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DV000647
Sabotage.
A power outage plunges London into darkness and leaves the city at the mercy
of saboteurs. Their principal agent is an unassuming middle aged man. Under
police surveillance himself, he enlists an unsuspecting 12 year old to deliver
a bomb. With Oscar Homukla and Sylvia Sidney. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
MPAA Rating NR. 76 minutes.
DV000691
Salt of the earth.
In New Mexico in the 1950s, Mexican American zinc miners go on strike, fed
up with brutal, unsafe working conditions and bare subsistence in a company
shantytown. When an injunction is issued against the workers, their wives
take up battle with a fury, leaving the husbands to care for home and children.
With Will Geer, David Wolfe and Rosaura Revueltas. Directed by Herbert J.
Biberman. MPAA Rating NR. 94 minutes.
DV000197
The Santa clause.
Rooftop clatter leads to merry adventure after Santa falls down on the job,
and Scott Calvin's son Charlie convinces dad to try on the red suit. Eight
reindeer pilot the pair to the North Pole, where they soon discover that by
donning the famous suit, dad must now accept all of Santa's duties. Over the
next year, a surprised, no so jolly Santa grows a Santa sized tummy and beard,
causing friends, family and business associates to wonder if he's lost his
marbles. All except Charlie, who thinks his dad is perfectly suited for his
new job. Starring Tim Allen, Judge Reinhold, Wendy Crewson, Peter Boyle, Eric
Lloyd. Directed by John Pasquin. MPAA Rating PG13. 97 minutes.
DV000736
Santa Fe Trail.
Posted to Fort Leavenworth in the Kansas Territory, West Point graduates J.E.B.
Stuart and George Custer are embroiled in the strife fomented by abolitionist
John Brown. With Errol Flynn, Ronald Reagan, Raymond Massey, Olivia De Haviland
and Van Heflin. Directed by Michael Curtiz. MPAA Rating NR. 111 minutes.
DV000737
Santee.
In a shootout with an outlaw he's tracking a bounty hunter orphans the man's
teenaged son. He takes the boy home with him; and slowly, with the help of
his wife and their wrangler, he earns the boys trust and respect. Then old
enemies force him into a deadly showdown. With Glenn Ford, Dana Wynter and
Jay Silverheels. Directed by Gary Nelson. MPAA Rating PG. 88 minutes..
DV000738
The satanic rites of Dracula.
Professor Larimar Van Helsing discovers his arch enemy Count Dracula intends
to infect all of humanity with a virulent new strain of bubonic plague. And
it will take more than a silver bullet to stop him. With Peter Cushing and
Christopher Lee. Directed by Alan Gibson. MPAA Rating PG. 88 minutes.
DV000282
Saving Private Ryan.
Captain John Miller must take his men behind enemy lines to find Private Ryan,
whose three brothers have been killed in combat. Faced with impossible odds,
the men question their orders. Why are eight men risking their lives to save
just one? Surrounded by the brutal realties of war each man searches for his
own answer and the strength to triumph over uncertain future with honor, decency
and courage. Starring Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore, Jeremy Davies, Edward Burns,
Giovanni Ribisi. Directed by Steven Spielberg. MPAA Rating R. 169 minutes.
DV000739
Scar Tissue.
Distressed by the progress of Alzheimer's disease in his mother Mora, Daniel
strives to delay her mental decline in order to rescue the shattered remnants
of her memory and discovery why she gave up her painting 20 years ago. With
Roberta Maxwell, Shawn Doyle, Paul Hecht and Aidan Devine. Directed by Peter
Moss. MPAA Rating NR. 87 minutes.
DV000348
The Scarlet Pimpernel.
London fop Percy Blakeney is also secretly the Scarlet Pimpernel who, in a
variety of disguises, makes repeated daring trips to France to save aristocrats
from Madame Guillotine. His unknowing wife is also French, and she finds that
her brother has been arrested by the Republic to try and get her to
find out who "that damned Pimpernel" really is. Starring Leslie
Howard, Merle Oberon, Raymond Massey. Directed by Harold Young. MPAA Rating
NR. 97 minutes.
DV000659
Scarlet Street.
A timid and unassuming middle aged bookkeeper is pulled into a world of crime
and deception by a seductive woman and her manipulative boyfriend. With Edward
G. Robinson, Joan Bennett and Dan Duryea. Directed by Fritz Lang. MPAA Rating
NR. 103 minutes.
DV000028
The scent of a woman.
Hoping to earn extra money over the Thanksgiving weekend, Charlie Simms, a
scholarship student at an exclusive prep school, agrees to look after blind,
retired Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade. The innocent and reserved Simms immediately
thrown off guard by Slade's bullying personality. But Charlie is in for even
more surprises when Slade takes off for a wild weekend in New York City that
will change the lives of both men forever. Starring Al Pacino, Chris O'Donnell,
Gabrielle Anwar, James Rebhorn, Richard Bradford. Directed by Martin Brest.
MPAA Rating R. 157 minutes.
DV000251
Schindler's list.
"Schindler's List" is based on the truth story of Nazi Czech business
man Oskar Schindler, who uses Jewish labor to start a factory in occupied
Poland. As World War II progresses, and the fate of the Jews becomes more
and more clear, Schindler's motivations switch from profit to human sympathy
and is able to save over 1100 Jews from death in the gas chambers. Starring
Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes, Caroline Goodall, Jonathan Sagalle.
Directed by Steven Spielberg. MPAA Rating R. 195 minutes.
DV000433
Scooby-Doo.
Scooby Doo and the Mystery Inc. gang take their animated antics to the big
screen as a live action movie. Two years after a clash of egos forced Mystery,
Inc. to close its doors, Scooby-Doo and his crime solving cohorts are individually
summoned to Spooky Island to investigate a series of paranormal incidents
at the ultra hip spring break hot spot. Concerned his park might truly be
haunted, the owner tries to reunited those notoriously meddling detectives
to solve the mystery before his supernatural secret scares away the college
crowd. Stars Frieddie Prinze Jr., Sarah Michelle Gellar. Directed by Raja
Gosnell. MPAA Rating PG. 86 minutes.
DV000318
Scott of the Antarctic.
After a failed attempt in 1908, British explorer R.F. Scott returns to Antarctica
in 1911, determined this time to reach the South Pole. After wintering in
a base camp near the sea, the expedition sets off on a grueling 1000 mile
trek to the Pole. Despite hardships, blizzards and rugged terrain they succeed.
But now, for Scott of the Antarctic and his team, the real challenge begins.
With dwindling supplies, failing strength and worsening weather, they must
complete the long, hazardous trek back to t heir base camp before the polar
night begins. Starring John Mills, Derek Bond, Christopher Lee, Kenneth More.
Directed by Charles Frend. MPAA Rating NR. 112 minutes.
DV000078
Scream.
After a series of mysterious deaths, a seemingly peaceful community becomes
a place where no one is safe and everyone is suspect. That's when an offbeat
group of friends rally to unlock the town's deadly secrets. The sleepy little
town of Woodsboro just woke up screaming. There's a killer in their midst
who's seen a few too many scary movies. Suddenly, nobody is safe, as the psychopath
stalks victims, taunts them with trivia questions, then rips them to bloody
shreds. Starring Neve Campbell, Drew Barrymore, Courtney Cox, Skeet Ulrich,
David Arquette. MPAA Rating R. 111 minutes.
DV000336
Scrooge.
On the eve of Christmas, Ebenezer Scrooge, one of the nastiest men in all
of London, is visited by four ghosts who oblige him to recognize the error
of his ways, past, present and future. But is it too late to repent and redeem
himself? Starring Alastair Sim, Kathleen Harrison, Hermione Baddeley, Jack
Warner. Directed by Brian Desmond Hurst. MPAA Rating NR. 83 minutes.
DV000492
Seasbiscuit.
A half blind ex-prizefight and mustang breaker team up with a millionaire
and his rough hewn, undersized horse, Seasbiscuit. The men bring Seabiscuit
to incredible heights, helping to turn a long shot into a legend. Eventually,
Seabiscuit earns Horse of the Year honors in 1938. Starring Jeff bridge, Chris
Cooper, Tobey Maguire, William H.Macy. Directed by Gary Ross. MPAA Rating
PG13. 141 minutes.
DV000516
Second chorus.
Danny and Hank are surprised when Artie Shaw hires competent manager Ellen
away from their college band. The two trumpet players scheme to get into Shaw's
outfit themselves, each trying to trump the other's plays. Starring Fred Astaire,
Paulette Goddard, Burgess Meredith. Directed by H.C. Potter. MPAA Rating NR.
84 minutes.
DV000684
The second woman
In Northern California, a beautiful young woman is deeply drawn to a talented
architect, charming and attractive, but troubled by the still recent death
of his fiance. Warned he could be unbalanced but wanting to believe in him,
she soon finds her own life at risk. With Betsy Drake and Robert Young. Directed
by James V. Kern. MPAA Rating NR. 91 minutes.
DV000319
Secret agent.
In the midst of WWI, three unlikely candidates are obliged to defend British
interests in Switzerland; a novelist turned Army officer, a beautiful blond
adventure seeker, and a jolly little hit man who positively relishes his work.
To succeed and survive, the trio must uncover and eliminate a dangerous German
Secret Agent before he uncovers and eliminates them. Starring Robert Young,
Madeleine Carroll, Peter Lorre, John Gielgud, Percy Marmont. Directed by Alfred
Hitchcock. MPAA Rating NR. 84 minutes.
DV000274
Secrets of a master builder.
At his death in 1887, James Eads was easily the most famous engineer in the
world. He'd built gunboats that helped the Union win the Civil War; designed
a stunning bridge for St. Louis, the first in the world to be built of steel;
and devised an ingenious scheme that kept the frequently silted up Mississippi
River open to ocean going traffic, a feat that turned New Orleans into the
nation's second largest port. Rediscover the story of this remarkable man
who began his working life as an errand boy, taught himself the principles
of engineering and who was, by 37, one of the richest and most influential
figures in the Midwest. MPAA Rating NR. 60 minutes.
DV000740
The sentinel.
After renting an apartment in a stately old building in Brooklyn, a young
woman finds herself embroiled in a terrifying struggle with the forces of
Hell. With Ava Gardner, Burgess Meredith, Jose Ferrer and Eli Wallach. Directed
by Michael Winner. MPAA Rating R. 93 minutes.
DV000753
Shadow of the vampire.
Obsessed with capturing reality on film, famed German director Friedrich Murnau
sets out to make the most frightening vampire movie ever. His star, a spectral
creature with strange appetites, soon reveals a commitment to realism that
exceeds even Murnau's. With John Malkovich and Willem Dafoe. Directed by E.
Elais Merhige. MPAA Rating. 98 minutes.
DV000250
Shakespeare in love.
When Will Shakespeare needs passionate inspiration to break a bad case of
writer's block, a secret romance with the beautiful Lady Viola starts the
words flowing like never before. There are just two things he'll have to learn
about his new love; not only is she promised to marry someone else, she's
successfully impersonating a man in order to play the lead in Will's latest
production! Starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Joseph Fiennes, Geoffrey Rush, Ben Affleck,
Judi Dench. Directed by John Madden. MPAA Rating R. 122 minutes.
DV000320
Shane.
Life for the Starretts is good but precarious when the fair haired stranger
in the fringed buckskin stops at their homestead. Quiet and reserved, he has
an easy smile and time for eight year old Joey, who soon comes to idolize
him. When he helps the settlers against the cattle rancher intent on driving
them from the valley, the rancher hires a black hearted gunfighter. Violence
soon follows. Shane is obliged to put on his gun belt and ride into town for
the final showdown. Starring Alan Ladd, Van Heflin, Jean Arthur, Brandon De
Wilde, Jack Palance. Directed by George Stevens. MPAA Rating NR. 117 minutes.
DV000741
Shark.
A mercenary drifter is recruited by an oversexed blond and her possessive
older partner to help them retrieve a treasure from a shark infested wreck
in the Red Sea. Greed unleashes treachery and lethal violence in this darkly
compelling adventure. With Burt Reynolds, Silva Pinal and Barry Sullivan.
Directed by Samuel Fuller. MPAA Rating R. 90 minutes.
DV000599
Shark tale.
Oscar is a lowly tongue scrubber at the local Whale Wash, who becomes an improbable
hero when he tells a great white lie. To keep his secret, Oscar teams
up with an outcast vegetarian Great White shark, Lenny, and the two become
the most unlikely of friends. When his lie begins to unravel, it's up to Oscar's
loyal friend Angie and Lenny to help him stand up to the most feared shark
in the water and find his true place in the reef. With the voices of Will
Smith, Robert De Niro, Renee Zellweger, Jack Black, Angelina Jolie and Martin
Scorsese. Directed by Bibo Bergeron and Vicky Jenson. MPAA Rating PG. 90 minutes.
DV000579
Shattered city: the Halifax explosion.
Shattered City, dramatizes a compelling piece of Canadian history. It is the
story of how a tragic incident at the height of the First World War became
a living metaphor for the worldwide conflict, and how Halifax arose from the
ashes after severe destruction and devastation. In the early hours of December
6, 1917, the Mont Blanc, a French owned freighter loaded to the gunnels with
thousands of tons of TNT, collided with a Belgian relief ship and exploded
in the Halifax Harbor. The explosion was so vast that it killed more than
2,000 people, injured 9,000 more and completely flattened two square kilometers
of northern Halifax. Starring Vincent Walsh, Shauna MacDonald, Ted Dykstra.
Directed by Bruce Pittman. MPAA Rating NR. 174 minutes.
DV000670
Shattered glass.
In the late 1990s, Stephen Glass is the hottest of the young writers in America's
pre-eminent magazine of political commentary, until a discrepancy in one of
his articles leads to the discovery of a terrible truth and a scandal that
shocks Washington and the publishing world. With Hayden Christensen and Peter
Sarsgaard. Directed by Billy Ray. MPAA Rating PG13. 95 minutes.
DV000349
Sherlock Holmes and the secret weapon.
Holmes and Watson take time out from being detectives to help the Allies rescue
the inventor of a bomb site from the Nazis. Even so, Holmes and Watson get
no rest from their arch rival Dr. Moriarty. Starring Basil Rathbone, Nigel
Bruce, Lionel Atwill, Karen Verne, Harold De Becker. Directed by Roy William
Neill. MPAA Rating NR. 69 minutes.
DV000742
Sherlock Holmes and the voice of terror.
During WWII, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson try to track down a German propaganda
broadcaster known as the Voice of Terror, who foretells the murderous acts
of sabotage which are demoralizing England's embattled populace. With Basil
Rathbone and Nigel Bruce. Directed by John Rawlins. MPAA Rating NR. 67 minutes.
DV000693
Sherlock Holmes faces death.
Summoned to the ancestral home of the Musgraves, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson,
try to prevent the murderous extinction of the whole family by decoding the
centuries old Musgrave Ritual. A bizarre game of chess leads them into a lethal
confrontation with the culprit. With Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce. Directed
by Roy William Neill. MPAA Rating NR. 68 minutes.
DV000763
Sherlock Holmes in the Spider Woman.
An arch villainess as clever and ruthless as Professor Moriarty, haunts gambling
houses for luckless victims. After lending them money in return of an insurance
policy, she arranges their apparent suicide. But Sherlock Holmes suspects
murder, and sets out with Dr. Watson to entrap her. With Basil Rathbone and
Nigel Bruce. Directed by Roy William Neill. MPAA Rating NR. 63 minutes.
DV000686
Sherlock Holmes in Washington.
During World War II, a British Secret Service envoy carrying top secret documents
from London to Washington is abducted en route. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson
are asked to retrieve the documents before they fall into enemy hands and
turn the tide of the war against England and her allies. With Nigel Bruce,
Basil Rathbone. Directed by Roy William Neill. MPAA Rating NR. 71 minutes.
DV000665
Sherlock Holmes: Dressed to kill.
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson match wits with a beautiful but deadly villainess
as they try to foil a plot to bankrupt the Bank of England. With Basil Rathbone
and Nigel Bruce. Directed by Roy William Neill. MPAA Rating NR. 71 minutes.
DV000675
Sherlock Holmes: Pearl of death.
The Borgia Pearl has earned a reputation for bringing terminal misfortune
to its owner. When the giant gem is stolen while under Sherlock Holmes' protection,
the mast sleuth is ho nor bound to track down the criminal responsible for
the theft and recover the prize. With Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce. Directed
by Alfred L. Werker. MPAA Rating NR. 85 minutes.
DV000694
Sherlock Holmes: Pursuit to Algiers.
After promising to safeguard a young prince on his journey home from Britain,
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson must contend with three ruthless assassins
who are utterly determined to prevent the prince from reaching home alive.
With Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce. Directed by Roy William Neill. MPAA Rating
NR. 65 minutes.
DV000643
Sherlock Holmes: Terror by night.
In one of his most challenging cases, Sherlock Holmes is engaged with his
faithful companion Dr. Watson to protect the Star of Rhodesia. Despite their
vigilance, the priceless jewel is stolen. Holmes puts his own life at risk
in a dangerous plant to flush out the villain. With Basil Rathbone and Nigel
Bruce. Directed by John Rawlins. MPAA Rating NR. 65 minutes.
DV000642
Sherlock Holmes: The hound of the Baskervilles.
When Sir Charles Baskerville is killed outside of Baskerville Hall, Dr. Mortimer
fears that the curse of the Baskervilles has struck again. He enlist the help
of Sherlock Holmes, before another Baskerville can succumb to the evil legend.
With Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce. Directed by Sidney Lanfield. MPAA Rating
NR. 80 minutes.
DV000664
Sherlock Holmes: The house of fear.
Sherlock Holmes is called into solve the mystery of why the members of "The
Good Comrades" club are being hideously mutilated and murdered. With
Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce. Directed by Roy William Neill. MPAA Rating
NR. 69 minutes.
DV000696
Sherlock Holmes: the woman in green.
Scotland Yard is baffled by a serial murderer who kills young women and keeps
the right fore-finger of the victims. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson
soon learn that arch-vilian Professor Moriarty is involved. With Basil Rathbone
and Nigel Bruce. Directed by Roy William Neill. MPAA Rating NR. 68 minutes.
DV000743
Shoot it black, shoot it blue.
Bored and annoyed with walking a beat, patrolman Herbie Rucker decides, for
excitement, to kill a black purse snatcher in cold blood. He's confident as
a white police officer that he can get away with it. But his crime has been
witnessed and filmed by a young black student. With Michael Moriarty and Paul
Sorvino. Directed by Dennis McGuire. MPAA Rating R. 95 minutes.
DV000744
The shooting.
After a mysterious incident leave two people dead and another a fugitive a
willful young woman enlists three men in a relentless quest for revenge: a
former bounty hunter, his innocent sidekick and a young killer. With Jack
Nicholson, Warren Oates and Millie Perkins. Directed by Monte Hellman. MPAA
Rating G. 82 minutes.
DV000155
Shoscombe Old Place.
A brother and sister devoted to each other quarrel and a creditor disappears,
leaving Holmes to put together a puzzle that becomes more complicated when
a human bone is found in a furnace. Starring Jeremy Brett and Edward Hardwicke.
MPAA Rating NR. 50 minutes.
DV000586
Shrek 2.
Right after Shrek and Princess Fiona's honeymoon, the newly wed couple goes
to Princess Fiona's parents for dinner. When a Fairy Godmother discovers Fiona
and Shrek are married she reminds the king about a deal they agreed on years
ago, that Fiona should have married her son, who happens to be Prince Charming.
The King then hires a cat named Puss-in-Boots, a sword fighting cat and ogre
slayer to kill Shrek. Voices of Make Myers, Cameron Diaz, Eddie Murphy, Julie
Andrews. Directed by Andrew Adamson, Kelly Asbury. MPAA Rating PG. 92 minutes.
DV000426
Shrek.
Shrek is a big ogre who lives alone in the woods, feared from all the people
in the land of Duloc. When Lord Farquaad, the ruler of Duloc, exiles all the
fairy tale beings in the woods, Shrek looses his peaceful life and his home
becomes a refugees camp. So, he sets out to find Lord Farquaad and convince
him to take the fairy tale beings back when they belong and leave him alone.
Lord Farquaad accepts, under one condition. Shrek must first go and find the
beautiful young princess Fiona, who will become Farquaad's bride. So, the
big Ogre begins his quest, along with his newfound donkey friend. Voices of
Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz. Directed by Andrew Adamson, Vicky
Jenson. MPAA Rating PG. 90 minutes.
DV000194
The sign of four.
When she receives pearls beyond price and a mysterious message from an anonymous
source, Miss Mary Morstan goes to the famous consulting detective of 221B
Baker St., Mr. Sherlock Holmes for advice in how to answer the message. Together
with his staunch comrade, Dr. John Watson, and a mutt named Toby, Holmes tracks
down the secret of the Sign of Four. Starring Jeremy Brett, Edward Harwicke,
Robin Hunter. Directed by Peter Hammond. MPAA Rating NR. 103 minutes.
DV000471
Signs.
In Bucks County, Pennsylvania, a five hundred foot crop circle is found on
the farm of Graham Hess, the town's revered. The circles cause a media frenzy
and test Hess's faith as he journeys to find out the truth behind the crop
circles. Starring Mel Gibson, Joaquin Phoenix, Rory Culkin. Directed by M.
Night Shyamalan MPAA Rating PG13. 106 minutes.
DV000662
Silence of the heart.
When a seemingly well adjusted teenager from a stable home commits suicide,
his family and friends are devastated by grief and guilt. Tactful treatment
of a difficult subject. With Chad Lowe, Charlie Sheen, Mariette Hartley and
Dana Hill. Directed by Richard Michaels. MPAA Rating NR. 100 minutes.
DV000195
Silver Blaze.
Who has abducted Silver Blaze, a highly prized racehorse, on the eve of a
big race? How did Silver Blaze's trainer die mysteriously? Is someone trying
to ruin the racehorse's manager? Sherlock Holmes and Watson, with the aid
of a dog and some sheep, find a strange solution. Starring Jeremy Brett and
David Burke. MPAA Rating NR. 50 minutes.
DV000556
The silver chair.
Eustace is summoned back to the magical land of Narnia with his friend Jill.
Many years have passed since Eustace's last visit. King Caspian is old and
frail. The mysterious disappearance years ago of his son, Prince Rilian, has
remained unsolved. Aslan the lion charges the children to embark on a perilous
journey through enchanted lands of giants and witches to find Rilian and bring
him home. Starring David Thwaite, Camilla Power, Tom Baker, Ailsa Berk. Directed
by Alex Kirby. MPAA Rating NR. 160 minutes.
DV000079
Singin' in the rain.
In 1927, Don Lockwood and Lina Lamont are a famous on screen romantic pair.
Lina, however, mistakes the on screen romance for real love. Don has worked
hard to get where he is today, with his former partner Cosmo. When Don and
Lina's latest film is transformed into a musical, Don has the perfect voice
for the songs. But Lina - well, even with the best efforts of a diction coach,
they still decide to dub over her voice. Kathy Selden is brought in, an aspiring
actress, and while she is working on the movie, Don falls in love with her.
Will Kathy continue to "aspire", or will she get the break she deserves?
Starring Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynold, Donald O'Connor, Jean Hagen, Cyd Charisse.
Directed by Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly. MPAA Rating G. 103 minutes.
DV000198
Sister act 2: back in the habit.
The sisters come back to Delores's show to get her back as Sister Mary Clarence
to teach music to a group of students in their parochial school which is doomed
for closure. One of the girls, who is the most talented of the bunch, is forbidden
to sing by her mother, although the choir has made it to the state championship.
Starring Whoopi Goldberg, Lauryn Hill, Maggie Smith, Kathy Najimy. Directed
by Bill Duke. MPAA Rating PG. 107 minutes.
DV000030
Sister act.
A sassy, low rent lounge singer is forced to hide out from the mob in a quiet
religious convent. Before long she turns the nuns' tone-deaf choir into
a soulful chorus of swinging, singing sisters. When the group earns rave reviews,
her sudden celebrity jeopardizes her hidden identity. Starring Whoopi Goldberg,
Maggie Smith, Harvey Keitel, Kathy Najimy, Mary Wickes. Directed by Emile
Ardolino. MPAA Rating PG. 107 minutes.
DV000745
Sitting in limbo.
DV000249
Sixth sense.
Child psychiatrist Malcolm Crowe is confronted one night by his former patient
Vincent Gray who he failed to help. After Vincent shoots Crowe in the stomach
and kills himself, Crowe can't stop thinking about it. A few months later
he is hired to help a troubled boy named Cole Sear, who has many of the same
problems Vincent had. Crowe sees a chance to redeem himself, but doubts his
ability to reach the boy, particularly when Cole claims to see ghosts who
don't know they're dead. Starring Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment, Toni Collette,
Olivia Williams, Donnie Wahlberg. Directed by M. Night Shyamalan. MPAA Rating
PG13. 107 minutes.
DV000746
Slipstream.
Far in the future, two ruthless bounty hunters pursue an android and a jet
jockey on a powerful wind current that circles the globe in the aftermath
of man's abuse of the environment. With Mark Hamill, Bill Paxton, Ben Kingsley
and F. Murray Abraham. Directed by Steven Lisberg. MPAA Rating PG13. 103 minutes.
DV000671
Smash up.
A nightclub performer gives up her promising career to marry and become a
mother. Feeling lonely and unneeded, when her husband's singing career takes
off, she drifts into alcoholism. With Susan Hayward and Eddie Albert. Directed
by Stuart Heisle. MPAA Rating NR. 103 minutes.
DV000080
Sneakers.
Computer expert Martin Bishop heads a team of renegade hackers including a
former CIA employee, a gadgets wizard, a young genius, and a blind soudman,
who are routinely hired to test security systems. But Bishop's past comes
back to haunt him when government agents blackmail the "sneakers"
into carrying out a covert operation, tracking down an elusive black box.
Along with his former girlfriend, Bishop's team retrieves the box and discovers
that the device can break into any computer system in the world. Starring
Robert Redford, Sidney Poitier, Dan Aykroyd, River Phoenix, David Strathairn.
MPAA Rating PG13. 125.
DV000081
Snow White and the seven dwarfs.
From the old fairy tale, a jealous queen attempts to get rid of her beautiful
step daughter, Snow White. who takes refuge with seven dwarfs in their forest
home. The queen changes into a witch and tempts Snow White with a poisoned
apple which puts her into an everlasting sleep, until a prince finds her in
a glass coffin and awakens her with Love's First Kiss. Voices of Adriana Caselotti,
Harry Stockwell. MPAA Rating G. 84 minutes.
DV000747
Snowbeast.
Fear stalks a Colorado resort town when a teenaged skier's half eaten body
turns up in an abandoned barn in the eve of winter carnival. A champion skier,
his wife and the local sheriff team up to track down and kill the cunning
and ferocious creature responsible. With Bo Svenson and Yvette Mimieux. Directed
by Herb Wallerstein. MPAA Rating NR. 90 minutes.
DV0000321
The snows of Kilimanjaro.
Gravely injured while on a safari in Africa, a successful but world weary
novelist lies on a cot in the shadow of Mt. Kilimanjaro, watching the vultures
gather and brooding on his life and loves. Starring Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner,
Susan Hayward, Leo G. Carroll. Directed by Henry King. MPAA Rating NR. 115
minutes.
DV000231
Sophie's choice.
Sophie is the survivor of Nazi concentration camps, who has found a reason
to live in Nathan, a sparkling if unsteady American Jew obsessed with the
Holocaust. They befriend Stingo, the movie's narrator, a young American writer
new to New York City. But the happiness of Sophie and Nathan is endangered
by her ghost and his obsessions. Starring Meryl Streep, Kevin Dline, Peter
MacNicol. Directed by Alan J. Pakula. MPAA Rating R. 150 minutes.
DV000420
Soul food.
Sunday dinner at Mother Joe's is a mouth watering, 40 year tradition. As seen
through the eyes of her grandson Ahmad, love and laughs are always on the
menu, despite the usual rivalries simmering between his mom Maxine and her
sisters Teri and Bird. But when serious bickering starts to tear the family
apart, the good times suddenly stop. Not it's up to Ahmad to get everyone
back together and teach them the true meaning of soul food. Starring Vanessa
L. Williams, Vivica A. Fox, Nia Long, Michael Beach, Mekh Phifer. Directed
by George Tilman, Jr. MPAA Rating R. 114 minutes.
DV000518
Soul man.
Mark Watson goes to Harvard Law School on the Bouchard Fellowship for an outstanding
black student. Since Mark Watson is white, he swallows a handful of experimental
tanning pills. Instantly black, Mark finds himself seduced by an upper crust
white coeds, jailed without reason, shunned by a beautiful black student,
and the butt of obnoxious pranksters. Starring C. Thomas Howell, Rae Dawn
Chong, James Earl Jones. Directed by Steve Miner. MPAA Rating PG13.
104 minutes.
DV000031
The sound of music.
Maria is a failure as a nun. The Mother Superior sends her off in answer to
a letter from a retired naval captain for a governess for his seven children.
She goes to their house and finds that she is the latest in a long line of
governesses run off by the children. She teaches the children to sing and
that becomes their bonding force, of course leading her to fall in love with
their father and marries him. As this is happening Austria votes to be assumed
by Germany on the eve of World War II. Starring Julie Andrews, Christopher
Plummer, Peggy Wood, Eleanor Parker. Directed by Robert Wise. MPAA Rating
G. 180 minutes.
DV000748
South Bronx heroes.
After being beaten and abused by their current foster father, a brutal child
pornographer, two kids escape with incriminating evidence and flee into the
mean streets of one of the worst neighborhoods in the city, where they're
befriended by a hip young black dude. With Mario Van Peebles. Melissa Esposito
and Brendan Ward. Directed by William Szarka. MPAA Rating NR. 84 minutes.
DV000749
Speak like a child.
Three teenagers grow up together in an orphanage forming an intimate bond.
Later, as adults, they reunite for a visit to the now abandoned home, where
a dark secret from their childhood past threatens to unravel the ties that
bind them. With Cal Macaninch, Daniel Newman and Fraser Ayres. Directed by
John Akomfrah. MPAA Rating NR. 78 minutes.
DV000032
Speed.
Jack Traven, an L.A.P.D. SWAT team specialist, is sent to diffuse a bomb that
revenge driven extortionist has planted on a bus. But until he does, Jack
and passenger Sandra Bullock must keep the bus speeding through the streets
of L.A. at more than 50 mph or the bomb will explode. Starring Keanu Reeves,
Dennis Hopper, Sandra Bullock, Jeff Daniels. Directed by Jan DeBont. MPAA
Rating R. 115 minutes.
DV000434
Spider man.
After being bitten by a radioactive spider on a school field trip, Peter Parker
finds himself gaining spider like qualities. Adopting the name "Spider
Man," Peter first uses his new skills to make money, but when the Green
Goblin, another altered super human, kills Peter's uncle, he swears to use
his "spider skills" to fight evil. Along the way he has to juggle
a new job as a local reporter, and budding romance with a beautiful,
former classmate, M.J. Starring Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst and Willem Dafoe.
Directed by Sam Raimi. MPAA Rating PG13. 121 minutes.
DV000350
Spitfire.
Early in WWII, Britain must somehow turn back the endless waves of Luftwaffe
bombers and their devastating cargo, or surrender to the blitz. Terribly outnumbered
and stretched beyond thing, the RAF nonetheless has one advantage in this
crucial battle for the skies, the Spitfire. During a lull in the battle, a
wing commander tells his pilots the story of his best friend, R.J. Mitchell,
the man who gave his life to developing the remarkable fighter plane on which
their lives, and their country's survival now depends. Starring Leslie Howard,
David Niven, Roland Culver. Directed by Leslie Howard. MPAA Rating NR. 89
minutes.
DV000125
Spy in the sky.
In the spring of 1960, a CIA spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union.
Overnight, the U-2 became the most famous aircraft in the world and Francis
Gary Powers, who miraculously survived the crash, achieved instant notoriety
that would haunt him for the rest of his life. Behind the scenes of this dramatic
incident is the incredible tale of a team of engineers and courageous pilots
who raced against the clock to design, perfect and deploy the U-2. MPAA Rating
NR. 60 minutes.
DV0000427
Spy kids.
Nine years ago, top international spies Gregorio and Ingrid Cortez traded
the excitement of espionage for the adventure of parenthood. But when they
are called out on a secret mission, the Cortezes are separated from their
family and kidnapped by the evil Fegan Floop. Fortunately, there are two people
who possess the skills and know how to reunite the family, the kids!. Starring
Antonio Banderas, Alan Cumming, Carla Gugino, Teri Hatcher, Cheech Marin.
Directed by Robert Rodriquez. MPAA Rating PG. 90 minutes.
DV000735
The St. Louis bank robbery.
A young Steve McQueen stars in this gritty crime drama about a college
dropout down on his luck, who's recruited by a boyhood friend to be the wheelman
on a daring daylight heist the friend is planning with two other ex-cons.
With Steve McQueen, Crahan Denton, David Clarke and James Dukas. Directed
by Charles Guggenheim. MPAA Rating R. 90 minutes.
DV000557
Stage Door Canteen.
Dakota, a young soldier on a pass in New York City, visits the famed Stage
Door Canteen, where famous stars of the theatre and films appear and host
a recreational center for servicemen during the war. Dakota meets a pretty
young hostess, Eileen, and they enjoy the many entertainers and a growing
romance. With Count Basie, Benny Goodman, Katharine Hepburn and Harpo Marx.
Directed by Frank Borzage. MPAA Rating NR. 132 minutes.
DV000558
Stagecoach.
Western about nine disparate travelers thrust together on a perilous journey
through Apache territory. With John Wayne and John Carradine. Directed by
John Ford. MPAA Rating NR. 96 minutes.
DV000082
Stand and deliver.
Jaime Escalante, a math teacher at East L.A.'s Garfield High School, refuses
to write off his inner city students as losers. He inspires 18 kids who were
struggling with fractions to become math whizzes. With Edward James Olmos,
Andy Garcia, Lou Diamond Phillips and Rosana DeSoto. Directed by Ramon Menedez.
MPAA Rating PG. 103 minutes.
DV000347
A star is born.
A young farm girl from North Dakota has but one dream: to become a movie star.
With her grandma's help, she takes off for Los Angeles where she soon learns
she's just one of thousands of hopefuls with the same dream. But her perseverance
and belief in herself pay off and in time, a star is born. As her career takes
off, her fairy tale marriage to a famous but fading movie star begins to unravel.
Starring Fredric Marsh, Janet Gaynor, Adolphe Manjou, May Robson, Andy Devine.
Directed by William Wellman. MPAA Rating NR. 111 minutes.
DV000200
Star Trek II: wrath of Khan.
Admiral Kirk's midlife crisis is interrupted by the return of an old enemy
looking for revenge and a potentially destructive device. With William Shatner,
Leonard Nimoy, Ricardo Montalban, DeForest Kelley and James Doohan. Directed
by Nicholas Meyer. MPAA Rating G. 113 minutes.
DV000083
Star Trek IV: the voyage home.
It's the 23rd century, and a mysterious alien power is threatening Earth by
evaporating the oceans and destroying the atmosphere. In a frantic attempt
to save mankind, Kirk and his crew must travel back to 1986 San Francisco
where they find a world of punk, pizza and exact change buses that are as
alien as anything they've ever encountered in the far reaches of the galaxy.
With William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Catherine Hicks and
James Doohan. Directed by Leonard Nimoy. MPAA Rating PG. 119 minutes.
DV000201
Star Trek V: the final frontier.
Spock and McCoy are on shore leave, vacationing on Earth at Yosemite National
Park, when suddenly their vacation is interrupted by a renegade Vulcan who
hijacks the Enterprise and pilots it on a journey to uncover the universe's
innermost secrets. With William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James
Doohan and Walter Koenig. Directed by William Shatner. MPAA Rating PG. 107
minutes.
DV000202
Star Trek VI: undiscovered country.
The Federation and Klingon Empire prepare for a peace summit, but the prospect
is alarming to Kirk. Then a Klingon ship is attached and the Enterprise is
accused, the dogs of war are unleashed again. With William Shatner, Leonard
Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan and Walter Koenig. Directed by Nicholas
Meyer. MPAA Rating PG. 113 minutes.
DV000199
Star Trek: the motion picture.
Admiral James T. Kirk, formerly a captain, is called upon to collect his old
crewmates in order to save humanity from a giant, hostile alien vessel steadily
approaching Earth and destroying everything in its path. The complex alien
life forms apparently possess such an advanced intelligence that even the
brilliant Mr. Spock fails to comprehend the massive structure that contains
them. There is tension on the ship, as well as in the universe, as Commander
Willard Decker, the Enterprise's new captain, is relegated to being Kirk's
assistant. In addition, Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy, the lovable,
crotchety doctor wh o is constantly at odds with Spock, must be trucked away
from his life of relaxation to serve on a voyage he wants no part of. It's
not long before the Enterprise is taken over by alien entity, and navigator
Ilia is abducted. When she is returned to the Enterprise, she informs Kirk
that unless the entity is united with its creator, it will destroy the Earth.
With William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Persis Khambatta, Stephen Collins and
DeForest Kelley. Directed by Robert Wise. MPAA Rating G. 132 minutes.
DV000033
Star wars.
Director George Lucas's epic science fiction saga. Princess Leia is held hostage
by the evil Imperial forces in their effort to take over the galactic Empire.
Ventursome Luke Skywalker and dashing Captain Han Solo team together with
the loveable robot duo, R2-D2 and C-3PO, to rescue the beautiful princess
and restore justice in the Empire. With Alec Guiness, Harrison Ford, Mark
Hamill, Carrie Fisher and Peter Cushing. Directed by George Lucas. MPAA Rating
PG. 124 minutes.
DV000352
The stars look down.
When young Davey Fennick earns a university scholarship, it's a ticket out
of the "the pit" But Davey has no intention of forgetting his roots.
He plans to use his education to improve the grim life of the country's coal
miners, starting in his hometown, where the mine is in danger of flooding.
Unfortunately, his warnings go unheard and the mine floods. As the stars look
down on the families waiting for news of the men trapped underground, Davey
and a rescue team strive to reach them before it's too late. Starring Michael
Redgrave, Margaret Lockwood, Edward Rigby. Directed by Carol Reed. MPAA Rating
NR. 104 minutes.
DV000751
Stone cold dead.
Haunting the sleazier city streets and back alleys, a shadowy sniper targets
beautiful young prostitutes, photographing them with a telephoto lens at the
moment the bullet hits them. With Richard Crenna, Paul Williams and Linda
Sorenson. Directed by George Mendeluk. MPAA Rating R. 100 minutes.
DV000378
The strange love of Martha Ivers.
Iverstown's lovely lovelorn heiress lives with her weak willed husband and
the fatal secret they have shared since childhood. Then a childhood friend
passes through town and changes their lives forever, igniting her passion,
arousing his jealousy, and threatening to expose their secret. Starring Barbara
Stanwyck, Kirk Douglas, Van Heflin, Lizabeth Scott, Judith Anderson. Directed
by Lewis Milestone. MPAA Rating NR. 79 minutes.
DV000752
The strange woman.
Bangor, Maine in the early 1800s is a boom town. When her abusive father expires,
young Jenny Hager determines to use her beauty and wits to raise her station
in life. With Hedy Lamarr, George Sanders, Louis Hayward and Gene Lockhart.
Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer. MPAA Rating NR. 100 minutes.
DV000559
Strike force.
A New York City cop and an FBI agent who broke the famous French Connection
case are teamed with a state trooper to solve a brace of gangland slayings.
They soon discover the heroin they confiscated four years ago is finding its
way back onto the street. With Cliff Gorman and Richard Gere. Directed by
Barry Shear. MPAA Rating NR. 90 minutes.
DV000754
Suddenly.
Soon after the sheriff of a small town learns the President is coming for
a visit, he's taken hostage by several gunmen posing as FBI agents: their
leader plans to assassinate the President. With Frank Sinatra, Sterling Hayden
and James Gleason. Directed by Lewis Allen. MPAA Rating NR. 79 minutes.
DV000379
The sundowners.
In the Australian outback during the 1920s, the Carmody family wanders from
place to place, following work or a whim, living out of their wagon, battling
the elements and the fates in a land that can be as harsh as it is beautiful.
While mother and son long for a permanent home, dad refuses to be tied down
and wants only to go on just as they are. Starring Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum,
Peter Ustinov, Glynis Johns. Dina Merrill. Directed by Fred Zinnermann. MPAA
Rating NR. 133 minutes.
DV000413
Superpeople.
Presents deep water divers who can hold their breath for over 5 minutes; people
with extraordinary memories; new tests to predict altitude sickness; and the
effects of weightlessness on the human body. From the Scientific American
Frontiers series. MPAA Rating NR. 60 minutes.
DV000390
Swing high, swing low.
An accidental meeting at the Panama Canal throws Maggie together with Skid
on a tuneful roller coaster ride. We plays a red hot trumpet, she can carry
a torch song, and soon everyone in Panama City wants to hear them Swing High,
Swing Low. Then Skid gets an invitation to the big time. Promising to send
for Maggie, he leaves for New York. But fame and fortune prove a heady cocktail;
high times and fast friends, including a sultry, dark eyed beauty lead him
toward destruction. With Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurry, Charles Butterworth,
Jean Dixon, Franklin Pangborn. Directed by Mitchell Leisen. MPAA Rating NR.
97 minutes.