Dabney Coleman
1) 9 to 5
Pub. Date
2006
Description
Three women in a giant company, oppressed by an uncaring boss, devise an outrageous scheme to get revenge.
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Description
Must love dogs: Sarah Nolan is divorced, demoralize and dateless until her sister posts her profile on perfectmatch.com. Now she has a lot of dates, mainly with weirdos, weepers, lechers and jocks. Then she meets Jake, a soulful boat builder whose idea of true love comes straight from the movies. Jake is attractive, smart and maybe a bit too intense for Sarah, so she passes him by. But in passing him up, she may be passing up a real chance for love....
8) Taken
Pub. Date
1998
Description
After Ethan Grover, a successful clothing manufacturer, is kidnapped and his wife refuses to pay the ransom, Ethan learns ugly truths about those closest to him and begins to wonder who is left in his life that he can trust.
Pub. Date
2009.
Description
Pittsburgh corporate lawyer Nick Fallin's high life has gotten the best of him. Arrested for drug use, he is sentenced to 1,500 hours of community service. He must now squeeze those hours into his 24/7 cutthroat world of mergers, acquisitions, and board meetings. Reluctantly, he is now a part-time child advocate at Legal Aid Services, where one case after another is an eye-opening instance of kids caught up in difficult circumstances. As the show...
10) War games
Pub. Date
1983.
Description
Young electronics wizard David Lightman unwittingly hooks into America's supersecret wargames computer and the world is suddenly threatened with nuclear annihilation.
11) Tootsie
Series
Criterion collection volume 738
Description
"Michael Dorsey is a talented actor, but his demanding nature and stubborn temperament have antagonized every producer in New York. Now his agent insists no one will hire him. But Michael needs money - eight thousand dollars to be exact - and to earn it, he's willing to play the role of a lifetime"--Container.
12) Bite the bullet
Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
A former Rough Rider, a lovely but shady lady-in-distress, a drifting ex-cowboy, a young reckless cowboy, a haughty English sportsman, and a gutsy Pony Express rider come together to battle the trials of the rugged West in a grueling 700-mile horse race.
Pub. Date
[2004]
Formats
Description
What 10-year-old Billy wants most in the world is a hunting dog. After two years he saves up enough money to buy a pair of redbone hound pups. Billy trains 'Old Dan' and 'Little Ann' to be the finest hunting team in the valley. As the inseperable trio chase the wily 'ghost raccoon' and confront danger together, Billy learns the meaning of loyalty, courage and perseverance.
Pub. Date
2004
Description
Based on a true story, hard-luck milkman Melvin Dummar picks up a bum in the Nevada desert. The old man claims to be Howard Hughes and eight years later, Dummar finds himself a beneficiary in the Hughes will. Dummar becomes an instant celebrity while trying to cash in on the fortune.
15) Inspector Gadget
Pub. Date
[1999]
Description
An injured security guard undergoes robotic surgery and becomes a cybercop tasked with defeating an villian trying to rule the world.
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Atlantic City, 1921. In a city whose fortunes have soared in the wake of Prohibition, Nucky Thompson is paying a steep price for wielding ultimate power in 'the world's playground'. Though the 1920 election is over, Nucky finds himself the target of a federal investigation for vote tampering, and an insurrection by those he counted among his closest allies.
Description
The couch trip (1987, 97 min.) : A mental patient sent to jail for computer fraud cons his way into a mental facility for men, where he takes over the psychiatric practice of a million-dollar-a-year shrink who is about to have a breakdown.
Clifford (1991, 99 min.) : A mischievous and obnoxious 10-year-old boy makes life pure hell for his bachelor uncle while his parents are in Hawaii.
18) On Golden Pond
Pub. Date
1981.
Description
Norman Thayer, a cranky but loveable old man, is preoccupied with death, afraid of losing his faculties, & emotionally distant from his daughter.
Pub. Date
2007
Description
Bachelor party: Tom Hanks stars with Tawny Kataen as a happy couple about to walk down the aisle until his friends throw him a party that's grounds for divorce.
The man with one red shoe: Tom Hanks portrays violinist Richard Drew who is mistaken for a spy after wearing one red shoe, triggering a game of rivalry between two feuding C.I.A. bosses.
That thing you do: Tom Hanks writes, directs, and co-stars in a comedy that captures the overnight triumph...