Campbell Scott
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Honeymoon thrillers volume 1
Language
English
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When a number of rich men come to a mysterious end, and a young investment banker dies of a supposed heart attack, FBI agent John O'Hara believes it is the work of a cold-blooded killer. Turning his eye to the only witness - the young banker's beautiful and secretive widow - O'Hara thinks he's closing in, but he's not sure whether he's pursuing justice or his own fatal obsession.
Publisher
PBS
Language
English
Description
At the very northern edge of North America is Ellesmere Island, where the unforgiving Arctic winds tear through the tundra, dipping temperatures to 40 below zero. Discover the White Wolf, one of the most hardened predators on the planet in the Ellesmere’s unforgiving ice and snow. In a fight for survival, these roaming hunters must travel far from the den to feed their cubs putting them at risk.
6) Saint Ralph
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Language
English
Description
A beautiful, bittersweet comedy of an awkward, ninth grade Catholic school boy who sets out to make a miracle happen. Believing a miracle can save his mother's life and having been told his winning the Boston Marathon would be "a miracle," Ralph begins training to win the famed race. Only after seeing his resolve and temerity, a conflicted Father Hibbert (Campbell Scott) trains the boy through his triumphant win at a local race and prepares him for...
7) Roger Dodger
Publisher
Lionsgate
Language
English
Description
Roger is a witty advertising writer who has no trouble charming women into bed. Aware of his playboy reputation, his nephew Nick arrives in New York City with the goal of losing his virginity, and Roger is happy to help, taking him on a crash course on the art of seduction. However, over the course of the evening Roger begins to question his own lifestyle, and how much he really knows about the opposite sex.
8) Big Night
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Language
English
Description
In a restaurant the tables sit empty despite the talents of Primo (Tony Shalhoub) the chef and the ambitious efforts of his brother Secondo (Stanley Tucci). A celebrity night at their restaurant promises not only to turn their business around but to change their lives. Winner of Best First Screenplay at the **Film Independent Spirit Awards.** Winner of the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at the **Sundance Film Festival.** *"A feast of a film done on...
Publisher
Grindstone
Language
English
Description
Reporter Porter Wren meets attractive widow Caroline and she asks him to solve the bizarre death of her filmmaker husband. Wren is unable to refuse or resist her. But when a rich mogul blackmails him into investigating Caroline, the reporter realizes this job could cost him everything.
10) SINGLES
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Edition
widescreen / full screen ed.
Language
English
Description
This tale of Seattle twentysomethings searching for - and running from - love centers around a romantically aloof rocker and his lovestruck neighbor who hopes to get him to change his tune.
11) Saint Ralph
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Ralph, a 14-year-old boy, has lost his father and his grandparents. His mother is also very ill. At school he is forced to join the track team, only to discover he has a talent for running. Soon he sets the goal of winning the 1954 Boston Marathon.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen version ; Special edition.
Language
English
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A skeptical attorney defends a Catholic priest accused of criminal negligence after a "possessed" girl he performed an exorcism on dies. Based on the true story of Anneliese Michel, a young German Catholic woman who died in 1976.
13) Cell: a novel
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English
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Civilization doesn't end with a bang or a whimper. It ends with a call on your cell phone. What happens on the afternoon of October 1 came to be known as the Pulse, a signal sent though every operating cell phone that turns its user into something...well, something less than human. Savage, murderous, unthinking-and on a wanton rampage. Terrorist act? Cyber prank gone haywire? It really doesn't matter, not to the people who avoided the technological...
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English
Description
Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, Carnegie, Morgan, Ford, the Men Who Built America. Meet the titans who forged the foundation of modern America and created the American Dream. The mini-series shines a spotlight on the influential builders, dreamers and believers whose feats transformed the United States, a nation decaying from the inside after the Civil War, into the greatest economic and technological superpower the world had ever seen.
17) Hug machine
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English
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"Watch out, here comes The Hug Machine! Whether you are big, or small, or square, or long, or spikey, or soft, no one can resist his unbelievable hugs!"--Back cover.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Hank Lawson is a young E.R. doctor who, after being wrongly blamed for a patient's death, moves to the Hamptons and becomes the hot new "concierge doctor" in town. Though Hank is initially reluctant to embrace this new career, with encouragement from Evan and Divya, who volunteers to be his physician assistant, he decides to stay in town for the summer, once again solving medical crises and helping those in need.
Author
Series
MaddAddam trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Nan A. Talese
Language
English
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A novel of the future explores a world that has been devastated by ecological and scientific disasters.