Peter Riegert
2) Local hero
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
A comedy about the interaction between Americans representing a Texas oil company and the inhabitants of a small village in Scotland.
4) The mask
Series
Language
English
Description
"A mild-mannered bank clerk discovers a mysterious ancient mask that brings his innermost desires to wild, screaming life!"... [container]
5) At Middleton
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Straight-laced George and eccentric Edith, two strangers meet on their children's campus tour at the idyllic Middleton College. Failing comically to connect with their kids, George and Edith play hooky together, ditching the official tour for a carefree adventure reminiscent of their own college years. But what begins as an afternoon of fun soon becomes a revealing and enlightening experience that will change their lives forever.
6) Gypsy
Publisher
Hallmark Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Mama Rose is the ultimate vaudeville stage mother, whose blind ambition for her two daughters forces one to desert her and the other to emerge as the world's most famous striptease artist, Gypsy Rose Lee.
Publisher
First Look Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[c2004]
Language
English
Description
Madison Avenue executive Graham Marshall accidently kills a street person and gets away with it. Suddenly the key to true success and happiness seems to be similarily getting rid of his nagging wife and arranging an "accident" for his boss.
8) Local hero
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Texas oil executive Mac is dispatched by his crackpot boss to a remote seaside village in Scotland with orders to buy out the town and develop the region for an oil refinery. But as business mixes with pleasure, Mac finds himself enchanted by both the picturesque community and its oddball denizens, and Texas starts to feel awfully far away.
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
The 80's were a time when everybody was making the big bucks. When F. Ross Johnson, CEO of RJR Nabisco, decides to buy out the Nabisco shareholders and take over his company, no one is prepared for what hits the fan. What follows is a down-to-the-wire battle to see who is really king of the Wall Street jungle.
Publisher
Ardustry Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Fiftysomething and still clueless Leo Spivak is drifting through life without a compass. Among his problems are his rebelling teenage daughter, a gravely ill father, a work protege after his job, and his wife is loing her patience and his own judgment are sinking fast. It's going to take a bizarre twist of fate and some twisted wisdom from a "freelance rabbi" to help Leo navigate the murky waters of middle age and turn his midlife crisis into a midlife...
12) Local hero
Series
Criterion collection volume 994
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Texas oil executive Mac is dispatched by his crackpot boss to a remote seaside village in Scotland with orders to buy out the town and develop the region for an oil refinery. But as business mixes with pleasure, Mac finds himself enchanted by both the picturesque community and its oddball denizens, and Texas starts to feel awfully far away.
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002], c2000
Language
English
Description
Peter, a successful playwriter, has hit a stagnate point in his life. On the other side of his fence is the neighbor's howling, nasty, four-legged mutt. His wife wants a child and when new neighbor's move in with a child, Peter's wife becomes attached to her. Peter finds that he better learn this kids lingo in order to keep up with the times for his writing.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1176
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
The trailblazing Joan Micklin Silver one of only five women to direct a film for a Hollywood studio in the 1970s digs fearlessly into the psychology of a thorny relationship in this anti-romantic comedy, based on Ann Beattie's best-selling novel, about lovelorn civil servant Charles and his married-but-separated coworker Laura. Months after their affair has ended, Charles is haunted by memories as he desperately attempts to rekindle a love that perhaps...
16) Jerry and Tom
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Hit man Tom (Joe Mantegna) and his apprentice Jerry (Sam Rockwell), wait in a deserted Chicago bar for the phone-call command to execute the hooded Stanley (Peter Riegert), sitting before them in a chair. To pass the time, Stanley tells a few jokes. Background is established as they make various hits before returning to the situation seen in the opening.
Series
Hallmark Hall of Fame volume 52
Publisher
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Humorous, uplifting and touching story about abandoned dreams and rediscovered destinies.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Seymour 'Swede' Levov, a once-legendary high school athlete, is a successful businessman married to an ex-beauty queen, Dawn. When Swede and Dawn's daughter disappears after being accused of a violent crime, Swede's perfect life is broken forever and he is left to make sense out of the chaos.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Eli and Warner are childhood friends who have become successful videogame developers. But their upwardly mobile lifestyle is thwarted by their dads, whose bad behavior causes frequent complications with the friends' assistant. In spite of the problems caused by their old men, Eli and Warner discover that there are still a few lessons yet to be learned from their ne'er-do-well dads.
Publisher
Screen Media Films
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
A coming of age story set in 1975 working-class Brooklyn, in which two teenage brothers living with their abusive father and their well-meaning but ineffective mother are caught up in a life of petty crime. Older brother Danny concocts a daring scheme to steal enough money for the two to escape, timed around the chaos of an upcoming Rolling Stones concert.