James Caan
2) Elf
Series
Pub. Date
2003.
Description
A human baby accidentally ends up at the North Pole and grows up among the elf community. Buddy, as he comes to be known, knows that he's "special". When he's 30, Buddy learns from Santa that he's really a human. He decides to go in search of his father, to find out where he belongs. He walks to Manhattan, and is immediately run over by a cab. His father at first rejects him and Buddy ends up in a department store where other elves are working. But...
3) Misery
Pub. Date
1990.
Description
A romance novel writer plans to desert the genre and write more serious literature, when his "number one" fan kidnaps him.
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
Flint Lockwood is a young inventor who dreams of creating something that will improve everyone's life. Sam Sparks is a weathergirl covering the town's weather phenomenon, but chooses to hide her intelligence behind a perky exterior. Tim Lockwood is Flint's technophobic father. Brent is the town bully who has plagued Flint since childhood. Mayor Shelbourne exploits Flint's newest invention so he can put the town, and more importantly himself, on the...
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Description
Jimmy is a New York con man fleeing the United States for Bangkok in order to avoid an insurance scam investigation. He goes to Cambodia to meet up with his former business partner and mentor, Marvin, to collect his half of the money. Along the way, he makes friends with local man, Sok, and romances Sophie, but is drawn into a lethal web of deceit and murder.
Pub. Date
c2001
Description
When the deaths of 47 sailors on an ill-fated training exercise are blamed on a single despondent crew member, the ship's hardened captain supports the Navy's official position in order to save face. But a skeptical lieutenant with a different theory risks his own reputation and his career to discover the truth behind the tragedy.
8) Eraser
Description
The dynamic superstar (Schwarzenegger) plays John Kruger, a U.S. Marshal who "erases" the lives and identities of people entering the Witness Protection Program.
10) Queen bees
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
While her house undergoes repairs, fiercely independent widow stays at the nearby retirement community and realizes it is like high school all over again: full of flirting, mean girls, and maybe another chance at love in this comedy about second chances and staying young at heart."--container.
Series
Cloudy witha a chance of meatballs volume 2
Description
Inventor Flint Lockwood thought he saved the world when he destroyed his machine that turned water into food causing cheeseburger rain and spaghetti tornadoes. But Flint soon learns that his invention survived and is now creating food-animals. Flint and his friends embark on a dangerously delicious mission to battle hungry tacodiles, shrimpanzees, hippotatomuses, cheespiders and other foodimals to save the world again!
12) Comes a horseman
Description
When a young widow is pressured to sell her failing cattle ranch to her unscrupulous ex-lover, she enlists the aid of an antagonistic neighbor in a desperate attempt to restore the ranch's fortunes.
13) Bottle rocket
Series
Criterion collection volume 450
Description
"Three best friends try to escape their suburban boredom through a life of crime. But these bickering, bumbling thieves are no match for the local 'godfather,' who leads them into the biggest heist of their careers"--Container.
14) North Star
Description
Nome, Alaska in 1889 teems with new riches, but not for Hudson Santeek. He's run up against an unwritten Golden Rule: mining boss Sean McLennon has the gold - and he makes the rules.
Pub. Date
2013
Description
Ike Evans risks everything in a life and death battle to rid his Miramar Playa Hotel of the mob and Ben "The Butcher" Diamond. Ike's dangerous plan to defeat Ben takes Ike from Havana's glamorous casinos to dealings with a new devil. Ike's wife Vera gets a second chance at her former dancing glory, while sons Stevie and Danny drift farther from Ike. Changes in Castro's Cuba ripple to the shores of Miami Beach, and a new world order begins to tear...
Pub. Date
[c2015].
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Found inside a shining stalk of bamboo an old bamboo cutter and his wife, a tiny girl grows rapidly into an exquisite young lady. The mysterious young princess enthralls all who encounter her, but ultimately she must confront her fate, the punishment for her crime.
18) A Bridge Too Far
Pub. Date
1977.
Description
Late in 1944, the Allies seem to have the upper hand in the European land war. A combined British and American paratrooper force, led by American general Gavin and British general Urquhart (Sean Connery), plans to take a highway leading from the Netherlands into Germany, so that British ground troops led by Lieutenant General Horrocks (Edward Fox) and Lieutenant Colonel Vandeleur (Michael Caine) can enter enemy territory. But the Allies soon learn...
19) Mickey Blue Eyes
Pub. Date
1999
Description
Michael Felgate, a Manhattan art auctioneer, is eager to marry Gina, a schoolteacher he's been dating for three months. Gina's father is a gangster who extracts money for the mob, and he starts to put the squeeze on Michael, using the auction house as money laundering scam for dubious artwork.
20) Funny lady
Pub. Date
c1974
Description
A musical film that follows the career of stage comedienne Fanny Brice with songwriter Billy Rose.