Jeffrey DeMunn
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English
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Once upon a time in the haunted city of Derry, four boys stood together and did a brave thing. Something that changed them in ways they could never begin to understand. Twenty-five years later, the boys are now men and reunite during hunting season in the woods of Maine. These men will be plunged into a horrific struggle with a creature from another world. Their only chance for survival is locked in their shared past--and in the Dreamcatcher.
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English
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This is the story of the men who built the transcontinental railroad. The U.S. government pitted two companies - the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific railroads - against each other in a race for funding, encouraging speed over caution. At its peak the work force approached the size of Civil War armies, with as many as 15,000 workers on each line
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English
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On an island off the coast of Maine, a man is found dead. There's no identification on the body. Only the dogged work of a pair of local newspapermen and a graduate student in forensics turns up any clues, and it's more than a year before the man is identified
Publisher
Cardinal Flix
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Based on the short story by groundbreaking southern American writer Carson McCullers, written when she was just 25, the film, “A TREE. A ROCK. A CLOUD.”, is set at a roadside café in the early morning in the Spring of 1947. A young boy and an older man meet by chance. The man relates a luminous tale of personal heartbreak and loss, and of his hard won understanding of the nature of love. The film is the directorial debut of award winning...
5) The Majestic
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Jim Carrey stars as Peter Appleton, a Hollywood screenwriter who, in 1951, receives a summons to testify before the feared House Un-American Activities Committee. But Appleton accidentally crashes his car, develops amnesia and ends up in a small town. His remarkable resemblance to a missing World War II hero, Luke Trimble, causes the residents, including Luke's girlfriend, to rejoice at his "homecoming." The soldier's father (Academy Award winner...
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Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Made famous as Superman on television, George Reeves finds it hard to not be typecast because of it. When he is found dead of a gunshot wound, rumors begin to run rampant. Based on Hollywood's most notorious unsolved mystery.
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
'The Walking Dead' is a drama where personal struggles are magnified against a backdrop of crises. The series explores how the living are changed by the realization that those who survive can be far more dangerous than the walking dead
9) Phenomenon
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
A simple, small town garage mechanic who suddenly develops amazing mental abilities must face governmental investigation, scientific scrutiny, and ostracism by even his closest friends. But with the love and support of a young single mother, he is finally able to accept his lot in life
11) 6 souls
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
After her husband's death, a doctor is introduced to a man with multiple personalities and discovers that several of his personalities have been murder victims.
12) The Hitcher
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
1984
Language
English
Description
Horror film depicting a young man's attempts to escape from and later apprehend a psychopathic killer he picked up hitchhiking in the desert.
13) The green mile
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A death row inmate in a Southern prison possesses the unusual gift of healing. A guard discovers the inmate's miraculous power and begins to question the man's guilt
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English
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City banker Andy Dufresne arrived at Shawshank Prison in 1947. Convicted of two brutal murders, he received a double life sentence. Within the confines of the prison, Andy forms an unlikely friendship with the prison "fixer" Red. He also becomes popular with the Warden and the prison's guards, as Andy is able to use his banking experience to help the corrupt officials amass personal fortunes. With the extraordinary twist in the tale, Andy finds that...
15) Rocketman
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Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A computer geek is chosen to go on the first manned mission to Mars, and his crewmates aren't happy.
16) The blob
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
A vile, malignant life-form crashes to earth in a cozy, rural American town and eats everything that moves.
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Publisher
Kino Lorber Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The inhabitants of a picturesque, sleepy little town on a small island off the coast of Maine find themselves completely cut off from the rest of the world when they are hit by the worst storm of the century. As snow steadily buries everything familiar and an eerie darkness envelops the town, terror arrives in the form of an enigmatic stranger who somehow knows the innermost secrets of the residents. After a succession of bizarre murders, and with...
18) The Majestic
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Peter Appleton, a 1950s Hollywood screenwriter who is about to see his first screenplay made into a film, is mistakenly called before the House Un-American Activities Committee. As a result, the studio pulls the plans for the film. Peter then finds himself in a small California town after a car accident takes his memory. There, the townspeople believe he is local hero Luke Trimble. Peter settles into his life at the Majestic theater, as Luke Trimble,...
19) Marshall
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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About a young Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court Justice, as he battles through one of his career defining cases.
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Reflecting on his career, Stephen E. Ambrose - one of the country's most influential historians - confronts America's failures and struggles as he explores both its moral and pragmatic triumphs. To America celebrates the men and women who invented the United States and made it exceptional. Taking a few swings at today's political correctness, Ambrose grapples with the country's historic sins of racism, its neglect and ill treatment of Native Americans,...