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1) Burnt
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Chef Adam Jones had it all, and lost it. A rock star chef of a two-star Michelin restaurant with the bad habits to match, the former enfant terrible of the Paris restaurant scene did everything different every time out and only ever cared about the thrill of creating explosions of taste. To land his own kitchen and that third elusive Michelin star though, he₂ll need the best of the best on his side, including the beautiful Helene
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Joel's parents are going on vacation and leaving him in charge of the house. They trust their college-bound 17-year-old son but they shouldn't. No sooner do Joel's parents step on the plane when he raids the liquor cabinet, has a joyride in Dad's Porsche, and has a night of passion with a young call girl named Lana
Publisher
Focus Features
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
It's 1963, a time in the United States when life was simple, straightforward, and the lines between the sexes and sex roles were crisply drawn and severely delineated. Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist find themselves thrown together when they are hired to tend sheep in the remote area of Brokeback Mountain, Wyoming. Ennis and Jack are drawn to each other and are emotionally, physically, and psychically bonded to each other almost from the start
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
This set celebrates the 50th anniversary of the beloved show. Watch as Mister Rogers helps children learn the importance of being kind to others, appreciating what makes everyone unique, and much more in these 30 episodes of the classic series! In addition, a bonus episode: the series premiere, in original black and white!
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The show follows Eleanor Shellstrop, an ordinary woman who enters the afterlife and, thanks to some kind of error, is sent to the Good Place instead of the Bad Place, which is definitely where she belongs. While hiding in plain sight from Michael, the wise architect of the Good Place who doesn't know he's made a mistake, she's determined to shed her old way of living and discover the awesome, or at least the pretty good, person within
Series
Good place volume 2
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The show follows Eleanor Shellstrop, an ordinary woman who enters the afterlife and, thanks to some kind of error, is sent to the Good Place instead of the Bad Place, which is definitely where she belongs. After Season 1's disastrous attempt by Michael to torture Eleanor, Chidi, Tahani and Jason for eternity goes belly-up, Eleanor and the gang are rebooted and Michael revises his plan to keep his torture subjects separate. Only now, Michael's soul...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
For over fifty years, Judy Blume's classic has connected with readers through its relatable story, achingly funny details, and candid exploration of life's biggest questions. In Lionsgate's big-screen adaptation, eleven-year-old Margaret is uprooted from her life in New York City for the suburbs of New Jersey, going through the messy and tumultuous throes of puberty with new friends in a new school. She relies on her mother, Barbara, who is also struggling...
Publisher
Parthenon Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Language
English
Description
In present day, Piggley lives with his three grandchildren and their mother. Whenever the children have a problem, Piggley tells them one of his childhood stories as a moral lesson. With flashbacks to 1950s Ireland, it shows Piggley with his friends and family and the lessons he learned. The grandchildren are able to identify core preschool themes such as storytelling, integral relationships and importance of family
10) Jolene
Publisher
E1 Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
At the age of fifteen, Jolene, a free-spirited orphan, embarks on a decade-long cross-country adventure, where she experiences life, love, heartbreak, and freedom
11) American beauty
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
An emotionally & spiritually comatose suburban man decides "to hell with it all" and reverts to living as he did when he was happiest--as a carefree teenager. His desperately uptight wife and sullen daughter can only look on as he quits his corporate job to become a burger flipper, starts getting high with a strange new neighbor (whose parents are even stranger) and lusts after a pouty blonde teenager--his daughter's best friend
12) I am
Publisher
Gaiam
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
The story of a successful Hollywood director, Tom Shadyac, who experienced a life-threatening head injury, and his ensuing journey to try and answer two very basic questions: 'What's wrong with the world?' and 'What can be done about it?' With a film crew of four, Tom visits some of today's great minds, including authors, poets, teachers, religious leaders, and scientists, searching for the fundamental endemic problem that causes all the other problems,...
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Language
English
Description
In present day, Piggley lives with his three grandchildren and their mother. Whenever the children have a problem, Piggley tells them one of his childhood stories as a moral lesson. With flashbacks to 1950s Ireland, it shows Piggley with his friends and family and the lessons he learned. The grandchildren are able to identify core preschool themes such as storytelling, integral relationships and importance of family
Publisher
Parthenon Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Language
English
Description
In present day, Piggley lives with his three grandchildren and their mother. Whenever the children have a problem, Piggley tells them one of his childhood stories as a moral lesson. With flashbacks to 1950s Ireland, it shows Piggley with his friends and family and the lessons he learned. The grandchildren are able to identify core preschool themes such as storytelling, integral relationships and importance of family
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
Deep in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, isolated from society, a devoted father dedicates his life to transforming his six young children into extraordinary adults. But when a tragedy strikes the family, they are forced to leave this self-created paradise and begin a journey into the outside world that challenges his idea of what it means to be a parent and brings into question everything he's taught them
"Finely wrought and inventive, Captain...
16) Scrooged
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c1999 1988
Language
English
Description
Modern version of Dickens' A Christmas Carol, with Bill Murray portraying a nasty, uncaring, unforgiving TV network president. On Christmas Eve he is visited by three ghosts who show him the error of his ways
17) Il posto
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
Italiano
Description
When young Domenico ventures from the small village of Meda to Milan in search of employment, he finds himself on the bottom rung of the bureaucratic ladder in a huge, faceless company. The prospects are daunting, but Domenico finds reason for hope in the fetching Antonietta. A tender coming-of-age story, a sharp observation of dehumanizing corporate enterprise, and a touching and hilarious tale of one young man's stumbling entrance into the perils...
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Contains the complete seventh season of the television program "Curb Your Enthusiasm" in which Larry David, the writer, co-creator, and executive producer of "Seinfeld," plays himself in fictionalized accounts of his travails in show business
Publisher
Big Idea
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Dr. Flurry has come to town! This chillin' villain wants to freeze the entire city - in fear! This job is too big for LarryBoy to handle alone, so he turns to 'The League of Incredible Vegetables' for help! Bob the Tomato, S-Cape, Vogue and Ricochet are up for the task, but find that their own fears make them vulnerable to Dr. Flurry's icy grip! Will they remember to turn to the One who is bigger than all their fears - before the whole town ends up...
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