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Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (85 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Recruited by an inept mob of vigilantes, Kleinman, a cowardly clerk, is forced to search for a notorious murderer -- only to stumble upon Irmy, a sword-swallower running away from the circus and her clownish boyfriend. Determined to help her, and eager to escape the vigilantes, Kleinman abandons his search for the killer ... or so he thinks.
2) Benny & Joon
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A mentally ill young woman who lives with her older brother finds her love in an eccentric young man who models himself after Buster Keaton.
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two con men, one a suave and sophisticated Englishman and the other a bumbling but appealing American, compete to see who can extract $50,000 from a naive soap heiress first. The winner can keep the Riviera and its unsuspecting tourists to himself.
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 2029, the ruling giant super-computer, Skynet, sends in indestructible cyborg, a Teminator, back in time to 1984 to kill a woman, Sarah Connor, whose unborn son will become mankind's only hope.
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
Widescreen format.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Weaving together several different stories about people's lives, loves, perceptions, and ideals, this examines some of the toughest questions surrounding human nature.
7) Sleeper
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Miles Monroe enters the hospital in 1973 for a minor ulcer operation only to wake up 200 years later after being defrosted. As Miles tries to adjust to his new environment, he is re-programmed, de-programmed, chased by Big Brother-like police, and falls for Luna, an underground poet.
8) The Alamo
Series
Publisher
MGM/UA Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 162 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of the historic battle by 185 men against a 7,000-man Mexican army--a battle that ended in the smaller forces' defeat, but lasted long enough to insure the eventual independence of Texas.
Language
English
Description
As a young girl, Princess Dala is given the largest diamond in the world by her father. If you stare into it, you can see a 'Pink Panther.' Now she is a young woman. Rebels in her home country have seized power and are demanding the return of the jewel. Dala relaxes at an exclusive skiing resort. Noted British playboy, Sir Charles Lytton is in town. He is secretly 'The Phantom, ' an infamous jewel thief who has eyes on the Pink Panther. Charles's...
10) Radio days
Series
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
Widescreen format.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Presents a look back at radio from the late 1930s to the mid-1940s, focusing on an extended Jewish family, all avid radio listeners, and on a young woman who eventually succeeds as a radio gossip columnist.
11) Manhattan
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2000]
Edition
Widescreen format.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (96 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Allen portrays Isaac Davis, a successful comedy writer whose wife, having left him for another woman, is now embarking on a book about their failed marriage. Isaac happily consoles himself in the arms of an adoring 17 year-old schoolgirl until he meets someone closer to his own age, who happens to be his best friend's mistress.
Series
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
What do you do when you go to your boss's beach house for the weekend and find that your boss is already there ... but he's dead? You spend the weekend creating the illusion that he's alive, of course!
13) Spaceballs
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2000.
Edition
Full screen and widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A spoof of the Star Wars series, with Mel Brooks playing the dastardly president of an alien race out to steal the air supply of a neighboring planet. Fearless - and clueless - space heroes Lone Starr and his half/man half dog sidekick Barf wage interstellar warfare to free Princess Vespa from the evil Dark Helmet. Along the way they encounter the wise little creature Yogurt who teaches them the mystical power of "The Schwartz."
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001.
Edition
Widescreen format.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (82 min.) : sound, color with black and white segments ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Cecilia is a poor waitress in a dumpy New Jersey diner who goes to the movies to escape the realities of Depression Era life. Her favorite is "The Purple Rose of Cairo." When the leading man, Tom Baxter, decides to be with Cecilia, confusion abounds.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When the evil De Nomolos dispatches robots to kill Bill & Ted, not only is the future of the universe at stake, but there's no way they can win the battle of the bands. Luckily, when they knock on death's door, he answers, becoming their faithful servant in a whacked-out journey through Heaven, Hell and San Dimas, California. Bill & Ted meet Martians, marry their historical girlfriends, & even learn how to play the guitar.
Series
Publisher
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sidney Young is a gate-crashing British journalist who loves exposing the shallowness of the celebrity world, yet desperately wants to join it. Accepting an offer to write for renowned magazine editor Clayton Harding, Sidney finally gets to rub elbows with A-list celebrities, only to rub them in the wrong way. His fellow writer, Alison, is powerless to stop Sidney when he sets his lustful sites on beautiful starlet Sophie. When Sophie's publicist...
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (128 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After the murder of a Russian oil tycoon, James Bond vows to protect his daughter who's taken over her father's operation.
18) Marty
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (90 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Marty is the story of a 34-year-old Bronx butcher who fears that he will never find love, but at a Saturday night dance he meets a lonely schoolteacher with similar fears.
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