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Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"Avery Keene, a brilliant young law clerk for the legendary Justice Howard Wynn, is doing her best to hold her life together?excelling in an arduous job with the court while also dealing with a troubled family. When the shocking news breaks that Justice Wynn?the cantankerous swing vote on many current high-profile cases?has slipped into a coma, Avery?s life turns upside down. She is immediately notified that Justice Wynn has left instructions for...
3) Shopgirl
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment :
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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...
4) Shopgirl
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Description
THE BESTSELLING NOVEL BY STEVE MARTIN IS NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE Mirabelle is the "shopgirl" of the title, a young woman, beautiful in a wallflowerish kind of way, who works behind the glove counter at Neiman Marcus "selling things that nobody buys anymore..." Mirabelle captures the attention of Ray Porter, a wealthy businessman almost twice her age. As they tentatively embark on a relationship, they struggle to decipher the language of love--with...
5) Office space
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (89 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When white-collar peon Peter Gibbons decides he's had enough and neglects his job, he is quickly promoted to upper management.
6) Management
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Mike Cranshaw has a chance meeting with Sue Claussen when she checks into the roadside motel owned by Mike's parents in Arizona. A bottle of wine 'compliments of management' jump starts a cross-country journey and unique courtship between two different kinds of people who are both ultimately looking for the same thing: a sense of happiness. Mike sees something special in button downed Sue that inspires him to take a chance and hit the road to go after...
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Landing a prestigious position as a Supreme Court clerk fresh out of Yale Law, Ben Addison is on the ultra-fast track to success-until he inadvertently shares a classified secret with the wrong listener. And now the anonymous blackmailer who made a killing with Ben's information is demanding more. Guilty of a criminal act, his golden future suddenly in jeopardy, Ben turns for help to his roommates-three close friends from childhood, each strategically...
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After living her whole life in the city, 27-year-old Taeko decides to visit her relatives in the countryside. As she travels, memories of her youth resurface. And after meeting young farmer Toshio, she wonders if she's been true to the dreams of her childhood self.
10) 10 items or less
Publisher
First Look Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007], c2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Once the center of Hollywood, an aging actor finds that his fear of failure has made his career dry up, and he is now forced to consider a role in an independent film. While researching the role, he meets Scarlett, a check-out clerk at a Latino community market. The two begin a trek through Los Angeles finding unexpected situations, chance encounters, and personal revelation that neither could ever have anticipated.
11) Office space
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In this screwball comedy, a cubicle slave tires of mind-numbing corporate life and actively tries to get fired. Instead, his "straight-shooting" attitude gets him promoted, where he can play out his grand embezzling scheme.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Frank and April Wheeler live a life that appears to be perfect. They live in the Connecticut suburbs with two young children. Frank commutes to New York City where he works in an office job that he hates and has yet to figure out what his passion in life is. April is a housewife who forgoes her dream of being an actress. They are not happy. One day, April suggests that they move to Paris as a means to rejuvenate their life. Initially skeptical, Frank...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 135 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on the popular British series of the same name, the American version follows the daily interactions of a group of idiosyncratic office employees at the Scranton, Pa. office of the Dunder Mifflin paper supply company via a documentary film crew's cameras. Features earnest, but clueless, regional manager Michael Scott, who believes himself an exceptional boss, and his office staff, who tolerate Michael's inappropriate behavior only because he...
15) Clerks
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1995]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (92 min.) : sd., b&w with col. sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It's one wild day in the life of a pair of overworked counter jockeys who brave a nonstop parade of unpredictable shoppers, while managing to play hockey on the roof, visit a funeral home and straighten out their offbeat love lives.
16) Funny face
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A Cinderella story about an inconspicuous salesgirl who is whisked off to Paris by a group of fashion magazine sophisticates and transformed into a dazzling model with whom the magazine's photographer falls in love.
18) The assistants
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
282 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"The Assistants speaks directly to a new generation of women who feel stuck and unable to get ahead playing by the rules. It will appeal to all of those who have ever asked themselves, “How is it that after all these years, we are still assistants?”"--Amazon.com.
20) Home for a spell
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
290 p. ; 21 cm.
Description
Maggie O'Neill's dream of a new place to live turns into a nightmare: the apartment manager is found dead before she can even sign the lease. And Maggie finds herself not only searching for a new home--but for a frightfully clever killer.
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