Tom Hanks
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"From the Academy Award-winning actor and best-selling author: his debut novel. The story of the making of a colossal, star-studded, multimillion-dollar superhero action film ... and the humble comic book that inspired it. PART ONE of this story takes place in 1947. A troubled soldier, returning from the war, meets his talented five-year-old nephew, leaves an indelible impression, and then disappears for 23 years. Cut to 1970: The nephew, now drawing...
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR, USA Today • A collection of “first-rate” short stories (The New York Times) that explore—with great affection, humor, and insight—the human condition in all its foibles.
A small-town newspaper columnist with old-fashioned views of the modern world. A World War II veteran grappling with his emotional and physical scars....
A small-town newspaper columnist with old-fashioned views of the modern world. A World War II veteran grappling with his emotional and physical scars....
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HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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Tells the story of Easy Company, 506th Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division, U.S. Army, an elite rifle company that parachuted into France early on D-Day morning, fought in the Battle of the Bulge, captured Hitler's Eagle's Nest at Berchtesgaden, and suffered heavy casualties.
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English
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Tom Hanks stars as Joe, a squashed bug of a guy under the heel of ahideous corporation, working in an awful office with bad air, bad lightand lousy coffee...Then everything changes in this romantic comedy aboutcourage and a man's soul ... of a man coming back to life on a journeythat takes him halfway around the world. To the edge of great delight. To the brink of an exploding volcano.
7) The Terminal
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English
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After arriving at New York's JFK airport, Viktor Navorski gets unwittingly caught in bureaucratic glitches that make it impossible for him to return to his home country or enter the U.S.
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English
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Pulitzer Prize Finalist | New York Times Bestseller | A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick | A New York Times Book Review Notable Book | TIME Magazine's 100 Must-Read Books of the Year
Named one of the Best Books of the Year by NPR, The Washington Post; O: The Oprah Magazine, Real Simple, Good Housekeeping, Vogue, Refinery29, and Buzzfeed
From Ann Patchett, the #1 New
...11) The money pit
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Universal Studios Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
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English
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Evicted from their Manhattan apartment, Walter and Anna buy what looks like the home of their dreams, only to find themselves with a bank-account-draining nightmare.
14) Toy story
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Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment / Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
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English
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Woody, a pull-string cowboy, is young Andy's favorite toy until Buzz Lightyear, space ranger, comes along. When their rivalry lands them in the hands of toy-torturing Sid next door, Buzz and Woody must work together to escape, becoming friends in the process.
15) Turner & Hooch
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Touchstone Home Video ; Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
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English
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A compulsively neat detective's tidy world goes to the dogs when he is forced to team up with a drooling slob of a junkyard dog named Hooch.
16) Toy story 2
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Disney DVD / Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010.
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English
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The fun and adventure continues when Andy goes off to cowboy camp and the toys are left to their own devices. Things shift into high gear when an obsessive toy collector kidnaps Woody, who hasn't the slightest clue that he's a greatly valued collectible.
17) Forrest Gump
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Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2006]
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English
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Forrest Gump moves from physical disablility to football stardom, Vietnam hero to shrimp tycoon, White House honors to the arms of his one true love.
18) Angels & demons
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
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English
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Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon discovers evidence of the resurgence of the most powerful underground organization in history, the Illuminati. Upon learning of an unstoppable terrorist act against the Vatican, Langdon travels to Rome and joins forces with Italian scientist Vittoria Vetra and together they will follow the 400-year-old Path of Illumination that leads to the Vatican's only chance for survival.
19) Inferno
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Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2017.
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English
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When Robert Langdon wakes up in an Italian hospital with amnesia, he teams up with Sienna Brooks, a doctor he hopes will help him recover his memories. Together, they race across Europe and against the clock to stop a madman from unleashing a global virus that would wipe out half of the world's population.
20) Bridge of spies
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Buena Vista Home Entertaiment / Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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James Donovan is a Brooklyn lawyer who finds himself thrust into the center of the Cold War when the CIA sends him on the near-impossible task to negotiate the release of a captured American U-2 pilot.