Richard Jenkins
1) The Humans
Author
Language
English
Description
Based on the Tony Award-winning play, a family gathers for Thanksgiving in their daughter's apartment. Amidst the warmth and humor of the holiday, the tight-knit family tries to hold together in the face of an anxious and uncertain future.
2) The Visitor
Author
Language
English
Description
Walter (Academy-Award®-nominee Richard Jenkins) is a disaffected college professor who has been drifting aimlessly through his life. When, in a chance encounter on a trip into New York, Walter discovers a couple has taken up residence in his apartment in the city, he develops an unexpected and profound connection to them that will change his life forever. As challenges arise for his tenants Tarek (Haaz Sleiman) and Zainab (Danai Gurira), Walter finds...
3) The visitor
Publisher
Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Walter Vale is a widower who teaches economics at a Connecticut university. He lives alone and is no longer motivated by his work. In New York to present a paper at a conference, he goes to the apartment that he has not visited in some time, but has
4) Dear John
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
While John, a young soldier, is home on a temporary leave, he meets and falls in love with Savannah, a college girl on her spring break. Savannah promises to write to John when he is sent overseas. Over the next seven years, the couple continues to be separated by John's increasingly dangerous deployments. Though they meet only sporadically, they continue to stay in touch through love letters that eventually bring fateful consequences.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
In the year 2000, Dick gets a plum promotion as a mega-corporate communications director. His boss is preparing to bail out of the company just before stock prices plummet. Dick's wife Jane has quit her job as a travel agent, so when the corporate st
8) Jack Reacher
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Ex-military investigator Jack Reacher leaps off the pages of Lee Child's bestselling novel and onto the big screen in this explosive thriller. When an unspeakable crime is committed, all evidence points to the suspect in custody who offers up a single note in defense: Get Jack Reacher! The law has its limits, but Reacher does not when his fight for the truth pits him against an unexpected enemy with a skill for violence and a secret to keep.
9) The Hollars
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
John Hollar, a struggling NYC artist, is forced to navigate the small middle-American town he left behind when news of his mother's illness brings him home. Back in the house he grew up in, John is immediately swept up in the problems of his dysfunctional family, high school rival, and an over-eager ex-girlfriend as he faces impending fatherhood with his girlfriend in New York.
12) The last shift
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
On the graveyard shift at Oscar's Chicken and Fish, Stanley is retiring after 38 years and has to train his young replacement. The Boomer dropout who is leaving this career behind and the Milennial columnist who is making ends meet find ways to connect in the early hours of a quiet kitchen.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
An otherworldly fairy tale, set against the backdrop of Cold War-era America circa 1962. In the hidden high-security government laboratory where she works, lonely Elisa is trapped in a life of isolation. Elisa's life is changed forever when she and co-worker Zelda discover a secret classified experiment.
14) Olive Kitteridge
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2015
Language
English
Description
The four-part drama that tells the story of a seemingly placid New England town that is actually wrought with illicit affairs, crime and tragedy, all told through the lens of Olive, whose wicked wit and harsh demeanor mask a warm but troubled heart and staunch moral center. The story spans 25 years and focuses on Olive's relationships with her husband, Henry, the good-hearted and kindly town pharmacist; their son, Christopher, who resents his mother's...
15) White House down
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
While on a tour of the White House with his young daughter, a Capitol policeman springs into action to save his child and protect the president from a heavily armed group of paramilitary invaders.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Once upon a time in the far away kingdom of Dor lived a brave and virtuous mouse with comically oversized ears who dreamt of becoming a knight. Banished from his home for having such lofty ambitions, Despereaux sets off on an amazing adventure with h
17) White House down
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
"Capitol policeman John Cale ... has just been denied his dream job with the Secret Service of protecting President James Sawyer. ... Not wanting to let down his little girl with the news, he takes her on a tour of the WHite House, when the complex is overtaken by a heavily armed paramilitary group. Now, with the nation's government falling into chaos and time running out, it's up to Cale to save the president, his daughter and the country"--Container....
18) Nightmare alley
Publisher
20th Century Studios
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
From visionary filmmaker Guillermo del Toro comes a suspenseful psychological thriller about a manipulative carnival man who teams with an equally deceptive psychiatrist to grift the wealthy in 1940s New York society. Del Toro co-wrote the enthralling film with Kim Morgan, based on William Lindsay Gresham's novel.
20) LBJ
Author
Language
English
Description
In the immediate aftermath of the Kennedy assassination, Lyndon Johnson faces off against enemies from within his own party and his own White House as he frantically struggles to secure the legitimacy of his presidency before it slips through his fingers forever.