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English
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Audrey Hepburn's portrays of a modern-day princess, rebelling against royal obligations, exploring Rome on her own. She meets an American newspaperman (Gregory Peck) who, seeking an exclusive story, pretends ignorance of her true identity. But his plan falters as they fall in love. Audrey Hepburn won an **Academy Award,** a **BAFTA Award** and a **Golden Globe** for her performance. Nominated for a Golden Lion at the **Venice International Film Festival.**...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 115 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4in.
Language
English
Description
A confirmed bachelor falls for and marries a beautiful woman he's just met. On their honeymoon, he realizes he's made a huge mistake, and now wants to turn his nightmare into a dream come true when he meets his real soulmate on the trip.
"...enough humor to keep us entertained."--USA Today.
"Uproarious romp...a model of comic timing."--Variety.
"...better than Elaine May's 1972 comedy."--New York Daily News.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
Widescreen [ed.]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Everett brings his fiancé Meredith home to meet his family for the Christmas holiday. It's an instant disaster when Everett's parents, Sybil and Kelly, agree with their gay, deaf son Thad, pot-smoking son Ben and daughters Amy and Susannah that Meredith is way too uptight to be welcomed into their family. Wanting to please Everett and get along with his family, Meredith recruits her sister Julie to help her thaw the Stone family cold front.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
15th anniversary special edition
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Teamed with a relentlessly cheerful producer and a smart-aleck cameraman, TV weatherman Phil Connors is sent to Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania to cover the annual Groundhog Day festivities. But on his way out of town, Phil is caught in a giant blizzard, which he failed to predict, and finds himself stuck in small-town hell. Just when things couldn't get any worse, they do. Phil wakes the next morning to find it's Groundhog Day all over again-- and again--...
5) Waitress
Publisher
20th Century Fox
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 100 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4in.
Language
English
Description
Trapped in an unhappy marriage, a small-town waitress finds her life forever changed by an unplanned pregnancy. Transforming her misery into delicious desserts, she sets out to win a pie contest and free herself from her abusive husband.
"Two thumbs up."--Roeper & Christy Lemire.
"It's funny. And it's real."--San Francisco Chronicle.
"...one-of-a-kind production..."--Wall Street Journal.
6) Superbad
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 113 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4in.
Language
English
Description
Seth and Evan go on a mission to provide alcohol for a graduation party in hopes of losing their virginity. When their friend Fogell gets a fake ID and tries to get the alcohol, he is suckerpunched by a robber.
"...pure laughs..."--San Francisco Chronicle.
"An uproarious and touching picture. "--New Yorker.
"...convulsively funny."--New York Magazine.
Publisher
20th Century Fox
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 90 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4in.
Language
English
Description
While Scrat the Saber-toothed Squirrel is still trying to find his precious acorn, the misfit trio of Manny the Mammoth, Sid the Sloth and Diego the Sabre-tooth Tiger have settled down in an isolated valley with numerous other animals. However, the trio soon discover that the ice wall surrounding the valley is barely holding back a massive body of water behind it and the melting state threatens to break the wall and flood the valley. With their one...
8) Ira and abby
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 101 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4in.
Language
English
Description
A sweet, hilarious romantic comedy that examines the issues of marriage, monogamy, and whether 'I do' is the only path to life-long love and happiness.
"Westfeldt's screenplay and Cary's direction combine to make it the best Manhattan love story since "When Harry Met Sally."--Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
"Not only delightfully funny but unaffectedly romantic."--Chicago Reader.
"...Ira & Abby radiates a breathless charm..."--New York Times.
9) Ghost town
Publisher
Dreamworks Pictures
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Bertram Pincus, an irritable dentist, develops the ability to see needy ghosts. Pincus ends up in a spirited love triangle when one particular ghost tries to trap him into breaking up his widow's impending marriage. Includes featurettes.
"A lightweight rom-com elevated by its performances. "--Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times.
"A good-natured and engaging fantasy/romantic comedy..."--USA Today.
"Smartly supernatural, and featuring sensational performances..."--Variety.
"A...
10) Drillbit Taylor
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Three high school freshmen hire a down-on-his-luck homeless soldier to teach them physical and mental training after the school bully terrorizes them. Includes additional scenes and commentary.
"...it's nice to know that there are still filmmakers ready to respect the eternal struggles of freaks and geeks."--New York Daily News.
"It's all entertaining..."--E! Online.
11) Shrek 2
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
Full screen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 92 min.) sd., col. 4 3/4 in.
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.
12) The love guru
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 88 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An American, raised by Indian gurus, wants to be in the self-help business, and his first job is to help a hockey player who has lost his wife to a rival player. Includes deleted and extended scenes, bloopers, featurettes, and outtakes.
"...cross-cultural romp..."--Los Angeles Times.
"...the most original and hilarious comedy since the first 'Austin Powers' film."--Gazette (MD)
Series
Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival volume 2015
Publisher
s.n
Pub. Date
2014?]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (blue-ray) (9 min.) : stereo ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sometimes communicating with the opposite sex can be as alien as communicating with well… an alien. This slightly sci-fi short film is a touching coming of age story that the awkward in all of us can relate to.Archetypes of family emerge from Weiss’s constructed images. The narrative is grounded in the cycle of waking and dreaming.
14) Elf
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A human baby accidentally ends up at the North Pole and grows up among the elf community. Buddy, as he comes to be known, knows that he's "special". When he's 30, Buddy learns from Santa that he's really a human. He decides to go in search of his father, to find out where he belongs. He walks to Manhattan, and is immediately run over by a cab. His father at first rejects him and Buddy ends up in a department store where other elves are working. But...
15) Smart people
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A widowed professor, trying to raise his overachieving teenage daughter on his own, learns about relationships from a former student and an unexpected visit from his brother.
"Good acting, nice smart script."--Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper.
"'Smart People' made me happy from start to finish."--Wall Street Journal.
"...entertaining..."--E! Online.
16) The jerk
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Navin Johnson, adopted son of a poor black sharecropper family, has invented some crazy inventions that lead him from rags to riches and right back to rags.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures Corp
Pub. Date
[2000]
Edition
Widescreen ed
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
A chronicle of the events experienced by a rather magical 17-year-old, who has an overwhelming urge to cut school one spring day and head for downtown Chicago with his girl and best friend to see the sights and experience a day of freedom.
18) The Apartment
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (125 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An ambitious office clerk plans to get ahead by lending out his apartment to his boss, but falls in love with the boss's girlfriend.
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (141 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on the autobiography of a brilliant young master of deception and the FBI agent hot on his trail. Frank W. Abagnale, Jr. passed himself off as a pilot, a lawyer, and a doctor all before his 21st birthday.
20) Meet dave
Publisher
20th Century Fox
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Seeking a way to save their doomed world, a crew of tiny, human-looking aliens arrive on Earth in the perfect disguise - a spaceship shaped like the ship's captain. The ship becomes smitten with an Earth woman. Bonus features included.
"...has a certain peculiar charm."--TV Guide.
"...Eddie Murphy still has the gift of surprise."--Entertainment Weekly.
"...a lightly amusing and surprisingly sweet Fox release."--Variety.
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