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Series
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
A rich young woman marries an idle playboy against her father's will. Her father holds her captive on his yacht but she escapes and, while on her way to New York, becomes entangled with an unemployed news reporter.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
The plan for a quick stop at Mom's takes a turn when an impulse compels Andy to invite his mother, Joyce, on a three-thousand mile cross-country journey. But the further they go, the closer they get, and Andy realizes that they have more in common than he ever imagined.
4) Hot pursuit
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
An uptight and by-the-book cop tries to protect the outgoing widow of a drug boss as they race through Texas pursued by crooked cops and murderous gunmen.
5) Locke
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
A feat of bold, dynamic storytelling from Oscar-nominated writer-director Steven Knight. A successful businessman receives a series of phone calls which sets into motion a chain of events that unravels his perfect life, all of which takes the course of one absolutely riveting and intense car ride.
6) Awful nice
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
"When two brothers take a road trip to fix up the lake house they inherit, they find themselves in for the time of their lives. Deep in Branson, Missouri, they party with the Russian mob, run into questionable business associates, and hang out with a schitzo waitress-- all while fighting each other as well. If they can survive it all, maybe only then can they enjoy the trip"--Container.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002], c1999
Language
English
Description
An ex-con and a police officer decide to get married and start a family. To their dismay, they discover that they can neither have nor adopt children. Desperate, they resort to kidnapping one of the newborn quintuplets of the wealthy Arizona family. However, their attempt at living a normal life is complicated by neurotic co-workers, two fugitives, and a mysterious bounty hunter.
Publisher
Phase 4 Films
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Boyd and his family are forced to spend Christmas at his parents' house. When he realizes that he left his son's gifts at home, Boyd and his father must hit the road in a blizzard to retrieve the gifts before sunrise and save Christmas.
10) Dear Eleanor
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In the midst of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, two teenage girls drive from California to New York to meet their hero, Eleanor Roosevelt.
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon are on an all-expenses-paid trip for the Observer. Their tough assignment is to drive through beautiful Italian country, eat lavishly, and stay in exquisite small hotels, all so that one or the other can write high-toned culinary drivel for the paper.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The story of the five-day interview between Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky and acclaimed novelist David Foster Wallace, right after the publication of Wallace's groundbreaking epic novel, 'Infinite jest.' Based on David Lipsky's critically-acclaimed memoir "Although of course you end up becoming yourself: a road trip with David Foster Wallace.".
13) Like crazy
Publisher
Strand Releasing Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Italiano
Description
Beatrice is a motor-mouthed fantasist, a self-styled billionaire countess who likes to believe she's on intimate terms with world leaders. Donatella is a tattooed introvert, a fragile young woman locked in her own mystery. The film tells the story of the unpredictable and moving friendship that develops between the two women as they flee a mental institution in search of love and happiness in the open-air nuthouse; the world of sane people.
Series
Criterion collection volume 400
Publisher
Janus Films
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Willie, a disenchanted loner, is visited by his sixteen-year old Hungarian cousin Eva. Willie's equally slacker best friend Eddie also meets Eva, and the three become loose friends, until Eva decides to leave to visit Willie and Eva's Aunt Lottie in Cleveland. After a while Willie and Eddie are surprised to find that they miss Eva's companionship and take off for Cleveland in an old car. Finding Cleveland in winter to be disappointingly cold and unattractive,...
16) Help!
Publisher
Capitol Records, Inc
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Ringo possesses a sacrificial ring, which he cannot remove from his finger. As a result, the Beatles are chased from London to the Austrian Alps to the Bahamas by religious cult members, a mad scientists and the London police.
17) Lost in America
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Disappointed with his job prospects, David Howard (Brooks) and his wife sell their home and stocks and buy a Winnebago to roam the USA.
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
When Odysseus left Troy it took him ten years to get back to his home in Ithaca. Steve and Rob have only six days on their odyssey in. On the way, they argue about tragedy and comedy, astronomy and biology, myth, history, democracy, and the meaning of life! Featuring locations such as: Temple of Apollo at Delphi, the Ancient Agora of Athens, the Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus, the unique island of Hydra, the Caves of Diros, and more.
19) The strange ones
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Mysterious events surround two travelers, presumably brothers, as they make their way across a remote American landscape. What appears to be a simple vacation soon gives way to a dark and complex web of secrets and lies.
20) Sideways
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Miles is a divorced man and a failed writer who teaches junior high English. He decides to take his best friend, somewhat famous actor Jack, on a weeklong drive through California's wine country. There they explore their failures and question their relationships.
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