Joan Plowright
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Based in part on his autobiography, director Franco Zeffirelli's Tea with Mussolini is a story about a group of British and American travelers on an indefinite visit to Italy in 1935. Luca is a boy living in Florence whose family situation is precarious at best; his mother has run off and his father has little time for him. Fortunately, he's a welcome guest with Mary, a English woman visiting Italy to soak up European culture. Mary and her friends...
2) I am David
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
David is a 12-year-old boy who escapes from a Communist concentration camp. He has little more with him than a compass, a sealed letter, a loaf of bread, and instructions to carry the letter to Copenhagen, Denmark. David is thrust into a world free of Communism for the first time in his young life as he travels across Europe. For David, this is a spiritual voyage of discovery, where he slowly loses his instinctual mistrust of humanity and begins to...
Publisher
Miramax Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009, 1993.
Language
English
Description
London, the 1920s. Lottie and Rose are two married women who share the misery of empty marriages and decide to rent an Italian castle for the spring to get away. In order to save money, they advertise for two other women to join them. Mrs. Fisher is an elderly widow is struggling with a lonely and regimented existence. She jumps at the chance to join the vacation. Lady Caroline Dester is a gorgeous flapper who has been grabbed one too many times and...
Language
English
Formats
Description
In their small London flat, Dalmatians Pongo and Perdy, along with their human pets Roger and Anita, are overjoyed by the arrival of their litter of 15 puppies. But when the spotted-fur-loving Cruella De Vil and her clumsy cohorts, Jasper and Horace, dognap the litter along with every other Dalmatian pup in London, it will be up to Pongo and Perdy to rally the town's animals to aid in the puppies rescue. Now the puppies have to outwit their captors...
Publisher
Westlake Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Mrs. Palfrey, an elegant, genteel widow, came from Scotland to London to take up residence at the Claremont Hotel. Though she had high hopes for the cosmopolitan pleasures of living in a big city, she is soon filled with a sense of uneasiness and gloom.
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Dame Maggie Smith, Dame Judi Dench, Dame Eileen Atkins, and Dame Joan Plowright are among the most celebrated actresses of the time, with scores of iconic performances, decades of wisdom, and innumerable awards between them. They are also longtime friends who invite viewers to join them for a weekend in the country as they catch up with one another, reminisce, and share their candid, delightfully irreverent thoughts on everything from art to aging...
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Anthony Hopkins give a no-holds-barred performance as the legendary artist Pablo Picasso. The world knew his passion for canvas, color, metal and ceramics, but little was known about his other passion--women. Told from the viewpoint of his longtime mistress and mother of his children.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
The moment the Grace family moves into the dilapidated Spiderwick Estate, strange things begin to happen. Jared, a curious, adventurous boy, quickly seeks out and finds the hidden laboratory of his great great uncle Arthur Spiderwick. He unleashes a mysterious force when he locates a field guide full of the secrets of the magical creatures that inhabit the forest surrounding the mansion. His twin brother Simon is calm and reserved but is rapidly drawn...
Language
English
Description
Frankie (Mischa Barton) has studied ballet her whole life. Her grandmother (Joan Plowright) has raised her to be the next prima ballerina, but Frankie has other plans. Meanwhile, Frankie's best friend Hazel has plans of her own with dreams of becoming the town's youngest mayor. Together Frankie and Hazel set out to prove that all it takes is a little kid power to make a big difference.
11) Widows' peak
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
When a stranger moves to Widows' Peak, she turns the town upside down with her devious lies and shocking secrets. She seduces the men, enrages the women, and unleases a major scandal, but its all part of an astonishing plan.
12) Jane Eyre
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003?]
Language
English
Description
The harshly treated orphan girl, Jane Eyre, becomes a governess in an mysterious Yorkshire mansion and falls in love with the master of the house.
13) Dinosaur
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dinosaur tells the story of Aladar, an iguanodon who is separated from his own kind and raised by a clan of lemurs. When a meteor shower destroys their home, Aladar and his family follow a herd of dinosaurs heading for the safety of the "nesting grounds." Together they must stand strong amidst food and water shortages, the threat of Carnotaur attacks, and Aladar's run-ins with the herd's stubborn leader, Kron.
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A divorced L.A. lawyer, Peter, thinks he has met the girl of his dreams online, until she shows up at his door and is a sassy, African American ex-con. She moves in and really begins to shake up his boring suburban lifestyle.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hank Ketcham's popular comic-strip kid manages to create problems for his long-suffering neighbor George Wilson, while at the same time foiling a neighborhood villain.
El niño de la tira cómica popular de Hank Ketcham crea problemas para su vecino sufrido George Wilson, mientras que, al mismo tiempo, frustra a un maleante del vecindario.
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Eustacia Vye feels trapped living with her grandfather in the country and longs for the excitement of a big city. She charms one man who promises to run away with her, but her plans are shaken when a handsome local man returns from Paris hoping to make her his bride.
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Based on the bizarre true story of a woman who tried to kill her husband four times! The woman is a devoted wife who discovers that her pizza-making husband is cheating on her and decides to kill him for breaking her heart. Her plot includes the help of her mother, an oddball busboy and two drug-addled cousins.
18) Callas forever
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Beautifully recreates the magic, passion and artistry of the opera diva Maria Callas, known as "the voice of the century". Gives a loving tribute to what could have possibly happened at the end of Callas's life, whose death came at the age of 53. Callas was a temperamental diva. She captured all the fiery intensity of legend on and off the stage. Her tempestuous relationship with her former manager is what finally persuades her to re-launch her career,...
19) The entertainer
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
A drama of seedy music hall life centering on Archie Rice, an egotistical, third-rate British music hall performer whose career and personal life are in a down-hill spiral.
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
A collection of four of Oscar Wilde's masterpieces, and a 1995 documentary about his life, his relationship with Alfred Douglas and the trials that destroyed his career. Includes reflections by Wilde's grandson Merlin Holland, and Douglas' grandniece Alice Douglas. The Importance of Being Earnest: "Filled with wit and wisdom, The Importance of being Earnest tells the tale of Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff. Jack has invented an imaginary brother,...
