Jack Nicholson
Author
Language
English
Description
Three cowboys are traveling through the Wild West when they stumble upon a gang of outlaws and a dead body. The cowboys are mistaken for members of the gang and are pursued relentlessly by a determined posse to be brought to justice.
1966 American Western film starring Cameron Mitchell, Millie Perkins, Jack Nicholson, and Harry Dean Stanton, and directed by Monte Hellman. Nicholson also wrote and co-produced the film.
Cowboys Vern, Wes, and Otis...
3) The Pledge
Author
Language
English
Description
A retiring police detective pledges to catch the killer of a young child.
4) Ironweed
Author
Language
English
Description
Jack Nicholson plays Francis Phelan, a washed-up ballplayer who deserted his family back in the 1910s when he accidentally killed his infant son by dropping him. Since that time, Phelan has been a shabby barfly, living from drink to drink.
5) Goin' South
Author
Language
English
Description
Sentenced to hang in a backwater western town, horse thief Henry Moon (Jack Nicholson) is saved when frontierswoman Julia Tate (Mary Steenburgen) agrees to marry him. Taking advantage of the town law that prohibits the execution of married men, Moon follows Tate back to her ranch, planning all the while to escape at the first possible opportunity. But Tate insists that he honor his end of the bargain at work on the ranch. She has no intention of consummating...
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (139 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Melvin Udall is an obsessive-compulsive novelist with Manhattan's meanest mouth. But when his gay neighbor Simon is hospitalized, Melvin is forced to babysit Simon's dog. And that unexpected act of kindness-- along with waitress Carol Connelly-- helps put Melvin back in the human race.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c2001
Edition
Special ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 138 min.) sd., col. 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Cruise stars as a brash Navy lawyer who's teamed with a gung-ho litigator in a politically-explosive murder case. Charged with defending two Marines accused of killing a fellow soldier, they are confronted with complex issues of loyalty and honor - including its most sacred code and its most formidable warrior.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004, 2003
Edition
Widescreen format.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 128 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Harry Sanborn is a perennial playboy with the libido of a much younger man. During what was to be a romantic weekend with his current infatuation, Marin, at her mother's Hampton beach house, Harry develops chest pains. He winds up being nursed by Marin's reluctant mother, Erica. When Harry hesitates to act on his feelings for Erica, Harry's thirtysomething doctor steps in and starts to pursue Erica. Harry, who has always had the world on a string,...
10) About Schmidt
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Edition
Widescreen version(1.85:1)
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (125 min.) sd., col. 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Warren Schmidt is about the taste the not-so-sweet slice of life. When he retired, he and his wife, Helen, had big plans - but an unexpected twist changes everything. Now, all of Schmidt's attention is focused on his daughter's upcoming wedding to a loser waterbed salesman. From meeting the groom's hippie parents to sponsoring a Tanzanian foster child, Schmidt embarks on a search for answers, only to discover that life is full of trick questions.
11) Batman
Publisher
distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (126 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A millionaire's son witnesses his parents' murder and grows up fighting the emotional trauma of that fateful night. To compensate, he develops a dual personality. During the day he's a playboy philanthropist, but at night, he become's the dark persona Batman, a masked crusader for justice. While fighting crime in Gotham, he eventually has to face an arch-criminal known as The Joker.
13) The shining
Language
English
Description
A writer and his family are snowbound in a hotel and are haunted by either the hotel itself or the writer's dementia.
14) The departed
Publisher
distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Two-disc special ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (152 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In South Boston, the state police force are waging a war on Irish-American organized crime. Undercover cop Billy Costigan is assigned to infiltrate the mob syndicate, which is run by gangland chief Frank Costello. Billy quickly gains Costello's confidence. Colin Sullivan is a hardened young criminal who has infiltrated the police department as an informer for the syndicate. Colin is rising to a position of power within the Special Investigation Unit....
15) The Terror
Author
Language
English
Description
A French Army officer, Lieutenant Duvalier (Jack Nicholson), has been separated from his unit and receives help from a mysterious woman. He follows her to the castle of Baron Von Lepp (Boris Karloff)only to find that she is the Baron's wife who died 20 years ago.
18) Anger Management
Author
Language
English
Description
Dave Buznik (Adam Sandler) is usually a mild-mannered, non-confrontational guy. But after an altercation aboard an airplane, he is remanded to the care of an anger management therapist, Dr. Buddy Rydell (Jack Nicholson), who could probably use some anger management himself.
19) Corman's World
Author
Language
English
Description
The director of more than fifty films and producer of over 300 more, prolific B-movie maven Roger Corman is profiled in this biographical documentary from filmmaker Alex Stapleton. From LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS to ROCK AND ROLL HIGH SCHOOL, the documentary explores the wide variety of films that encompass Corman's prolific and enduring career.
20) Reds
Author
Language
English
Description
The story of John Reed, American Communist, journalist and activist, whose love affair with writer/feminist Louise Bryant (Diane Keaton) unfolds against the explosive backdrop of the Russian Revolution.