MGM/UA Home Video (Firm)
1) Overboard
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 1 hr., 52 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A super-rich and pretentious socialite winds up in the world of a struggling carpenter with four kids.
2) Get Shorty
Pub. Date
1997
Edition
Standard full screen and widescreen versions.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color, ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Loan shark Chili Palmer has done his time as a gangster, so when "business" takes him to Los Angeles to collect a debt from down and out filmmaker Harry Zimm, he talks tough and then pitches Harry a script idea. Everything would be smooth for this cool new producer, if it weren't for the drug smugglers and gangsters who won't leave him alone.
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It's business as usual in the summer at the Parkers'. Ralphie is looking for a top to beat the school bully, Old Man is fighting with the neighbors, and Mother is collecting a glass china set at the local movie theater. Sequel to A Christmas Story.
4) The Haunting
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dr. Markway, a trained anthropologist with a special interest in psychic research, wants to try what he hopes will be a true exercise in terror. He's heard about the reputation of Hill House, which claimed the lives of several of its young inhabitants, and wishes to explore the horrors of the unseen and the unexplained.
5) Dr. No
Series
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
Special 007 ed. ; widescreen version (16x9 ; 1.77:1)
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (1 hr., 50 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
James Bond, Agent 007, is sent to Jamaica to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a British secret service agent.
Series
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
Full screen and widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A bored New Jersey housewife who fantasizes about the ads in the personal section of the newspaper want ads shows up at a rendezvous between two lovers. She gets bumped on the head, which leads to a case of amnesia and opens the door to intrigue and love.
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
Widescreen and standard full screen versions.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jeff and Jane Blue are parents of the 90s. They also happen to be espionage agents and the United States' only chance at national security. Just as they are ready to embark upon "phase 2" in their lives-- the phase that will allow them a normal lifestyle in which to raise their baby-- the cosmopolitan couple is persuaded out of their prolonged maternity leave to save the world from a corrupt Czech arms embezzler. Not an easy task for a couple who...
9) Get Shorty
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Collector's widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Loanshark Chili Palmer has done his time as a gangster, so when "business" takes him to Los Angeles to collect a debt from down and out filmmaker Harry Zimm, he talks tough and then pitches Harry a script idea. Everything would be smooth for this cool new producer, if it weren't for the drug smugglers and gangsters who won't leave him alone.
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A re-creation of mid-Victorian England that contrasts the silliness of the aristocracy with the squalor of the lower classes. Rather than making a standard blood and glory epic, Richardson created a film that took the silly glory and glamour out of war and substituted something closer to the bitter truth.
12) Inherit the wind
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
Widescreen ver. (1.66:1)
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (128 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A small Tennessee town gained national attention in 1925 when a biology schoolteacher was arrested for violating state law and teaching Darwin's theory of evolution in the classroom.
13) The Alamo
Series
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 162 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of the historic battle by 185 men against a 7,000-man Mexican army--a battle that ended in the smaller forces' defeat, but lasted long enough to insure the eventual independence of Texas.
14) Mermaids
Series
Publisher
MGM/UA Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Charlotte is an adolescent girl torn between her blossoming passion for a handsome caretaker and her desire to be a nun (a tough calling for a girl who's Jewish). Complicating her already precarious teen angst is a little sister, an obsessive swimmer, and her mother, a non-traditional, sexy, flamboyantly eccentric woman who relocates them to a new town every time she causes a hint of scandal--which is often.
15) Thelma & Louise
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (129 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in. + booklet
Language
English
Description
Two friends, one an unhappy housewife the other a wise-cracking waitress, decide to take a vacation from their lives, but things soon get out of control after an incident at a roadside café.
16) Poltergeist
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
Widescreen/standard version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Life is very pleasant for a California family until a host of other-worldly forces invades their peaceful suburban home. Their house is turned into a supernatural sideshow, and if the family doesn't clear out, they will be swept off into nightmarish chaos.
Series
Publisher
MGM/UA Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999]
Edition
Widescreen and Full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 minutes) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([8] pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
English
Description
The realities of submarine warfare during World War II in the Pacific is centered around two submarine officers who are destined to clash with each other from the first moment they meet.
19) Clambake
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After trading identities with a penniless water ski instructor, a millionaire matches his speedboat racing skills against his arch-rival to capture the heart of a no-nonsense girl determined to marry rich.
Publisher
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios
Pub. Date
[1979]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A boy and horse are shipwrecked on an island where they become fast friends. Upon their return home they work together for a try to go head to head with the world's best thoroughbreds in "the race of the century."