Alan Arkin
1) People Soup
Author
Publisher
The Floating Press
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
Unbeknownst to many fans, Oscar-winning actor Alan Arkin, whose movie career was revitalized with his 2006 role in the indie hit Little Miss Sunshine, also had a brief career as a science-fiction writer in the 1950s. People Soup is a charming and somewhat unsettling tale of two boys who inadvertently concoct a magical potion. The story is the inspiration for a short film with the same name that Arkin directed in 1969, starring his
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Publisher
Da Capo Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st Da Capo Press ed.
Language
English
Description
"An Improvised Life" is Oscar winner Alan Arkin's wise and unpretentious recollection of the process--artistic and personal--of becoming an actor, and a revealing look into the creative mind of one of the best practitioners on stage or screen.
4) Havana
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
High-rolling poker player Jack Weil is trying to make one big score in 1958 Havana. But his plan doesn't include falling for Roberta, wife of revolutionary Arturo Duran. After Arturo is removed by the police, Jack is drawn closer to Roberta and his last chance for the big score is threatened.
6) Thin ice
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Mickey Prohaska is a small-time insurance agent looking for one big score to get him out of frigid Wisconsin. But Mickey's clever con spirals out of control when an unstable locksmith turns the tables and raises the stakes higher than Mickey ever imagined.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Growing up together, Mitch and Dave were inseparable best friends, but slowly drifted apart. While Dave is an overworked lawyer, husband and father of three, Mitch has remained a single, quasi-employed man-child. Both guys seem to think the other has it made. Following a drunken night out together, Mitch and Dave's worlds are turned upside down when they wake up in each other's bodies. The guys soon discover that each other's lives are nowhere near...
Publisher
Screen Media Films
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
After nearly two decades under the wing of an aging, avuncular husband, dutiful mother and housewife Pippa Lee undergoes a midlife breakthrough. Unearthing the sexually curious wild child of her teens, middle-aged Pippa sparks a relationship with a divorcee loner. Pippa Lee is a resilient woman, refusing to let life pass her by.
10) Stand up guys
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
A pair of aging stickup men try to get the old gang back together for one last hurrah before one of the guys takes his last assignment - to kill his comrade.
11) Love the Coopers
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
It follows the Cooper clan as four generations of extended family come together for their annual Christmas Eve celebration. As the evening unfolds, a series of unexpected visitors and unlikely events turn the night upside down, leading them all toward a surprising rediscovery of family bonds and the spirit of the holiday.
13) City Island
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Vince Rizzo is a lifelong resident of the tiny, tradition-steeped Bronx enclave of City Island. A family man who makes his living as a corrections officer, Vince longs to become an actor. Vince would rather let his wife believe his weekly poker games are a cover for an affair than admit he is secretly taking acting classes in Manhattan. When Vince is asked to reveal his biggest secret in class, he inadvertently sets off a chaotic chain of events that...
15) Grudge match
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Henry 'Razor' Sharp and Billy 'The Kid' McDonnen are old boxing rivals who come out of retirement for one final match. On their first encounter in decades, their long-festering feud erupts into an unintentionally hilarious melee that instantly goes viral. The sudden social media frenzy transforms their local grudge match into a must-see HBO event. Now, if they can just survive the training, they may actually live to fight again.
16) Rendition
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2008, c2007
Language
English
Description
The policy of "extraordinary rendition" began under the Clinton administration and accelerated after September 11, 2001. The policy allows for the handing over of suspected terrorists to countries that use torture as an interrogation tool. Anwar El-Ibrahimi is an Egyptian-born man who disappears on a flight from Africa to Washington, DC. He is sent to a North African country where torture is practiced and the CIA gives approval. Anwar's pregnant American-born...
17) Argo
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
On November 4, 1979, Iranian militants storm the American embassy in Tehran and capture dozens of American hostages, sparking a 444-day ordeal. There's a little-known footnote to the crisis: six Americans escape and a mid-level CIA agent named Antonio Mendez devises an ingenious yet incredibly risky plan to rescue them.
20) Firewall
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
English
Description
Bank security expert Jack Stanfield specializes in designing infallible theft-proof financial computer systems. But there is a hidden vulnerability in the system he didn't account for - himself. When a ruthless criminal mastermind kidnaps his family, Jack is forced to find a flaw in his system and steal $100 million. With the lives of his wife and children at stake and under constant surveillance, he has only hours to find a loophole in the thief's...