David Newman
1) Matilda
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
1997, c1996
Language
English
Description
Matilda is brainy, but few people give her much respect, not even her parents, and certainly not her mean-spirited school headmistress, Miss Trunchbull; but she discovers that a best friend and a special teacher can help make her world more promising.
2) The sandlot
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
1960s. Fifth-grader Scotty Smalls has just moved into town with his folks. Kids call him a dork because he can't even throw a baseball. But that changes when the leader of the neighborhood gang recruits him to play on the nearby sandlot field. It's the beginning of a magical summer of baseball, wild adventures, first kisses and fearsome confrontations with the dreaded beast and its owner who live behind the left field fence. Soon nine boys have become...
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Five electrical appliances find that their young owner has disappeared. The toaster takes charge, rounding up the vacuum cleaner, the electric blanket, bedside lamp and radio. Together they take off for the big city in search of their master.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Georgia came to Greece to follow a man. Cast aside, she finds herself alone and adrift in this foreign land. Eventually, her passion for history leads her to a job as a tour guide. But Georgia is bored, and has lost her 'kefi' (Greek for mojo) to boot. When Poupi replaces her regular driver at the last minute, Georgia thinks that her luck has just hit rock bottom. Thankfully, Georgia's latest batch of tourists is a more lively bunch than she's anticipated,...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004, c1996
Language
English
Description
On Christmas eve, Howard Langston must try to find the hottest selling toy of the season for his son for Christmas, but it turns into a mad dash against other fathers when he finds out it is sold out all over town.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Conrad and Sally Walden are home alone with their pet fish. It is raining outside, and there is nothing to do. Until The Cat in the Hat walks in the front door. He introduces them to their imagination, and at first it's all fun and games, until things get out of hand and the kids wreak havoc in the home their mother has neatly prepared for an upcoming party. So The Cat must go, go, go, before their parents get back.
8) Ice age
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Four animals trying to save themselves from the upcoming Ice Age become unlikely heroes. The four reluctantly come together when they have to return a human child to its father while braving the deadly elements.
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
2003, c2002
Language
English
Description
A hotshot ad exec bets he can make any woman fall in love with him. A free-spirited writer is doing research on how to make a man flee a relationship in terror. So, naturally, the two meet and target each other, and manage to fall in love despite their machinations.