Barbara Hershey
1) Hoosiers
Language
English
Formats
Description
A basketball coach with a checkered past becomes the new coach of the underdog high school basketball team in a 1951 sleepy Indiana farm town, using methods that infuriate the townspeople.
Language
English
Description
It is 1945 and a grown up Anne Shirley returns to Prince Edward Island for an extended visit. She agrees to write a play for a local theatre producer in hopes that it will keep her mind off of her only son who is serving in the Armed Forces overseas. A letter is discovered from the father who abandoned her as a child, bringing up the memories of her early childhood.
Series
Criterion collection volume 70
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Language
English
Formats
Description
This fifteen-year labor of love, an adaptation of Nikos Kazantzakis's landmark novel that imagines an alternate fate for Jesus Christ, features outstanding performances, bold cinematography, and a transcendent score.
4) Beaches
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Language
English
Description
Traces the friendship of two very different women who meet on a beach as young girls, through good and bad times, career and marriage changes until together they must face a final challenge as only best friends can.
5) Tin men
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Two less-than-honest aluminum siding salesmen meet in a fender bender, but their bruised egos and quick tempers turn the minor accident into a major vendeta against each other's symbols of success--their prized Cadillacs.
6) Insidious
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Josh and Renai have a happy family, until tragedy strikes their young son, and he begins to experience things that science cannot explain. Now they must try to prevent evil spirits from trapping their comatose child in a realm called The Further.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Language
English
Description
Agatha Christie's beloved Belgian detective returns in these four feature-length mysteries from the hit series. Set amid the unparalleled elegance of the Art Deco era, these beautifully remastered adaptations star David Suchet as the peerless Hercule Poirot.
10) 11:14
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Tells the seemingly random yet vitally connected story of a set of incidents that all converge one evening at 11:14 p.m. The lives of many cross at this one point in time which shall have life-altering effects.
11) Falling down
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
Follows a troubled man, Bill Foster, who has a mental breakdown and embarks upon an increasingly violent crime spree across Los Angeles. A police detective, Sgt. Prendergast, who is working his last day before retiring, is the only one who correctly pieces together the clues. Prendergast races to find and arrest Foster before the dangerous and unpredictable man reaches his destination: his ex-wife and young daughter.
13) Swing kids
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Two friends in Nazi Germany must choose between their individual freedom or loyalty to the murderous Third Reich.
15) The natural
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Nothing was going to stop Roy Hobbs from fulfilling his boyhood dream of baseball stardom. As a 14-year old he fashions a baseball bat from an oak tree. He soon impresses major league scouts with his ability. His talent also catches the eye of a sportswriter who eventually becomes instrumental in Hobbs' career. The appearance of a mysterious woman, however, shatters his dream. Years later Hobbs reappears as a rookie for the New York Knights and has...
16) The black swan
Series
Studio classic volume 38
Language
English
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Formats
Description
A psychological thriller set in the world of New York City ballet. An insecure ballet dancer wins the lead in Swan Lake but slowly loses her grip on sanity when a seductive newcomer is out to steal her role.
17) Lantana
Publisher
Distributed by Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Language
English
Description
A woman disappears and four marriages are drawn into a tangled web of love, deceit, sex and death.
18) The right stuff
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Formats
Description
The story of the Air Force test flights by Chuck Yeager that would lead to Project Mercury, which pioneered America's launch into the space race-- and of the seven men chosen to launch the U.S. into space: Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom, John Glenn, Scott Carpenter, Walter Schirra, Gordon Cooper, and Deke Slayton.
19) Falling down
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
After he's downsized from his job, an emotionally unstable man slowly loses his mind, unleashing a spree of violence on those that he sees as detriments to society.
20) Hoosiers
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1986
Language
English
Description
A basketball coach with a checkered past leads him to a last-chance position with a last-chance team.