Michael Rapaport
Author
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...
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: 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.
4) Hitch
Pub. Date
[2005]
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) 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.
6) The heat
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Uptight FBI agent Sarah Ashburn ... and foul-mouthed Boston cop Shannon Mullins ... couldn't be more incompatible. But when they join forces to bring down a ruthless drug lord, they become the last thing anyone expected-- buddies"--Container.
7) Cop land
Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
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.
11) Big Fan
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Language
English
Description
A parking garage attendant and lifelong New York Giants fan finds his life spinning out of control following an altercation with his favorite player.
13) The Pallbearer
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Language
English
Description
Tom Thompson's social life is DOA - until he's asked to be a pallbearer at the funeral of a classmate, he can't remember. Comic chaos follows as he fends off the grieving mother's advances and tries to ask out his dream girl – who can't remember him!
14) Grilled
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Language
English
Description
Television sitcom stars Ray Romano ("Everybody Loves Raymond") and Kevin James ("The King of Queens") play a couple of incompetent door-to-door meat salesmen who have fallen so far behind on their quotas that they are finally issued an ultimatum: Either move an entire herd of beef by the end of the day, or face serious consequences, including termination. Desperately trying to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat while placing their tasty meat in...
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English
Description
After spending 20 years in federal prison for myriad crimes, ailing Mafia boss Joseph "Mr. Joe" Scoleri (Paul Sorvino) is released with a strict requirement not to interact with his old contacts in the mafia - and to ensure this, an FBI tail follows him. He quickly realizes that while the world around him may have changed, the habits of a mafia boss die hard.
17) Cop Land
Author
Language
English
Description
Freddy Heflin is the sheriff of "Cop Land" – a small and seemingly peaceful town populated by the big city police officers he's long admired. Yet something ugly is taking place behind the town's peaceful facade. And when Freddy uncovers a massive, deadly conspiracy among these residents, he is forced to take action and make a dangerous choice between protecting his idols and upholding the law.
Author
Language
English
Description
Joey Coyle, an unemployed longshoreman, stumbled upon $1.2 million in unmarked, untraceable currancy that had fallen off an armored truck and wanted to keep it. He turns to his girlfriend, Monica, to help him launder the loot. but keeping a million-dollar secret is harder than it looks, especially when Joey begins upgrading his social standing with extravagant gestures -- such as picking up enormous bar tabs for his friends. As an investigating...
19) Lucky Numbers
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Language
English
Description
John Travolta and Lisa Kudrow make a "high-energy comedy team" in this side-splittingly funny comedy inspired by a real-life scam to win the Pennsylvania lottery. Travolta "is truly irresistible" as Russ Richards, a weatherman in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Russ is a local celebrity, but when an unusually mild winter causes his snowmobile dealership to take a plunge, Russ needs a get-rich scheme - and fast. With his greedy girlfriend (Lisa Kudrow) -...