Paramount Pictures Corporation.
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures Corp
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
DVD; Dolby digital 5.1 surround, Dolby surround, French Dolby surround. 1 videodisc (102 min.) : sd., col. ;
Language
English
Description
A chronicle of the events experienced by a rather magical 17-year-old, who has an overwhelming urge to cut school one spring day and head for downtown Chicago with his girl and best friend to see the sights and experience a day of freedom.
2) Chinatown
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English
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Description
A landmark movie in the film-noir tradition, CHINATOWN stands as a true screen classic. Jack Nicholson is private eye Jake Gittes, living off the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-war Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite (Faye Dunaway) to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair, Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits, uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that come crashing together....
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Language
English
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Description
The rich Duke Brothers wager on whether a born loser like Billy Ray Valentine, a hustler from the ghetto, can become as successful as Winthorpe, a wealthy investment executive, if put in the proper environment--and would a prig like Winthorpe turn to a life of crime if he were to lose it all.
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Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Language
English
Formats
Description
Neil Simon has a special genius for finding the great hilarity in ordinary people doing everyday things. Like two divorced men who decide to share a New York apartment. That's the premise of The Odd Couple, though there's nothing odd in the casting of two Oscar®-winning talents like Jack Lemmon and Walter Mathau. The two veteran funnymen work together with the precision timing of a vaudeville team, but always with bright spontaneity. Lemmon plays...
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[1999]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dennis Peck knows how to get around the law, because he is a cop. Raymond Avilla is the investigator who is determined to bring Peck to justice, even as Peck threatens Avilla's career, marriage, and sanity.
6) Heartburn
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Language
English
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Description
Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson are wonderful together in this lighthearted look at modern romance headed for failure, based on Nora Ephron's best-selling novel. She's a magazine writer who gives up her career for love and family. He's a playboy newspaper columnist who can't quite give up his old tricks. And if that combination doesn't give a relationship HEARTBURN, nothing will!
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Language
English
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Description
A new technologically superior Soviet nuclear sub, the Red October, is heading the the United States coast under the command of Captain Ramius. The American government thinks Ramius is planning to attack. A lone CIA analyst has a different idea: he thinks Ramius is planning to defect, but he has only a few hours to find him and prove it. At the same time, the entire Russian naval and air commands are trying to find Ramius too.
8) Love Story
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Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Language
English
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Description
This heartfelt 1970 tale of the love of a lifetime-the most successful Paramount movie up to that time-received seven **Academy Award** nominations (including Best Picture) and won one for Francis Lai's magnificent score. Stars Ryan O'Neal and Ali MacGraw became overnight movie sensations for their poignant portrayals of a young couple who cross social barriers, marry and ultimately face the greatest crisis of all. Nominated for Best Picture, Best...
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[1999]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 117 min.) : sound, color ; 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.
10) Paper Moon
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Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Language
English
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Description
Ryan O’Neal teams up with his daughter Tatum in this bright, warm, and funny period film for which Tatum won an **Oscar** for her first film role, making her the youngest actress to ever receive this honor. O’Neal plays the smooth-talking con man Moses Pray, driving through depression-era Kansas with a carload of deluxe bibles, a gold tooth behind a convincing smile, and a list of newly widowed prospects for his line. Addie (Tatum O’Neal) is...
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sam buys (and steals) fashionable dress designs for a New York department store. When the store sends her to Paris for fashion week, she meets a newspaper columnist who takes no interest in her until she pretends to be the worldly call girl, "Mimi."
12) Grease
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Language
English
Description
Good girl Sandy Olsson and greaser Danny Zuko fell in love over the summer. When they unexpectedly discover they're now in the same high school, will they be able to rekindle their romance?
13) Explorers
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Language
English
Formats
Description
In their makeshift laboratory, three boys (Ethan Hawke, River Phoenix and Jason Presson) use an amazing discovery and their ingenuity to build their own spaceship and launch themselves on a fantastic interplanetary journey. Nominated for Best Make-Up and Best Special Effects at the **Academy of Science Fictions & Horror Movies.** *"It looks terrific, moves along at a gallop, and is marvelously good natured." - Geoff Andrew, **Time Out***
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Language
English
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Description
In the remote desert of New Mexico, “The Manhattan Project” is materializing – the World War II effort to build the atomic bomb. **Oscar**-winner Paul Newman (*Hud*, *Nobody’s Fool*) stars as General Leslie Groves, the military man in charge of a massive project that will produce two weapons: “Fat Man” and “Little Boy.” Nominated for the Golden Berlin Bear at the **Berlin International Film Festival**. *"A singular, powerful experience."...
16) The lonely man
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"The story of a gunfighter who decides to return home after 17 years to make amends with his son. The son blames him for his mother's death and the reconciliation is difficult."--Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide.
18) True Grit
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Language
English
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In 1970, John Wayne won an Academy Award. for his larger-than-life performance as the drunken, uncouth and totally fearless one-eyed U.S. Marshall, Rooster Cogburn. The cantankerous Rooster is hired by a headstrong young girl (Kim Darby) to find the man who murdered her father and fled with the family savings. When Cogburn's employer insists on accompanying the old gunfighter, sparks fly. And the situation goes from troubled to disastrous when an...
19) Clue
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Language
English
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Description
A murderously funny film based on the world-famous board game.Was it Colonel Mustard in the study with a gun? Miss Scarlet in the billiard room with the rope? Or was it Wadsworth the butler? Meet all the notorious suspects and discover all their foul play things.
20) Paycheck
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English
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Description
Jennings is the best reverse-engineer in the business. He is hired by his friend Rethrick to do a special job, with the promise of a multi-million dollar paycheck when successfully completed. When he is finished, all memory of what he had been working on is ereased from his mind. That's when his problem really start to begin. He is hunted by the FBI for something he has no recollection of doing and has little time to work it out. Before his memory...