Jack Nicholson
21) Batman
Language
English
Description
A young boy who witnesses his parents' murder grows up to become Batman, a masked and emotionally disturbed vigilante who battles against an arch-criminal known as The Joker.
22) Broadcast News
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 132 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A caustic inside look at the Washington news media, stars Holly Hunter in her breakout role, as a feisty television producer torn between an ambitious yet dim anchorman and her closest confidant, a cynical veteran reporter. James L. Brooks' witty, gently prophetic entertainment is a captivating transmission from an era in which ideas on love and media were rapidly changing.
23) The bucket list
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
Full screen and widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Corporate billionaire Edward Cole and working class mechanic Carter Chambers have nothing in common, except they both have been diagnosed with terminal illnesses. While sharing a hospital room together, they decide to make a bucket list of all the things they have ever wanted to do before they die.
24) The departed
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Two men from opposite sides of the law are undercover within the Massachusetts State Police and the Irish mafia, but violence and bloodshed boil when discoveries are made, and the moles are dispatched to find out their enemy's identities.
25) How do you know
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A professional softball player discovers she is in the middle of a love triangle after she falls for two different men and wonders when it comes to love, how do you know?
26) Five easy pieces
Series
Criterion collection volume 546
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
[Special] DVD edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Nicholson plays the now iconic cad Bobby Dupea, a shiftless thirty-something oil rigger and former piano prodigy immune to any sense of romantic or familial responsibility, who returns to his childhood home to see his ailing, estranged father, with his blue-collar girlfriend (Karen Black) in tow.
27) Prizzi's honor
Publisher
MGM Home Video
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (130 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Nicholson stars as a hit-man who falls in love with a free-lance killer hired by his bosses to eliminate a mutual foe.
28) A few good men
Language
English
Formats
Description
Cruise stars as a brash Navy lawyer who's teamed with a gung-ho litigator in a politically-explosive murder case. Charged with defending two Marines accused of killing a fellow soldier, they are confronted with complex issues of loyalty and honor - including its most sacred code and its most formidable warrior.
30) How do you know
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A professional softball player discovers she is in the middle of a love triangle after she falls for two different men and wonders when it comes to love, how do you know?
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Edition
Widescreen and full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 139 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Melvin Udall is an obsessive-compulsive novelist with Manhattan's meanest mouth. But when his gay neighbor Simon is hospitalized, Melvin is forced to babysit Simon's dog. And that unexpected act of kindness-- along with waitress Carol Connelly-- helps put Melvin back in the human race.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
Widescreen version; Special edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (133 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tells the adventures of a free-spirited mental ward inmate whose rebelliousness pits him against the repressive head nurse, and whose charm wins him the loyalty of his fellow inmates.
Publisher
Legend Films
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Full screen ed.
Physical Desc
1 digital disc 72 minutes
Language
English
Description
Seymour's exotic plant has an insatiable appetite only for blood and flesh. As the ruthless plant grows larger and larger with each feeding, so do Seymour's affections for shop girl, Audrey.
35) The pledge
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A veteran police detective, on the day of his retirement, handles the case of a seven-year-old girl who has been brutally murdered. When a mentally retarded man confesses to the murder and then kills himself, the detectives consider the case closed, but was he actually the murderer? Before long evidence is uncovered that suggests the girl was just one in a series of brutal killings involving young girls and a mysterious man.
37) The shining
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Special edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (144 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A writer and his family are snowbound in a hotel and are haunted by either the hotel itself or the writer's dementia.
38) About Schmidt
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Widescreen version(1.85:first).
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Warren Schmidt is about the taste the not-so-sweet slice of life. When he retired, he and his wife, Helen, had big plans - but an unexpected twist changes everything. Now, all of Schmidt's attention is focused on his daughter's upcoming wedding to a loser waterbed salesman. From meeting the groom's hippie parents to sponsoring a Tanzanian foster child, Schmidt embarks on a search for answers, only to discover that life is full of trick questions.
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 432 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The ugly truth : The search for 'Mr. Right' has left Abby, a romantically challenged morning show producer, hopelessly single. She receives an eye-opening education when she gets teamed up with Mike, a hardcore TV personality, who wants to prove his theories on what makes men tick by helping her find true love. The unexpected results may surprise them both.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2013.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (130, 137 mins.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Chinatown: Private eye Jake Gittes, living off the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-war Southern California is hired by a beautiful socialite 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 for one, unforgettable night in Chinatown.
Two Jakes: Set in 1948 Los Angeles, this is a sequel to Chinatown....