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(0)Gene Hackman
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Academy Award–winning actor Gene Hackman spins a cinematic tale of pirates, shipwrecks, and sea adventure. Co-written with Daniel Lenihan, one of America's leading authorities on shipwrecks and diving, Wake of the Perdido Star is a moving story of a young boy's coming of age on the high seas, full of authentic nautical and historical detail. A 19th-century sea adventure in the spirit of Patrick O'Brian, Wake of the Perdido Star is a captivating...
3) Wyatt Earp
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2004, 1994
Description
The most famous lawman ever to stride the Wild West.
5) Night moves
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2005, c1975
Description
A self-styled detective scrounging a living out of divorce actions, missing persons, and runaway kids finally gets his first big case. Unraveling his mystery, he's always one step behind.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Description
A local plumber is plunged into the national spotlight when he takes on the former President of the United States, who can't believe he's running against a man who installed his toilets. To make matters worse, the ex-president is trying to steal the election -- and the affection of the handyman's girlfriend. Whoever wins, one thing's for sure, this town is not small enough for both of them.
8) The firm
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
A brilliant and ambitious Harvard Law grad joins a small, prosperous law firm in Memphis, and is soon confronted by FBI agents with evidence of corruption and murder within the firm.
9) Unforgiven
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2002
Description
Two retired, down-on-their luck outlaws pick up their guns one last time to collect a bounty offered by the vengeful prostitutes of the remote Wyoming town of Big Whiskey.
10) The birdcage
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1998
Description
The story of a middle-aged gay couple's comic encounter with a self-righteously straight and conservative family. Armand and Albert reluctantly accept young Val's intention to marry the daughter of a conservative Senator, but when the fiancee's family comes to visit, the whole household is turned upside down.
11) Bonnie and Clyde
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2008, c1967
Description
A mixture of comedy and brutal violence, this film is based on the exploits of the notorious American outlaws of the 1930's, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow.
13) Runaway jury
Publisher
Twentieth Century Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004, c2003
Description
Two lawyers and two con artists vie for control of a jury in a high-profile New Orleans trial.
14) Downhill racer
Series
Criterion collection volume 494
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
A skier desperate to win gold in the Olympics joins an American team only to find that his new coach doesn't agree with how he goes about getting it.
15) Superman
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
A child from a dying planet is sent to Earth, where he is brought up by human parents and poses as a newspaper reporter, becoming Superman when necessary to use his special powers to save others.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
Set in Mississippi in 1964, this is a fictionalized version of the case of the murder of three young civil rights workers, the FBI's attempts to find the missing boys and the clash between the authorities and the locals in a Klan-dominated town.
17) Extreme Measures
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Dr. Guy Luthan did everything right, but it turned out wrong. A patient under his care at New York's Gramercy Hospital mysteriously died, and now Luthan wants to know why. However, when he looks for postmortem details, he finds no body...and no records. Hugh Grant plays Luthan in Extreme Measures, "one of the most effective paranoid suspense movies since The Fugitive" (Chicago Tribune). Gene Hackman and Sarah Jessica Parker costar in this mystery...
18) Power
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More seductive than sex...more addictive than drugs...more precious than gold...and one man can get it for you--for a price. Sidney Lumet directed this powerhouse drama starring Richard Gere and Denzel Washington in which a high-priced political consultant is forced to confront the person he has become and the corrupt people he has helped win elections. Able to make or break careers, Pete St. John, a gilt-edged "image" advisor to powerful and often...
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