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Criterion collection volume 1178
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"A model-influencer couple get a ticket to the luxe life when they are invited aboard an all-expenses-paid cruise alongside a coterie of the rich and ghoulish, but an act of fate turns their Insta-perfect world upside down" --Container.
3) Swan song
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Nantucket volume 4
Pub. Date
2024.
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"Chief of Police Ed Kapenash is about to retire. Blond Sharon is going through a divorce. But when a 22-million-dollar summer home is purchased by the mysterious Richardsons—how did they make their money, exactly?—Ed, Sharon, and everyone in the community are swept up in high drama. The Richardsons throw lavish parties, flirt with multiple locals, flaunt their wealth with not one but two yachts, and raise impossible hopes of everyone they meet....
4) Overboard
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When Leonardo, a wealthy businessman, has a yachting accident and develops amnesia, an ill-treated employee exacts some revenge. Kate is a single mom who manages to convince Leonardo that she is his wife. Hilarity ensues as Leonardo must take on the task of helping Kate raise her three daughters. Will Kate's plan succeed to perfection, or will she discover that Leonardo isn't such a bad guy after all? It's classic role reversal in this remake of an...
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When her father threatens to annul her marriage to a fortune-hunting playboy, spoiled heiress Ellie Andrews hops a cross-country bus to New York, where she plans to live happily ever after with her handsome new hubby. Romantic complications soon arise, however, when she's befriended by fellow passenger Peter Warne, a brash and breezy reporter who offers his help in exhange for her exclusive story.
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Winston Groom brings to life a much-forgotten period of history in this episodic saga set in six parts. Pitting the legendary Pancho Villa against the Colonel, a thrill-seeking Bostonian railroad tycoon whose fading fortune is tied up in a colossal ranch in Chihuahua, El Paso opens during a time of dramatic upheaval in Mexico its government being squeezed on one end by Villa's revolutionaries and on the other by filthy American capitalists. Content...
7) Captain Ron
Pub. Date
2013, ♭1992.
Description
Captain Ron is the inept and laid-back drifter hired to captain the Harvey family's newly inherited & dilapidated yacht.
8) Adrift
Pub. Date
2018.
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Based on the true story of survival, a young couple's chance encounter leads them first to love, and then on the adventure of a lifetime as they face one of the most catastrophic hurricanes in recorded history.
9) Overboard
Pub. Date
c1999
Description
A bored super-rich woman falls off her yacht and into the life of a carpenter with four children in need of attention.
10) After the storm
Pub. Date
2001
Description
On the run from ruthless smugglers and the police, Arno, a world-weary scavenger, is hired as a courier for a rich tycoon. When the tycoon's luxury yacht goes down in a violent storm, Arno is forced to partner with a local crook, and the race is on to salvage the bounty.
12) The Cat's Meow
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Description
A retelling of one of the most notorious Tinseltown legends to circulate at the height of the studio era. In November 1924, a mysterious Hollywood death occurred aboard media mogul William Randolph Hearst's yacht. Included among the famous guests that weekend were Charlie Chaplin, starlet Marion Davies, the studio system creator and producer Thomas Ince, and feared gossip columnist, Louella Parsons.
13) Wind
Pub. Date
1992
Description
A young man achieves his childhood dream to sail in an America's cup race, first taking part in a losing team and then trying again the next year.
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Sam returns from his aborted around-the-world boat trip to find the old gang gone. Carla and Woody are the same, but wearing uniforms more fit for a barbershop quartet. There is a tough new boss who reportedly "eats live sharks for breakfast." The new boss, Rebecca, grudgingly hires back Sam. But Rebecca is not as tough as she seems, however, getting weak in the knees at the thought or sight of her corporate boss, Evan Drake.
19) The Cat's Meow
Pub. Date
2002
Description
A retelling of one of the most notorious Tinseltown legends to circulate at the height of the studio era. In November 1924, a mysterious Hollywood death occurred aboard media mogul William Randolph Hearst's yacht. Included among the famous guests that weekend were Charlie Chaplin, starlet Marion Davies, the studio system creator and producer Thomas Ince, and feared gossip columnist, Louella Parsons.
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
Open water: "In search of much needed relaxation, Susan and Daniel take a tropical island vacation. While scuba diving miles off the coast, the tour guide miscounts leaving them abandoned in the middle of the ocean. As the hours pass, the couple realizes they are not alone as a shark's fin breaks the surface water. Over the next 24 hours, the couple must fight to stay afloat and alive, surrounded by miles of ocean"--Container.
Open water 2: "A weekend...