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61) Runaway bride
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
An unlikely love story developes when a cynical, big-city columnist comes to a small town to cover the story of Maggie Carpenter, a bride who's left men at the altar several times.
62) Willow
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Willow Ufgood leaves his village to carry a special baby to safety. Aided by a swashbuckling warrior, Willow's quest is plagued by danger as the Powers of Darkness scheme to destroy the child-- a child destined to bring everlasting peace and freedom to the land.
63) The pledge
Publisher
Warner Bros. Pictures
Pub. Date
[2001], c2000
Language
English
Description
A veteran police detective, on the day of his retirement, handles the case of a seven-year-old girl who has been brutally murdered. When a mentally retarded man confesses to the murder and then kills himself, the detectives consider the case closed, but was he actually the murderer? Before long evidence is uncovered that suggests the the girl was just one in a series of brutal killings involving young girls and a mysterious man.
64) Fantasia
Series
Fantasia anthology volume 1
Publisher
Disney Enterprises
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
65) Mean streets
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
A film about a cheap, small-time hood working his way up the bottom rungs of the Mafia ladder.
Series
Publisher
Orion Home Video
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Comedy filmed on the Riviera, it's the story of two con men who compete to see who can extract $50,000 from a woman first. The victim is a naive American heiress, and the competition between the two men, one a suave and sophisticated Englishman and the other a bumbling but appealing American, heats up!
67) Lake Placid
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
An investigative team, armed with state-of-the-art equipment, high powered weaponry and a biting sense of sarcasm, must work together to defeat Black Lake's most ferocious resident: a 30-foot prehistoric crocodile.
68) The apartment
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
An ambitious office clerk plans to get ahead by lending out his apartment to his boss, but falls in love with the boss's girlfriend.
70) Mystery train
Series
Criterion collection volume 521
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
©1989, ℗2010
Language
English
Description
Aloof teenage Japanese tourists, a frazzled Italian widow, and a disgruntled British immigrant all converge in the city of Memphis in hot pursuit of the elusive 'King' himself, Elvis!
71) A mighty wind
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
A docu-comedy about three folk groups from the 60's who reunite for a memorial concert in New York City following the death of a legendary folk manager.
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
It's now 1933, 10 years after Rick and Evie met. They're married, settled in London and are raising their 8 year old son, Alex. Imhotep's corpse has been brought to the British Museum, and resurrected; the mummy walks the earth again, determined to become immortal. Another force born of the darkest rituals of ancient Egyptian mysticism, even more powerful than Imhotep, has also been set loose in the world. When these two forces clash, the world will...
73) Sexy beast
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
High voltage crime thriller that crackles with chilling style and wit. A savage gangster named Don Logan is met with resistance when he tries to recruit a retired pal for "one last job". But Logan just won't take no for an answer....
74) A knight's tale
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
The rousing story of lowborn Willian Thatcher's quest to change his stars, win the heart of an exceedingly fair maiden and rock his medieval world. Follow this fearless squire and his band of medieval misfits as they careen their way toward impossible glory that's part romance, part road trip and part exuberant swashbuckling.
75) The private eyes
Publisher
Hen's Tooth Video
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Two detectives are engaged to investigate the deaths of Lord and Lady Morley, but their authorization comes from the ghost of the late Lordship, and the manor house where they lived is peopled by very odd characters.
Publisher
TriStar Pictures
Pub. Date
1993
Language
English
Description
After hearing a man confess his love for his dearly departed wife on a call-in radio show, a woman falls deeply, inexplicably in love with him. Deciding he is her destiny, she treks across country on a wildly romantic impulse to meet him.
77) Rat race
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
A casino tycoon gives six contestants a chance to win two million dollars in a race from Las Vegas to New Mexico.
78) Mulholland Dr
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Language
English
Description
A beautiful woman riding in a limosine along Los Angeles' Mulholland Drive is targeted by a would-be shooter, but before he can pull the trigger, she is injured when her limo is hit by another car. The woman stumbles away from the accident and meets up with a plucky ingenue new to L.A. But are things really as they seem?
Series
Criterion collection volume 7
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of the sinking of the Titanic.
80) The patriot
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
A hero of the French and Indian conflict, Benjamin Martin had renounced fighting forever to raise his family in peace. However, when British troops arrive at his South Carolina home and endanger his family, he takes up arms alongside his idealistic patriot son, Gabriel.
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