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"The Importance of Being Earnest" is a comedic play written by Oscar Wilde, first performed in 1895. Regarded as one of Wilde's masterpieces, the play is celebrated for its wit, humor, and satirical examination of the social conventions and manners of the Victorian era. The plot revolves around the lives of two friends, Algernon Moncrieff and Jack Worthing. To escape social obligations and responsibilities, both men create fictional identities. Algernon...
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In present-day Los Angeles, Daphne, a thirty-something woman, navigates love and heartbreak over the course of one year. Daphne becomes intertwined with friends Jack and Frank after meeting them at a party. During that time, she will unlock the secrets to her life in a sudden turn of events and in the most surprising of places.
3) Annie Hall
Pub. Date
2000
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1 videodisc (93 min.) : sd., col., double-sided ; 4 3/4 in.
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Woody Allen's semiautobiographical portrait of his amorous, but ultimately mismatched, relationship with co-star Diane Keaton. Allen uses satire and comedy to portray this "nervous romance" for modern times.
4) Sunlight Jr
Pub. Date
[2013?]
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1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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A convenience store clerk, Melissa, and her paraplegic boyfriend, Richie are barely making ends meet when they find out they are having a baby. Genuinely excited, they are overjoyed until Melissa loses her job, and the motel where they are living at evicts them. They must now face the difficult choices about their lives and relationship.
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[2016]
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1 videodisc (approximately 93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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The beautiful widow Susan Vernon has come to the estate of her in-laws to wait out colorful rumors about her dalliances circulating through polite society. Whilst there, she decides to secure a husband for herself and her rather reluctant debutante daughter, Frederica.
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[2022]
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1 video recording (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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In 1956, Frank Tashlin brought the talent for zany visual gags and absurdist pop-culture satire that he'd honed as a master of animation to the task of capturing, in glorious DeLuxe Color, a brand-new craze: rock and roll. This blissfully bonkers jukebox musical tells the story of a mobster's bombshell girlfriend the one and only Jayne Mansfield, in a showstopping first major film role and the washed-up talent agent who seeks to revive his career...
8) 45 years
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2016.
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1 videodisc (approximately 95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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As Kate and Geoff prepare to celebrate their 45th wedding anniversary, their marriage is shaken when unexpected news threatens to change their lives.
10) The Real Thing
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Henry may be the wittiest playwright of his generation, but he's hopelessly naïve when it comes to understanding love and infidelity. Writing about betrayal is one thing, living with it is another. After Henry leaves his wife for another woman, he's confronted with being the cuckold himself. Both dazzlingly clever and emotionally naked, Henry's search for the “the real thing” in art and love demonstrates beautifully why both are worth the effort...
11) Marriage
Pub. Date
[2023]
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2 videodiscs (225 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Marriage is a warm, sometimes funny, sometimes moving, always revealing look at the need for togetherness and the joy of love in a difficult world. Married couple Ian and Emma negotiate the insecurities, ambiguities hopes, and fears, and the risks and the gifts of a long-term intimate relationship.
12) Hello lonesome
Pub. Date
c2012
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1 videodisc (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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A story about people, actually, three stories about people. Regular people. They're all trying their best, just like the rest of us. There's a voiceover artist who lives and works in his underwear from his self-made mountain utopia. There's a sassy suburban widow in her seventies. There's an adorable young couple that meets on line and jumps right into a hot and heavy relationship despite some potential red flags.
13) Arizona dream
Pub. Date
2010.
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1 videodisc (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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DVD-R. Newly arrived in small-town Arizona from New York city, Axel plans to stay only long enough to be best man at his uncle's wedding, but he soon discovers that desert life has its charms - including an attractive older woman and her intriguing daughter.
14) Mrs. Wilson
Pub. Date
[2019]
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1 videodisc (approximately 170 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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It's 1963, and Alison Wilson returns home to find husband Alexander dead. Soon afterward, a woman arrives at the door, claiming to be Alec's 'real wife.' Alison embarks on a mission of discovery to try and find out who her husband was, but from their wartime romance to a mysterious period in India, it soon becomes clear that Alec died holding his secrets close to his chest.
15) Two of a kind
Pub. Date
[2004]
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1 videodisc (87 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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The "Supreme Being" bets a group of angels that it would be impossible for them to get two very selfish people to sacrifice for each other.
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[2020]
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3 videodiscs (450 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Life is never dull in Hope Valley! Elizabeth finds herself courted by two potential suitors while also raising her young son. Rosemary helps Clara and Jesse plan their wedding and town rallies together to face a variety of challenges, including a windstorm and an outbreak of chickenpox.
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[2019]
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1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Set in Venice in the late nineteenth century and based on Henry James' eponymous novella, it is a story of obsession, grandeur lost and dreams of Byronic adventures. Ambitious editor Morton Vint is fascinated by his favorite Romantic poet and by his icon's short and wildly romantic life. Having traveled from America to Venice, he is determined to get his hands on the letters the poet wrote to his beautiful lover and muse, Juliana Bordereau.
18) Lonesome
Pub. Date
[2023]
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1 videodisc (65 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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DVD-R. A delightful love story and a nod to New Wave and Golden Age cinema; Lonely city dweller Guy is struggling to find his ideal partner. On a trip to the beach suggested by his roommate, he may have found his match with the free-spirited Roxie.
19) Cannery row
Pub. Date
[2009]
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1 videodisc (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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In a rundown California town where the inhabitants struggle to survive and better themselves, a romance develops between a quiet marine biologist and a runaway supporting herself through prostitution.
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2020.
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1 videodisc (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Lavish settings and breathtaking costumes add to the delight of this comedy set in 18th-century Italy. Bob Hope is a tailor who impersonates the swashbuckling lover Casanova and ends up in absolute boudoir bedlam.
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