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Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1981, Chris Gardner was a struggling salesman. His wife worked double shifts to support the family including their young son, Christopher. In the face of this difficult life, Chris has the desperate inspiration to try for a stockbroker internship where one in twenty has a chance of a lucrative full time career. Even when his wife leaves him because of this choice, Chris clings to this dream. The odds become more daunting by the day. Together, father...
2) The Batman
Language
English
Description
Two years of stalking the streets as the Batman, striking fear into the hearts of criminals, has led Bruce Wayne deep into the shadows of Gotham City. With only a few trusted allies, Alfred Pennyworth, Lt. James Gordon, amongst the city's corrupt network of officials and high‐profile figures, the lone vigilante has established himself as the sole embodiment of vengeance amongst his fellow citizens. When a killer targets Gotham's...
3) The upside
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A recently paroled ex-convict, Dell, strikes up an unusual and unlikely friendship with a quadriplegic billionaire, Philip Lacasse, in this ₁funny and warm-hearted buddy comedy. From worlds apart, Dell and Philip form an unlikely bond, bridging their differences and gaining invaluable wisdom in the process, giving each man a renewed sense of passion for all of life's possibilities.
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Special edition ; widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (142 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Great Gatsby follows viable writer Nick Carraway as he leaves the Midwest and comes to New York City in the spring of 1922. Chasing his own American dream, Nick lands next door to Jay Gatsby, and across the bay from his cousin, Daisy, and her husband, Tom Buchanan. Nick is drawn into the captivating world of the rich and their loves and deceits. As he bears witness, he pens a tale of impossible love, incorruptible dreams, and tragedy, and holds...
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When loathesome millionaire Sam Stone's wife is kidnapped by inept kidnappers, Sam cries tears of joy and refuses to pay the ransom. And when the abductors threaten to kill the abrasive heiress, Sam celebrates!
7) The toy
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004.
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (102 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
U.S. Bates is a millionaire who owns most of south central Louisiana. Jack Brown is a former journalist who has worked his way down to the position of janitor in Bates' department store. Bates' son, Eric, selects an elaborate toy--Jack Brown--and the relationship teaches Eric more about life than fun and games.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (177 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
As the world teeters on the brink of war, ten strangers are persuaded to retreat from their troubled lives to Soldier Island, an isolated rock near the Devon coast. When a storm cuts them off from the mainland, the true reason for their presence on the island becomes horribly clear: they are to be executed, one by one.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 133 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Follows the kidnapping of 16-year-old John Paul Getty III and the desperate attempt by his devoted mother, Gail, to convince his billionaire grandfather to pay the ransom. When Getty Sr. refuses, Gail attempts to sway him as her son's captors become increasingly volatile and brutal. With her son's life in the balance, Gail and Getty Sr.'s adviser become unlikely allies in the race against time that ultimately reveals the true and lasting value of...
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Epifania is glamorous, clever-- and also the richest woman in the world. After yet another row with her spendthrift husband, Epifania meets an intriguing Egyptian doctor. But she faces the challenge her money-mad father imposed on her before his death: She can only marry a man who can convert 150 pounds into 50,000 pounds within six months"--Container.
In the bonus play, set 40 years in the future, the king must match wits with an unruly mistress...
11) The intouchables
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
Français
Formats
Description
An irreverent, uplifting comedy about friendship, trust, and human possibility. Based on a true story of friendship between a handicapped millionaire and his street-smart ex-con caretaker, The Intouchables depicts an unlikely camaraderie rooted in honesty and humor between two individuals who, on the surface, would seem to have nothing in common.
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (116 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When small-town innocent Longfellow Deeds (Cooper) heads to New York to collect a $20 million inheritance, he ends up a target of ridicule thanks to Babe Bennett (Arthur), a cynical reporter whose demeaning stories have made him the joke of the city. So when he discovers his sweet and unassuming new girlfriend is actually the hardboiled Bennett in disguise, a disillusioned Deeds decides to give his fortune away, an act of charity his crooked lawyer...
13) Safe Harbor
Publisher
Distributed by Questar
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on the remarkable true story of couple Doug and Robbie Smith, who founded the Safe Harbor Home for Boys in Jacksonville, Fl. On the eve of their retirement cruise, self-made millionaire Doug Smith and his wife Robbie get a call from Doug's past asking him to 'pay it forward' by helping out troubled teens for a brief stay on their boat. A local judge, who took mercy on a young Doug when he was in trouble, asks the couple to help spare three teens...
15) Daddy long legs
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (126 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Millionaire playboy Jervis Pendleton III becomes enamored with a young woman living in a French orphanage, and decides to anonymously sponsor her college education in America. When they finally meet face-to-face two years later, romance blossoms but is complicated by Jervis's hesitance towards their age differences.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Second disc set.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 336 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Disc 1: If you could only cook: A down-on-her-luck cook charms a millionaire into playing along as her husband so they can get work. Too many husbands: A girl finds herself legally wed to two men.
Disc 2: My sister Eileen: A sister, who has a pretty, younger sister, brings a host of eccentrics through their Greenwich Village apartment. She wouldn't say yes: A button-down psychiatrist battles her patient's impulses while suppressing her own.
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Full frame.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (463 min.) : sound, black and white, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
(Lemon drop kid) A small-time con artist, nicknamed for his favorite candy, gets in over his head when he swindles a tough gangster out of some gambling profits. The Kid concocts a scheme to pay back the money by Christmas, by tricking his pals into dressing up as Santas and collecting money for a made-up charity.
(Road to Rio) As stowaways on an ocean bound ship, Hot Lips Barton and Scat Sweeney fall for a beautiful girl under the spell of her evil...
18) The great Gatsby
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Widescreen; Rental [edition].
Language
English
Formats
Description
A would-be writer Nick Carraway leaves the Midwest and comes to New York City in the spring of 1922, an era of loosening morals, glittering jazz, bootleg kings, and sky-rocketing stocks. Chasing his own American Dream, Nick lands next door to a mysterious, party-giving millionaire, Jay Gatsby. It is thus that Nick is drawn into the captivating world of the super rich, their illusions, loves and deceits.
19) Texas justice
Publisher
Treasure Box Collection
Pub. Date
[2008?]
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (175 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Texas Justice is the true-life tale of a Texas oil magnate on trial for conspiring t murder his brassy ex-wife--and for very successfully doing away with her lover and her daughter. The millionaire business falls in love with the beautiful and exotic Priscilla, the girl from the wrong side of the tracks. Texas Justice weaves a tale of treachery, deceit, and lust so bizarre it must be based on truth. When their relationship goes sour, Dave Cullen's...
20) The Great Gatsby
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Special ed. ; widescreen
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (142 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Great Gatsby follows viable writer Nick Carraway as he leaves the Midwest and comes to New York City in the spring of 1922. Chasing his own American dream, Nick lands next door to Jay Gatsby, and across the bay from his cousin, Daisy, and her husband, Tom Buchanan. Nick is drawn into the captivating world of the rich and their loves and deceits. As he bears witness, he pens a tale of impossible love, incorruptible dreams, and tragedy, and holds...
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