Matthew Modine
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1994.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (97 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Albert Finney plays a brilliant but stern classics instructor at a posh prep school who is forced out of his job and into the realization that he is despised in the classroom...and at home. Nominated for Best Screenplay at the **BAFTA Awards.** Nominated for the Palme d'Or at the **Cannes Film Festival.** *"Finney is a master of letting us glimpse the bruised heart of a man like Andrew Crocker-Harris, who has used his devotion to the classics to bury...
Publisher
Netflix
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
1983, Indiana. A young boy vanishes into thin air. As friends, family, and local police search for answers, they are drawn into an extraordinary mystery involving top-secret government experiments, terrifying supernatural forces, and one very strange little girl.
23) Short cuts
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 183 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A look at human life and American culture with over 20 characters' lives interweaving. Includes a new widescreen restored transfer of the film, a making-of documentary, interviews, deleted scenes, and much more.
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (165 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It has been eight years since Batman vanished into the night, turning, in that instant, from hero to fugitive. Assuming the blame for the death of D.A. Harvey Dent, the Dark Knight sacrificed everything for what he and Commissioner Gordon both hoped was the greater good. For a time the lie worked, as criminal activity in Gotham City was crushed under the weight of the anti-crime Dent Act.
Publisher
Cinedigm
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on the short stories from Robert Boswell's collection, seven vignettes explore the difference between fantasy and reality, memory and history, and the joy and agony of the human condition.
26) The Hippopotamus
Author
Language
English
Description
Based on the Best-Selling Comedy Novel by Stephen Fry. Disgruntled, cantankerous semi-famous poet Ted Wallace (Roger Allam - Endeavor, The Queen) is hired to investigate a series of unexplained miracle healings. Also starring Matthew Modine (Stranger Things, Dark Knight Rises, Full Metal Jacket) and Fiona Shaw (5 Harry Potter movies).
27) Girl In Progress
Author
Language
English
Description
This is a charming and endearing mother-daughter story about a very busy woman and her daughter who is racing to become an adult.
29) Private school
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Romantic comedy: Teens attending neighboring schools compete for affection and engage in pranks.
30) Funky Monkey
Author
Language
English
Description
In exchange for some expert advice on how to play football and win the affections of his dream girl, a gawky boy genius agrees to help a martial arts expert and his extraordinary primate pal -- a chimpanzee -- outwit and outfight the devious masterminds behind an animal laboratory that intends to train the chimp for dangerous missions.
31) Altar
Author
Language
English
Description
Altar follows one family as they move into an old, dilapidated mansion. In the process of restoring it, they inadvertently unearth its haunted secret by awakening the ghosts of its dark past only to become trapped in an ordeal of demonic proportions.
Author
Language
English
Description
The Emperor’s Club. Dead Poets Society. Stand And Deliver. Film fans fondly recall them as tales of a teacher who inspires his students. The Browning Version the memorable story of a student who inspires his brilliant yet beleaguered and unappreciated teacher. Albert Finney, Matthew Modine and Greta Scacchi star in this richly layered work of truth, tears and triumph. In a widely acclaimed performance, Finney plays a brilliant but stern classics...