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1) Sideways
Language
English
Description
Jack and Miles were college roommates, and despite their differences, they have been friends ever since. Jack is an actor, whose career high point is a stint as a soap opera regular. English teacher and oenophile Miles would much rather be a published novelist. Jack is about to get married, so depressed, divorced Miles suggests they hit the road for a week-long bachelor party amidst the rolling hillsides and gorgeous sunsets of wine country near Santa...
3) The tripper
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
As a rural Northern California town prepares for Frank Baker's American Free Love Festival, a serial killer roams the woods inflicting preemptive strikes on the hippies who've come for the sex, drugs and rock and roll. Sporting a Ronald Reagan mask and leaving trademark jelly beans at his gruesome crime scenes, the killer seems unstoppable. That is, unless he meets an unimpeachable flower child.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
After Peter gets engaged to the woman of his dreams, he realizes he has not one friend to serve as his best man. To rectify the situation, he goes on a series of man-dates before he meets Sydney Fife, with whom he instantly bonds. While Peter and Sydney become closer, his relationship with his fiancee begins to suffer, forcing him to choose between her or his new B.F.F.
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Sensitive to outcries of police brutality, San Francisco Detective Harry Callahan bosses send him on an out-of-town assignment until events cool down. But wherever Harry goes, things just get hotter. This time, he is tracking a traumatized rape victim who coldly guns down her bygone attackers-- and as secrets come to light, starts striking an empathetic chord in the pursuing lawman.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
A down-and-out silver miner raising a son, self-made oilman Daniel Plainview has a voracious appetite for oil and it turns him into a California tycoon in the early years of the 20th century. Getting the oil from the ground is an intensely physical process that later broadens into Plainview's equally indomitable urge to control land and power. Along the way, Plainview deals with a mighty derrick fire, a visit from a long-lost brother, the ongoing...
Series
Studio classic volume 17
Language
English
Description
The Joad family from Oklahoma has seen their share of hardship but when the Dust Bowl strikes and crops start to fail they, along with thousands of other midwesterners, head to California.
Series
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
An all-star comedy set during the latter years of Hollywood's Golden Age. It follows a single day in the life of a studio executive who is presented with plenty of problems to fix, including pregnant leading ladies, kidnapping of actors and a job offer from Lockheed.
10) Lions for lambs
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment [distributor
Pub. Date
2008]
Language
English
Description
Two determined California college students, Arian and Ernest, follow the inspiration of their idealistic professor, Dr. Malley, and attempt to do something important with their lives. The two make the bold decision to join the battle in Afghanistan. Dr. Malley is both moved and distraught. Now, as Arian and Ernest fight for survival in the field and the human consequences of war becomes clear for these two students trapped behind enemy lines. They...
Publisher
Showtime Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Novelist Hank Moody's home life is in ruins, but the scandal surrounding his latest book has turned him into a hot commodity, in more ways than one. Find out if Hank can navigate the mess he's made of his life and still come out on top. Includes an episode sampling of Showtime original series: Dexter season six, The Borgias, Gigolos, and Episodes.
12) Thirteen
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2003
Language
English
Description
Los Angeles teenager and overachiever Tracy is an excellent student in her seventh grade class and gets along well with her mother, Melanie. She fears that she's not cool enough to be friends with Evie, the most popular girl in school. Fueled with genuine adolescent energy, Tracy follows Evie's lead into the harsh realities of sex, drugs, and hard-edged adventure. Consumed with temptations and conflicting desires, Tracy loses her good-girl identity,...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
No-name actors are making a low-budget period drama called "Home for Purim," when an anonymous post on the Internet suggests that one performance is Oscar-worthy. Then, two more cast members get Oscar-related press: buzz in "Variety" and appearances on TV prompt the studio executives to insist on changes in the script in anticipation of a blockbuster. Jump ahead a few months to the days before Oscar nominees are announced: just the possibility of...