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42) Russian ark
Publisher
Wellspring Media
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Language
Russian
Description
A modern filmmaker magically finds himself transported to the 18th century where he embarks on a time-traveling journey through 300 years of Russian history. The first feature film ever created in a single take.
43) 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) 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.
46) Jezebel
Publisher
[Dist. by] Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Julie Marsden is a Southern belle in pre-Civil War New Orleans with a knack for manipulating the men in her life. Scorned by the man she loves, she lashes out in revenge and destroys lives in the process.
47) Flubber
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998?]
Language
English
Description
Brilliant but befuddled Professor Phillip Brainard is on the brink of inventing a revolutionary energy source and missing his wedding for the third time! He develops a miraculous elastic goo flubber that enables anything its applied to, to bounce super high and fast.
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999], c1997
Language
Italiano
Description
A charming but bumbling waiter who's gifted with a colorful imagination and an irresistible sense of humor has won the heart of the woman he loves and has created a beautiful life for his young family. Then that life is threatened by World War II.
50) Fantasia
Series
Fantasia anthology volume 1
Publisher
Disney Enterprises
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
51) 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.
52) 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.
53) 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.
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.
55) 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.
56) 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.
57) 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.
58) 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.
60) 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.
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