Cloris Leachman
1) Cloris
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
369 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.
Description
She received two Emmy Awards as the irrepressible Phyllis on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, an Oscar for her role in The Last Picture Show, and delighted audiences as Frau Blucher in Young Frankenstein and Nurse Diesel in High Anxiety. But who, really, is Cloris Leachman? She's one of the most acclaimed and unpredictable actresses of our time. Now, for the first time, the incomparable Cloris reflects on her amazing life and illustrious career. (Bestseller)...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A magical and musical adventure to save Ponyland! The Little Ponies must stop the evil witch Hydia and her two incompetent daughters Reeka and Draggle from covering Dream Valley in purple goo called 'the Smooze.' The Little Ponies find help from the friendly Grundles and the magic powers of the Flutter Ponies. But will that be enough to save Ponyland?
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 125 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Pazu is an engineer's apprentice who finds Sheeta, a young girl, floating down from the sky, wearing a glowing pendant. Together, they discover both are searching for Laputa, a legendary floating castle, and vow to unravel they mystery of the luminous crystal around Sheeta's neck. Their quest won't be easy. There are greedy air pirates, secret government agents and astounding obstacles to keep them from learing the truth.
4) High anxiety
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In this manic spoof of Hitchcock, a neurotic psychiatrist becomes the new head of a sanitarium and is caught up in kidnapping, murder, and mistaken identity.
7) So B. It
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on the New York Times Best-selling novel, a young prodigy named Heidi has a lucky streak that has a way of pointing her in the right direction. When a mysterious word in her mother's vocabulary begins to haunt her, Heidi's thirst for the truth leads her on a cross-country journey in search of the secrets of her past.
Pub. Date
©2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A finely tuned parody of the old Frankenstein movies, in which Wilder returns to the old country to clear his family name. He finds his late grandfather's step-by-step manual explaining how to bring a corpse to life. With Igor, his hunchbacked assistant, and the curvaceous Inga, Dr. Frankenstein creates a monster who only wants to be loved.
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
... shows a rather different side of Moses, the Stone Age and the Roman Empire - in which Brooks is a stand-up philosopher playing Caesar's Palace. Next, the truth is finally told about the Spanish Inquisition in a splashy production number featuring song-and-dance monks and swimming nuns ... It's history as you've never known it - completely irreverent and positively hilarious. -- Container.
11) The migrants
Pub. Date
c2017
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Their only crime was to be born poor. Their only chance lay in their hearts. They rise every morning with the sun and work the fields all day. A story of a simple family, a family that worked hard, loved each other and hoped their hard work would produce a better life for them. And in the eyes of the son, lay that hope that allows a man to rise beyond his circumstances and like so many others, remain trapped inside a fading American dream.
12) Spanglish
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (131 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When Flor and her daughter, Christina come to the United States, Flor gets a job as a maid at the home of a successful chef, John Clasky, his insecure wife, Deborah, their two children, and Deborah's mother. Despite Flor's lack of English, she does the best she can to assist the Clasky family in more than just house cleaning matters. However, when Flor is forced to live with the family over the summer, she has no choice but to bring Christina along....
13) The Croods
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The Croods is a prehistoric comedy adventure that follows the world's first family as they embark on a journey of a lifetime when the cave that has always shielded them from danger is destroyed. Traveling across a spectacular landscape, the Croods discover an incredible new world filled with fantastic creatures, and their outlook is changed forever.
14) Scavenger hunt
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
To inherit a fortune, various addressees of a will must compete in a wild scavenger hunt to collect selected items that cannot simply be bought.
15) The iron giant
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Hogarth Hughes just rescued an enormous robot that fell from the stars to Earth. Now young Hogarth has one very big friend and an even bigger problem: how do you keep a 50-foot-tall, steel-eating giant a secret?
16) The comedian
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A look at the life of an aging insult comic named Jack Burke.
17) The Muppet movie
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
On a fine day not so long ago, Kermit the Frog was playing and singing in the swamp. A lost Hollywood talent agent hears him, and tells him he has talent. Therefore, Kermit sets out for Hollywood to find fame and fortune. Along the way Fozzie Bear, Gonzo, the Electric Mayhem band, and the romantically inclined Miss Piggy join him. Fast food magnate Doc Hopper--who is determined to enlist Kermit as spokes-frog for his southern fried frog-leg restaurants--also...
18) The Gliksmans
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (73 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Barry and Barbara Gliksman, a spritely octogenarian couple, go through their morning routine: a big breakfast, a handful of pills, some bickering, plus a quick trip to the bank; a trip that goes wildly awry when they notice they're being tailed by an aggressive truck driver. As the two navigate their way through Los Angeles something weird begins to happen, their simple trip turns into an absurd and fantastical escapade with psychedelics!
19) Kiss me deadly
Series
Criterion collection volume 568
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([24] p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
While driving down a lonely road late one evening, Hammer picks up a beautiful blonde hitchhiker, dressed in nothing but a raincoat. At first, Hammer assumes that the incoherent girl is an escaped lunatic; his mind is changed for him when he and the girl are abducted by two thugs. The men torture the girl to death as the semiconscious Hammer watches helplessly. He himself escapes extermination when the murderers' car topples off a cliff and he is...
20) So B. It
Author
Description
Based on the New York Times Best-selling novel, a young prodigy named Heidi has a lucky streak that has a way of pointing her in the right direction. When a mysterious word in her mother′s vocabulary begins to haunt her, Heidi′s thirst for the truth leads her on a cross-country journey in search of the secrets of her past.