Jason Robards
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
Bowfinger: How does Bobby Bowfinger, Hollywood's least successful director, get Kit Ramsey, Hollywood's biggest star, in his ultra low-budget film? Any way he can. With an ingenious scheme, Bowfinger sets out to trick the celebrity into the performance of a lifetime.
Parenthood: Steve Martin stars as Gil, a funny and loving husband who's trying too hard to be the "perfect" parent to his kids. Parenthood is a heartwarming drama that explores life's...
28) A Thousand Acres
Pub. Date
c1997
Description
Follows the saga of the Cook family. Cook's kingdom is a fertile farm that spans 1,000 acres, but the seeds of its destruction are sown when the patriarch, Larry Cook, impulsively decides to distribute it among his three daughters, Ginny, Rose, and Caroline.
29) The day after
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
Following a nuclear strike against the United States, families in small-town Kansas try to survive as radiation slowly kills everything around them.
31) Julia
Pub. Date
[2005].
Description
Born to great wealth, the fiercely independent Julia devotes her life to political causes, fighting fascism in the 1930's. While traveling in Europe, playwright Lillian Hellman, a friend of Julia's, is swept into a dangerous world, smuggling money across hostile borders.
Pub. Date
2004
Description
Based on a true story, hard-luck milkman Melvin Dummar picks up a bum in the Nevada desert. The old man claims to be Howard Hughes and eight years later, Dummar finds himself a beneficiary in the Hughes will. Dummar becomes an instant celebrity while trying to cash in on the fortune.
33) Magnolia
Pub. Date
2000
Description
Magnolia is a mosaic of American life woven through a series of comic and poignant vignettes. Nine people will weave and warp through each other's lives on a day that builds to an unforgettable climax.
35) Julius Caesar
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
A 1970 film adaptation of William Shakespeare's drama in which Cassius, fearing Julius Caesar's ambition, forms a conspiracy among Roman republicans, including Caesar's trusted friend Brutus, to assassinate him on the Ides of March.
Pub. Date
[2001]
Description
John Tanner, a man recently widowed and facing his first Christmas alone. Traditionally, he and his family spend the holidays at their cabin in the mountains. But this year his son's family has invited him to visit them in Flodia. Rather than risk being a burden to his son, he declines their invitation. Determined not to spend the hoildays alone, he answers an as in the paper for a singles agency. The agency matches him with Iris, a shy woman who...
37) Parenthood
Pub. Date
1989.
Description
The Buckmans are a modern family facing the age-old dilemma of trying to raise children the "right" way.
Pub. Date
2006
Description
"Man Friday": Robinson Crusoe and his man Friday are marooned on a beautiful South Seas island where they face their fiercest battles with each other as they attempt to adapt and survive against all odds. "Raise the Titanic": Depicts the amazing efforts to salvage the Titanic in order to recover material vital to the United States defense. The Herculean project must be managed in absolute secrecy, despite the extreme rigors of the climate deadly interference...
40) The Civil War
Pub. Date
[2004], c1990
Description
An epic documentary bringing life to America's most destructive - and defining - conflict. Here is the saga of celebrated generals and the ordinary soldiers. A heroic and transcendent president and a country that had to divide itself in two in order to become one again.