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4) Shopgirl
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Ray Porter is a buttoned-down 50-something executive who reaches out to a much younger woman as his Los Angeles playmate. Mirabelle, a 20-something with a pile of promises, debt, and depression, fades away in a slow corner of Saks, while trying to sell unneeded formal gloves. She's a wisp of a person, with a cat who doesn't love her, and when she finds a suitor, it's Jeremy, a scruffy artist who babbles on about speakers. When the gentlemanly Porter...
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
This compilation of films pays tribute to America's cantankerous comedy genius, W. C. Fields. Legendary one-liners and slapstick routines are preserved in these early shorts that chronicle the development of Fields' irascible screen persona
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Rose Lorkowski is a single mother attempting to support her son Oscar and her unreliable sister Norah. She works a mundane job as a maid. Once the head cheerleader in school with plenty of prospects, Rose now has little to show for her life. She still sees the former head football player, but it is little more than a despondent affair. When Oscar is expelled from public school, Rose takes a job as a bio-hazard crime-scene cleaner to help pay for a...
Author
Series
Willow Cove novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
"You know how the story's supposed to go...but love makes its own plans. STEP 1: Find yourself Leah Keegan is used to being alone, especially after taking care of her sick foster mother for the past year. But now there's nothing keeping her in the sweet town of Willow Cove. It's time to move on. Again. STEP 2: Win back the one who got away. Eli Masterson thought he and Victoria were meant to be together until she decided to jet off to Rome for a year....
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Arnold Schwarzenegger, everyone's favorite body-building superstar, flexes his comedic muscles in three of his funniest films! Available together for the first time ever, Arnold shows off his larger-than-life screen presence in the smash hit Twins, the action-packed comedy Kindergarten Cop and the heartwarming Junior. So get ready to laugh out loud with the Arnold Schwarzenegger: Comedy Favorites Collection. It's sure to pump up even the toughest...
10) Arthur
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Lovable billionaire Arthur Bach has always relied on his limitless fortune and nanny Hobson to keep him out of trouble. Now he faces his biggest challenge. He must choose between an arranged marriage that will ensure his lavish lifestyle or an uncertain future with the one thing money can't buy, Naomi, the only woman he has ever loved. With Naomi's inspiration and some unconventional help from Hobson, Arthur will finally learn what it means to become...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Liar liar: Fletcher Reede is a fast-talking attorney and habitual liar. When his son Max blows out the candles on his fifth birthday cake, Max has just one wish --that his dad stop lying for 24 hours. When his son's wish comes true, Fletcher discovers that his biggest asset, his mouth, has become his biggest liability
Bruce Almighty: Bruce Nolan is a discontented TV reporter who believes the entire universe is stacked against him. After a bad day,...
12) Road to Rio
Series
Publisher
Brentwood Home Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Two down-and-out Hollywood musicians stow away on a slow boat to Rio de Janeiro. Aboard the vessel, the two fall for a young woman who is being forced into an arranged marriage
15) Groundhog Day
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video [distributor]
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
A romantic comedy about a weatherman caught in a personal time warp where it is Groundhog Day again, and again, and again. First he uses this to his advantage, but then he realizes that he might be doomed to spend the rest of eternity in the same place, seeing the same people, and doing the same thing every day
16) City slickers
Language
English
Formats
Description
Comedy about three men friends who are going through mid-life crises. They decide that the answer to their malaise is a fantasy vacation out West where they can play cowboy on a cattle drive
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
It's every man's fantasy--a summer romance with the sexist woman he can imagine. Richard Sherman is a happily married man whose wife and son are off on vacation when his tempting new neighbor sneaks in one hot summer night to cool off in his air-conditioned apartment. How does an ordinary man deal with this irresistible temptation after seven years of marriage?
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
An innocent country girl comes to the big city in search of a husband. Along the way she becomes the secretary of the rich and famous Trevor Graydon, befriends the sweet Miss Dorothy, fights off white slaver Mrs. Meers, and hooks up with a lively paper clip salesman, Jimmy. In the end it takes a rich and nutty jazz baby like Muzzy to unravel all these complications, give a great party, and match up lovers
19) Two weeks notice
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Lucy Kelson is Chief Counsel for the Wade Corporation, one of New York City's top commercial real estate developers. She's a brilliant lawyer with a sharp, strategic mind; she also has an ulcer and doesn't get much sleep. It's not the job that's getting to her. It's her millionaire boss, George Wade. Handsome, charming and undeniably self-absorbed, he treats her more like a nanny than a Harvard Law grad and can barely choose a tie without her help....
20) Mr. Magoo
Publisher
Walt Disney Pictures
Pub. Date
[1998?]
Language
English
Description
Mr. Magoo becomes the target of a notorious and ruthless band of international jewel thieves when he sets out to retrieve a stolen gem
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