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Description
For an awkward, self-conscious girl like Kiki (Julia Roberts), being the personal assistant to a beautiful megastar like Gwen (Catherine Zeta-Jones) is no bowl of cherries. But when she dutifully accepts the task of helping Gwen and her estranged megastar husband Eddie (John Cusack) make it through one last public appearance masterminded by legendary but neurotic press agent Lee Phillips (Billy Crystal), forever devoted Kiki finds that her job satisfaction...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
Single dad and struggling animal handler Eddie works with lots of creatures, but at home, he has a strict No Pets Allowed policy. He won't let his son Billy keep the adorable stray dog Beethoven and his family of puppies. Beethoven crashes into Hollywood and into Eddie's heart as well.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2007
Description
No-name actors are making a low-budget period drama called "Home for Purim," when an anonymous post on the Internet suggests that one performance is Oscar-worthy. Then, two more cast members get Oscar-related press: buzz in "Variety" and appearances on TV prompt the studio executives to insist on changes in the script in anticipation of a blockbuster. Jump ahead a few months to the days before Oscar nominees are announced: just the possibility of...
7) Species
Description
When a creature genetically engineered through extraterrestrial intelligence escapes from observation, scientist Xavier Fitch assembles an elite team of experts to track it down. These experts--a government assassin, an "empath", a biologist and an anthropologist combine their expertise and trace their prey to Los Angeles. There, in the form of a stunning young woman, the alien initiates a horrific plan: to mate with unsuspecting men and produce offspring...
Formats
Description
Danny knows the first three Jack Slater movies by heart and the fourth one is just about to be released. With his magical ticket, Danny gets to know the latest movie really well, literally speaking. While watching the opening action during an advance screening, Danny is transported right into the movie.
Publisher
New Video Group
Pub. Date
[2013], ©2013
Description
Best friends Nick and Darryl are a New York film editing duo, hired to salvage a botched comedy from a manic director gone AWOL. But what starts as a simple job quickly sends their relationships with their significant others and each other, reeling. Amidst trouble with his fiancee nick finds himself falling for the film's flirtatious ingenue Darryl, meanwhile, struggles to focus on his editing work in between fights with his tempestuous girlfriend....
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Description
"Successful sportswriter Yvan and popular film star Charlotte enjoy a glamorous, sophisticated lifestyle in Paris. But when Charlotte relocates to London to star in a sexy movie opposite legendary ladies' man John, Yvan panics and travels back and forth from Paris to London to check on his wife. Even he can't prevent Charlotte from shooting a very intimate scene with her new leading man. Is Charlotte about to have an affair, or is she just acting?"--Container....
11) Ragtime
Series
Description
From the E.L. Doctorow novel of 1906 America, a compelling story of human emotions and a reflection of the innocence, excitement and drama of an important time in America's history. It is now an award winning Broadway musical.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
In this black comedy of middle-aged masculinity gone awry, a recent divorcee who becomes obsessed with a vintage fringed deerskin jacket that begins to exert an uncanny hold on him. Set in a sleepy French alpine village, he falls into the guise of an independent filmmaker and befriends trusting bartender and aspiring editor who becomes his collaborator on a movie that will document a surprising new goal he sets himself.
15) Firehouse dog
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Rex is the world's most famous, and Hollywood's most pampered, pooch. He gets lost and is reluctantly adopted by a young boy. His father, the fire chief of a rundown station, agrees to the adoption only if his defiant son takes care of the dog. Little do they realize Rex will not only bring them closer, but also bring some much-needed faith back to the fire station.
16) Lie with me
Publisher
THINKFilm
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
A sexually voracious young woman begins a sexual affair with a young man. To her own surprise, her sexual attraction to David leads to an emotional connection.
17) The image book
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
The legendary Jean-Luc Godard adds to his influential, iconoclastic legacy with this provocative collage film essay, a vast ontological inquiry into the history of the moving image and a commentary on the contemporary world. Displaying an encyclopedic grasp of cinema and its history, Godard pieces together fragments and clips them from some of the greatest films of the past, then digitally alters, bleaches, and washes them, all in the service of reflecting...
18) Firehouse dog
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
Rex is the world's most famous, and Hollywood's most pampered, pooch. He gets lost and is reluctantly adopted by a young boy. His father, the fire chief of a rundown station, agrees to the adoption only if his defiant son takes care of the dog. Little do they realize Rex will not only bring them closer, but also bring some much-needed faith back to the fire station.
19) The goddess
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
©1958, cp2011
Description
Emily's unhappy childhood was dominated by dreams of Hollywood stardom. After escaping a disastrous first marriage, leaving her infant child with her mother, she strikes out for fame, but lands in the arms of ex-prizefighter, Dutch Seymour, whom she marries and divorces. Emily changes her name to Rita Shawn. Now a starlet, she also becomes the mistress of a studio executive. But fame, drugs, or alcohol can't hold back the encroaching loneliness and...
Publisher
First-Run Features
Pub. Date
[2000?]
Description
Cheryl, a young black woman in a video store, is making a documentary about an obscure black actress from the 1930's. When she discovers that the actress (known as "the Watermelon Woman") had a white lesbian lover, Cheryl just happens to fall in love with a very cute white woman herself!
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