Alexander Payne
Author
Publisher
Focus Features
Pub. Date
[2024]
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.
2) Downsizing
Author
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When scientists find a way to shrink humans to five inches tall, Paul and Audrey Safrane 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.
3) Election
Author
Series
Criterion collection volume 904
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
©2017.
Language
English
Description
Perky, overachieving Tracy Flick gets on the nerves of history teacher Jim McAllister to begin with, but after she launches her campaign for high-school president and his personal life starts to fall apart, things spiral out of control.
Publisher
New Line Productions / New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Warren Schmidt is about the 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. Schmidt embarks on a search for answers, only to discover that life is full of trick questions.
Author
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2018.
Language
English
Description
Another batch of hungry dinosaurs wreak havoc with humankind in this third installment. Dr. Alan Grant is persuaded to travel to the site of the second InGen lab and discovers that the velociraptors are more intelligent than anyone thought.
7) Cedar Rapids
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
A small-town, naive Midwestern insurance agent must represent his company at a regional insurance convention in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. His mind is blown by the big city experience.