Danny Glover
Language
English
Description
Predator: Recruited by the CIA to rescue hostages held by guerrilla fighters in a Central American country, Schwarzenegger and his men encounter an enemy more deadly than any on earth--because the Predator is not of this earth.
Predator 2: Predator is a savage alien, invisible and armed with advanced weapons. On this, his second visit to Earth, he lands in Los Angeles and begins a series of ghastly murders. It's up to a determined police lieutenant...
222) The people speak
Language
English
Description
A look at social change throughout history, as seen through the music, poetry, speeches, and manifestos of rebels, dissenters, and visionaries from our past - and present - including Frederick Douglass, Susan B. Anthony, Bob Dylan, Langston Hughes, Chief Joseph, Muhammad Ali, along with unknown veterans, union workers, abolitionists, and many others never featured in high school textbooks. Celebrates the extraordinary possibilities for creating social...
223) Sparkle: Dreamgirls
Language
English
Description
Sparkle: Set in Harlem in 1958, this musical tells the story of three sisters struggling to find stardom as a singing group. It's a rags-to-riches tale of glitz, glamour and the high price of fame.
Dreamgirls: Based on the Broadway musical, this film tells the story of an up-and-coming 1960s girl singing group, and the triumphs and tribulations that come with fame and fortune.
Language
English
Description
Murphy's romance: In an endearing comic love story, a gutsy divorced mother eager to make it as a horse trainer on a small desert ranch is courted by the town's most eligible widower and her ne'er-do-well ex-husband. Places in the heart: It's the 1930's in Waxahachie, Texas. Against this Depression-torn background unforgettable characters meet and collide. Its emotionally gripping story centers around Edna Spalding (Sally Fields) and her unending...
Language
English
Description
Held up: A romantic getaway turns into one hilarious bungle after another when a successful businessman is dumped in the desert by his beautiful fiancée, has his car jacked, and is taken hostage in a stickup at the local Sip & Zip!
The wash:To earn some money quick, Sean gets a job with his friend at the local car wash and gets more than he bargained for.
The cookout: Todd Anderson's life changes overnight when he signs a
Language
English
Description
Jumanji. Welcome to the jungle: Four high school kids discover an old video game console and are drawn into the game's jungle setting, literally becoming the adult avatars they chose.
Jumanji. The next level: With the gang spread across the country (and beyond) at college, Spencer is back to feeling out of place, even when he returns home over winter break. Desperate to escape his grandfather who is sharing his room, and to feel confident again,...
227) Blindness
Language
English
Description
A city is ravaged by an epidemic of 'white blindness.' Those first afflicted are quarantined by the authorities in an abandoned mental hospital where societal norms quickly breaks down. Criminals and the physically powerful prey upon the weak, hoarding the meager food rations and committing horrific acts. Inside the hospital is one eyewitness to the nightmare. Following her husband into the hospital, a woman whose sight is unaffected by the plague...
228) Hallmark Channel holiday collection: Double feature:The Christmas Train, Christmas at Holly Lodge
Language
English
Description
The Christmas Train: Disillusioned journalist Tom Langdon must get from Washington, D.C., to L.A. in time for Christmas. Forced to travel by train, he begins a journey of rude awakenings, thrilling adventures, and holiday magic. He has no idea that the locomotives pulling him across America will actually take him into the rugged terrain of his own heart, as he rediscovers people's essential goodness and someone very special he believed he had lost.
Christmas...
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The Christmas Train: Disillusioned journalist Tom Langdon must get from Washington, D.C., to L.A. in time for Christmas. Forced to travel by train, he begins a journey of rude awakenings, thrilling adventures, and holiday magic. He has no idea that the locomotives pulling him across America will actually take him into the rugged terrain of his own heart, as he rediscovers people's essential goodness and someone very special he believed he had lost.
Christmas...
Language
English
Description
Lethal weapon 3, Director's cut: Further action by Riggs and Murtagh, L.A. police detectives, whose work routine is anything but routine, joined by an Internal Affairs investigator who loves taking risks as much as Riggs does.
Lethal weapon 4: Martin Riggs and Roger Murtaugh, after escaping death from the previous movies are put on a hit list by The Triads. When blood thirsty mercenaries are on their tail, they team up again with Leo Getz and Lorna...
Language
English
Description
The best man: Share the laughter, love and surprises with a beloved group of college friends who reunite for the first time in years to celebrate a wedding and confront the wild secrets of their college days.
The best man holiday: The good times continue years later as long-forgotten rivalries and romances are passionately reignited as the whole cast reunites for the holidays.
Almost Christmas: The festive story of a beloved patriarch who asks his...
Series
Language
English
Description
Rush Hour: A wise-cracking cop from L.A. and a high-flying detective from Hong Kong join forces to track down a kidnapper who has abducted Inspector Lee's daughter as revenge for a recent arrest.
Cop Out: Two longtime NYPD partners on the trail of a stolen, rare, mint-condition baseball card find themselves up against a merciless, memorabilia-obsessed gangster. Jimmy is the veteran detective whose missing collectible is his only hope to pay for his...
Language
English
Description
Lethal weapon: The story of two Vietnam-vets-turned-cops who have just one thing in common: both hate to work with partners. But their partnership becomes the key to survival when a murder investigation leads to war with a heroin ring.
Lethal weapon 2: Riggs and Murtaugh must guard a free-wheeling witness in a comedy of car chases, gun battles, under-water escapes, even the destruction of a chic hillside house.
236) Blindness: Proof
Language
English
Description
Blindness (2008 ; 121 min.): "A plague of blindness strikes and threatens all of humanity. One woman feigns the illness to share an uncertain fate in quarantine, where society is breaking down as fast as the crumbling surroundings"--Container.
Proof (2005 ; 101 min.): "A powerful story of a young woman haunted by her father's past and the shadow of her own future. Catherine has devoted years to caring for her brilliant but mentally unstable father,...
237) Agents of change
Series
Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival volume 2018
Language
English
Description
"From the well-publicized events at San Francisco State in 1968 to the image of black students with guns emerging from the takeover of the student union at Cornell University in April, 1969, the struggle for a more relevant and meaningful education, including demands for black and ethnic studies programs, became a clarion call across the country in the late 1960's. Through the stories of these young men and women who were at the forefront of these...
Language
English
Description
An American Tail: The treasure of Manhattan Island: In the historic melting pot of 19th century New York City, Fievel and the Mousekewitz family are struggling to make their "American dream" come true. But when a mysterious treasure map leads Fievel and his friends to a secret world of Native American mice living beneath the city, he finds something even more precious than gold and jewels! -- An American Tail: The mystery of the night monster: A ferocious...
Language
English
Description
Saw: Obsessed with teaching his victims the value of life, a deranged, sadistic serial killer is abducting morally wayward people and forcing them to play horrifric games for their own survival. Faced with impossible choices, each victim must struggle to win back his or her life, or else die trying.
Saw II: Jigsaw is back and this time he has locked some very unlucky people in a booby trapped shelter. They must find a way out before they inhale too...