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Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Abby, a savvy, witty veterinarian who hosts her own radio talk show, is anything but confident when it comes to love. A petite brunette, she describes herself as tall and blonde when Brian, a caller who is smitten with her radio persona, asks her on a date. She then talks her tall, blonde neighbor Noelle into assuming her identity, setting off an escalating series of hilarious and romantic crises.
Publisher
distributed by Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (86 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The true story of a man living in London who posed as Stanley Kubrick for the last decade or so of Kubrick's life, despite knowing very little about his work and looking nothing like him.
4) Peacock
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 91 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
John Skillpa, a quiet bank clerk living in tiny Peacock, Nebraska, prefers to live an invisible life. Then, in a moment, everything changes. A train caboose runs off its tracks and crashes into John's backyard and destroys more than the weathered planks of his wood fence. When neighbors descend on the scene, they discover John's other personality, Emma, for the first time and mistakenly believe her to be John's wife. John is launched into the spotlight...
5) Anastasia
Series
Studio classic volume 9
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An expatriate White Russian general sets in motion a grand hoax after he meets a destitute woman on the banks of the Seine River in Paris. He is amazed at her resemblance to Anastasia, the youngest daughter of Czar Nicholas of Russia, rumored to have somehow survived the Bolsheviks' execution of the Romanoff family in 1918. He trains her to impersonate the missing princess but soon begins to feel she may be the real Anastasia. Ultimately, the truth...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 126 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A reporter assumes the identity of a dead man. The more he does this, the further he is from his true identity. When he finds himself in danger, will he be able to become himself once again, or will it be too late?
7) The front
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 95 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Howard Price, a restaurant cashier, poses as a writer so that blacklisted authors can submit their work through him, but the injustice around him pushes him to take a stand when he is forced to testify at an investigative congressional committee hearing.
8) Manhandled
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (63 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A shop girl is offered a job impersonating a Russian duchess to attract rich customers to an expensive department store but her new way of life alienates her hard-working boyfriend.
9) Transit
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A man seeking to flee German-occupied France assumes the identity of a dead writer to take advantage of his Mexican visa, and while waiting for the departure, he meets the writer's estranged wife and falls in love with her.
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A frustrated city girl decides to disguise herself as a youngster in order to get a cheaper train ticket home. But little "Sue Sue" finds herself in a whole heap of grown-up trouble when she hides out in a compartment with handsome Major Kirby and he insists on taking her to his military academy after the train is stalled.
11) Rogue agent
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
c2023.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The true story of conman Robert Freegard, who posed as an undercover MI5 agent kidnapping countless victims amidst a high-stakes manhunt until the woman who fell for him brought him to justice.
Series
Criterion collection volume 463
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (132 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([12] p. ; 19 cm.)
Description
Film of intrigue and heroism within the Italian underground during the German occupation of Italy. Emanuele Bardone, a petty con man, fleeces his victims by posing as a colonel. Persuaded by the Germans to impersonate a partisan leader they have killed, he assumes the admirable qualities of the heroic officer and the German plan backfires.
13) The great Gatsby
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2013], ©2013.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (142 minutes) : digital, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A would-be writer Nick Carraway leaves the Midwest and comes to New York City in the spring of 1922, an era of loosening morals, glittering jazz, bootleg kings, and sky-rocketing stocks. Chasing his own American Dream, Nick lands next door to a mysterious, party-giving millionaire, Jay Gatsby. It is thus that Nick is drawn into the captivating world of the super rich, their illusions, loves and deceits.
14) Purple noon
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002?]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Small-time conman Tom Ripley travels to Italy to convince wealthy playboy Philippe Greenleaf to return to America, on behalf of Greenleaf's father. Greenleaf refuses, leading Ripley to undertake extreme measures in order to get what he wants.
15) Anastasia
Description
Anastasia: A princess of Russia's Romanov family grows up in an orphanage after the assassination of her parents and separation from her grandmother, with only vague memories of her childhood, but she discovers her rightful heritage when she is recruited to pose as the lost princess by con men who want to claim a reward for her recovery.
Bartok: When Prince Ivan is kidnapped, it is up to Bartok to discover the real hero inside himself and rescue...
16) The assistant
Publisher
Icarus Films Home Video
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
With his wife in labor, father-to-be Thomas speeds to the hospital, and in the process, accidentally kills a young man on the road. That death sets into motion events that will change everyone's lives forever, including the young man's mother, Marie-France, who cannot recover from the trauma. Nine years later, Marie-France takes a job, as Thomas's assistant, without him knowing about her connection to his past.
17) Close-up
Series
Criterion collection volume 519
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
Based on the real-life case of Hossein Sabzian and re-enacted by the actual people involved in the original case, a man impersonates a famous director to insinuate himself into a wealthy family he has just met.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c1997
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., col., stereo. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In this psychological thriller, New Yorker Allie Jones advertises for a roommate and chooses mousy Hedra Carlson. Hedra takes over Allie's spare bedroom, her clothes, her boyfriend and her identity.
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (610 min.) : sound, color & black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
From the container. Anastasia. In this cherished classic, Ingrid Bergman gives an Oscar-winning performance as a beautiful destitute woman being groomed to pass for a Russian empress.
From the container. Gentleman's Agreement. Winner of three Academy Awards, including Best Picture, this riveting classic tackles prejudice head-on, as a journalist discovers what it is to be victim of religious intolerance.
From the container. The Ox-Bow Incident....
Series
Forbidden Hollywood volume 10
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (358 min) : sound, black & white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Guilty hands: when a lawyer discovers that his daughter plans to wed one of his past clients, he commits a horrible act to ensure it never happens.
The mouthpiece: after a traumatic experience, a prosecutor changes his lifestyle in order to cope.
Secrets of the French police: a man tricks a French woman into posing as a Russian.
The Match King: a man rises from rags to riches but is then distracted by a beautiful woman.
Ever in my heart: a German...
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