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A genuinely funny book is one of life's simplest pleasures, but finding the real stand-outs is never as easy.
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Romantic comedy about a young man who meets the girl of his dreams at a friend's wedding. However, she slips through his fingers when the timing seems wrong, and they meet at three more weddings and a funeral before the two finally connect.
3) Annie Hall
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2000.
Edition
Full screen and widescreen versions.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (93 min.) : sound, color, double-sided ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Woody Allen's semiautobiographical portrait of his amorous, but ultimately mismatched, relationship with co-star Diane Keaton. Allen uses satire and comedy to portray this "nervous romance" for modern times.
4) Ball of fire
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Realizing they have to hear how real people talk, a group of lexicographers end up assisting a beautiful singer get away from the mob.
5) The graduate
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999]
Edition
Widescreen version ; Special edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 106) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A recent college graduate from an affluent family comes of age and finds himself by being led into an affair with the wife and the daughter of his father's business partner.
6) Manhattan
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2000]
Edition
Widescreen format.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (96 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Allen portrays Isaac Davis, a successful comedy writer whose wife, having left him for another woman, is now embarking on a book about their failed marriage. Isaac happily consoles himself in the arms of an adoring 17 year-old schoolgirl until he meets someone closer to his own age, who happens to be his best friend's mistress.
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After a game of pool, Michael and Bruce decide to go to a strip club. Dana returns home and sees them driving away, and decides to follow them. She tracks them to the club, and she's appalled as she watches them get lap dances. She leaves the club and calls Brita to tell her all about it. When Michael and Bruce get back to Michael's place, they find the two women waiting there, angry. Dana throws Michael out. The four of them come together, momentarily,...
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two con men, one a suave and sophisticated Englishman and the other a bumbling but appealing American, compete to see who can extract $50,000 from a naive soap heiress first. The winner can keep the Riviera and its unsuspecting tourists to himself.
10) Benny & Joon
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A mentally ill young woman who lives with her older brother finds her love in an eccentric young man who models himself after Buster Keaton.
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ambitous young window cleaner J. Pierpont Finch buys a book describing how to get ahead in the business world and sets out to try the methods shown.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Screwball comedy about two high school students who face a difficult history exam. With the help of a time-traveling messenger they round up some historical heavyweights for their class project!
13) Shadows and fog
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (85 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Recruited by an inept mob of vigilantes, Kleinman, a cowardly clerk, is forced to search for a notorious murderer -- only to stumble upon Irmy, a sword-swallower running away from the circus and her clownish boyfriend. Determined to help her, and eager to escape the vigilantes, Kleinman abandons his search for the killer ... or so he thinks.
Series
Publisher
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sidney Young is a gate-crashing British journalist who loves exposing the shallowness of the celebrity world, yet desperately wants to join it. Accepting an offer to write for renowned magazine editor Clayton Harding, Sidney finally gets to rub elbows with A-list celebrities, only to rub them in the wrong way. His fellow writer, Alison, is powerless to stop Sidney when he sets his lustful sites on beautiful starlet Sophie. When Sophie's publicist...
15) The Pink Panther
Language
English
Description
As a young girl, Princess Dala is given the largest diamond in the world by her father. If you stare into it, you can see a 'Pink Panther.' Now she is a young woman. Rebels in her home country have seized power and are demanding the return of the jewel. Dala relaxes at an exclusive skiing resort. Noted British playboy, Sir Charles Lytton is in town. He is secretly 'The Phantom, ' an infamous jewel thief who has eyes on the Pink Panther. Charles's...
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
Widescreen format.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Weaving together several different stories about people's lives, loves, perceptions, and ideals, this examines some of the toughest questions surrounding human nature.
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Griffin is divorced, living in a flat in Manhattan, when his life takes an unexpected turn. Griffin decides to focus on the good, instead of the bad, and plans to enjoy his time to the fullest. Soon he meets Phoenix, a beautiful loner who appears determined to avoid relationships, and fun, at any cost. But the chemistry between Griffin and Phoenix is undeniable. The two discover they share the same secret and find not only comfort in each other's...
Series
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Three army buddies, try to end a long-standing feud between an Army base and the local town by throwing a party. But things continue to go from bad to worse as the sergeant is arrested while hitting on the local Sheriff's would be girlfriend.
19) Radio days
Series
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
Widescreen format.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Presents a look back at radio from the late 1930s to the mid-1940s, focusing on an extended Jewish family, all avid radio listeners, and on a young woman who eventually succeeds as a radio gossip columnist.
Series
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
What do you do when you go to your boss's beach house for the weekend and find that your boss is already there ... but he's dead? You spend the weekend creating the illusion that he's alive, of course!
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