Peter Riegert
1) Americathon
Author
Language
English
Description
In the far-distant future of 1997, the United States stands on the brink of bankruptcy: The White House has been leased to the Teamsters; San Diego was sold to Mexico. To save the country from defaulting and being repossessed by a unified Middle East, the President decides to hold a national fund-raising Telethon-Americathon. Now, in a last, desperate measure to save the once-proud nation, everything is for sale in this wild spoof that is hilariously...
2) At Middleton
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (100 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Academy Award®-nominees Andy Garcia (OCEAN’S ELEVEN FRANCHISE, CITY ISLAND) and Vera Farmiga (THE DEPARTED, TV’s BATES MOTEL) shine as George and Edith, two separate parents who fall in love over the course of a single day while playing hooky from their children's college tour. George is an uptight surgeon with a rebellious teenage son. Edith is a free spirit with an overachieving teen daughter. When they meet during an admissions tour with their...
3) The mask
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A mild-mannered bank clerk becomes a superhero when he puts on a mystical mask.
4) At Middleton
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Straight-laced George and eccentric Edith, two strangers meet on their children's campus tour at the idyllic Middleton College. Failing comically to connect with their kids, George and Edith play hooky together, ditching the official tour for a carefree adventure reminiscent of their own college years. But what begins as an afternoon of fun soon becomes a revealing and enlightening experience that will change their lives forever.
Publisher
Screen Media Films
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A coming of age story set in 1975 working-class Brooklyn, in which two teenage brothers living with their abusive father and their well-meaning but ineffective mother are caught up in a life of petty crime. Older brother Danny concocts a daring scheme to steal enough money for the two to escape, timed around the chaos of an upcoming Rolling Stones concert.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Faber College has one frat house so disreputable it will take anyone. The campus's only other frat house is full of white, anglo-saxon, rich young men that no one except Dean Wormer can stand. The dean enlists the help of that fraternity to get the boys of Delta House off campus. The dean's plan comes into play just before the homecoming parade.
9) Local hero
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A comedy about the interaction between Americans representing a Texas oil company and the inhabitants of a small village in Scotland.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Seymour 'Swede' Levov, a once-legendary high school athlete, is a successful businessman married to an ex-beauty queen, Dawn. When Swede and Dawn's daughter disappears after being accused of a violent crime, Swede's perfect life is broken forever and he is left to make sense out of the chaos.
11) Local hero
Series
Criterion collection volume 994
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Director-approved two-DVD special edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (111 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert (12 unnumbered pages : illustrations)
Language
English
Description
Texas oil executive Mac is dispatched by his crackpot boss to a remote seaside village in Scotland with orders to buy out the town and develop the region for an oil refinery. But as business mixes with pleasure, Mac finds himself enchanted by both the picturesque community and its oddball denizens, and Texas starts to feel awfully far away.
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (418 min.) : sound, color & black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Local hero: Comedy about an American oil company representative and the sleepy seaside Scottish village he must buy.
Seven days in May: It happens with startling swiftness and violence. An armed cadre seizes state control. Fortunately, a coup d'etat can't happen here. Or can it? ...At odds are a popular general and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman and an unpopular President with a pacifist agenda. At stake is the survival of the Republic. A vigilant...
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (418 min.) : sound, color & black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Local hero: Comedy about an American oil company representative and the sleepy seaside Scottish village he must buy.
Seven days in May: It happens with startling swiftness and violence. An armed cadre seizes state control. Fortunately, a coup d'etat can't happen here. Or can it? ...At odds are a popular general and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman and an unpopular President with a pacifist agenda. At stake is the survival of the Republic. A vigilant...
14) The mask
Series
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"A mild-mannered bank clerk discovers a mysterious ancient mask that brings his innermost desires to wild, screaming life!" ... [container].
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
In a world in which Alaska, rather than Israel, has become the homeland for the Jews following World War II, Detective Meyer Landsman and his half-Tlingit partner Berko investigate the death of a heroin-addicted chess prodigy.
Author
Language
English
Description
A riveting portrait of the great writer whose stories became the basis of the Broadway musical Fiddler on the Roof. Plumbing the depths of a Jewish world locked in crisis and on the cusp of profound change, he captured that world with brilliant humor. Sholem Aleichem was not just a witness to the creation of a new modern Jewish identity, but one of the very men who forged it.
18) Jerry and Tom
Author
Language
English
Description
An edgy, offbeat story about two used car salesmen moonlighting as hit men for the mob. A quiet family man by day, Tom teaches his new partner Jerry all he knows about his other job, that of professional killer! But even if he's shocked at first, the brash young Jerry soon acquires such a taste for his new profession that it scares everyone around him...even those who scare people for a living!
19) Passed Away
Author
Language
English
Description
Thrown for a loop by the unexpected news that dad has suddenly gone to his reward, the grieving Scanlan clan are drawn together in a test of familial endurance that soon has them at each other's throats. As the eldest son, Johnny is tactlessly reminded that he's probably the next to go; daughter Terry is the black sheep who hasn't told anyone that the marriage they all warned her against has broken up; thick-headed but nice looking younger son Frank...
20) Oscar
Author
Language
English
Description
After promising his father that he'll quit his life of crime, "Snaps" Provolone (Sylvester Stallone) realizes it's an offer he should have refused! Filled with laughs from beginning to end, going straight is the toughest job "Snaps" has ever pulled!