Laura Ziskin
1) Spider-man
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Average teenager Peter Parker is transformed into an extraordinary super-hero after he is accidentally bitten by a genetically altered spider. When his uncle is murdered during a robbery, young Peter vows to avenge his death.
2) Hero
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Ace reporter Gale Gayley, literally falls into the story of a lifetime when she's a passenger on an airplane that crashes into a Chicago bridge. In the smoke and darkness, she's saved by a rude, foul-mouthed ₁hero,₂ who promptly disappears into the night leaving only one shoe behind. When Gale's TV station offers a million dollars to the mystery hero, a gentle Vietnam vet appears to claim the prize and share it with the city's homeless.
3) The doctor
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"Jack McKee is a doctor with it all: he's successful, he's rich, and he has no problems.... until he is diagnosed with throat cancer. Now that he has seen medicine, hospitals, and doctors from a patient's perspective, he realises that there is more to being a doctor than surgery and prescriptions"--IMBd website.
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Bob Wiley, a troubled but lovable therapy patient, seeks help from noted psychiatrist Dr. Leo Marvin. When the doctor leaves town to go on a quiet family vacation, Bob, afraid of being alone, follows--showing up unexpectedly at the therapist's lakeside retreat. Bob becomes the houseguest that just won't leave.
5) Spider-Man 2
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Peter Parker, a.k.a. Spider-Man, is desperately trying to balance his dual identities. He can't keep up at college, pay his rent or seem to make amends with his estranged best friend Harry. Mary Jane is more skeptical than ever of Peter. One day Peter's idol, the renowned scientist Otto Octavius, resurfaces after a failed science experiment. Peter begins to notice he's losing some of his powers and wonders at the stress in his personal life. He realizes...
7) To die for
Series
Criterion collection volume 1213
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"The all-American obsession with celebrity turns monstrous in this deliciously subversive (and disturbingly prescient) satire of our television-mediated, true-crime-obsessed age. In a career breakthrough, Nicole Kidman delivers a diabolical deconstruction of the girl next door as a local TV weather reporter whose perfectly perky facade belies a murderous heart, as her ruthless pursuit of fame ensnares three disaffected teens in a sordid, tabloid-ready...
9) Spider-Man 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Peter Parker is finally happy: he is doing well at the school, girlfriend MJ Watson loves him, and the whole city loves Spider-Man, finally bestowing upon him the praise he so rightly deserves. But peace may not be possible for a superhero. Harry Osborn has taken up his late father's mantle--becoming The New Goblin, bent on revenge. Uncle Ben's real killer, Flint Marko, has been transformed into the Sandman. An alien symbiote has attached itself to...
Series
Publisher
Binge Box
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Spider-Man: After being bitten by a radioactive spider on a school field trip, Peter Parker finds himself gaining spider-like qualities. Adopting the name Spider-Man, Peter first uses his new skills to make money, but when the Green Goblin, another altered super-human, kills Peter's uncle, he swears to use his "spider-skills" to fight evil. Along the way he has to juggle a new job as a local reporter, and a budding romance with a beautiful former-classmate,...