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Publisher
Cinedigm
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"An actual, honest-to-goodness royal princess runs off from her official obligations and duties for a couple of days around Christmas to see how the other half lives. She winds up falling for a young man who shows her his side of the city. Will he still feel the same way once he learns the truth about her?" --
62) "It"
Series
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
A vivacious shop-girl sets out to win the affections of her boss' son.
Publisher
Kino
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
In 2026, the rich rule over the poor, who live underground. One man tries to bridge the gap between the two classes. In July 2008 a complete copy of the film was discovered with an additional 25 minutes of lost footage that had not been seen since the films premiere in 1927. After years of restoration the sci-fi epic was re-released in theaters in 2010 as The Complete Metropolis.
Author
Series
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
1987.
Language
English
Description
Three plays of courtship and marriage trace the currents of family life back to their source in the struggle of the human spirit.
This is the central volume in Horton Foote's remarkable nine-play Orphans' Home Cycle, in which the author chronicles the evolution of a family -- the strengths that bind its members together and the strains that force them apart -- and the cataclysmic changes in Southern society over twenty-six turbulent years. Beginning...
65) Snowpiercer
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The film is set in the future (AD 2031) where, after a failed experiment to stop global warming, an ice age kills off all life on the planet except for the inhabitants of the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe and is powered by a sacred perpetual-motion engine. Its inhabitants are divided by class; the lower-class passengers in one of the last cars stage an uprising, moving car by car up to the front of the train, where the oppressive...
Author
Publisher
Dramatists Play Service
Pub. Date
[1986]
Language
English
Description
"Tony, a professor of American literature (and a quintessential WASP), has given up his teaching post to stage a party to end all parties. He has invited people from all walks of American life to attend, as if to demonstrate that even if the WASP ruling class can no longer lead America, it must, at least, teach them to entertain properly. Tony has also invited a svelte critic from the New York Times in the hopes of getting a perfect review for his...
67) Good
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Payton is a young Black man with a chance to marry into the upper echelons of Black society. First, he must abandon a secret, an unborn child with an ex-girlfriend. He is in desperate need of money and time away from his fiancé, who knows nothing about the baby. He finds a solution in wealthy and stubborn Gregory Devereaux, an elderly regular from his favorite late-night diner. Hired by Devereaux's estranged daughter as his caretaker, Payton quickly...
68) Easy living
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
"Mary Smith is a poor working girl who literally has a fortune dropped in her lap when a wealthy financier tosses a sable coat out a window and it lands on her. Everyone automatically assumes she's his mistress, and soon her fairytale-like rags-to-riches lifestyle threatens a very real romance with an inept waiter"--Container.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
1968.
Language
English
Description
In George Oppenheimer's words: "As always with Mr. Albee there is a theme beneath the surface, in this case the corruption of money and the rottenness of this bigoted exurbia where conformity to its illiberal standards and its hypocritical show of respectability is all that counts. The scene is the suburban home of Jenny and Richard. The only thing that seems to stand in the way of their happiness is a lack of money. The action starts in an entertaining...
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"American salesman Virgil Smith woos the aloof Countess Johanna Augusta while trying to sell his grammophones in pre-WWI Austria; when mechanic Hank Martin is knocked unconscious in 1912, he awakens in sixth-century Camelot."--
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
The emperor waltz: an American salesman melts the heart of a Viennese countess amidst Strauss waltzes and lush scenery.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court: musical version of Mark Twain's humorous novel about a turn-of-the-century blacksmith who is knocked unconscious and awakens in sixth-century Camelot.
Series
Publisher
Focus Features
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Mr. Bennet is an English gentleman living in Hartfordshire with his overbearing wife and 5 daughters. There is the beautiful Jane, the clever Elizabeth, the bookish Mary, the immature Kitty and the wild Lydia. Unfortunately, if Mr. Bennet dies their house will be inherited by a distant cousin whom they have never met. The family's future happiness and security is dependent on the daughters making good marriages. Life is uneventful until the arrival...
Series
Criterion collection ; 867
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"George Stevens' Woman of the Year, conceived to build on the smashing comeback Katherine Hepburn had made in The Philadelphia Story, marked the beginning of the personal and professional union between Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, who would go on to make eight more films together. This tale of two newspaper reporters, who wed and then discover that their careers aren't so compatible, forges a fresh and realistic vision of what marriage can be. The freewheeling...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press, Inc
Pub. Date
1966.
Language
English
Description
The blood of the Bambergs: British Princess Melanie of Bamberg is to be married to Prince Willy, heir to the throne of another kingdom. On his way to the wedding, Willy is killed in a road accident. State officials do not know what to do. The marriage is crucial for the future of the nation - especially as the next in line for the throne, the prince's brother, is a flagrant homosexual, unlikely to produce an heir. They discover that Russell, a brash...
Publisher
Westerly Library and Wilcox Park
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Message in a bottle: A reporter traces a lonely widower who wrote a heart-felt message, put it in a bottle, and threw it in the sea.
The longest ride: The star-crossed love affair between Luke, a former champion bull rider looking to make a comeback, and Sophia, a college student who is about to embark upon her dream job in New York City's art world. Conflicting paths and ideals test their relationship.
The choice: Travis is a fun-loving, smooth-talking...
Publisher
Newport Public Library
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Message in a bottle: A reporter traces a lonely widower who wrote a heart-felt message, put it in a bottle, and threw it in the sea.
The longest ride: The star-crossed love affair between Luke, a former champion bull rider looking to make a comeback, and Sophia, a college student who is about to embark upon her dream job in New York City's art world. Conflicting paths and ideals test their relationship.
The choice: Travis is a fun-loving, smooth-talking...
77) Something sappy
Series
Publisher
[Midwest Tape]
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A collection of DVDs all gathered into one "binge box" for a spectacular movie night.
The notebook: Two teenagers from opposite sides of the tracks fall in love one summer, but are tragically forced apart. When they reunite seven years later, their passionate romance is rekindled, forcing one of them to choose between true love and class order.
Dirty dancing: In the summer of 1963, innocent seventeen-year-old Baby vacations with her parents at...
Publisher
Barrington Public Library
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Adam's Rib: A husband and wife lawyer team clash when the wife defends a woman on trial for shooting her spouse. The lawyer-husband is the prosecutor.
Desk Set: Bunny Watson heads up the research department at a TV network. Richard Sumner arrives to introduce computers into the department. When electricity sparks between Bunny and Richard, Bunny's boyfriend Mike is not happy. As the tension mounts in the office, so do the laughs.
Guess Who's Coming...
Publisher
Barrington Public Library
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Ex Machina: Caleb, a 24-year-old coder at the world's largest Internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a retreat belonging to the company's reclusive CEO, Nathan. But when Caleb arrives he finds that he will have to participate in a fascinating experiment with the world's first true artificial intelligence, housed in the body of a beautiful robot woman, Ava. Truths, emotions, and motives are blurred as the relationship between Caleb,...
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