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1) Blizzard
Language
English
Formats
Description
Brenda Blethyn, Christopher Plummer, Whoopi Goldberg and Kevin Pollak star in this charming holiday tale of young Katie and her magical friendship with BLIZZARD, one of Santa's newest reindeer. By using her special powers, Blizzard helps Katie realize her potential. And by banding together to overcome their obstacles, both Katie and Blizzard are able to share the greatest gift of all: friendship!
3) Local hero
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
A comedy about the interaction between Americans representing a Texas oil company and the inhabitants of a small village in Scotland.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Max thinks his life could not get any worse. He is teased by his classmates because he's smart. He meets nasty slime-producing demon Phears and finds himself protecting the sibling ghosts of the children who used to live in his house.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
Story of a cold, suave British assassin hired by the French OAS to kill General Charles de Gaulle. Nameless and faceless, the killer, known by the code name of Jackal, relentlessly moves toward the date with death that would rock the world. The tension mounts as the methodical preparations of the Jackal are paralleled with the efforts of the police to uncover the plot, which gives the story non-stop, edge-of-your-seat suspense.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
The Cubs aren't having a good season until 12-year-old Henry Rowengartner breaks his arm in his Little League game. When he recovers he is astonished to discover he can throw the ball 100 mph and the Cubs sign him to save their failing team.
10) Hancock
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
A superhero with total disregard for the damage he causes while saving people finds himself having his image changed by a public relations executive, in return for saving the executive's life.
11) Lassie come home
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
The collie is sold and makes a cross-country journey back to her original family.
12) Sweet land
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Inge is a feisty German mail-order bride who has come to Minnesota to marry Olaf, a young Norwegian immigrant farmer of few words. But in a post-WWI, anti-German climate, the local minister openly forbids the marriage. Inge and Olaf fall in love despite the town's disapproval. But when the town banker attempts to foreclose on the farm of his friend Frandsen, Olaf takes a stand.
13) Grand Hotel
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004], c1932
Language
English
Description
Berlin's plushest, most expensive hotel is the setting where in the words of Dr. Otternschlag "People come, people go. Nothing ever happens.". The doctor is usually drunk so he misses the fact that Baron von Geigern is broke and trying to steal eccentric dancer Grusinskaya's pearls, but ends up stealing her heart instead. Powerful German businessman Preysing brow beats his lowly bookkeeper, Kringelein, but in the end it is Kringelein who holds all...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Don Baker is a blind young man who is determined to make a life for himself despite his handicap. He becomes involved with his next-door neighbor Jill and their relationship is threatened by his mother's intrusions and by Jill's life-style.
15) Born free
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
When game warden George Adamson is forced to kill a lion and lioness, he and his wife Joy adopt their three cubs. Two are sent off to zoos but the third is kept, a female they name Elsa. When Elsa is fully grown, the Adamsons realize she must be taught to survive on her own.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Mr. Bean enters a church raffle and wins a vacation to France as well as a camcorder. Boarding a Eurostar train and arriving in Paris, the French language proves to be a barrier for Bean. He struggles to catch his train to the south of France. He orders a seafood meal and finds the consumption of the platter to be a challenge. Just before catching his train, he asks Russian film director Emil, who is on his way to be a judge at the Cannes Film festival,...
17) Waitress
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Jenna, a waitress at a small-town cafe, has a gift for making great pies. Seeking to make a better life for herself, she decides to compete for a 25,000 baking prize. An obnoxious husband, a potential pregnancy, and a handsome stranger provide further challenges.
18) The namesake
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
The grown son of Indian immigrants is torn between finding his own cultural identity amongst his New York friends and respecting his parents' traditional ways.
20) Europa, Europa
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
Deutsch
Description
The true story of Solomon Perel, born in Germany in 1925 of Polish-Jewish parents, who survives World War II by concealing his true identity and by living as a Nazi for seven years.
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