Michael Rapaport
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The sports world according to Michael Rapaport-actor, Top 50 podcaster, award-winning film maker, and sports fanatic-from the greatest and downright worst athletes, players, teams, and jerseys, but minus statistics, analytics, or anything else that isn't pure hustle.
In 1979, nine-year-old Michael Rapaport decided he was going to do whatever it took to be a pro baller. He practiced and practiced, but by the time he was fifteen, he realized there...
3) Little boy
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Little Pepper Busbee enjoys an idyllic life in an American small town, but his world is shattered when his beloved father is sent off to fight in World War II. But a chance encounter with a stage magician awakens his dormant abilities and clues him into the power of faith. Now his devotion to his father will extend past time and space and into the realm of miracles.
4) Hitch
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Full screen.
Language
English
Description
Hitch is New York City's greatest matchmaker. Love is his job and when Albert Brennaman wins the heart of gorgeous society heiress Allegra Cole, Albert has Hitch to thank. So when tabloid columist Sara Melas decides to uncover the secret behind the relationships unlikely sucess, she's shocked to discover that Alex Hitchens, the charming young man she's been dating, is the legendary date doctor himself. Exposed in a front-page scoop, it's now up to...
5) Bamboozled
Series
Criterion collection volume 1019
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Under pressure to help revive his network's low ratings, television writer Pierre Delacroix hits on an explosively offensive idea: bringing back blackface with "The New Millennium Minstrel Show." The white network executives love it, and so do audiences, forcing Pierre and his collaborators to confront their public's insatiable appetite for dehumanizing stereotypes.
6) Inside out
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
After being released from prison after serving thirteen years for manslaughter, AJ's dreams of living a pleasant, crime-free life soon come to an end when he discovers his closest childhood friend, Jack, has been marked for death.
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Researchers on the undersea laboratory Aquatica have genetically altered the brains of captive sharks to develop a potential cure for Alzheimer's disease there is on noteworthy unexpected side effect. The sharks got smater. Which could mean trouble for the researchers.
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
"A pup for every person and a person for every pup. That's the motto of the Pound Puppies: Lucky, Niblet, Cookie, Squirt and Strudel--a team of fearless canines whose sworn mission is to find homes for lonely dogs. However, when the Pound puppies get too busy, the younger puppies Rebound, Cupcake and Patches form the Super secret pub club to help out with the missions." -- Container.
10) Big fan
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A diehard New York Giants fan meets his hero, the quarterback of the team, with disastrous results that impact his entire life and those around him.
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
A pup for every person and a person for every pup. That's the motto of the Pound Puppies, a team of fearless dogs whose sworn mission is to find homes for lonely puppies. They only look like regular dogs. In fact, they are dogs of action who match up pups with loving families while they keep the humans at Shelter Seventeen clueless. Sometimes dogs are dogs' best friend.
12) Cop land
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sylvester Stallone stars as Freddy Heflin, the sheriff of a place everyone calls 'Cop Land', a small and seemingly peaceful town populated by the big-city police officers he's long admired. Yet when Freddy uncovers a massive, deadly conspiracy among these local residents, he is forced to take action and make a dangerous choice between protecting his idols and upholding the law.
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Michael Rapaport goes on tour with A Tribe Called Quest in 2008, when they reunite to perform sold-out concerts across the country, almost ten years after the release of their last album, The Love Movement. Rapaport captures the story of their tenuous relationship as personal differences and unresolved conflicts continue to threaten their creative cohesion. Get a behind-the-scenes look at their journey and contributions as a band, and what currently...
14) Little Boy
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Language
English
Description
Little Pepper Busbee enjoys an idyllic life in an American small town, but his world is shattered when his beloved father is sent off to fight in World War II. But a chance encounter with a stage magician awakens his dormant abilities and clues him into the power of faith. Now his devotion to his father will extend past time and space and into the realm of miracles.
15) Special
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Les Franken is a kind-hearted and soft-spoken man who loves reading comic books. He's the type of guy who most people walk by on the street without even noticing. He is someone who is completely average and virtually invisible. Everything changes for Les the day he is accepted into an experimental drug study. As he begins to take the drugs, an unexpected side effect occurs - he develops special powers. In an effort to use his new talents for protecting...
16) Inside out
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
When his best friend Jack disappears after a contraband smuggling deal goes awry, ex-convict AJ is forced to protect Jack's family from the mobsters intent on recovering their goods.
17) The 6th day
Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
Special edition.
Language
English
Description
Adam is an ace pilot in the very near future who is having a serious identity crisis. An evil corporation illegally cloned him, and now they're trying to kill him to hide the evidence. Torn from his beloved family and faced with a shocking exact duplicate of himself, Adam races against time to reclaim his life and save the world from the underground cloning movement.
18) Chuck
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Theatrical version.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
He was the pride of Bayonne, New Jersey, a man who went fifteen rounds in the ring with Muhammad Ali, and the real life inspiration for Rocky Balboa. Before all that, Chuck Wepner was a liquor salesman and father with a modest prizefighting career whose life changed overnight when, in 1975, he was chosen to take on The Greatest in a highly publicized title match.
19) Men of honor
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
Special edition.
Language
English
Description
The courageous story of an African-American sailor who dared to dream of becoming a U.S. Navy Master Diver. Despite a ruthless training officer and a tragic shipboard accident, Carl's iron will is never broken. Against all odds, he pushes on to achieve the impossible--Container.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Sophomore newspaper reporter Bobby Funke is assigned to write a cover story on Paul, the popular class president and top athlete. After a stack of SAT tests is stolen from Principal Kirkpatrick's office, Funke publishes an exposé that names Paul as the prime suspect. But when Paul's girlfriend, sexy senior Francesca, makes a move on Bobby and even his former bullies play nice, Funke begins to doubt the star jock's guilt and everyone else's motives....