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(0)Alan Arkin
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Alan Arkin knew he was going to be an actor from the age of five: "Every film I saw, every play, every piece of music fed an unquenchable need to turn myself into something other than what I was." “An Improvised Life” is the Oscar winner's wise and unpretentious recollection of the process, artistic and personal, of becoming an actor, and a revealing look into the creative mind of one of the best practitioners on stage or screen. In a manner that...
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Academy Award® winner Alan Arkin and horror/fantasy icon Christopher Lee star in this long-unseen 1982 action-comedy that New Times calls "one of the best superhero movies ever made (really)": When archcriminal Mr. Midnight (Lee) plots to take over the world, humanity's only hope is World War II's formerly indestructible 'Legend In Leotards' (Arkin) who is now a burnt-out drunk.
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A thirty-something single mother whose boundless potential was squandered through a series of failed relationships and a misguided effort to help her younger sister succeed in life finds the fruits of her labors finally coming together in this dark family comedy. Back in high school, the future looked pretty bright for Rose Lorkowski (Academy-Award®-nominee Amy Adams of The Muppets, The Fighter); not only was she the cheerleading captain, but she...
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Based on a play by Neil Simon, this comedy concerns Barney Cashman (Alan Arkin), the owner of successful seafood restaurant who is stuck in the depths of a mid-life crisis. Barney's marriage is no longer providing him with a sense of romantic adventure, and when he discovers his mother's apartment is empty one day a week, he decides that a series of extra-marital affairs is just what he needs. However, Barney's career as a spoiler of women quickly...
8) Catch-22
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English
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Mike Nichols superbly directed this cinematic adaptation of Joseph Heller’s scathing black comedy, a tale of a small group of flyers in the Mediterranean in 1944. There are winners and losers, opportunists and survivors. Separately and together they are nervous, frightened, often profane and sometimes pathetic. Almost all are a little crazy. Catch-22 is an anti-war satire of epic proportions.
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Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Get ready for a mystery adventure like no other when Sherlock Holmes meets Sigmund Freud in The Seven-Per-Cent Solution. The world's two greatest masters in the art of detection, Sherlock Holmes and SIgmund Freud, join forces for the first time with the persistence of Dr. Watson, which leads to a thrilling investigation in a kidnapping case.
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Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
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1 videodisc (ca. 91 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Trying to better her financial situation, a single mother starts a crime scene cleaning business and asks her unreliable sister to join her. Together they clean up the deadly messes left by others, and deal with the messes in their own lives as well.
11) Argo
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Warner Brothers
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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On November 4, 1979, Iranian militants stormed the American embassy in Tehran and captured dozens of American hostages, sparking a 444-day ordeal and a quake in global politics still felt today. But there's a little-known footnote to the crisis: six Americans escaped. And a midlevel agent named Antonio Mendez devised an ingenious yet incredibly risky plan to rescue them.
12) Stand up guys
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2013
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1 videodisc (ca. 95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Val is released from prison after serving twenty-eight years for refusing to give up one of his close criminal associates. He's reunited with his two best friends Doc and Hirsch. But one of the friends is keeping a dangerous secret. He's been put in an impossible quandary by a former mob boss, and his time to find an acceptable alternative is running out. As the sun rises on the guys' legendary reunion, their position becomes more and more desperate....
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Disney
Pub. Date
2014
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1 videodisc (ca. 124 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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JB Bernstein is a once-successful sports agent who may have to close his business. To save it, he comes up with an idea so radical it just might work. Setting off for Mumbai, JB stages a televised, nationwide competition called 'Million Dollar Arm' where two young finalists emerge as winners. JB brings them back to the US with a goal: get them signed as pitchers to a major league team. While the boys learn the game, they teach JB the meaning of teamwork...
14) Get smart
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2008
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1 videodisc (ca. 110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Agent 86 is the bungling secret agent Maxwell Smart. He works for CONTROL. They are on a mission to battle the forces of their evil crime nemesis known as KAOS. Smart has along side with him the competent and beautiful Agent 99. The headquarters of the U.S. spy agency CONTROL is attacked and the identities of its agents are compromised, the Chief has no choice but to promote his analyst Maxwell Smart, who has dreamed of working in the field with superstar...
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New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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When a street magician's stunts begins to make their show look stale, superstar magicians Burt Wonderstone and Anton Marvelton look to salvage on their act-and their friendship-by staging their own daring stunt.
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20th Century Fox
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 103 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4in.
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English
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A family road trip to a pageant to support little would-be beauty queen Olive results in comic mayhem, death, and a family full of losers living in a world obsessed with winning.
Two thumbs way up!--Roeper & Jay Leno
...a sweet, tart and smart satire...an authentic crowd pleaser.--Newsweek
17) Grudge match
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Warner Bros
Pub. Date
2014
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English
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Henry 'Razor' Sharp and Billy 'The Kid' McDonnen are old boxing rivals who come out of retirement for one final match. On their first encounter in decades, their long-festering feud erupts into an unintentionally hilarious melee that instantly goes viral. The sudden social media frenzy transforms their local grudge match into a must-see HBO event. Now, if they can just survive the training, they may actually live to fight again.
"...an engaged and...
Publisher
Screen Media Films
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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After nearly two decades under the wing of an aging, avuncular husband, dutiful mother and housewife Pippa Lee undergoes a midlife breakthrough. Unearthing the sexually curious wild child of her teens, middle-aged Pippa sparks a relationship with a divorcee loner. Pippa Lee is a resilient woman, refusing to let life pass her by.
20) Cali comedies
Publisher
Binge Box
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (approximately 614 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Titles included: Knocked Up; Entourage; Due Date; Little Miss Sunshine; Swingers.