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Charlie Sheen
1) Platoon
Pub. Date
1986.
Description
In "Platoon," a middle-class college student volunteers for the war in Vietnam because he considers it his patriotic duty. The first thing he encounters on the airport tarmac in Saigon is a cart of body bags. It's downhill from there: endless hikes, ditch-digging, heat, rain, bugs and snakebites, fear and confusion, sleeplessness, and terror when he finally sleeps. He will only gradually, unknowingly, become an adequate soldier--one who has left...
Pub. Date
[1999]
Description
In the Arrival, radio astronomer Zane Zaminsky follows an extra-terrestrial radio signal and discovers a plot of alien invasion.
In Arrival II, an investigative reporter and reluctant computer programmer must convince the government that a sinister alien conspiracy could wipe out the human species.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Radio astronomer Zane Zaminsky believes he's picked up a cosmic noise that is signaling extraterrestrial intelligence. But after turning over the tape to his boss Phil Gordian, Zane's fired, his girlfriend get transferred and his partner is found dead from an apparent suicide. Zane's desperate search for answers leads him to Mexico and a mysterious power plant this is generating more than electricity and is run by people who are not what they appear...
4) Hot shots
Pub. Date
c2002
Description
A team of crack (or is it cracked?) jet jockeys led by an incompetent commander spend their nights carousing and their days training for secret operation "Sleepy Weasel"--A lightning strike against a desert kingdom.
5) Wall Street
Description
Tired of the view from his one-bedroom apartment, Bud Fox dreams of the luxury and power at the pinnacle of Wall Street investment banking. Charming his way into the tutelage of Gordon Gekko, the best of the best, Fox is soon rubbing shoulders with friends in the highest places. But in a world that values high-risk greed over low-yied ethics, Fox will soon find himself in a most precarious position.
6) Major league
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
A beautiful, smart, goal-oriented woman has just inherited the Cleveland Indians. Unfortunately, she wants to move the franchise to Miami. A losing season is her only ticket to Florida. She decides to sign the wildest gang of screwballs that ever played baseball. Her catcher is a washed-up womanizer who struck out in life. Her pitcher is a punked-out crazy who struck out with the law. Her third baseman is more concerned with fielding endorsements...
7) Young guns
Description
The year is 1878, Lincoln County. John Tunstall, a British ranchowner, hires six rebellious boys as "regulators" to protect his ranch against the ruthless Santa Fe Ring. When Tunstall is killed in an ambush, the Regulators, declare war on the Ring. As their vendetta turns into a bloody rampage, they are branded outlaws, becoming the objects of the largest manhunt in Western history.
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
Red dawn (1984): In an alternate 1980s, the United States stands alone as communism grows stronger. When Soviet soldiers invade a small Colorado town, brothers Jed (Patrick Swayze) and Matt Eckert (Charlie Sheen) escape with friends to the forest. With their father, Tom (Harry Dean Stanton), a prisoner of the invading army, the children decide to fight against the Soviets. As the country comes under increasing attack, the group teams up with Lt. Col....
9) Major League
Description
She's beautiful and smart. She has just inherited the Cleveland Indians. Unfortunately, she wants to move the franchise to Miami, and a losing season is her only ticket to Florida. She signs the wildest bunch of screwballs to play on the team. Her catcher is a washed-up womanizer who struck out in life. Her pitcher is a punked-out crazy who struck out with the law. Her third baseman is more concerned about fielding endorsements than grounders. Throw...
10) Lucas
Description
Fourteen-year-old Lucas is a bit too small to play high school football and is more at home in the classroom than athletic field. He joins his high school football team to impress a cheerleader.
11) The Rookie
Series
Description
Packing years of experience and a .45 automatic, LAPD Detective Nick Pulovski (Clint Eastwood) figures he's got all the help he needs. He's also got all the help he doesn't need. His new partner is "The Rookie" (Charlie Sheen).
Pub. Date
2009.
Description
For six seasons, Charlie Harper has loved 'em and left 'em. In Season 7, he gets left. TV's #1 comedy pulls a hilarious switcheroo when Charlie's fiancee Chelsea meets a doctor (score one) who's generous, thoughtful and mature (score three more). She vamooses, and Charlie, after pickling himself in booze and self-pity, handles the situation in typical Charlie fashion.
13) Wall Street
Formats
Description
An ambitious young broker is lured into the illegal, lucrative world of corporate espionage when he is seduced by the power, status and financial wizardry of a Wall Street legend. But he soon discovers that the pursuit of overnight riches comes at a high price.
15) Young guns
Description
A portrait of Billy the Kid and his gang as they move from prairie trash to demi-gods.
17) Courage mountain
Pub. Date
c1989, p2002
Description
The further adventures of Heidi, the Swiss heroine loved by generations. Given into the power of a cruel tyrant by the advent of World War I, Heidi and her schoolmates escape on foot to travel from Italy to her home in Switzerland.
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
Welcome back to the Harpers' Malibu beach house. Bachelor Charlie is trying (but not very hard) to remember the name of the girl currently taking a shower upstairs. Alan, Charlie's tightly-wound, divorced brother is trying to figure out how he can get his ex-wife to remarry so he can stop paying alimony. And Jake, Alan's 11-year-old son, is just trying to figure out what's for lunch and where's the TV remote. After a year of living together, the guys...
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