Jeffrey Jones
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
The cultural and political history of the Pledge of Allegiance, how it came to be, what it means to Americans, and why we have battled over it for generations
For more than a century, reciting the Pledge of Allegiance has been a central part of the American Experience. And perhaps because of its ubiquity, this simple flag salute has served not only as a unifying ritual but also as a lightning rod for bitter controversy.
Congress's 1954 decision...
Language
English
Description
" ... Dr. Dolittle plays Cupid to a bumbling circus bear to help a group of forest creatures save their habitat. With the aid of his mangy, madcap animal friends, Dolittle must teach this overgrown teddy the ways of true romance in time to save his species and his home!"--Container.
5) The pest
Language
English
Description
A Miami con man becomes a hunter's human prey for $50,000. Crass, crude and endlessly inventive, the "Pest" assumes a wild variety of ethnic identities as he evades his predator with attitude intact.
6) Beetlejuice
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Twentieth anniversary deluxe edition.
Language
English
Description
After Barbara and Adam Maitland are killed in a car crash, they find themselves trapped as ghosts in their beautiful New England farmhouse. Their peaceful 'existence' is disrupted when a yuppie family, the Deetz's, buy their house. The Maitlands are too nice and harmless as ghosts and all their efforts to scare the Deetz's away are unsuccessful. They decide to call to Beetlejuice, a people-exorcizing ghost, for help.
7) Ed Wood
Language
English
Formats
Description
Releasing for the first time on Blu-ray, experience Tim Burton's acclaimed hilarious, true-life story of the wackiest filmmaker in Hollywood history, Ed Wood, starring Johnny Depp, Bill Murray, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Academy Award winner Martin Landau. Depp stars as the high-spirited director who never let terrible reviews or hostile studio executives derail his big-screen dreams. With an oddball collection of showbiz misfits, Ed takes the art...
Author
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
The Cherry Orchard (1903) is Russian playwright and short story writer Anton Chekhov's final play. It was first performed at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1904, directed by acclaimed actor Konstantin Stanislavski-who also played the role of Leonid Gayev, the bizarre and uninspired brother of Madame Ranevskaya. It has since become one of twentieth century theater's most important-and most frequently staged-dramatic works.
After five years of living in...
11) Howard the Duck
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
Special edition.
Language
English
Description
Follow the exploits of a wise-cracking, cigar-chomping duck as he tries to return to his home planet.
12) Beetlejuice
Language
English
Description
A couple of likable ghosts contact the afterlife's bio-exorcist to rid their home of a trendy New York family that moves in.
13) Amadeus
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
Adapted from Shaffer's play, the film presents the life of Antonio Salieri, a mediocre 18th century Viennese composer obsessed with and jealous of the musical genius of the age: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
15) Dr. Dolittle 2
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Language
English
Description
Now a world-famous lecturer and physician to both people and animals alike, Dr. Dolittle must act to save the forest home of some animal friends, but first he needs to teach a bumbling show biz bear survival techniques so that he may be reintroduced into the forest and meet the bear of his dreams.
16) Ravenous
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
The inhabitants of an isolated military outpost go up against a marauding band of cannibals in a deadly struggle for survival.
17) Houseguest
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
Sinbad is Kevin Franklin, a get-rich-quick con man who escapes the mob by impersonating the long-lost friend of an uptight businessman - and moving in with his family! Soon this wily con artist is struggling to find out who he's pretending to be ... a wine expert, a golfer, or even a dentist! But when the family starts to see through his act, and the mob catches on to his scam, Kevin finds his escapade as a "houseguest" suddenly much more than he...
18) Amadeus
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
Anamorphic widescreen.
Language
English
Description
The story of Mozart during his time in Vienna, as seen through the eyes of his jealous rival Antonio Salieri.
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
The town of Deadwood, South Dakota is a lawless sinkhole of crime and corruption. Into this uncivilized outpost ride a disillusioned and bitter ex-lawman, Wild Bill Hickok, and Seth Bullock, a man hoping to find a new start for himself. Both men find themselves quickly on opposite sides of the legal and moral fence from Al Swearengen, saloon owner, hotel operator, and incipient boss of Deadwood. The lives of these three intertwine with many others,...
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