Penny Marshall
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Language
English
Description
In 1943, a washed-up ballplayer is hired to coach in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League while the male pros are at war. Reluctant at first, he finds himself drawn back into the game by the heart and heroics of his team. Based on a true story.
3) Big
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Josh is a 12-year-old who makes a wish from an old machine to be big. Not really believing it will work, Josh is very surprised to find himself BIG the next morning. Now he looks like a 30 years old guy, but he still behaves like a boy. He decide to go with his best friend to New York and try to find the machine that can fix his wish. In New York he gets a job in a toy company and develops a romantic crush on a beautiful woman. Now Josh must learn...
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
During the Great Depression, an everyday common-man hero, James J. Braddock was to become one of the most surprising sports legends in history. With the Depression going strong in the early 1930s, the impoverished ex-boxer was seemingly as broken-down and out-of-luck as the rest of the America. Driven by love and determination, he returned to the ring. He did not have much of a shot, but James was fueled by something beyond mere competition. He kept...
5) Awakenings
Series
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
Dr. Malcolm Sayer (Robin Williams) is a shy research physician who uses an experimental drug to "awaken" the catatonic victims of a rare disease. The awakening of the first patient proves a rebirth for the doctor too, as the patient reveals life's simple but sweet pleasures to the introverted doctor. Encouraged by Leonard's stunning recovery, Sayer administers the drug to other patients.
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Danny DeVito plays a down-on-his-luck businessman who desperately takes the only job offered - a teacher in the U.S. Army. His mission: keep a ragtag bunch of underachieving misfits from flunking out of basic training!
7) Big
Series
Publisher
CBS/FOX Video
Pub. Date
[1989]
Language
English
Description
A comedy about a 12-year-old whose wish to be big comes true overnight.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Bright-eyed, naive Shirley Feeney and brassy, tough-talking Laverne DeFazio are back, working in the Milwaukee brewery and getting into all sorts of hilarious situations. This season finds our feisty female roommates taking on everything from musical auditions to industrial espionage to amnesia, and there are also plenty of rollicking romantic foibles in store, too.
Publisher
CBS Paramount Network Television
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Bright-eyed, naive, and demure Shirley Feeney and brassy, tough-talking, street smart Laverne De Fazio are unlikely friends and bottle cappers for Shotz Brewery. The duo date an array of questionable men, tolerate their loony neighbors Lenny and Squiggy, and forever pursue to 'make all their dreams come true.' Contains 25 episodes, 'Shotgun Wedding (Part 1)' from Happy Days season seven, and episodic promos.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Set in the 1950s, this half-hour situation comedy revolved around the friendship between bright-eyed, naive and demure Shirley Feeney and brassy, tough-talking, street smart Laverne De Fazio. Two bottle cappers for Shotz Brewery, the duo dated an array of questionable men, tolerated their dippy, loony neighbors Lenny and Squiggy, and forever pursued to ''make all their dreams come true.'' --
Publisher
CBS DVD
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Bright-eyed, naive Shirley Feeney and brassy, tough-talking Laverne DeFazio are back, working in the brewery and getting into all sorts of hilarious situations. In this season, the girls' zany adventures take them from the high seas of a cruise ship to their highest comic heights as they pilot an airplane.
Publisher
CBS Studios, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The final season of the half-hour situation comedy focused on brassy, tough-talking, street smart Laverne De Fazio who, along with her family and friends, continued to pursue making all her dreams come true. Shirley weds Walter and runs off to Europe. --
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Roy Hobbs' boyhood dream of being a baseball superstar is shattered when he meets a mysterious woman, but years later, overcoming physical pain, he has a chance to lead his team to the pennant; a washed-up ballplayer becomes coach to one of the All-American Girls Baseball league teams in 1943, and finds himself drawn back into the enthusiasm of the sport; tells how the Oakland Athletics general manager, Billy Beane, tried to use statistics to find...
Publisher
Newport Public Library
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A league of their own: In 1943, a washed-up ballplayer is hired to coach in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League while the male pros are at war. Reluctant at first, he finds himself drawn back into the game by the heart and heroics of his team. Based on a true story.
Bull Durham: The baseball season gets off to a rocky start when the Durham Bulls' new catcher "Crash" Davis punches out the cocky young pitcher, "Nuke" LaLoosh, he's just...
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Laverne & Shirley are a hilarious duo who are roommates and work together as bottlecappers at the Shotz Brewery in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. See the sidesplitting situations the girls get themselves into - between themselves and with friends Lenny & Squiggy and Mrs. Babish and Carmine "The Big Ragu."