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21) Pretty woman
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
2000, c1990
Language
English
Description
Corporate mogul hires prostitute to be his companion for a week.
22) 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.
23) 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.
24) Secretary
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Lee Holloway has a few strikes against her when she applies for a secretarial position at the law office of E. Edward Grey. At first the work is normal, but soon, Lee and Mr. Grey embark on a relationship that crosses all lines of conduct.
25) Fargo
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
A midwestern policewoman investigates a series of brutal and interconnected crimes. Steadily, she tightens the net on the killers and their accomplices in a kidnapping scheme gone wildly wrong.
26) Erin Brockovich
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Erin Brockovich is a feisty young mother who convinces attorney Ed Masry to hire her and promptly stumbles upon a momumental law case against a giant corporation. Erin's determined to take on this powerful adversary even though no law firm has dared to do it before. The two begin an incredible and sometimes hilarious fight that will bring a small town to its feet and a huge company to its knees.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
The setting is a dusty Southern town during the Depression. A white woman accuses a black man of rape. Though he is obviously innocent, the outcome of his trial is such a foregone conclusion that no lawyer will step forward to defend him--except the town's most distinguished citizen. His compassionate defense costs him many friendships but earns him the respect and admiration of his two motherless children.
28) Taxi driver
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
A New York cab driver is driven to obsession when he attempts to save a teenage prostitute and embarks on a violent rampage against a world of filth and corruption.
Publisher
USA Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
A struggling street puppeteer takes a job to make some money. One day he accidentally discovers a door...a portal into the brain of John Malkovich (played by John Malkovich!) For 15 minutes he experiences the ultimate head trip - HE is being John Malkovick.
31) Magnolia
Publisher
New Line Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Magnolia is a mosaic of American Life woven through a series of comic and poignant vignettes. Nine people will weave and warp through each other's lives on a day that builds to an unforgettable climax.
32) Liberty Heights
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
The town is Baltimore and the year is 1954, a season of dramatic social flux that Levinson explores through the eyes of a Jewish family.
33) Mansfield Park
Publisher
distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
When Fanny Price is sent away to live with her rich cousins, she's meant to learn the ways of proper society but manages to enlighten them as well.
34) Flywheel
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
A dishonest used car salesman turns his life around, after he is caught deceiving customers and must return their money.
35) Hannibal
Publisher
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
After escaping from the asylum in Baltimore, Dr. Hannibal Lector, moves to Florence, Italy where he has become one of the curators of the Palazzo Vecchio. His cover is broken when a cop, for money, turns Dr. Lecter over to his old patient, Mason Verger. FBI agent Clarice Starling finds out about Mason's evil plot to feed Dr. Lecter to a bunch of man-eating hogs and will do anything to make sure that Mason doesn't succeed.
36) Alien quadrilogy
Publisher
20th Century Fox
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Includes 2-disc versions of: Alien, Aliens, Alien 3, and Alien Resurrection, plus a bonus disc loaded with special features. Includes the original theatrical versions and the extended cuts of each Alien film.
37) The best man
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Scandalous secrets from the past begin to reveal themselves when old college buddies reunite for a wedding.
38) Pulp fiction
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[between 1994 and 2002]
Language
English
Description
Clever, dark film that tells 4 separate stories that are gradually brought together. Involved are two low-rent hit men, their boss and his sexy wife, a prizefighter and a pair of desperate robbers.
39) Sunshine state
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
The rumbling approach of real estate developers on a sleepy island sets the leisurely paced plot in motion.
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