Universal Studios Home Video (Firm)
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
The cat in the hat: Two youngsters find themselves bored at home, but when the mischievous Cat in the Hat arrives, they're cat-apulted into a day of rousing, romping antis.
The Lorax: The Lorax tells the story of the greedy, tree-chopping Once-lers and the brave Lorax who speaks for the trees.
Pontofell Pock and his magic piano: A young man wishes he could get away and his wish is granted in a globetrotting, song-singing way.
Green eggs and ham:...
2) Dante's peak
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
A long-dormant volcano erupts, threatening the residents of a small town. Special features include audio commentary with the director and an original documentary "Getting close to the show" with interviews. Behind-the-scenes footage and other exciting materials.
5) Elizabeth
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Formats
Description
Queen Elizabeth I must learn to weigh her counsel carefully and ignore her private yearnings if she is to keep her crown--and her head.
6) Apollo 13
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
A true story. Stranded 205,000 miles from Earth in a crippled spacecraft, astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, and Jack Swigert fight a desperate battle to survive. Meanwhile, at Mission Control, astronaut Ken Mattingly, flight director Gene Kranz and a heroic ground crew race against time, and the odds, to bring them home.
Publisher
DreamWorks Pictures
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
It's 'veggie-mania' in Wallace and Gromit's neighborhood. The two enterprising friends are cashing in with their humane pest-control outfit, "Anti-Pesto." With only days to go before the annual Giant Vegetable Competition they find that their business is booming. They come to find out that running a "humane" pest control outfit can have its drawbacks. Suddenly, a large and mysterious veg-ravaging "beast" begins attacking the town's sacred vegetable...
8) Shark tale
Publisher
Dreamworks Animation
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Oscar is a lowly tongue-scrubber at the local Whale Wash, who becomes an improbable hero when he tells a great white lie. To keep his secret, Oscar teams up with an outcast vegetarian Great White shark, Lenny, and the two become the most unlikely of friends. When his lie begins to unravel, it's up to Oscar's loyal friend Angie and Lenny to help him stand up to the most feared shark in the water and find his true place in the reef.
10) Terminal
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Formats
Description
Viktor is a simple man with a mission who finds himself entrapped in JKF airport after the accidental loss of his country to villainous coup. He becomes a man without a country and is stuck in at the airport's international terminal with no visa, and is instructed that he is not allowed to leave. Slowly he encounters airport workers who come to his aid by mutual coercion. Gupta the hilarious Indian custodian; Enrique who transports food; Torres the...
11) The Deer hunter
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
Tracks a group of steelworker pals from a Pennsylvania blast furnace to the cool hunting grounds of the Alleghenies to the lethal cauldron of Vietnam. It is a drama of friendship and courage and of what happens to these qualities under stress.
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
It's the mid-80's, and Marty McFly is your average 17-year-old slacker who happens to be friends with an inventor, Doc Brown. Doc's latest invention is a time machine, that ends up transporting Marty back to 1955 where he must bring his parents together so that he will exist when he gets back to his own time.
13) 12 monkeys
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
After the world's population is devastated by a killer virus, Cole volunteers to travel into the past to obtain a pure virus sample, thereby helping scientists develop a cure. Along the way, he crosses paths with a beautiful psychiatrist and a mental patient as he searches for the Army of the 12 Monkeys, a radical group linked to the deadly disease.
14) Fierce creatures
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
When ruthless media mogul Rod McCain acquires England's Marwood Zoo, he sends his sexy marketing executive and his lecherous son to whip the place into shape, but they discover Marwood's straitlaced director has already implemented his own harebrained scheme to boost attendance: from now on the zoo will do away with cute, cuddly animals and display only "fierce creatures."
15) Shrek 2
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Right after Shrek and Princess Fiona's honeymoon, the newly wed couple goes to Princess Fiona's parents for dinner. When a Fairy Godmother discovers Fiona and Shrek are married she reminds the king about a deal they agreed on years ago, that Fiona should have married her son, who happens to be Prince Charming. The King then hires a cat named Puss-in-Boots, a sword fighting cat and ogre slayer, to kill Shrek.
16) Dawn of the dead
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Video
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
"When a mysterious virus turns people into mindless, flesh-eating zombies, a handful of survivors wage a desperate, last-stand battle to stay alive ... and human." -- Container.
19) Kindergarten cop
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
A veteran detective is forced to go undercover as a kindergarten teacher in order to trap an elusive criminal.
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Language
English
Description
Kathy gets evicted from her home for failing to pay a tax she never should have been charged to pay in the first place. The house is swiftly put up for auction and bought by a former military officer from Iran named Behrani. When legal efforts fail her, Kathy turns to a sympathetic cop who wants out of a loveless marriage and who is willing to step over legal boundaries if it might give him the fresh start he is so badly craving.
