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William Goldman
1) Marathon man
Author
Language
English
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Description
Tom "Babe" Levy is a runner in every sense: racing tirelessly toward his goals of athletic and academic excellence--and endlessly away from the specter of his famous father's scandal-driven suicide. But an unexpected visit from his beloved older brother will set in motion a chain of events that plunge Babe into a vortex of terror, treachery, and murder--and force him into a race for his life . . . and for the answer to the fateful question, "Is it...
2) Control
Author
Publisher
Delacorte
Pub. Date
1982.
Language
English
Description
Tells the stories of three people whose lives suffer from loss of mental control.
6) Misery
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
After an almost fatal car crash, novelist Paul Sheldon finds himself being nursed by a deranged fan who holds him captive.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
As a mid-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 power....
Language
English
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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
Language
English
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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,...
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Two lions, the Ghost and the Darkness, are on a man-eating rampage and have shut down the construction of a railway in 1896 East Africa. The beasts hunt together, showing no fear of man or fire. What's more, they're killing for sport rather than for food--and they have an almost supernatural knack for knowing what traps await them. Big-game hunter Remington and construction engineer Patterson set out to stop these unstoppable monsters. But, in this...
13) Magic
Language
English
Formats
Description
Corky, a painfully shy, magician finds overnight success as a ventriloquist with Fats, his foul-mouthed dummy, but when the pressures of stardom overwhelm him, Corky flees with Fats to a deserted resort in the Catskills that is run by a childhood love, Peggy Ann Snow, who is trapped in a loveless marriage to her high-school sweetheart, but when Corky confides to Fats that he wants to leave show business altogether, Fats lashes out.
15) Wild card
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2015]
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.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
After moving with her husband and children to the well-manicured community of Stepford, Connecticut, former New York television executive Joanna Eberhart is beginning to realize that Stepford is more than just the "perfect" place to live ... it's a little to perfect. All the wives in town are models who cater to their husband's every desire. What is going on behind the closed doors of the Stepford Men's Association and the Stepford Day Spa? Can Joanna...
17) Dreamcatcher
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
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.
18) A bridge too far
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Description
A dramatic recreation of an Allied airdrop behind German lines in Holland, and the subsequent disastrous Battle of Arnhem.
19) Chaplin
Publisher
Lions Gate Films
Pub. Date
c2008.
Language
English
Description
Chaplin's entire life is covered in the biographical film. From his upbringings in the slums of England to his Honorary Oscar in 1972.
Publisher
First Run Features
Language
English
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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...