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Publisher
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
1998 c1951
Language
English
Description
Considered one of the greatest musicals ever made, it is set in Hollywood during the roaring twenties. The plot is a spoof of the early days of "talkie" films. Features some of the best known songs, "Singin in the rain", and others.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Ten years after the events of Phantom menace, Senator Padme Amidala survives an assassination attempt as she returns to Coruscant for an important vote. The Jedi Council send Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker to protect her. After tracking the assassin, but failing to get any information from her, Obi-Wan is sent to Kamino to continue their investigations while Anakin is sent with Amidala to Naboo. While Anakin and Amidala are falling in love on...
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Video
Language
English
Description
In 1940s Indiana, nine-year-old Ralphie dreams of his ideal Christmas gift: a genuine Red Ryder 200-shot carbine action air rifle. But when gruff dad and doting mom regularly respond with "You'll shoot your eye out!" Ralphie mounts a full-scale Santa-begging campaign. He encounters a slew of calamities from snowsuit paralysis to the dreaded tongue-on-a-frozen-flagpole gambit.
Publisher
Warner Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1973, 2003
Language
English
Description
Charlton Heston plays a cop in this 21st century science-fiction horror story. The setting is New York, teeming with 40 million citizens, most of whom are out of work. Environmental erosion is almost complete and voluntary death is encouraged by government-sponsored clinics. For their food, the people have grown to rely almost totally on a greenish, wafer-like substance called soylent. As Heston investigates the murder of a magnate in the dictatorial...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
English schoolteacher Anna Leonowens has traveled to Siam to educate the 58 children of King Mongkut. Each has preconceived ideas about the other's world. Amid the danger of political unrest, their respect for each other turns into something more.
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Arrogant Emperor Kuzco is turned into a llama by his devious advisor, Yzma, and her hunky henchman, Kronk, who want to rid the kingdom of this beast of burden. Now the ruler who once had it all must form an unlikely alliance with a pleasant peasant named Pacha. Together, Kuzco and Pacha must overcome their differences, as they embark on a hilarious adventure.
8) Cast away
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Chuck Noland, a FedEx systems engineer, finds his ruled-by-the-clock existence ended when a harrowing plane crash leaves him isolated on a remote island. As Chuck struggles to survive, he finds that his own personal journey has only just begun.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
"Kevin McCallister is ... ready to turn the Big Apple into his own playground. ... The notorious Wet Bandits, Harry and Marv, still smarting from their last encounter with Kevin, are plotting a huge holiday heist. Kevin's ready to welcome them with a battery of booby traps that the bumbling bandits will never forget"--Container.
11) Stargate
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003, 1994
Language
English
Description
A secret military mission takes a group of men through an Egyptian artifact known as the Stargate to an ancient civilization on the other side of the universe. Once there, they must battle the astoundingly powerful sun god, Ra, before they can find their way home.
13) Pay it forward
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
When a young man starts "paying it forward" for a social studies project, unusual things happen in this bittersweet and uplifting tale.
14) 102 dalmatians
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Meet Oddball, the spotless dalmatian puppy on a search for her rightful spots and Waddlesworth, the wisecracking, delusional macaw who thinks he's a rottweiler. This duo leads a posse of puppies on a mission to outfox the wildly wicked Cruella De Vil.
15) Casablanca
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
In World War II Morocco, seething with European refugees desperate for passage to neutral Lisbon, only a world-weary and bitter nightclub owner can help his former lover and her Resistance-hero husband escape from the Nazis.
16) Romeo and Juliet
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Presents the Franco Zefferelli production of Shakespeare's tragedy about two teenagers who fall in love, encounter opposition from their families, and take their lives.
17) Pretty woman
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
2000, c1990
Language
English
Description
Corporate mogul hires prostitute to be his companion for a week.
18) American beauty
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
An emotionally & spiritually comatose suburban man decides "to hell with it all" and reverts to living as he did when he was happiest--as a carefree teenager. His desperately uptight wife and sullen daughter can only look on as he quits his corporate job to become a burger flipper, starts getting high with a strange new neighbor (whose parents are even stranger) and lusts after a pouty blonde teenager--his daughter's best friend.
20) Lethal weapon
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
The story of two Vietnam-vets-turned-cops who have just one thing in common: both hate to work with partners. But their partnership becomes the key to survival when a murder investigation leads to war with a heroin ring.
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