Alexander Payne
1) Hal
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (91 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Hal Ashby directed a remarkable string of acclaimed, widely admired classics throughout the 1970s (such as *Harold and Maude* and *Being There*), but is often overlooked amid the crowd of luminaries from his generation. Amy Scott’s exuberant portrait explores that curious oversight. Featuring interviews with film legends that worked with him and were inspired by him such as Adam McKay, Alexander Payne, David O. Russell, Dustin Hoffman, Hal Ashby,...
2) Election
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (0 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Reese Witherspoon plays Tracy Flick, a straight-A go-getter determined to be president of Carver High’s student body. Popular teacher Jim McAllister (Matthew Broderick) decides to derail Tracy’s obsessive overachieving by recruiting an opposition candidate. Nominated for Best Screenplay at the **Academy Awards.** Nominated for Best Actress at the **Golden Globes.** Winner of Best Film, Best Director and Best Screenplay at the **Film Independent...
Publisher
Focus Features
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (134 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It follows a curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school who is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually, he forms an unlikely bond with one of them a damaged, brainy troublemaker, and with the school's head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam.
4) Downsizing
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Formats
Description
When scientists find a way to shrink humans to five inches tall, Paul Safrane and his wife Audrey decide to ditch their stressed out lives in order to get small and live large in a luxurious downsized community. Filled with life-changing adventures and endless possibilities, Leisureland offers more than riches, as Paul discovers a whole new world and realizes that we are meant for something bigger.
6) Nebraska
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
High definition.
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (114 min.) : Blu-ray, sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An estranged son and his alcoholic father travel from Montana to Nebraska to claim a million dollar sweepstakes prize.
7) Sideways
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 127 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Miles is a divorced man and a failed writer who teaches junior high English. He decides to take his best friend, somewhat famous actor Jack, on a weeklong drive through California's wine country. There they explore their failures and question their relationships.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When renowned paleontologist Dr. Grant agrees to accompany a wealthy adventurer and his wife on an aerial tour of Isla Sorna, InGen's former breeding ground for prehistoric creatures, he has no idea that he was brought along for a totally different reason. When their plane crashes and they become stranded, they discover the island's native inhabitants are smarter, faster, fiercer and more brutal than imagined.
9) Nebraska
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (114 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After receiving a sweepstakes letter in the mail, a cantankerous father thinks he's struck it rich, and wrangles his estranged son into taking a road trip to claim the fortune. Getting waylaid in the father's hometown in Nebraska, the son tries to reconnect with his impenetrable father.
10) About Schmidt
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Widescreen version (1.85:1).
Physical Desc
1 DVD (125 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Warren Schmidt is about to taste the not-so-sweet slice of life. When he retired, he and his wife, Helen, had big plans--but an unexpected twist changes everything. Now, all of Schmidt's attention is focused on his daughter's upcoming wedding to a loser waterbed salesman. From meeting the groom's hippie parents to sponsoring a Tanzanian foster child, Schmidt embarks on a search for answers, only to discover that life is full of trick questions.
11) Sideways
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005], c2004
Edition
Full screen ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 127 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Miles a divorced man and Jack his libertine friend take a road trip through California's wine country to celebrate Jack's final bachelor days. They indulge in wine, women and a yearning for the past, but eventually collide with reality.
12) The descendants
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 DVD (115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Matt King is an indifferent husband and father of two girls, who is forced to re-examine his past and embrace his future when his wife suffers a boating accident off of Waikiki. The event leads to a rapprochement with his young daughters while Matt wrestles with a decision to sell the family's land handed down from Hawaiian royalty and missionaries.
13) The descendants
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Matt King is an indifferent husband and father of two girls, who is forced to re-examine his past and embrace his future when his wife suffers a boating accident off of Waikiki. The event leads to a rapprochement with his young daughters while Matt wrestles with a decision to sell the family's land handed down from Hawaiian royalty and missionaries.
Publisher
First Look Studios
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A man is reunited with his teenage daughter after spending years in a mental institute. When he becomes obsessed that ancient treasure is buried under his home, his daughter decides to go along with his antics.
16) Election
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
Language
English
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Chuck and Larry are the pride of their fire station. Two guy's guys always side-by-side and willing to do anything for each other. Widower Larry wants just one thing, to protect his kids. His buddy Chuck also wants on thing, to enjoy the single life. Grateful Chuck owes Larry for saving his life in a fire, and Larry calls in his marker when civic red tape prevents him from naming his own two kids as his life insurance beneficiaries. All that Chuck...
18) Cedar Rapids
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Super awsome ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A small-town, naive Midwestern insurance agent must represent his company at a regional insurance convention in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where his mind is blown by the big city experience.