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1) Frances Ha
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
©2013
Physical Desc
1 DVD (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. and 1 booklet.
Description
A woman in her late twenties living in contemporary New York tries to sort out her ambitions, finances, and above all, her tight but changing bond with her best friend Sophie. Frances Ha gets at both the frustrations and the joys of being young and unsure of where to go next.
"Frances Ha is sharply focused on a genuine life issue that doesn't get much play in movies: the challenges of platonic love and of the complicated passions of friendship."--TIME...
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Description
Sally Milz is a sketch writer for The Night Owls, the late night live comedy show that airs each Saturday. With a couple of heartbreaks under her belt, she's long abandoned the search for love, settling instead for the occasional hook-up, career success, and a close relationship with her stepfather to round out a satisfying life. But when Sally's friend and fellow writer Danny Horst begins dating Annabel, a glamorous actress who guest-hosted the show,...
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (78 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Filmed live at Toronto's Elgin Theater, this Oscar-winning comedian talks about everything from baby monitors to his addiction to placebos. Also includes an early performance at a Boston comedy club and a short film entitled One Soldier.
5) Comedian
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (81 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Follows Jerry Seinfeld and Orny Adams as they navigate their way through the cutthroat world of New York's comedy clubs, each working toward the ultimate goal of an appearance on Late Night with David Letterman. For Seinfeld, hitting the clubs is a way of proving himself after his years of sitcom success; for the up-and-coming Adams, nightly stand-up routines are an avenue to bigger and better things, preferably comedy festivals, talk show appearances,...
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2022
Formats
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Reclusive author Loretta Sage writes about exotic places in her popular adventure novels that feature a handsome cover model named Alan. While on tour promoting her new book with Alan, Loretta gets kidnapped by an eccentric billionaire who hopes she can lead him to an ancient city's lost treasure from her latest story. Determined to prove he can be a hero in real life and not just on the pages of her books, Alan sets off to rescue her.
11) Big stone gap
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
1 DVD (103 min.) : sd., col ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It's 1978 and the ever-ordinary Ave Maria Mulligan (Ashley Judd) leads a simple life. She lives with her mother, runs the pharmacy, directs The Trail of the Lonesome Pine Outdoor Drama, and hopes that her best friend will take their platonic friendship in a romantic direction. Ave Maria waits, and before she knows it, she turns 40. Now the old maid of Big Stone Gap, Ave Maria decides that happiness is for other people--that is, until a long-buried...
12) Book lovers
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"Nora Stephens life is books-she's read them all-and she is not that type of heroine. Not the plucky one, not the laidback dream girl, and especially not the sweetheart. In fact, the only people Nora is a heroine for are her clients, for whom she lands enormous deals as a cutthroat literary agent, and her beloved little sister Libby. Which is why she agrees to go to Sunshine Falls, North Carolina for the month of August when Libby begs her for a sisters'...
13) The interview
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Enter
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (ca. 112 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Two amateur TV hosts land an interview with the North Korean dictator Kim Jung-un, and are recruited by the CIA to assassinate him.
14) A perfect day
Publisher
IFC Films
Formats
Description
It's just another day on the job for a band of badass combat zone rescue workers as they defy death and confront war's absurdities. The setting is 1995, somewhere in the Balkans. Over the course of 24 breathless hours, Mambru, leads his team of humanitarian, including hard-bitten, wisecracking veteran B and new recruit Sophie, as they deal with a most unexpected crisis, layers of bureaucratic red tape, and the reappearance of Mambru's old flame.
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"The compelling, inspiring, and comically sublime story of one man's coming-of-age, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed,"--Amazon.com.
Noah's path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother, at the time such a union was punishable by five years in prison. As he struggles to find himself in a...
16) The proposal
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
High-powered book editor Maggie is everyone's worst nightmare: ruthless, driven, and tactless. When she finds herself faced with deportation back to Canada, she coerces her much younger assistant into marrying her. However, when the government becomes suspicious, they embark upon a charade in order to make the marriage seem legitimate.
17) Dr. Dolittle
Publisher
Distributed by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (85 min.) : sd., col ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A doctor finds out he can understand what animals are saying. When the animals find out, his world is turned upside down.
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Formats
Description
Three childhood friends in a working-class New England town come together for a whiskey-fueled celebration that rapidly escalates in SMALL ENGINE REPAIR, a pitch-black comedic drama with a wicked twist from writer, director and actor John Pollono (Stronger), adapted for the screen from his award-winning play.
19) The last supper
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (92 min.) sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the heartland of Iowa, five grad school liberals share a house, a left-wing outlook, and Sunday suppers filled with conversation and social criticism. But when a redneck trucker threatens one of their own, he inadvertently puts them on the radical road to serial murder.
20) Groundhog Day
Description
Teamed with a relentlessly cheerful producer and a smart-aleck cameraman, TV weatherman Phil Connors is sent to Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania to cover the annual Groundhog Day festivities. But on his way out of town, Phil is caught in a giant blizzard, which he failed to predict, and finds himself stuck in small-town hell. Just when things couldn't get any worse, they do. Phil wakes the next morning to find it's Groundhog Day all over again-- and again--...
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