Billy Bob Thornton
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
There is—and could only ever be—one Billy Bob Thornton: actor, musician, Academy Award-winning screenwriter, and accidental Hollywood badass. In The Billy Bob Tapes, he leads us into his Cave Full of Ghosts, spinning colorful tales of his modest (to say the least) Southern upbringing, his bizarre phobias (komoda dragons?), his life, his loves (including his marriage to fellow Oscar winner Angelina Jolie), and, of course, his...
3) Bad Santa
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
You'd better watch out - Santa Claus Willie T. Stokes is coming to town and he doesn't care if you've been naughty or nice. Willie's favorite holiday tradition is to fill his sacks with loot lifted from shopping malls across the country. But this year his plot gets derailed by a wisecracking store detective, a sexy bartender and a kid who's convinced Willie is the real Santa Claus.
4) The alamo
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 136 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The roads cross at San Antonio de Bexar at a small ruined mission called the Alamo - a place where myth meets history and legend meets reality. In the spring of 1836 nearly 200 Texans held the fort for 13 days under siege by General Santa Anna.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4in.
Language
English
Description
Odessa, Texas has seen better days, yet one hope sustains the community...when the Permian High Panthers take to the field. Friday Night Lights captures the frenzy of a small town that reveres its school team and their weekly games.
A long time ago I played under Friday night lights and let me tell you something, this movie gets it all right.--Ebert & Roeper
A stringent, stirring real-life drama.--Entertainment Weekly
A hard-hitting, fast-paced,...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 104 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4in.
Language
English
Description
When Charles leaves behind his training at NASA to save his family's farm, he doesn't leave behind his dream to go into space, and decides to build a rocket in his barn.
Two thumbs up!--Roeper & Lisa Schwarzbaum
...taps delightfully into one of our deepest cultural values: the one about the pursuit of happiness.--Washington Post
...makes dreamers of us all.--Rex Reed, New York Observer
7) Bandits
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two bank robbers take a branch manager's family hostage the night before a hold up. Things are going great until they both fall in love with the same woman, who happens to be one of the hostages.
"A screwball comedy in the best tradition..."--Newsday
"Plenty of great one-liners."--New York Post
"One of the most enjoyable adventures of the year."--E! Online
8) Bad santa
Publisher
Dimension Home Video
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 91 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A mall Santa and his elf have plans for Christmas Eve: they plan on cracking the mall safe and making off with all the money. Their plans get side-tracked when a young boy helps them remember the real meaning of Christmas.
9) Armageddon
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 151 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
***--Boxoffice Magazine
10) The badge
Publisher
Trimark Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003], ©2002.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A small-time sheriff teams up with a New Orleans stripper to solve a hushed murder. The closer the two unlikely partners get to solving the mystery, the more serious the threat to their own lives.
11) Parkland
Publisher
Millennium
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 87 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
November 22, 1963 is a day that changed the world forever when beloved American President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. Parkland is the true story behind that tragic day, told from the vantage point of individuals who are forced to make split-second decisions after this incomprehensible event that will change the world's landscape forever.
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 121 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's 1969 in a small Alabama town, and the death of a quirky clan's long-estranged wife and mother brings together two very different families for the funeral. But do the scars of the past hide differences that will tear them apart or expose truths that could lead to the most unexpected collisions of all?
Thornton's forthright direction fits the subject matter.--New York Daily News
It succeeds in being funny, sad and monstrously quirky...--This...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After a Beverly Hills lawyer gets his client out of his marriage without having to pay a settlement by setting up the wife, she sets out to seek revenge. She is planning to get the lawyer to fall in love with her so she can take him for all he's got!
"There are laughs here aplenty, and sexy, goofy, off-the-cuff charm."--Philadelphia Inquirer
"An intelligent, modern screwball comedy."--New York Times
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (1 hr. 53 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An alcoholic and drug addict, 23 year-old James has two options: treatment or death. After waking up on a plane with a smashed up face and no memory of the past few weeks, he heads to rehab where he discovers much more than detox and therapy.
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In a sleepy Northern California town in the 1940s, Ed Crane, a humble barber, suspects that his wife Doris is having an affair with her boss. When a stranger comes into town hinting that there is a fortune to be made in investing in the new invention of dry cleaning, Ed hatches a blackmail scheme he hopes will make him rich and get him some revenge at the same time. His plan goes horribly awry when he accidentally commits a murder for which Doris...
17) Bad Santa
Publisher
Miramax Acquisition
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A mall Santa and his elf have plans for Christmas Eve: they plan on cracking the mall safe and making off with all the money. Their plans get side-tracked when a young boy helps them remember the real meaning of Christmas.
19) The judge
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Big-city lawyer Hank Palmer returns to his childhood home where his estranged father, the town's judge, is suspected of murder. He sets out to discover the truth and along the way reconnects with the family he walked away from years before.