Catalog Search Results
1) Scrooged
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1988.., c1999 1988
Language
English
Description
Modern version of Dickens' A Christmas Carol, with Bill Murray portraying a nasty, uncaring, unforgiving TV network president. On Christmas Eve he is visited by three ghosts who show him the error of his ways.
2) Houseboat
Series
Language
English
Description
Shows Cary Grant as a government attorney, living in a houseboat, widowed and left with three unruly kids. He hires Sophia Loren as a governess and ends up falling in love with her.
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c1991
Language
English
Description
Major League baseball scout, Virgil, lives for the coming of spring. But this spring his career is threatened when the team's new owner decides to eliminate the scouting program ... including Virgil. His only hope lies in finding a gifted prospect to save the struggling team and his job.
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures Corp
Language
English
Formats
Description
A chronicle of the events experienced by a rather magical 17-year-old, who has an overwhelming urge to cut school one spring day and head for downtown Chicago with his girl and best friend to see the sights and experience a day of freedom.
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
1998, 1996
Language
English
Description
A chilling vision of the future, the film takes place in 2013, when Los Angeles has become a ruined landmark. Snake Plissken is once again called in by the United States government to recover a potential doomsday device from Los Angeles, now an autonomous island where undesirables are deported.
Series
Language
English
Description
Three mid-life Manhattanites have more than a longtime friendship in common. After years of helping their hubbies climb the corporate ladder of success, each has been dumped for a newer, curvier model. The trio is determined to turn their pain into gain. They come up with a cleverly devious plan to hit their exes where it really hurts--in the wallet!
10) Apocalypse now
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
A United States Army officer/trained assassin is sent into the depths of a southeast Asian jungle to seek out a renegade colonel and terminate his command during the Vietnam War.
12) Days of heaven
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
�1999
Language
English
Description
A moving story about two men who love the same woman. A fugitive from the slums of Chicago finds himself pitted against a shy, rich Texan for the love of Abby.
13) Days of thunder
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
�1999
Language
English
Description
Race car driver Cole Trickle (Tom Cruise) teams with a legendary crew chief (Robert Duvall) to race at the Daytona 500. A fiery crash nearly ends his career and he must turn to a beautiful doctor (Nicole Kidman) to regain his nerve to race, to win and to live.
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
�1999
Language
English
Description
An account of the only three men ever to escape from the infamous maximum security prison at Alcatraz. Eastwood portrays Frank Morris, the cunning bank robber who masterminded the elaborately detailed and, as far as anyone knows, ultimately successful, escape.
15) Gallipoli
Series
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
A story of how the irresistible lure of adventure and the unknown bring two young men together in the Australian army in 1915.
16) Internal Affairs
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Dennis Peck knows how to get around the law, because he is a cop. Raymond Avilla is the investigator who is determined to bring Peck to justice, even as Peck threatens Avilla's career, marriage, and sanity.
19) Alfie
Author
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
A young man in 1960s London is a shallow womanizer trying to figure out what life is all about.
20) Bless the child
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Language
English
Description
When her sister suddenly disappears, Maggie must take care of her sister's autistic daughter, Cody. But after her sister returns with a mysterious cult leader and abducts Cody, Maggie discovers that Cody possesses extraordinary powers--powers that forces of evil have waited centuries to control.