David Paymer
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Christine Brown (Lohman) is an ambitious L.A. loan officer. She is on a desperate quest to break an evil curse. Professor Clay Dalton (Long) is her charming boyfriend. Life is good until the mysterious Mrs. Ganush (Raver) arrives at the bank to beg for an extension on her home loan. Christine denies the extension to impress her boss and get a leg-up on a promotion, shaming Mrs. Ganush and dispossessing her of her home. Christine then finds herself...
5) Payback
Description
Mel Gibson is Porter, a career criminal bent on revenge after his partners in a street heist betray him.
Pub. Date
[1999]
Description
Andrew Shepherd is a consummate politician and a man of integrity, who also happens to be a widower, ready to start dating again. He is swept off his feet by a lobbyist, Sydney Ellen Wade. His critics rant that it is immoral and his friends proclaim that it's romantic, but one thing is certain, all that stands between true love and re-election is the approval of the American public.
9) Amistad
Pub. Date
1997.
Description
Chronicles the 1839 revolt on board the slave ship Amistad bound for America. Much of the story involves the court-room drama about the slave who led the revolt.
10) Redbelt
Pub. Date
2008.
Description
A jujitsu master becomes corrupted by the glitz and glamour of Hollywood. When a respected jujitsu master eschews a lucrative prizefighting career in favor of opening a self-defense dojo, it appears that he has chosen a peaceful path in life. The dedicated master's fate takes an unanticipated turn, however, when he is manipulated into participating in ultimate fighting championships by a group of unscrupulous actors and fight promoters. Later, as...
11) Alex & Emma
Description
Alex is an author whose writer's block and gambling debts have landed him in trouble. In order to get the loan sharks off his back, he must finish his novel in 30 days or end up dead. To help him complete his manuscript, he hires stenographer, Emma. As Alex begins to dictate his tale of a romantic love triangle, Emma challenges his ideas at every turn. Her unsolicited, yet intriguing input, begins to inadvertently influence Alex and his story and...
15) Chill factor
Pub. Date
[1999]
Description
If a new biological chemical weapon is exposed to temperatures over 50 degrees Fahrenheit, it'll do something very bad. Arlo and Tim are forced to team up with each other and try to make sure that doesn't happen, and that it doesn't get stolen by a terrorist.
16) Warm springs
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
The inspiring true story about Franklin Roosevelt, left a paraplegic from polio at 39 years of age, who seeks out a miracle cure in the backwoods of Georgia.
"****...'Warm Springs' can proudly take its place with the best of HBO's biographies."--USA Today.
"Rich, inspiring and surprising."--Us Weekly.
17) Bounce
Pub. Date
2001
Description
A young widow gets involved with a slick, womanizing man who has reason to feel guilty about her husband's death.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Dr. Andrew Brown and his family are starting their second year in tiny Everwood, Colorado. Enough time to begin recovering from the death of Andy's wife, put down roots and be at home. Or maybe just enough time to be in total turmoil. Andy finds he can indeed fall in love again, 16-year-old Ephram falls hard for an older girl, and Ephram's friend Amy, in shock from the death of her boyfriend, falls prey to depression and turns to the wrong guy for...