Emma Thompson
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For the Green family, it's going to be a summer of hard work, blackmail... and flying pigs! The Green family is living quite happily on Deep Valley Farm until war breaks out. Father goes off to fight who knows where, the Greens' spoiled cousins come from the city to stay and someone threatens to take the farm from them. Just when it seems things can't get any worse, the piglets escape and the children get completely Out of Control. Only one person...
3) Carrington
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Carrington is the true story of the tragic relationship between the English painter Dora Carrington and writer, Lytton Strachey. Between the First World War and the early 1930's, they experimented with a way of life beyond the conventional standards of their time, a life which broke all the taboos of society of their desire to live as freely and honestly as they could. They acknowledged openly what most of us are aware of but still reluctant to discuss:...
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Alan Rickman and Emma Thompson star in this powerful fusion of poetry and drama. Based on Christopher Reid's narrative poem, The Song of Lunch follows the story of a book editor who, 15 years after their break-up, is meeting his former love for a nostalgic lunch. 15 years after their break-up, a book editor is meeting his former love for a nostalgic lunch. The woman is now living a glamorous life in Paris, married to a world-renowned writer, whilst...
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"Harry Potter and Sense and Sensibility actor Alan Rickman builds upon his legacy as a world-class actor, a tireless political activist, an avid traveler, and more through his diaries--a twenty-five-year passion project in which Rickman invites readers backstage and into his life. Alan Rickman remains the one of the most beloved actors of all time across almost every genre in the American and British markets, from his breakout role as Die Hard's Hans...
6) Dolittle
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After losing his wife seven years earlier, the eccentric Dr. John Dolittle, famed doctor and veterinarian of Queen Victoria's England, hides behind the walls of Dolittle Manor with only his menagerie of exotic animals for company. But when the young queen falls gravely ill, a reluctant Dolittle is forced to set sail on an epic adventure to a mythical island in search of a cure. The doctor is joined on his quest by a young, self-appointed apprentice...
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
How did an ordinary, middle-aged couple become a symbol of defiance against Nazi brutality? This tale of courage unfolds against the tumultuous backdrop of Berlin in 1940. Otto and Anna Quangel are a working class husband and wife doing their best to ride out the war. Their son is killed fighting on the frontlines. They begin pouring their rage and grief into postcards emblazoned with anti-Nazi slogans, risking everything to disseminate their messages...
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Bill Bryson, instead of retiring to enjoy his loving and beautiful wife and large and happy family, challenges himself to hike the Appalachian Trail: 2,200 miles of America's most unspoiled, spectacular, and rugged countryside from Georgia to Maine. The peace and tranquility he hopes to find, though, is anything but, when the only person he can find willing to join him on the trek is his long-lost former friend Katz, a down-on-his-luck serial philanderer....
Pub. Date
[2020]
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2 videodiscs (355 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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As Britain and the world are shaken by volatile political, economic, and technological developments, members of the Manchester Lyons family unite on one crucial night in 2019. Over the next fifteen years, the twists and turns of their lives are explored as viewers find out if this ordinary family could change the world.
10) Brave
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Princess Merida, an archer and self-reliant young woman, makes a decision which defies custom and brings chaos to her kingdom. To restore her kingdom, she must rely on her bravery and archery skills.
Pub. Date
c2008
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2 videodiscs (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Harvey, a divorced, down-on-his-luck music jingle composer, and Kate, a lonely British airline employee, are brought together by chance. Harvey comes to London for his daughter's wedding, planning only to attend the wedding ceremony. However, he ends up being let go from his job before going back to America and decides to stay for the reception, asking Kate to accompany him. Thus begins a growing connection between these two guarded strangers.
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Johanna Morrigan is a bright, quirky, sixteen-year-old who uses her colorful imagination to regularly escape her humdrum life in Wolverhampton and live out her creative fantasies. Desperate to break free from the overcrowded flat she shares with her four brothers and eccentric parents, she submits an earnestly penned and off-beat music review to a group of self-important indie rock critics at a weekly magazine.
14) Dead again
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., col. with some b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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An L.A. detective is perplexed when he is hired to help a beautiful amnesia victim who is tormented by nightmares, which may lie in a past-life connection to a pianist murdered by her husband.
Pub. Date
2016.
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1 videodisc (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Bridget is forty-something and single again after breaking up with Mark Darcy. She decides to focus on her job and surround herself with old friends and some new ones. But her love life takes a turn when she meets a dashing American named Jack. In an unlikely twist, Bridget finds herself pregnant but she can only be fifty percent sure of the father's identity.
16) The love punch
Pub. Date
2014.
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1 videodisc (95 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Spanning locations in Paris, London and the French Riviera "The Love Punch" brings together Pierce Brosnan ("Mama Mia") and Academy-Award winner Emma Thompson ("Saving Mr. Banks") for the first time, as ex-husband and wife, Richard and Kate, whose biting banter suggests that the flames of their former relationship have not been fully extinguished... Unfortunately the same cannot be said for their retirement nest egg which is wiped out when Richard's...
Pub. Date
©2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Harold Crick - IRS auditor, milquetoast, and poster child for obsessive-compulsive disorder - wakes one morning to hear a woman's voice in his bathroom, narrating his life as he is living it, subsequently announcing his imminent death. This is a big problem, since Harold has a burning crush on Ana, his latest audit case. Searching for the source of the voice, he turns to literary theory-spewing professor Jules Hilburt, who eventually discovers that...
19) One more thing
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[2014]
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6 sound discs (7 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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A boy wins a $100,000 prize in a box of Frosted Flakes, only to discover that claiming the winnings may unravel his family. A woman sets out to seduce motivational speaker Tony Robbins. A school principal unveils a bold plan to permanently abolish arithmetic. An acclaimed ambulance driver seeks the courage to become a singer-songwriter. Author John Grisham contemplates a monumental typo. These and many more short stories are included in an original...
20) Saving Mr. Banks
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 125 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When P.L. Travers travels from London to Hollywood in 1961 to finally discuss Walt Disney's desire to bring her beloved character, Mary Poppins to the motion picture screen (a quest he began in the 1940s as a promise to his two daughters), Disney meets a prim, uncompromising sexagenarian not only suspect of the impresario's concept for the film, but a woman struggling with her own past. During her stay in California, Travers' reflects back on her...