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1) Training day
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Jake Hoyt, a fresh-faced rookie in the Los Angeles Police Department, gets a chance to join the elite narcotics squad headed up by 13-year veteran Detective Sergeant Alonzo Harris. Jake is to prove himself during a one-day ride-along. As the day wears on, it becomes increasingly clear that Detective Harris has blurred the line between right and wrong to an alarming degree, enforcing his own code of ethics and street justice. Eventually, Hoyt begins...
Author
Language
English
Description
"The author of the New York Times bestseller Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep returns with a lively history of the Academy Awards, chronicling the brutal battles, the starry rivalries, and the colorful behind-the-scenes drama"--
"America does not have royalty. It has the Academy Awards. For nine decades, perfectly coiffed starlets, debonair leading men, and producers with gold in their eyes have chased the elusive Oscar. What began as an industry...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Traces Johnny Cash's childhood, including his distant father to his early attempts at a music career. At this point in his life he marries his girlfriend Vivian. During a tour with singer/musicians Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis, he encounters singer June Carter, and his love for her, and her rejection of him through the years, spurs him into drugs, drinking, and depression. June is both a sassy spitfire singer whose charm breaks hearts and eventually...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
It's about an indie movie called "Home for Purim," a somewhat inane drama about a dysfunctional Jewish family living in the South during World War II. But while the film is still in production, a reporter for an online entertainment site drops the word -- based on a brief visit to the set -- that one of the ensemble cast performers may be an Oscar contender. It goes on to chronicle how the Oscar buzz affects the director, additional cast members,...
9) Coming home
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
A Marine captain returns from Vietnam to find that his wife, a Veteran's Hospital volunteer, has become involved with a paraplegic Vietnam war veteran.
10) Funny girl
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Depicts the early career of Fanny Brice, her rise to stardom with the Ziegfield Follies and her stormy romance with Nick Arnstein.
12) Jezebel
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
In New Orleans before the Civil War Davis plays Julie, an arrogant, spoiled beauty whose constant attempts to goad fiance Pres Dillard to jealousy finally backfire. Angry and disgraced, Pres breaks their engagement and leaves town. Julie endures a year of remorse until Pres comes home, married. Then Julie's vengeance explodes, destroying more than one life.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[c2001]
Language
English
Description
Drama about life in the Army in the days prior to World War II. Shows the effect of Army discipline on an individualistic former boxing champion who defies the attempts of officers and men to break him when he refuses to fight on the company's boxing team. Includes actual scenes of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
14) Pocahontas
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000?]
Language
English
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007], ©1966
Language
English
Description
Chancellor of England, Sir Thomas More, is placed in a difficult position when Henry VIII breaks with the Catholic Church over its refusal to annul his marriage to Katherine of Aragon so he can marry Anne Boleyn. Henry demands More's endorsement of this act. Torn between his conscience and duty to the crown, Sir Thomas chooses to say nothing.
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