Jason Schwartzman
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A boy wins a $100,000 prize in a box of Frosted Flakes--only to discover how claiming the winnings might unravel his family. A woman sets out to seduce motivational speaker Tony Robbins--turning for help to the famed motivator himself. A new arrival in Heaven, overwhelmed with options, procrastinates over a long-ago promise to visit his grandmother. We also meet Sophia, the first artificially intelligent being capable of love, who falls for a man...
2) Rushmore
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
A gifted, rebellious teenager at Rushmore Academy falls for a teacher and plans to erect an aquarium in her honor, however he finds himself competing with his friend for her affections.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mr. and Mrs. Fox live a happy home life underground with their eccentric son Ash. Mr. Fox works as a journalist, but against the advice of Badger, his attorney, he moves his family into a larger and finer home inside a tree on a hill. The treehouse has an excellent view of the nearby farms of Boggis, Bunce, and Bean. Ash becomes hostile when his cousin, Kristofferson, joins the family for an extended stay. Mr. Fox decides to raid the farms, but this...
5) Shopgirl
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Ray Porter is a buttoned-down 50-something executive who reaches out to a much younger woman as his Los Angeles playmate. Mirabelle, a 20-something with a pile of promises, debt, and depression, fades away in a slow corner of Saks, while trying to sell unneeded formal gloves. She's a wisp of a person, with a cat who doesn't love her, and when she finds a suitor, it's Jeremy, a scruffy artist who babbles on about speakers. When the gentlemanly Porter...
6) Big eyes
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Walter Keane became a worldwide celebrity and talk show fixture in the 1950s after he pioneered the mass production of prints of big-eyed kids, and used his marketing savvy to sell them cheaply. Unfortunately, he claimed to be the artist. That role was played by Margaret, his shy wife. The ruse broke up their marriage and led to a divorce and a dramatic courtroom battle to prove authorship of the paintings.
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
When P.L. Travers travels from London to Hollywood in 1961 to finally discuss Walt Disney's desire to bring her beloved character, Mary Poppins to the motion picture screen (a quest he began in the 1940s as a promise to his two daughters), Disney meets a prim, uncompromising sexagenarian not only suspect of the impresario's concept for the film, but a woman struggling with her own past. During her stay in California, Travers' reflects back on her...
Publisher
Focus Features
Pub. Date
c2012.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, tells the story of two twelve-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. As various authorities try to hunt them down, a violent storm is brewing off-shore, and the peaceful island community is turned upside down in more ways than anyone can handle.
9) I Huckabees
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
The story a husband and wife team of existential detectives who observe other people in an attempt to help them find meaning in their lives.
10) The overnight
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In an attempt to acclimate to Los Angeles, a young couple spends an increasingly bizarre evening with the parents of their son's new friend.
12) Saving Mr. Banks
Series
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
When P.L. Travers travels from London to Hollywood in 1961 to finally discuss Walt Disney's desire to bring her beloved character Mary Poppins to the motion picture screen (a quest he began in the 1940s as a promise to his two daughters), Disney meets a prim, uncompromising sexagenarian not only suspect of the impresario's concept for the film, but a woman struggling with her own past. During her stay in California, Travers' reflects back on her difficult...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Running from his emotional baggage, a novelist and writer for a New York magazine moonlights as an unlicensed private detective.
Escape from the dungeon!: Jonathan is hired by a cop with an S&M fetish; George is told to make do with less; Ray fails a yoga test.
Mike it quick, Fitzgerald!: Jonathan gets a job working for George's rival; Ray vows to win back Leah.
The Gowanus Canal has gonorrhea!: George gets sobering news; Jonathan is kidnapped.
I've...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Running from his emotional baggage, a novelist and writer for a New York magazine moonlights as an unlicensed private detective.
Stockholm syndrome: Heartbroken by a recent breakup, between-books writer, Jonathan Ames places an ad on Craigslist offering his unlicensed services as a private investigator.
The Alanon case: A woman with a drinking problem hires Jonathan to see if her boyfriend has been cheating.
The case of the missing screenplay:...
15) Listen up Philip
Publisher
Tribeca Film
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Anger rages in Philip as he awaits the publication of his second novel. He feels pushed out of his adopted home city by the constant crowds and noise, a deteriorating relationship with his photographer girlfriend Ashley, and his own indifference to promoting the novel. When Philip's idol Ike Zimmerman offers his isolated summer home as a refuge, he finally gets the peace and quiet to focus on his favorite subject: himself.
16) Marie Antoinette
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of the 14-year-old ill-fated Archduchess of Austria and later Queen of France. Marie Antoinette has became one of the most misunderstood and abused woman in history, from her birth in Imperial Austria. And how the young woman must grow up in front of the entire country of France.
17) Rushmore
Series
Criterion collection volume 65
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Formats
Description
When two offbeat friends fall in love with the same woman, each takes drastic measures to win her heart.
18) Big eyes
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Walter Keane became a worldwide celebrity and talk show fixture in the 1950s after he pioneered the mass production of prints of big-eyed kids, and used his marketing savvy to sell them cheaply. Unfortunately, he claimed to be the artist. That role was played by Margaret, his shy wife. The ruse broke up their marriage and led to a divorce and a dramatic courtroom battle to prove authorship of the paintings.
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Dash and his best friend Assaf are preparing for another year at Tides High School muckraking on behalf of their widely distributed but little-read school newspaper, edited by their friend Verti. But just when a blossoming relationship between Assaf and Verti threatens to destroy the boys' friendship, Dash learns of the administration's cover-up that puts all the students in danger.
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
The adventures of Gustave H, a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars, and Zero Moustafa, the lobby boy who becomes his most trusted friend. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting and the battle for an enormous family fortune.