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Publisher
Paramount
Language
English
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Description
The story of a Brooklyn store clerk who is a Saturday night disco king; he begins to question the narrowness of his perspective when he meets a girl who is shedding her origins for a more sophisticated life style. Based on a story by Nik Cohn.
2) Ragtime
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the E.L. Doctorow novel of 1906 America, a compelling story of human emotions and a reflection of the innocence, excitement and drama of an important time in America's history. It is now an award winning Broadway musical.
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
His days as an intelligence agent behind him, former CIA analyst Jack Ryan has traveled to London to vacation with his wife and daughter. Meeting them outside Buckingham Palace, Ryan is caught in the middle of a terrorist attack on a member of the Royal Family. But Ryan's courageous act marks him as a target in the sights of the terrorists.
5) Face/off
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
FBI agent Sean Archer (John Travolta) must go undercover to investigate the location of a lethal biological weapon planted by his arch rival, terrorist-for-hire Castor Troy (Nicolas Cage). After undergoing a radical surgical procedure, Archer literally "borrows" Troy's face and identity to carry out his mission. But things go awry when Troy, emerging from a coma, is transformed into Archer and wreaks havoc upon his life, both at work and at home.
8) Election
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tracy Flick (Witherspoon), a straight-A go-getter is determined to be president of Carver High's student body. Popular teacher Jim McAllister (Broderick) decides to derail Tracy's obsessive overachieving by recruiting an opposition candidate. Mr. M. never imagines that stopping Tracy is like trying to put toothpaste back in the tube.
11) Heaven can wait
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Joe Pendleton, a Los Angeles Rams quarterback, accidently goes to heaven after a car accident, and returns to earth in the body of another man who was a corporate giant. After deciding to resume his place with the Rams (by purchasing the team), Pendleton must also deal with the consequences of the former businessman's actions.
14) Witness
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
When a young Amish woman and her son get caught up in the murder of an undercover narcotics agent, their savior turns out to be the hardened Philadelphia detective John Book, who runs head-on into the non-violent world of a Pennsylvania Amish community.
15) Alfie
Publisher
Paramount
Language
English
Description
Alfie is what you'd call an unrepentant womanizer. He is a limo driver working in New York City, which, of course, provides him ample opportunity to continue his womanizing ways. That is until reality slaps him in the face. His carnality eventually gets in the way, and he decides to change his wondering ways.
16) Braveheart
Series
Language
English
Description
William Wallace, a bold Scotsman, uses the steel of his sword and the fire of his intellect to rally his countrymen to liberation from the English occupation of Scotland.
18) The conversation
Series
Language
English
Description
A routine wiretapping job turns into a nightmare when Harry, a surveillance man, hears something disturbing in his recording of a young couple in a park. His investigation of the tape and how it might be used sends Harry spiraling into a web of secrecy, murder, and paranoia.
19) El Dorado
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
An alcoholic sheriff fights greedy cattlemen and empire builders as he tries almost single-handedly to tame the West. He is aided by an old friend turned gunfighter who comes to town.