Hugh Grant
Author
Description
Dr. Guy Luthan did everything right, but it turned out wrong. A patient under his care at New York's Gramercy Hospital mysteriously died, and now Luthan wants to know why. However, when he looks for postmortem details, he finds no body...and no records. Hugh Grant plays Luthan in Extreme Measures, "one of the most effective paranoid suspense movies since The Fugitive" (Chicago Tribune). Gene Hackman and Sarah Jessica Parker costar in this mystery...
3) The Rewrite
Author
Description
Once upon a time, Keith Michaels (Hugh Grant - About a Boy, Love Actually) was an award-winning Hollywood screenwriter, but divorce and a string of unsuccessful films have left him with nothing but bad debts and blank pages. So when his agent arranges a job as guest screenwriting professor at a remote university in upstate New York, a desperate Keith can't say no. Initially hoping to give minimal effort to actual teaching so he can focus on his next...
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (78 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A documentary that goes beneath the surface of some of the favorite films, seeking to better understand the way society views love, relationships, and romance. Romantic comedies are hugely successful and deeply loved by many but often have avoided critical analysis. Helped by a diverse chorus of writers, actors, and filmmakers, and with original songs by her band Summer Camp, director Elizabeth Sankey embarks on a journey of investigation and self-discovery....
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 91 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A beautiful young woman falls in love with a handsome highwayman, who saves her from her brutal husband. But when Charles II returns to claim his throne as King of England, she finds herself the enemy of the king's former mistress.
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A young man offends an entire town by declaring their mountain-- a prized local landmark-- to be a "hill." The eccentric and funny townspeople rally around their "mountain" and a fiery young woman charms the puzzled out-of-town cartographer into seeing things their way.
7) Cloud atlas
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (172 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution. The story is a time-shifting weave of six interlinking narratives, with diverse settings from the savagery of a Pacific Island in the 1850s to a dystopian Korea of the near future.
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A New York socialite who dreams of becoming a great opera singer. While the voice she hears in her head is beautiful, to everyone else it is hilariously awful. Her husband and biggest fan, St. Clair Bayfield is determined to protect his beloved Florence from the truth. But when Florence stages a huge concert at Carnegie Hall, he faces his greatest challenge to make sure her performance is a rousing success.
10) Two weeks notice
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Lucy Kelson, Chief Counsel for the Wade Corporation, one of New York City's top commercial real estate developers. She's a brilliant lawyer with a sharp, strategic mind. She also has an ulcer and doesn't get much sleep. It's not the job that's getting to her. It's her millionaire boss, George Wade. Handsome, charming and undeniably self-absorbed, he treats her more like a nanny than a Harvard Law grad and can barely choose a tie without her help....
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Super spy Orson Fortune must track down and stop the sale of a deadly new weapons technology wielded by billionaire arms broker Greg Simmonds. Reluctantly teamed with some of the world's best operatives, Fortune and his crew recruit Hollywood's biggest movie star Danny Francesco to help them on their globe-trotting undercover mission to save the world.
12) Paddington: 2
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
While searching for the perfect present for his beloved Aunt Lucy's hundredth birthday, Paddington sees a unique pop-up book in Mr. Gruber's antique shop, and embarks upon a series of odd jobs to buy it. But when the book is stolen, it's up to Paddington and the Browns to unmask the thief.
13) Maurice
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (140 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in..
Description
E.M. Forster's story of two Edwardian-era Cambridge graduates that fall in love, but must abide by British society's strict norms regarding homosexuality.
14) Notting Hill
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (124 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The world's most famous movie star falls in love with a small-time bookstore owner.
15) Love actually
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (135 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It's all about love and holiday cheer in London. The Prime Minister is smitten with his caterer; a widower's young son nurses the ultimate schoolboy crush; a writer falls for his Portuguese housekeeper; a devoted wife and mother copes with her potentially unfaithful husband; and a lovelorn American is desperately attracted to a colleague.
16) The gentlemen
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
American ex-pat Mickey Pearson built a highly profitable marijuana empire in London. When word gets out that he's looking to cash out of the business forever, it triggers plots, schemes, bribery and blackmail in an attempt to steal his domain out from under him.
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (134 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A charming thief and a band of unlikely adventurers undertake an epic heist to retrieve a lost relic, but things go dangerously awry when they run afoul of the wrong people in this hilarious and action-packed adventure.
18) About a boy
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Will is a good-looking, smooth-talking bachelor whose primary goal in life is to avoid any kind of responsibility. So he decides to invent an imaginary son in order to meet attractive single moms. Will gets a lesson about life from a bright but hopelessly geeky 12-year-old named Marcus. Now, as Will struggles to teach Marcus the art of being cool, Marcus teaches Will that you are never too cool to grow up.
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the summer of 1816, Percy Bysshe Shelley, his wife Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley, and her stepsister Claire Clairmont visit Lord Byron at Lake Geneva. Encouraged by Byron's friend John William Polidori, Byron challenges each to write a horror story, and Mary begins her novel, Frankenstein. She imagines the monster becoming real, and for the next six years, as tragedy befalls those around her, she believes the personification of her imagination...