Weinstein Company
Pub. Date
Ã2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Vicky is a smart, sensible brunette. Cristina is an amorous, freethinking blonde. They've just arrived in Barcelona, where they will be spending the summer. Sultry Spanish painter Juan Antonio introduces himself and immediately offers to whisk them away for a weekend of sightseeing and threesomes. But there is an ex-wife, who soon appears. Maria Elena is wildly beautiful, wildly brilliant, wildly moody, and wildly wild. There is wine, melancholy music,...
22) Woman in gold
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
2 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Sixty years after she fled Vienna during World War II, an elderly Jewish woman, Maria Altmann, starts her journey to retrieve family possessions seized by the Nazis, among them Klimt's famous painting Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I. Together with her inexperienced but plucky young lawyer Randy Schoenberg, she embarks upon a major battle which takes them all the way to the heart of the Austrian establishment and the U.S. Supreme Court.
23) The company men
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Bobby Walker is living the proverbial American dream: great job, beautiful family, shiny Porsche in the garage. When corporate downsizing leaves him and co-workers Phil Woodward and Gene McClary jobless, the three men are forced to re-define their lives as men, husbands, and fathers. Bobby soon finds himself enduring enthusiastic life coaching, a job building houses for his brother-in-law that does not play to his executive skill set, and perhaps...
24) Rambo
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Vietnam veteran John Rambo has withdrawn into a simple and secluded existence in Thailand. Even though he is looking to avoid trouble, trouble finds him. A group of Christian missionaries approach Rambo with the desire to rent his boat to travel up the river to Burma, which is a war zone. The Karen people of the region have endured a brutal rule from the murderous Burmese military. Rambo accepts the offer and takes the missionaries up the river. When...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
2 Blu-ray videodisc (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Famously leading a team of codebreakers, mathematician Alan Turing created a computer capable of breaking the codes devised by Germany's Enigma machine during WWII, significantly contributing to shortening the war, and saving millions of lives. Only a few years later, British authorities ignorant of his contributions convicted him for the crime of homosexuality, significantly contributing to shortening his life.
26) Wind River
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
2 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a body is found in the Wind River Indian Reservation, a rookie FBI agent teams up with a tracker to solve the mystery.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
2 videodisc (132 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Inspired by a true story about Cecil Gaines, a devoted husband, father, and White House butler who served eight Presidential administrations during the turbulent politics and civil rights battles of twentieth century America.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
2 Blu-ray disc (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Darkly hilarious and deeply touching story of the strong-willed women of the Weston family, whose lives converge when a family crisis brings them back to the Midwest house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional mother who raised them."--Container.
29) Snowpiercer
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (126 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The film is set in the future (AD 2031) where, after a failed experiment to stop global warming, an ice age kills off all life on the planet except for the inhabitants of the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe and is powered by a sacred perpetual-motion engine. Its inhabitants are divided by class; the lower-class passengers in one of the last cars stage an uprising, moving car by car up to the front of the train, where the oppressive...
30) The mist
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (127 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When Dave Drayton notices a strange mist on the lake, he does not think much of it. When his son, Billy, his neighbor Brent Norton, and himself travel to the grocery store, strange things begin to happen. On their way to the market, they see the army, the local firefighters and police, heading toward the mist. When he sees this, Brent mentions something about "Project Arrowhead," a secret military plan that no one knows about. All of the store's...
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Unlikeable antiques dealer Franðcois always gets what he wants, but there's one thing he's never had: a friend. Challenged to a bet by his business partner, Franðcois must find someone who will pose as his best pal in just 10 days. Enlisting the assistance of charming taxi driver Bruno, Franðcois goes to outrageous lengths to be a likeable guy.
32) Bobby
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The 1968 assassination of Robert F. Kennedy in a Los Angeles hotel kitchen. We see Kennedy's acceptance speech after winning the California Democratic presidential primary, his death at the hands of gunman Sirhan Sirhan, and the chaos and despair that ensued. The people at the hotel don't know what is coming. Our grief at hearing RFK's own words, so eloquent, so hopeful and inspiring. Watch the horrible events unfold and wonder what might have been....
33) The last legion
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 460 A.D. Aurelius Antonius finds himself recalled to Rome and is assigned the Commander of new Caesar, Romulus Augustus' retinue of personal bodyguards. Romulus is destined to be crowned the last emperor of Rome. His reign lasts for one day and ends with Rome being run over by the savage Goths. In the resulting invasion, most of Aurelius's men are killed and the young Caesar is captured and imprisoned in the forbidding Isle of Capri. Aurelius,...