Liv Tyler
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (89 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Set in the near future, an ex-jewel thief (Frank Langella) receives a gift from his son: a robot butler (voiced by Peter Sarsgaard) programmed to look after him. But soon the two companions try their luck as a heist team. Nominated for Best First Screenplay at the **Film Independent Spirit Awards**. Winner of the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize at the **Sundance Film Festival**. "*Frank Langella gives a master class in acting in a movie with bracing...
3) Awaken
Publisher
Gunpowder & Sky
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (83 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
From producer Terrence Malick and narrated by Liv Tyler, AWAKEN is an exploration of our relationship with technology and the natural world. Spanning 5 years and 30 countries, AWAKEN gives audiences new eyes with which to see our home.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (122 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Wealthy, successful gynecologist Sullivan Travis (Richard Gere) loves his seemingly perfect life. Unfortunately, his wife has a sudden mental breakdown, his lesbian daughter prepares to tie the knot with a man, daughter No. 2 obsesses over conspiracies, and his sister-in-law consumes a gallon or two of champagne daily. Luckily, Travis discovers a woman (Helen Hunt) who may hold the answers to his problems.
6) Ad astra
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Army Corps engineer and astronaut Roy McBride is searching for answers in the depths of space. Twenty years ago, Roy's father went in search of proof of the existence of extraterrestrial life on Neptune during a one-way mission. The mission was designated officially as a failure. Roy searches the solar system for the truth about both his father's mission and a recent mystery that has unfolded that threatens Earth. What Roy doesn't know is that this...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A couple staying at an isolated vacation home, returns from a wedding reception. They receive a knock on the door in the middle of the night. What ensues is a violent invasion by three strangers, their faces hidden behind masks. As the night goes on, the reality of their psychological terror becomes more terrifying than anything both could have imagined. Now, they must go beyond what either of them thought they were capable of in order to survive....
8) Armageddon
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Language
English
Description
When NASA discovers a doomsday asteroid that is on a collision course with Earth, a crew of roughneck oil drillers is sent in to plant a nuclear warhead that should destroy it.
Publisher
Binge Box
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Harry Potter & the Sorcerer's Stone": An orphaned boy enrolls in a school of wizardry, where he learns the truth about himself, his family and the terrible evil that haunts the magical world.
"Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring": A meek Hobbit from the Shire and eight companions set out on a journey to destroy the powerful One Ring and save Middle-earth from the Dark Lord Sauron.
"Jurassic Park": A pragmatic paleontologist visiting...
11) Lonesome Jim
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Failing to make it on his own, 27-year-old Jim moves back in with his parents and deals with crippling family obligations
12) Smother
Publisher
Screen Media Films
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Noah Cooper is fired from his job as a therapist, he thinks his day can't possibly get worse. Arriving home, he discovers his overbearing mother Marilyn has moved in with her five dogs in tow. Hilarity ensues as Noah learns to deal with the pressures of finding a job, a wife who desperately wants a baby, and more.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Scientist Bruce Banner has been living in the shadows, scouring the earth for an antidote. He suffers from his constant need to be with the only woman he has ever loved, Betty Ross, and Bruce knows that he must return to civilization. Meanwhile, warmongers dream of abusing his powers and Bruce finds himself ruthlessly pursued by a nightmarish beast of pure adrenaline and aggression called The Abomination, whose powers match that of the Hulk. A fight...
15) Robot & Frank
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Frank is an aging ex-jewel thief, and his two grown children are worried that he can no longer care for himself. In deciding what to do with Frank, the most likely option appears to be putting him in a nursing home. But Frank's son comes up with another option: buy Frank a walking, talking robot programmed to look after him and improve his physical and mental health. Frank resists the robot at first, but he warms to it after realizing that it could...
16) Reign over me
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Alan Johnson runs into his old college roommate, Charlie Fineman, on the streets of New York City. He is suprised to find that Charlie does not remember him at all. Alan later learns that Charlie is suffering with grief over the loss of his family on 9/11, and has isolated himself from everybody and everything around him.
Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
The Fellowship has been broken. Boromir is dead; Frodo Baggins and Samwise Gamgee have gone to Mordor alone to destroy the One Ring; Merry and Pippin have been captured by the Uruk-hai; Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli have made friends of the Rohan, a race of humans that are in the path of the upcoming war, led by its aging king, Theoden. The two towers between Mordor and Isengard, Barad-dur and Orthanc, have united in their lust for destruction. The...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Social boundaries and family loyalties are tested when the working class Holt brothers become passionately involved with the wealthy Abbott sisters.
19) Space station 76
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A character-driven, domestic drama-comedy, about a group of people living on a space station in a cheesy 1970's version of the future, where personalities and asteroids collide.
20) Armageddon
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (151 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When NASA discovers a doomsday asteroid that is on a collision course with Earth, a crew of roughneck oil drillers is sent in to plant a nuclear warhead that should destroy it.