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"Once upon a time in a castle high on a hill lived an inventor whose greatest creation was named Edward. Although Edward had an irresistible charm, he wasn't quite perfect. The inventor's sudden death left him unfinished, with sharp shears of metal for hands. Edward lived alone in the darkness until one day a kind Avon lady took him home to live with her family. So began Edward's fantastical adventures in a pastel paradise known as Suburbia"--Container....
2) The jerk
Publisher
Universal
Edition
Widescreen edition.
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English
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A rags-to-riches-to-rags story. Navin Johnson, adopted son of a poor black sharecropper family, has invented some crazy inventions that lead him from rags to riches and right back to rags.
Publisher
Universal
Edition
Widescreen Edition
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English
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In the quirky town of Eureka, America's brightest scientists are working on some of the government's best-kept secrets. Some lead to brilliant inventions, and some to total chaos. Making sense of the mysteries is Sheriff Jack Carter, a former U.S. marshal who is stranded in the surreal small town after a random car accident.
Publisher
Starz Originals
Edition
Widescreen version.
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English
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In a world where thought and faith are controlled, one man fights to set knowledge free. Leonardo Da Vinci is tortured by a gift of superhuman genius. He finds himself in a conflict between truth and lies, religion and reason, past and future. His quest for knowledge nearly becomes his undoing, but Da Vinci's genius prevails and he emerges as an unstoppable force that lifts an entire era out of darkness and propels it into light.
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English
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Same Genius. New World. Florence is thrown into chaos in the wake of the Pazzi conspiracy and Leonardo da Vinci must push the limits of his mind and body to defend the city against the forces of Rome. When the dust settles, friends are buried and rivalries are enflamed. While the Medicis go to unthinkable lengths to deal with new threats, da Vinci continues on his quest to find the fabled Book of Leaves and uncover the secret history of his mother....
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Part two of Ayn Rand's groundbreaking novel. The global economy is on the brink of collapse. Brilliant creators, from artists to industrialists, continue to mysteriously disappear. Dagny Taggart, Vice President in Charge of Operations for Taggart Transcontinental, has discovered what may very well be the answer to a mounting energy crisis, a revolutionary motor that could seemingly power the World. It's a race against the clock to find the inventor...
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Universal Studios
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
Back to the Future: It's the mid-80's, and Marty McFly is your average 17-year-old slacker who happens to be friends with an inventor, Doc Brown. Doc's latest invention is a time machine, that ends up transporting Marty back to 1955 where he must bring his parents together so that he will exist when he gets back to his own time.
Back to the Future Part II: Marty visits 2015 to straighten out the future of the McFly family, but Biff Tannen steals...
9) Tomorrowland
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English
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Bound by a shared destiny, former boy-genius Frank, jaded by disillusionment, and Casey, a bright, optimistic teen bursting with scientific curiosity, embark on a danger-filled mission to unearth the secrets of an enigmatic place somewhere in time and space known only as "Tomorrowland." What they must do there changes the world - and them - forever.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
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English
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Marty visits 2015 to straighten out the future of the McFly family, but Biff Tannen steals the time machine, and with it a book that allows his young self in 1955 to amass a gambling fortune, which has significant consequences to the present. To correct the problems, Marty and Doc must return to 1955 to retrieve the book.
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Inventor Flint Lockwood thought he saved the world when he destroyed his machine that turned water into food causing cheeseburger rain and spaghetti tornadoes. But Flint soon learns that his invention survived and is now creating food-animals. Flint and his friends embark on a dangerously delicious mission to battle hungry tacodiles, shrimpanzees, hippotatomuses, cheespiders and other foodimals to save the world again!
14) The thin man
Edition
Full screen version.
Language
English
Description
The jaunty whodunit that made William Powell and Myrna Loy the champagne elite of sleuthung. Nick and Nora Charles combine screwball romance with mystery.
Publisher
Dreamscape Media
Language
English
Description
Ben Franklin loved to swim and, at the age of eleven, he was determined to swim like a fish; fins and all! This fascinating and lively account of young Ben's earliest invention follows the budding scientist's journey as he tests and retests his swim fins. That first big splash led him to even more innovations and inventions.
Publisher
HBO Home Box Office
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
"August 1896. Victorian London is rocked to its foundations by a supernatural event which gives certain people - mostly women - abnormal abilities, from the wondrous to the disturbing. But no matter their particular 'turns', all who belong to this new underclass are in grave danger. It falls to mysterious, quick-fisted widow Amalia True and brilliant young inventor Penance Adair to protect and shelter these gifted 'orphans'."--Container.
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Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Language
English
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"The inventor of an unsinkable swimsuit, shipping clerk Joe Holt quits his job at the Armstrong Rubber Goods Corp. and moves to California. While on Catalina Island looking for work, Joe is mistaken by socialite Alice Brandon for a champion marathon swimmer, who is competing in a 21-mile race to the mainland, and Joe is shocked to discover he's expected to participate. Begged by Alice to show up her pompous ex-suitor, Ed, Joe agrees despite the fact...
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