A South Boston whiz kid elects to clean the halls of learning rather than enter them, slumming his way through life as a janitor at MIT. But his natural ability to unravel complex equations attracts the attention of a professor ...

A wacky air traffic controller acquires unusual telekinetic powers after a run-in with a nuclear waste truck. In a comical attempt to win back his girlfriend, he uses his abilities to harass her many suitors. An air-traffic controller's new telekinetic powers ...

When a family of gray whales becomes trapped in the Arctic Circle, a Greenpeace volunteer and a small-town reporter go to extraordinary lengths to save the majestic creatures in this romantic adventure inspired by actual events. Alaskan newsman Adam Carlson ...

Rogers and Hammerstein's Broadway musical, adapted from Margaret Landon's fact-based novel and the 1946 film ANNA AND THE KING OF SIAM, makes a spectacularly successful move to the silver screen in the Yul Brynner tour de force THE KING AND ...

The story of Loretta Lynn, COAL MINER'S DAUGHTER charts the rise of the queen of country music from her upbringing in backwoods Appalachia to stardom at the Grand Ole Opry. One of eight children, she married at age 13 and ...

A happily engaged couple finds their marriage plans on the rocks due to an impulsive lesbian affair in this heartfelt romantic drama. Thirty-something Mia is attending her father's engagement party with her fiancé Tim when she senses a powerful connection ...

A would-be Olympic rower named Abi (Sarah Megan Thomas) is disillusioned when she doesn't make the U.S. team, and she soon decides to become a high-school coach. In the process, she reconnects with an old flame (James Van Der Beek) ...

Even for Pixar, this might be a first: an animated film that contains not only a fully realized world as photorealistic as it is teeming with wonder, but also the Gargantuan themes and visuals of 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, the ...

In the days before home video, when access to anything but first-run Hollywood movies was limited to repertory houses and college film societies, Hal Ashby's HAROLD AND MAUDE achieved cult status and became a surprise hit. In a broad sense, ...

In THE BIRDS, Alfred Hitchcock's heart-pounding follow-up to PSYCHO, the director couples a tone of rigorous morality with dark humor to create a thriller that begins as a light comedy and ends as an apocalyptic allegory. Tippi Hedren (Melanie Griffith's ...

A New England schoolteacher, Prudence Bell (Suzanne Pleshett), heads for the eternal city of Rome after being chastised by school administrators for encouraging her students to read a novel they considered to be too racy. Once in Rome, she searches ...

Spanky, Alfalfa, Buckwheat, Darla and the gang are back in this all-new feature film. There's a crisis in the He-Man Womun Haters Club when, on the eve of the big go-cart race, Alfalfa falls in love with--yecchh!--a girl. DVD. Feature film.. ...

Adapted from Isak Dinesen's novel, OUT OF AFRICA, this film plaintively tells the story of two troubled adults who meet and fall in love in the African wilderness. Karen Blixen-Flecke (Meryl Streep) is a modern woman, caught in the shortcomings ...

A sharp writer, who has never set foot in a kitchen, passes herself off as the consummate housewife in the column she writes for a women's magazine. When a promotional stunt plants her editor and a war veteran at her ...

DOC HOLLYWOOD is a down-home romantic comedy about a big-city plastic surgeon who finds real roots and true love in a small town. DVD. Feature film. Scene access & CC. 93 min.

Winding curves and smashing dead ends make SUMMER PLACE a truly ironic tale of unrequited love and teenage lust. When a business man, Ken Jorgenson (Richard Egan) takes his wife, Helen (Constance Ford) and his daughter Molly (Sandra Dee) to ...

Simon Templar (Val Kilmer), AKA The Saint, realizes his skill for trickery during his childhood in a Far East orphanage. He uses his natural born gifts, including a penchant for bizarre and effective disguises, to obtain things for people which ...

This DVD 2-pack contains all three GIDGET films--GIDGET (1959), GIDGET GOES HAWAIIAN (1960), GIDGET GOES TO ROME (1961), starring Sandra Dee, Deborah Walley, and Cindy Carol, respectively, as the titular teenage surfer girl. This DVD features the three Gidget theatrical films ...

Juliette Lewis and Giovanni Ribisi perform admirably as developmentally different young adults who meet and fall in love. As the friends and family of the challenged, the supporting cast shows plenty of the expected love, support, and well-meaning anxiety, but ...

This film adaptation of GREASE is the zippy smash hit translation from the Broadway musical tribute to the fabulous 1950s. As a new school year begins, wholesome Australian exchange student Sandy (pop star Olivia Newton-John) and duck-tailed, leather-jacketed Danny (John ...

It's summer, 1963. Baby, 17 years old and all idealistic innocence, is vacationing with her parents in the Catskills. She meets Johnny, the hotel dance instructor, and is mesmerized by him as well as his dance style. She soon becomes ...

A fun and funky college student from the big city is invited by a beautiful straightlaced college co-ed to spend Thanksgiving vacation at her parents' midwest farm. Does he shock them with his offbeat habits or will he win them ...

Genres and genders collide in this unusual mix of Christian soap opera and raunchy cross-dressing comedy. Tyler Perry adapts his own play--one of a series wherein he personally portrays Grandma Madea, an overweight, no-nonsense, old, Christian, African-American woman. In DIARY ...

A fired CIA agent decides to get even with the organization by publishing a book which outlines years of dirty secrets. As a result of his actions, both the CIA and the KGB decide to do their best to prevent ...

Two-time Oscar winner Hillary Swank tries her hand at romantic comedy in this touching film based on the bestselling Irish novel. Holly Kennedy (Swank) and her charming Irish husband Gerry (Gerard Butler) are a young couple struggling to get by ...