with Olive's mother. Her uncle Frank has attempted suicide following an unsuccessful romance with a male graduate student....
16) The in-laws
Series
Criterion collection volume 1979
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A mild-mannered dentist becomes involved with his daughter's father-in-law's bizarre life with the CIA, which may or may not even be true.
18) Jakob the liar
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
In Nazi-occupied Poland, a poor Jewish cafe owner invents fictitious news bulletins about Allied advances against the Nazis. These lies keep hope and humor alive among the ghetto inhabitants.
19) Argo
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A CIA operative creates a plan to rescue six Americans trapped in an embassy in Iran by having them pose as members of a film crew.
20) Mother night
Publisher
New Line Home Video
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
An American playwright living in pre-World War II Berlin becomes an allied spy within the Nazi Party. After the war, when he goes back to America, he is confronted by both Nazi haters and sympathizers.