Alan Arkin
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English
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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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Bubber, a lemming, and his family are getting ready. It is the morning of the great march west and the leap into the sea. Bubber is excited- until his friend Crow starts asking questions. Bubber struggles with the decision to participate in what appears to be an insane death walk, only to be told constantly by family and friends that this is just the way things are.
In this allegory about conformity, Bubber is faced with following his...
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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...
10) 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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Scrooge may be alive and well and living in West Virginia in the person of Flagg Purdy. He won't pay the county phone tax, and he won't allow his wife and eleven children to celebrate any holiday. He rules his life, and theirs, by his "principles". But something has just happened to his well-ordered universe. Flagg's favorite daughter has decided to get married and to celebrate a certain winter holiday complete with a tree and presents. Christmas...
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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
Physical Desc
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.
14) Naples ’44
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First Run Features
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (89 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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In 1943 a young British officer, Norman Lewis, entered a war-torn Naples with the American Fifth Army. Lewis began writing down everything that happened to him during his one-year stay, observing the complex social cauldron of a city that contrived unbelievable methods of survival on a daily basis. These notes turned into his masterpiece, a memoir titled NAPLES ‘44. Francesco Patierno's new documentary imagines Lewis returning many years later to...
15) Argo
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Warner Brothers
Pub. Date
2013
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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.
16) 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...
18) Going in style
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[2017]
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1 videodisc (96 min.) sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Lifelong buddies Willie, Joe, and Al decide to buck retirement and step off the straight and narrow for the first time in their lives when their pension fund becomes a corporate casualty. To pay the bills and come through for their loved ones, the three risk it all by embarking on a daring bid to knock off the very bank that absconded with their money.
19) 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...
20) Argo
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
On November 4, 1979, Iranian militants storm the American embassy in Tehran and capture dozens of American hostages, sparking a 444-day ordeal. There's a little-known footnote to the crisis: six Americans escape and a mid-level CIA agent named Antonio Mendez devises an ingenious yet incredibly risky plan to rescue them. Based on the declassified true story.