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Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When legendary treasures from around the world are stolen, including the priceless Pink Panther diamond, Clouseau is assigned to a dream team of international detectives who are under pressure to bring the master thief to justice before he strikes again.
3) Marley & me
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
John and Jen are journalists who are a newly married couple. Marley is the adopted puppy that no one wants, a high-strung lab who is virtually untrainable. Marley shreds cushions, destroys floors and walls and most everything in between. Instead of taking him to the pound, they love their dog and he faithfully loves them in return. John and Jen eventually have three children and Jen gives up her career to be a mom. John's career continues to advance...
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
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
c2003, 2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The third in the Topper comedy-mystery series, Cosmo (Roland Young) is besieged by a wisecracking ghost (Joan Blondell) who demands that he help her find her killer. The story is set in Carrington Hall, a magnificent old haunted house, complete with a cloaked villain who comes and goes through walls. Falling chandeliers, secret passages, and a trap door with a chute that leads to an underground tunnel adds to the mystery. The cast of characters includes...
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A young boy must convince his parents that a toy rifle is the only Christmas gift that will make Christmas worthwhile. Not only do his parents face what many other parents do during that time of the year, but their actions fit in with the All-American Christmas.
7) Solitary man
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Ben Kalmen, a fifty-something New Yorker, discovers that he is not the man he wanted to be. Through many business and romantic indiscretions he has lost his once successful car dealership. Now he must make the decision to face the challenges of his not so youthful life.
8) Manhattan
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Isaac Davis is a successful comedy writer whose wife, having left him for another woman, is now embarking on a book about their failed marriage. Isaac happily consoles himself in the arms of an adoring 17-year-old schoolgirl until he meets someone closer to his own age, who happens to be his best friend's mistress.
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Ben Singer is a failed folk singer, newly unemployed proofreader, and every-other-weekend dad to his young daughter. The only thing he takes comfort in is smoking marijuana and chess games with Ibou, his Senegalese roommate. When Ibou becomes ill, a municipal employee exacerbates the emergency situation, and Ben pours his energy into a lawsuit against the city. Meanwhile, Ibou's beautiful sister Khadi arrives from Senegal, and Ben's life begins to...
10) Visioneers
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
George Washington Winsterhammerman lives an ordinary life. He has a wife, a kid, a house and a boat. Every day George gets in his minivan and goes to work as a level three Tunt at the Jeffers Corporation, the largest and most profitable corporation in the history of mankind. It is an utterly comfortable life, but when people around George begin exploding, he fears he might be next.
11) New in town
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A high-powered consultant in love with her upscale Miami lifestyle is sent to a small Minnesota town, in the middle of nowhere, to oversee the restructuring of a blue collar manufacturing plant. She endures a frosty reception from the locals, along with the icy roads and freezing weather. She warms up to the small town's charm, and eventually finds herself being accepted by the community. When she's ordered to close down the plant and put the entire...
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Buck Howard is a mentalist extraordinaire who used to spend his days in the limelight. But nowadays, it's become clear to everyone but Buck that his act has long ago lost its luster. Yet, Buck is convinced his comeback is imminent. With the help of his new personal assisstant, recent law school drop-out and would-be writer Troy, not to mention his fiery publicist, Buck surprisingly lands back in the American consciousness, taking Troy along for the...
13) Mamma mia!
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
20-year-old Sophie is preparing to marry at her mother's hotel on a Greek island. She has a carefree life, a loving fiancee, and great friends. She is only missing one thing: a father. By reading her mother's diary she discovers that she has three possible fathers. Sophie secretly invites all three men to the wedding in a desperate bid to discover which of them is her father. But not all goes according to plan. Now, old loves are re-kindled, new loves...
14) Uncle Nino
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Overworked executive Robert Micelli has little time for his loving wife, rebellious teenage son Bobby, and 12-year-old daughter Gina. Uncle Nino, an old-world Italian, unexpectedly arrives on their doorstep and transforms their disconnected lives with his simple, old-fashioned ways.
15) The golden boys
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in 1905 on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Zebulon 'Zeb' Hedge, Perez Ryder, and Jeremiah 'Jerry' Burgess are three retired sea captains have been keeping house together as a way to moderate the loneliness of their retirements. Chaos reigns in the house where dirty dishes, dust and disorder have become their bane. Together they hatch a plan to solve their problem. They'll flip coins and the loser must get married and take the other two in as boarders....
16) Swing vote
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Bud Johnson is an apathetic, beer drinking, lovable loser, who is coasting through a life that is passed him by. His one bright spot in his mundane existence is his precocious, over achieving twelve-year old daughter, Molly. She takes care of them both. She accidentally sets off a chain of events on Election Day, which culminates in the presidential election coming down to one vote, Bud's. Suddenly, Bud becomes the voice for everybody when the world...
18) Pirate radio
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A rogue band of DJs captivate Britain in the 1960s. The music they play defines a generation and the DJs stand up to a government that, incomprehensibly, preferred jazz. The Count is a big, brash, American god of the airwaves; Quentin is the boss of Radio Rock. Radio rock is a pirate radio station situated in the middle of the North Atlantic that's populated by an eclectic crew of rock and roll DJs that include: Gavin, the greatest DJ in Britain who...
19) Housesitter
Pub. Date
1998, 1992
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (1 hr., 42 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Shortly after an architect's girlfriend turns down his marriage proposal, he encounters a woman who decides on her own to move into his empty dream house and pass herself off as his new wife--with hilarious and romantic consequences.
20) Happy-go-lucky
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (119 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Poppy is a life-loving and irrepressibly cheerful primary school teacher. She is thirty years old, single, and infinitely optimistic and accepting. She lives with her best friend and flatmate Zoe in London. She is tested by a repressed driving instructor with anger problems, and, in turn, she decides to test him. She has exciting flamenco lessons, an encounter with a homeless man, an argument with her pregnant sister, and a love-affair with the social...
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