Jack Nicholson
1) Reds
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2006, c1981
Edition
Widescreen format; 25th anniversary ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (195 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Warren Beatty's award winning epic mixes drama and interviews with major social radicals of the period. "REDS" tells the story of the love affair between activists Louise Bryant and John Reed. Set against the backdrop of the tumultuous start of the twentieth century, the two journalists' on-again off-again romance is punctuated by the outbreak of WWI and the Bolshevik Revolution. Louise's assignment in France at the outbreak of the war puts an end...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Corporate billionaire Edward Cole and working class mechanic Carter Chambers have nothing in common, except they both have been diagnosed with terminal illnesses. While sharing a hospital room together, they decide to make a Bucket List of all the things they have ever wanted to do before they die. In the process of completing the list, both of them heal each other, become unlikely friends, and ultimately find the joy in life.
4) The pledge
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2001
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (124 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A veteran police detective, on the day of his retirement, handles the case of a seven-year-old girl who has been brutally murdered. When a mentally retarded man confesses to the murder and then kills himself, the detectives consider the case closed, but was he actually the murderer? Before long evidence is uncovered that suggests the girl was just one in a series of brutal killings involving young girls and a mysterious man.
Series
Publisher
distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
For six agonizing years, Freddy Gale has waited for John Booth, the man jailed for a crime that destroyed Freddy's life. Now, Booth is out of prison and Freddy's giving him three days before he returns...to even the score.
6) Easy rider
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Edition
Special ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two motorcyclists travel across the U.S. in search of the "real" America. And find it.
Series
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 126 min.) : digital, col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Horse thief Tom Logan has set his sights on the horses and daughter of rancher David Braxton. However, Braxton has hired the infamous Lee Clayton to make sure that his possessions are safe and that any horse thief is stopped in his tracks.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Language
English
Description
Cruise stars as a brash Navy lawyer who's teamed with a gung-ho litigator in a politically-explosive murder case. Charged with defending two Marines accused of killing a fellow soldier, they are confronted with complex issues of loyalty and honor - including its most sacred code and its most formidable warrior.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 126 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A reporter assumes the identity of a dead man. The more he does this, the further he is from his true identity. When he finds himself in danger, will he be able to become himself once again, or will it be too late?
10) Wolf
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
2009, 1994
Edition
Blu-ray edition.
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray disc (approximately 125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
None
Description
Film version of the age-old legend of a man who turns into a wolf-like creature under the influence of the full moon.
Series
Criterion collection volume 550
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Estranged siblings David, a depressive late-night radio talk show host, and Jason, extroverted con man, come together when Jason drags his younger brother to a dreary Atlantic City and into a real-estate scam, events spiral into tragedy.
12) The two Jakes
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (137 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In this sequel to Chinatown, it is 1948 Los Angeles and private investigator Jake Gittes must solve a case of suspected adultery-turned-murder that's tied to a grab for oil and to Jake's own past.
14) Carnal knowledge
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Examines the sexual triumphs and disasters of two American men as it traces their lives from college days to middle age.
15) Batman
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (126 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A millionaire's son witnesses his parents' murder and grows up fighting the emotional trauma of that fateful night. To compensate, he develops a dual personality. During the day he's a playboy philanthropist, but at night, he become's the dark persona Batman, a masked crusader for justice. While fighting crime in Gotham, he eventually has to face an arch-criminal known as The Joker.
16) How do you know
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A professional softball player discovers she is in the middle of a love triangle after she falls for two different men and wonders when it comes to love, how do you know?
17) Five easy pieces
Series
Criterion collection volume 546
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Nicholson plays the now iconic cad Bobby Dupea, a shiftless thirty-something oil rigger and former piano prodigy immune to any sense of romantic or familial responsibility, who returns to his childhood home to see his ailing, estranged father, with his blue-collar girlfriend (Karen Black) in tow.
18) Head
Series
Criterion collection volume 544
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (85 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A kaleidoscopic satire that is a movie homage, media send-up, concert movie, and antiwar cry all at once.
19) Batman
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Blu-ray edition.
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray disc (126 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Caped Crusader is the only one who can save Gotham City from the maniacal Joker and his sinister plans to destroy beauty.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1997, c1975
Edition
Widescreen & full screen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (134 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of a man whose rebelliousness pits him against the head nurse of a mental ward and the full spectrum of institutional repression.