Universal Studios Home Video (Firm)
Language
English
Description
Rosalee Futch is a grocery clerk living in rural West Virginia. She dreams of meeting her big-screen idol, Tad Hamilton. Her chance is the Win a Date with Tad Hamilton contest that was cooked up by Tad's agent and manager to clean up Tad's bad-boy image. When Tad meets Rosalee and gets a taste of what he's been missing in the real world, he decides he wants more and moves to West Virginia, turning Rosalee's dream come true into a nightmare for Richard...
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner) hears a voice, followed by a brief vision of a baseball field. He believes that if he builds a baseball diamond in his cornfield, Shoeless Joe Jackson from the infamous 1919 Chicago Black Sox will return to play baseball. By being willing to take a chance, Ray gets a second time up at bat in life.
4) Apollo 13
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
A true story. Stranded 205,000 miles from Earth in a crippled spacecraft, astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, and Jack Swigert fight a desperate battle to survive. Meanwhile, at Mission Control, astronaut Ken Mattingly, flight director Gene Kranz and a heroic ground crew race against time, and the odds, to bring them home.
5) Rumble Fish
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
A street punk worships his older brother, who is the leader of a gang.
6) Van Helsing
Language
English
Formats
Description
Legendary 19th-century monster hunter Van Helsing is sent to mysterious Transylvania to battle the evil Dracula is trying to release with the unwilling help of Frankestein's monster and a wolf-man.
9) Spy game
Author
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Formats
Description
On the day he retires, a CIA agent must rescue an agent he trained, who is trapped in a Chinese prison.
11) Collateral
Language
English
Description
Vincent is a cool, calculating contract killer at the top of his game. Max is a cabbie with big dreams looking for his next fare. This fateful night, Max becomes Vincent's collateral, and will transport him on his next mission - one night, five stops, five hits and then a perfect getaway. Together, Vincent and Max find themselves in a non-stop race against time. With the LAPD and the FBI after them, they each become dependent on the other to survive....
12) Bulletproof
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Two friends find themselves on opposite sides of the law, but join forces to outwit a drug lord who wants them both dead.
Author
Language
English
Description
It's now 1933, 10 years after Rick and Evie met. They're married, settled in London and are raising their 8-year-old son, Alex. But Imhotep's corpse has been brought to the British Museum, and resurrected; the mummy now walks the earth again, determined to become immortal. Meanwhile, another force born of the darkest rituals of ancient Egyptian mysticism, even more powerful than Imhotep, has also been set loose. When these two forces clash, the world...
15) The Burbs
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
A suspense-comedy in which Tom Hanks portrays a suburbanite whose plans for a peaceful vacation are disturbed by a creepy new family on the block.
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Headstrong farmer Rosemary Muldoon has her heart set on winning her neighbor Anthony Reilly's love. The problem is, Anthony seems to have inherited a family curse, and remains oblivious to his beautiful admirer. Stung by his father's plans to sell the family farm to his American nephew, Anthony is jolted into pursuing his dreams.
17) The terminal
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
An Eastern European immigrant finds himself stranded in a no-man's land at JFK International Airport when he finds he cannot enter the U.S., and cannot return to his home country, either.
Language
English
Description
It's the 70's and Ron Burgundy is the king of San Diego. He's the most popular news anchor in town. He and his all-male news team rule the city with their sauve looks, minimal IQ's and unbelievably bad hair. In Ron's world, women don't belong in the newsroom. So when rising star reporter Veronica Corningstone fills in for Ron one night and the ratings soar, it becomes more than a battle ... it becomes war.
19) Somewhere
Series
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
A witty, moving, and empathetic look into the orbit of actor Johnny Marco. You have probably seen him in the tabloids; Johnny is living at the legendary Chateau Marmont hotel in Hollywood. He has a Ferrari to drive around in, and a constant stream of girls and pills to stay in with. Comfortably numbed, Johnny drifts along. Then, his 11-year-old daughter Cleo from his failed marriage arrives unexpectedly at the Chateau. Their encounters encourage Johnny...
20) The Jackal
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jackal--the greatest assassin in history--out to eliminate a top U.S. government official. Declan Mulqueen, an imprisoned underground operative, is the only man who can stop him. Now, the Deputy Director of the FBI is taking the biggest risk of all ... he's releasing one criminal to stop another.