Universal Pictures (Firm)
1) Chef
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A chef who loses his restaurant job starts up a food truck in an effort to reclaim his creative promise, while piecing back together his estranged family.
2) Madagascar
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 86 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A lion and zebra and two other of their pampered friends, from New York's Central Park Zoo, accidentally find themselves on a ship heading for Africa. When their vessel is hijacked, they become shipwrecked on the exotic island of Madagascar where they discover it really is a jungle out there!
3) Yanks
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (139 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This beautifully filmed drama follows three American soldiers stationed in England during WWII and the relationships that they form with three local women: Jean, Helen, and Mollie. The relationships that blossom would affect their lives forever.
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 digital videodisc (ca. 94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Presents interviews with living witnesses to Hitler's Third Reich, raising questions about national identity and complicity among Germany's civilian population.
An urgent portrait of the last living generation of everyday people to participate in Adolf Hitler's Third Reich. Over a decade in the making, the film raises vital, timely questions about authority, conformity, complicity and perpetration, national identity, and responsibility, as men and...
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Not that Bridget is counting, but it's been six wonderful weeks, four fabulous days, and seven percious hours with one flawless boyfriend, Mark. But when mischievous and devilishly charming Daniel arrives on the scene claiming to be a reformed man, can Bridget find a way to make true love last forever?
6) Blue bayou
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Follows the story of a Korean adoptee, raised in the Lousiana bayou and living with his wife and stepdaughter, who must confront his past when he discovers that he could be deported.
7) The sting
Description
Robert Redford and Paul Newman star as two con men in the 1930s, out to avenge the death of a mutual friend. They seek revenge on crime lord Robert Shaw with a 'sting' that is one of the greatest double-crosses in movie history.
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 82 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
For the first time ever, see the creative world of LEGO come to life in the all-new feature-length DVD movie. Clutch Powers, the best builder and explorer in the LEGO universe, heads off on his most dangerous mission yet. Join Clutch and his team of LEGO experts as their adventure leads them from LEGO City to the Space Police prison planet to the medieval world of Ashlar, where they must help the rightful heir to the throne find the courage to regain...
10) Man of the year
Pub. Date
2007, c2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Tom Dobbs makes an off-hand comment on his late night talk show that he would be a better president than the leader who currently occupies the White House. A grassroots campaign conducted by his legions of fans finds him unexpectedly ushered into the Oval Office and forced to live up to his promise. Unfortunately for Dobbs, he finds out that his surprise victory was actually the result of a voting computer glitch and not winning the majority vote...
11) Vanity fair
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (140 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Becky is determined to make something of herself. She accepts a job as a nanny for the children of Sir Pitt Crawley. Becky catches the eye of Crawley's son Rawdon. Becky is introduced to London's most exclusive social circle, where she becomes re-acquainted with Amelia. Becky weds Rawdon, but the social and economic stability she dreamed of begins to collapse when he begins drowning his troubles, and soon she turns to the powerful Marquess of Steyne...
12) Sixteen candles
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Samantha Baker is ready to make the most of her sweet sixteenth birthday, but only if someone, anyone from her family would just remember it. For her birthday, she has to endure creepy freshmen, spoiled siblings, confused parents and the beauty who stands in the way of the boy of her dreams.
13) Licorice pizza
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (134 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of Alana Kane and Gary Valentine growing up, running around, and falling in love in the San Fernando Valley, 1973.
14) Inside man
Pub. Date
2006
Description
NYPD Detective Keith Frazier struggles to outsmart Dalton, a high-stakes bank robber who, along with a well-trained crew of accomplices, has seized control of a Wall Street bank. The robbers turn what initially looks like a hostage crisis into a personal crusade to expose some mysterious evil secrets. As the dangerous cat-and-mouse game unfolds, Madaline, a power broker with her own agenda, emerges and injects even more instability into an already...
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A man glimpses the future fate has planned for him and chooses to fight for his own destiny. Battling the powerful Adjustment Bureau across, under, and through the streets of New York, he risks his destined greatness to be with the only woman he's ever loved.
16) Till
Pub. Date
[2023]
Formats
Description
"Till is a profoundly emotional and cinematic film about the true story of Mamie Till Mobley's relentless pursuit of justice for her 14-year-old son, Emmett Till, who, in 1955, was lynched while visiting his cousins in Mississippi. In Mamie's poignant journey of grief turned to action, we see the universal power of a mother's ability to change the world." --container.
18) A serious man
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
One ordinary man's quest to become a serious man. Physics professor Larry Gopnik can't believe his life, His wife is leaving him for his best friend, his unemployed brother won't move off the couch, someone is threatening his career, his kids are a mystery and his neighbor is tormenting him by sunbathing nude. Struggling to make sense of it all, Larry consults three different rabbis and their answers lead him on a twisted journey of faith, family,...
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Takes place during one pivotal summer in the lives of famous children's book author Ted Cole and his beautiful wife, Marion. It is a provacative story about one couple's emotional journey into a world of daring sensuality and stunning honesty.
20) Duplicity
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (125 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Ex-CIA officer Claire Stenwick and ex-MI6 agent Ray Koval are both racing to secure the formula for a product that will bring untold wealth to the company that lands the patent first. As the stakes begin to rise, so does the passion between Claire and Ray. Meanwhile, their mutual employers, industry giant Howerd Tully and trailblazing CEO Dick Garsil start resorting to some seriously underhanded tactics as each hopes to gain an advantage over the...
