Philip Baker Hall
1) Duck
Author
Language
English
Description
Set in a Los Angeles bereft of common sense or common decency, social service or social grace... DUCK is about a duck who saves the life of a man.
2) Hard Eight
Author
Language
English
Description
John, a half-bright loser stranded in Reno, is down to his last few bucks when Sydney, taking pity on him, buys him breakfast and offers him a few tips on making money in the casinos. Two years later, John has become Sydney's partner.
3) Bad words
Publisher
Focus Entertainment
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Guy Trilby is a 40-year-old who finds a loophole in the rules of The Golden Quill national spelling bee and decides to cause trouble by hijacking the competition. While reporter Jenny Widgeon attempts to discover his true motivation, Guy finds himself forging an unlikely alliance with a competitor: awkward ten-year-old Chaitanya Chopra, who is completely unfazed by Guy's take-no-prisoners approach to life.
4) Rush hour
Series
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A wise-cracking cop from L.A. and a high-flying cop from Hong Kong join forces to track down a kidnapper.
7) 50/50
Author
Language
English
Description
A young man struggles to come to terms with his cancer diagnosis as he is forced to question everything he thought was important in life.
Author
Language
English
Description
Powerful and sweeping, the critically acclaimed CRADLE WILL ROCK, starring Hank Azaria, Joan Cusack, John Cusack, Bill Murray, and Susan Sarandon, takes a kaleidoscopic look at the extraordinary events of 1930s America. From high society to life on the streets, director Tim Robbins brings Depression-era New York City to vivid life. It's a time when DaVincis are given to millionaires who help fund the Mussolini war effort and Nelson Rockefeller commissions...
9) Dogville
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Language
English
Description
Grace arrives in the isolated town of Dogville, on the run from gangsters. The townspeople agree to hide her. However, when outsiders start looking for the fugitive, the locals make demands of Grace in exchange for the risk of harboring her. But Grace has a secret and it is a dangerous one. Dogville may regret it ever decided to bare its teeth.
10) The Contender
Author
Language
English
Description
Senator Laine Hanson is a contender to be the U.S. Vice President, but information and disinformation about her past surfaces that threaten to derail her confirmation.
11) The Truman Show
Author
Language
English
Description
Truman doesn't realize that his quaint hometown is a giant studio set run by a visionary producer/director/creator (Ed Harris), that folks living and working there are Hollywood actors, that even his incessantly bubbly wife is a contract player.
12) Zodiac
Author
Language
English
Description
Based on the Robert Graysmith books about the real life notorious Zodiac, a serial killer who terrorized San Francisco with a string of seemingly random murders during the 1960's and 1970's.