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Publisher
Buena Vista Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Tells a compelling and heartwarming story about how far a young man must travel to find the place where he truly belongs. Homer has lived nearly his entire life within the walls of an Orphanage in rural Maine and has been groomed by its proprietor to be his successor. But Homer falls in love and strikes out on his own.
42) The goonies
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2001, c1985
Language
English
Description
The film follows a group of misfit kids as they search for buried treasure in a subterranean cavern. Here they cross the path of lady criminal Mama Fratelli and her outlaw brood. Fortunately, the kids manage to befriend Fratelli's hideously deformed (but soft-hearted) son, who comes to their rescue.
43) Tol'able David
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
A close-knit family in an idyllic West Virginia community is terrorized by three outlaw relatives.
44) Family plot
Series
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
A cabbie and a psychic work together to search for a missing hier. They become involved with a larcenous jewel merchant and his "Woman in Black" while discovering the family plot.
45) The Wild pony
Publisher
Sullivan Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001, 1983
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Christopher can't help the resentment he feels for his new stepfather. To dispel his emotions, Christopher becomes increasingly obsessed with an untamed pony owned by a man in the valley.
46) Topsy-Turvy
Publisher
USA Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Tensions abound and the music swells in the story about the famous musical team of Gilbert and Sullivan. The two men who were extremely different in size and stature were even more different in temperament and style. Yet, they still managed to create memorable theater. This is the story of the making of one of their most famous collaborations, The Mikado.
48) Persuasion
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
2000, 1995
Language
English
Description
Anne Elliot will do anything to get Captain Wentworth now that he is interested in Louisa Musgrove.
50) Newsies
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
July, 1899: When Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst raise the distribution price one-tenth of a cent per paper, ten cents per hundred, the newsboys, poor enough already, are outraged. Inspired by the strike put on by the trolley workers, Jack "Cowboy" Kelly organizes a newsboys' strike. With David Jacobs as the brains of the new union, and Jack as the voice, the weak and oppressed found the strength to band together and challenge the powerful....
51) Swing time
Publisher
Distributed by TWarber Home Video Inc
Pub. Date
2005, c1936
Language
English
Description
Fred Astaire plays a gambler intent on raising $25,000 in New York in order to marry his fiance back home. Romantic complications occur when he meets dancing teacher, Ginger Rogers. Memorable songs include "The Way you look tonight" which won an Academy Award. Swing time, the fifth in the series of Astaire-Rogers musicals, is one of the best, due to the Jerome Kern score, the dramatic dance sequences and beautiful art direction.
53) Footloose
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
c1984
Language
English
Description
The timeless struggle is portrayed between innocent pleasure and rigid morality, when city-boy Ren McCormick finds himself in an uptight Midwestern town where dancing, and therefore all youthful joy, has been banned. Ren revolts with best friend Willard and the minister's daughter.
54) Citizen Kane
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
An all-powerful press magnate, Kane, dies in his fabulous castle Xanadu, his last word being "Rosebud", which leads a reporter to seek the meaning behind the word and find the meaning of Kane. Prominant publisher, William Randolph Hearst, saw the film as a thinly disguised version of his career and attempted to suppress it.
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c1996, 1998
Language
English
Description
They call themselves the Borg--a half-organic, half-machine collective with a sole purpose: to conquer and assimilate all races. Led by their seductive and sadistic queen, the Borg are headed to earth with a devious plan to alter history. Picard's last encounter with the Borg almost killed him. Now, he wants vengeance.
56) Broken blossoms
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
This is one of Griffith's most widely acclaimed films, using a new style of lighting and photography to stress intimate character relationships rather than spectacle. A young Chinaman in London's squalid Limehouse district hopes to spread the peaceful philosophy of his Eastern religion. He befriends a pitiful street waif who is mistreated by her brutal father. The result is tragedy.
58) Red planet
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Looking starward for a solution to the dying of Earth, something no one expected awaits.
59) Walkabout
Series
Criterion collection volume 10
Publisher
Classic Collection
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
Stranded in the Australian desert, an English girl and her small brother are rescued by an aborigine boy who has journeyed into the outback on his "walkabout"--a tribal initiation into manhood.
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Pictures
Pub. Date
[200-?]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Two interwined romantic tales take place inside the Chʻung-chʻing high-rise shopping center in downtown Hong Kong: A policeman falls in love with a snack bar waitress while a house detective gets involved with a female drug dealer.
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