Emma Thompson
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Harvey, a divorced, down-on-his-luck music jingle composer, and Kate, a lonely British airline employee, are brought together by chance. Harvey comes to London for his daughter's wedding, planning only to attend the wedding ceremony. However, he ends up being let go from his job before going back to America and decides to stay for the reception, asking Kate to accompany him. Thus begins a growing connection between these two guarded strangers.
22) Treasure planet
Series
Language
English
Description
Jim is a young man who grew up reading tales of pirates and adventures on the high seas, and longs for similar excitement in his own life. One day a dying man hands him a map and gives him a warning. Upon careful examination, Jim realizes the map charts the course to Treasure Planet, a distant world where hundreds of space pirates have stashed their loot. Jim is certain this is the adventure he's been dreaming of and sets out to find the fabled Treasure...
23) Nanny McPhee
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Nanny McPhee can tame even the most unruly children with a tap of her magic walking stick. Her latest challenge is the bratty brood of a recent widower Mr. Brown. He is under pressure to find a new wife or lose his much-needed allowance from wealthy Aunt Adelaide. His love for scullery maid Evangeline remains unspoken as he wincingly woos the eagerly merry widow Mrs. Quickly, but Brown's raucous rugrats have a plan to make things right, especially...
24) The love punch
Publisher
Arc Entertainment
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Middle aged and divorced, company owner Richard Jones is looking forward to a worry-free existence as he arrives at his office on his last day of work. Much to his dismay, he discovers that the management buyout of his company was fraudulent. The company is now bankrupt and the employee pension fund, including his own, has been embezzled. Enlisting the help of his ex-wife Kate, Richard sets out to track down the shady businessman behind this, Vincent...
25) Last Christmas
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young woman, who has been continuously unlucky, accepts a job as a department store elf during the holidays. When Kate meets Tom on the job, her life takes a turn.
Publisher
Binge Box
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (ca. 573 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Fall in love with these classic love stories. Titles included: Pride & Prejudice, Casablanca, Wuthering Heights, Sense and Sensibility and To Have and Have Not.
Publisher
Broad Green Pictures
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Bill Bryson, instead of retiring to enjoy his loving and beautiful wife and large and happy family, challenges himself to hike the Appalachian Trail: 2,200 miles of America's most unspoiled, spectacular, and rugged countryside from Georgia to Maine. The peace and tranquility he hopes to find, though, is anything but, when the only person he can find willing to join him on the trek is his long-lost former friend Katz, a down-on-his-luck serial philanderer....
28) Missing link
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Sir Lionel Frost is a brave and dashing adverturer who considers himself to be the world's foremost invetigator of myths and monsters. The trouble is no one else seems to agree. Zach Galifiankis is Mr. Link. As pecies go, he's as endangered as they get; he's possibly the last of his kind, he's lonely, and he believes that Sir Lionel is the one man alive who can help him. Along with the indiepndent and resourceful Adelina Fortnight, sho possesses...
29) Fortunes of war
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 407 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Mini-series that chronicles the lives of an English couple who live in Bucharest when WWII breaks out.
30) Men in black 3
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Agent J must travel back in time to MIB's early years in the 1960s and save his partner, Agent K, from being assassinated by an alien. Along the way, Agent J teams up with young Agent K and learns that there are secrets to the universe that Agent K never told him.
Series
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
Special Edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (136 min.) : sd., col ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, Kate Winslet and Hugh Grant star in this captivating romantic comedy that swept the Ten Best Lists and was named the Best Picture of the Year by the Golden Globes(r). Based on Jane Austen's classic novel, Sense and Sensibility tells of the Dashwood sisters, sensible Elinor (Thompson) and passionate Marianne (Winslet), whose chances at marriage seem doomed by their family's sudden loss of fortune. Rickman, Grant, and Greg...
Series
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
Special Edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (136 min.) : sd., col ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, Kate Winslet and Hugh Grant star in this captivating romantic comedy that swept the Ten Best Lists and was named the Best Picture of the Year by the Golden Globes(r). Based on Jane Austen's classic novel, Sense and Sensibility tells of the Dashwood sisters, sensible Elinor (Thompson) and passionate Marianne (Winslet), whose chances at marriage seem doomed by their family's sudden loss of fortune. Rickman, Grant, and Greg...
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
2001.
Edition
Special edition ; widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 134 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of blind devotion and repressed love between a fanatically proper butler and a high-spirited, strong-minded young housekeeper employed by a British lord who is an unwitting Nazi sympathizer.
34) Dead again
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (107 min.) : sound, color with some black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An L.A. detective is perplexed when he is hired to help a beautiful amnesia victim who is tormented by nightmares, which may lie in a past-life connection to a pianist murdered by her husband.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
"Told through his diaries--a twenty-five-year passion project--the beloved actor, political activist, and more grants us access to his thoughts and insights on theater performances, the craft of acting, politics, friendships, work projects, and his general musings on life"--
36) Saving Mr. Banks
Series
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 125 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When P.L. Travers travels from London to Hollywood in 1961 to finally discuss Walt Disney's desire to bring her beloved character, Mary Poppins to the motion picture screen (a quest he began in the 1940s as a promise to his two daughters), Disney meets a prim, uncompromising sexagenarian not only suspect of the impresario's concept for the film, but a woman struggling with her own past. During her stay in California, Travers' reflects back on her...
37) Love actually
Publisher
Universal
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
It's all about love and holiday cheer in London. The Prime Minister is smitten with his caterer; a widower's young son nurses the ultimate schoolboy crush; a writer falls for his Portuguese housekeeper; a devoted wife and mother copes with her potentially unfaithful husband; and a lovelorn American is desperately attracted to a colleague.
38) Saving Mr. Banks
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (Blu-ray) (approximately 125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When P.L. Travers travels from London to Hollywood in 1961 to finally discuss Walt Disney's desire to bring her beloved character, Mary Poppins to the motion picture screen (a quest he began in the 1940s as a promise to his two daughters), Disney meets a prim, uncompromising sexagenarian not only suspect of the impresario's concept for the film, but a woman struggling with her own past. During her stay in California, Travers' reflects back on her...
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
2004.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (approximately 5 hr., 56 min.) : sound, color w/black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The lives of two gay couples are played out against the backdrop of the specter of AIDS and the conservative politics of the Reagan administration.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bridget is forty-something and single again after breaking up with Mark Darcy. She decides to focus on her job and surround herself with old friends and some new ones. But her love life takes a turn when she meets a dashing American named Jack. In an unlikely twist, Bridget finds herself pregnant but she can only be fifty percent sure of the father's identity.