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2) The novice
Publisher
IFC Films
Language
English
Formats
Description
An obsessive college freshman joins her university's rowing team and undertakes an extreme physical and psychological journey to make it to the top varsity boat, no matter the cost.
3) The prestige
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Set against the backdrop of turn-of-the-century London. Two magicians share an intense rivalry with each other and leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy. The rivalry is so intense that is will be full of obsession, deceit and jealousy, with both dangerous and deadly consequences. From the time that Robert Angier and Alfred Bordon first met, the two were competitors. However, their once friendly competition evolves into battle for each others...
Publisher
IFC Films
Language
English
Formats
Description
It follows a brilliant young fund manager named Millie, who quits her job and ends things with her long-term boyfriend to fulfill her dream of becoming an opera singer in the Scottish Highlands. She begins intense vocal training lessons with a renowned but fearsome singing teacher and former opera diva Meghan Geoffrey-Bishop. It is there she meets Max, another of Meghan's students who is also training for the upcoming "Singer of Renown" contest. The...
Author
Language
English
Description
This scalding comedy is about small-time, cutthroat real estate salesmen trying to grind out a living by pushing plots of land on reluctant buyers in a never-ending scramble for their fair share of the American dream. Play was made into a 1992 movie by the same title.
Series
Criterion collection volume 225
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jock Sinclair is a whiskey-drinking, up-by-the-bootstraps commanding officer of a peacetime Scottish battalion. A lifetime military man, Sinclair expects respect and loyalty from his men. But when Basil Barrow, an educated, by-the-book scion of a military family, enters the scene as Sinclair's replacement, the two men engage in a fierce struggle for control of both the battalion and the hearts and minds of its men.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Family man Phil Weston, a lifelong victim of his father's competitive nature, takes on the coaching duties of a kids' soccer team, and soon finds that he's also taking on his father's dysfunctional way of relating to others.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Two neighbors in a small New England town go to war when one of them decides to decorate his house with a so many Christmas lights that they are visible from space. The neighborhood is turned upside down as the families try to discover the true meaning of Christmas.
9) Passion
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2013?]
Language
English
Description
At a Berlin ad agency, an outgoing American and her no-nonsense European colleague engage in an escalating personal and professional rivalry that quickly becomes a deadly power struggle.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Chipmunk singing sensations Alvin, Simon, and Theodore are back for an encore in this hilarious 'squeakquel' packed with more action and more nutty fun for the whole family. When a concert mishap lands Dave in the hospital, the Chipmunks take a break from superstardom and enroll in school to fit in with kids their age. But they soon face some stiff competition when they meet the Chipettes, a beautiful, talented trio of chipmunks.
11) Tag
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"For one month every year, five highly competitive friends hit the ground running in a no-holds-barred game of tag they've been playing since the first grade--risking their necks, their jobs and their relationships to take each other down with the battle cry, 'You're It!' This year, the game coincides with the wedding of their only undefeated player, which should finally make him an easy target. But he knows they're coming...and he's ready"--Container....
13) Mr. art critic
Publisher
MTI Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
M.J. Clayton is a high profile Chicago art critic who is known for his heartless commentaries. He retreats to his Mackinac Island cottage to clear his head after receiving a scolding from his boss. There he runs into a recent victim of one of his particularly nasty reviews and makes a drunken proclamation. This is followed by an impossible wager which he then finds himself entered into the town's art festival competition. M.J. is about to discover...
Publisher
CBS DVD
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"Breaking the mold set by previous seasons, season 8 challenges teams made up of four family members to race across North America. And for the first time, the racers compete in Costa Rica and Panama. ... Find out if the family that races together stays together"--Container insert.
Publisher
CBS DVD
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Passports in hand, eleven teams race across the globe from Senegal to Sri Lanka. The colorful cast includes a pair of grandparents, married professional wrestlers, and engaged models. The teams adventure though everything from Viking Villages to glacial lagoons, persevering through the elements and cultural shock towards the ultimate cash prize. Only in a show as unpredictable as The Amazing Race could a Chicago deep dish pizza be the difference between...
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Eleven teams depart from Gloucester, Massachusetts on a trip around the world, spanning over 32,000 miles, four continents, and 30 cities. Traveling north of the Arctic Circle for the first time, this seventeenth installment, also includes first-time visits to Bangladesh and Ghana.
18) American dreamz
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
"American Dreamz" is a wildly popular television singing contest program that has captured the country's attention. This new season showcases a competition between Sally, a young Midwestern gal and Omer, a showtunes-loving young man from Orange County. The recently depressed President of the United States wants in on the craze and signs up for the potentially explosive season finale.
19) Down and Derby
Language
English
Description
A fun and entertaining comedy about a small-town Pinewood Derby competition that transforms an average group of dads into an awkward bunch of competitors.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2008
Language
Polish
Description
A middle-aged journalist and his wife invite a footloose young hitch-hiker aboard their sail-boat for a Sunday outing in the Polish lake district. Like two peacocks, the men proceed to flaunt their virility before the woman, revealing a cynical sadism on the part of the husband and a growing resentment in the knife-wielding youth.
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