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1) Honeydripper
Publisher
Screen Media Films
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
When the Honeydripper lounge is about to close due to heavy debt, owner Tyrone rests all his hopes on a one-night performance by Guitar Sam.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Buck Weaver (John Cusack) and Hap Felsch (Charlie Sheen) are two of the talented young players on the pennant-winning 1919 Chicago White Sox team owned by the stingy Charles Comiskey (Clifton James), who underpays his players and treats them with disdain. When gamblers discover that Comiskey’s demoralized players are ripe for a money-making scheme, Buck, Hap and the team are offered bribes to throw the World Series and a national scandal erupts,...
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Six American women hoping to adopt babies must live in Mexico while their paperwork is being processed. Explores the viewpoints of the adopters, the teenage mothers putting their babies up for adoption, and the locals observing the Americans.
5) Passion fish
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
After an auto accident leaves her paralyzed, ex-soap opera star May-Alice Culhane returns to her now-empty family home in the bayous of Louisiana where she proceeds to drive away a succession of nurses-- until Chantelle. May-Alice and Chantelle form an unlikely friendship, and explore the bayou, as well as the murkier aspects of men, romance, and family.
7) Matewan
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Written and directed by John Sayles, this wrenching historical drama recounts the true story of a West Virginia coal town where the local miners' struggle to form a union rose to the pitch of all-out war in 1920. When Matewan's miners go on strike, organizer Joe Kenehan (Chris Cooper, in his film debut), arrives to help them, uniting workers white and black, Appalachia-born and immigrant, while urging patience in the face of the coal company's violent...
8) Lone star
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Everyone worships the late great legendary sheriff of a Texas border town, except his son who is the current sheriff solving a murder he suspects can be traced back to Dad.
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Seven mercenaries are recruited from throughout the galaxy to save a peaceful planet from the threat of an evil tyrant bent on dominating the entire universe. Among them are a lizard-like humanoid, a space cowboy, a female warrior, and a brooding killer-for-hire.