Alan Bates
1) Evelyn
Author
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of Desmond Doyle (Pierce Brosnan), who after losing his job and watching his wife leave the country with another man, has his children taken away by an arcane custody law. Doyle cleans up his act and wages an unlikely legal battle to regain custody.
2) Shuttlecock
Author
Language
English
Description
At the memorial for his WWII hero father (Alan Bates), JOHN (Lambert Wilson) confesses a dark family secret-buried twenty-five years--to his own son.
5) The Rose
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
c2003, c1979
Language
English
Description
Presents the final days of a hard-living, burned-out rock performer who badly needs a rest. When her ruthless manager won't give her one, she sets off on a self-destructive binge.
Author
Series
Arabian Nights volume 2
Language
English
Description
As the tale of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves unfolds, the Sultan realises that the story bears a striking resemblance to to his own life : and could even offer a solution to his ongoing conflict with his jealous brother.
Author
Series
Arabian Nights volume 1
Language
English
Description
A desperate woman sets out to please her Sultan husband by relating a series of fantastic tales, including those of Aladdin and Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, hoping the action-packed stories will calm his troubled mind and spare her from death.
9) Evelyn
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Language
English
Description
In 1953, Desmond Doyle takes on the Irish family law system and the Catholic Church in a bid to be reunited with his children. Despite a strong work ethic, Desmond has a hard time holding on to steady work. Desmond's wife walks out on the relationship and his sporadic employment eventually attracts the attention of the law. A court order sends his two sons and young daughter to separate Catholic orphanages until Desmond can prove he's capable of properly...
10) Hamlet
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004], c1990
Language
English
Description
Hamlet, a prince of medieval-era Denmark, senses treachery behind his royal father's death. His mother is all too dangerously entangled in that treachery. This film portrays Shakespeare's immortal tale of high adventure and evil deeds.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
This story is based on events which occurred in Point Pleasant, West Virginia. Distraught by the sudden, tragic death of his wife, a journalist finds himself mysteriously drawn to a small West Virginia town when his car inexplicably strands him. He soon learns that many of the town's residents have been beset by bizarre events, including sightings of an eerie "moth-like" entity, an entity similar to the one seen by his late wife.
13) Hollywood North
Publisher
First Look Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Language
English
Description
Bobby is a novice movie producer who buys the film rights to "Lantern moon", a classic Canadian novel. With his script and vision, Bobby is seeing gold. Of course, thats before Hollywood gets its hands on it. After an aging actor's plunge into paranoid insanity, casting an oversexed actress notorious for her on-set affairs, the collapse of Bobby's vision, and an on-hand filmmaker catching the entire debacle on film, "Lantern moon" and Bobby's dream...