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Pub. Date
[1998?], c1995
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A lonely young woman saves the life of a handsome stranger she has fallen in love with from afar. His family mistakes her for his fiancee, and she goes along because she likes his offbeat family so much. Matters take a hilarious turn when she meets and falls in love with her make-believe lover's brother.
Formats
Description
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) Hope Gap
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Grace lives an idyllic life until her 29-year marriage to Edward abruptly ends, leaving their only son to pick up the pieces. As life unravels, Grace discovers it's never too late to be happy.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Stella Grant is every bit a seventeen-year-old. She's attached to her laptop and loves her best friends. But unlike most teenagers, she spends much of her time living in a hospital as a cystic fibrosis patient. Her life is full of routines, boundaries and self-control, all of which is put to the test when she meets an impossibly charming fellow patient named Will Newman.
6) Pink wall
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (82 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Six scenes. Six years. Six moments that shaped the relationship of Jenna and Leon. The film examines what defines people, the pressures of gender expectations, and the perpetual struggle between life and ambition.
7) Becky Sharp
Pub. Date
2019
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (84 min.) : sound, colour ; 12 cm
Description
In the years just preceding Waterloo, best friends Becky and Amelia graduate from Miss Pinkerton₂s Academy for Girls. The wealthy Amelia invites the penniless Becky into the bosom of her family home while the manipulative Becky plots her climb up the social ladder. Entirely lacking in scruples and unhampered by conscience or morality, Becky ascends to the very pinnacle of society, crushing anyone who stands in her path.
8) Homecoming
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A self-centered society doctor goes to war and finds himself changed by it, and falls deeply in love with a nurse, despite having a wife waiting for him at home.
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Jean Negulesco continues his classic run of forties film noirs with this tale of a con artist who falls for the mark he is trying to fleece. The great John Garfield commands the screen as grifter Nick Blake, who returns to New York after the war, only to find heartache and betrayal. Heading west, Nick hooks up with fellow con men Pop (Walter Brennan) and Doc (George Coulouris), who need a Romeo to sweep recently widowed Gladys Halvorsen (Geraldine...
11) Another country
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An elderly, exiled British spy remembers his days at an English boarding school in the 1930s. In school, he fell in love with a male classmate, explored his homosexuality, and was exposed to Marxist ideas, both contributing to his activities as a spy. Based on the life of former Cambridge spy Guy Burgess. Bonus features include commentary by director and cinematographer, as well as original preview trailer.
12) Test pilot
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (119 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Jim Lane is a test pilot who is forced to land in Kansas where he meets Ann "Thursday" Barton and they fall in love. After some miscommunication, Jim leaves, but then comes back to marry her. Jim ends up taking a dangerous job which worries Ann, but she promises to stick by her man. Jim continues to take dangerous flights, until one that has disastrous consequences.
13) 45 years
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
As Kate and Geoff prepare to celebrate their 45th wedding anniversary, their marriage is shaken when unexpected news threatens to change their lives.
14) Love affair
Series
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert (12 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 19 x 70 cm, folded to 12 x 19 cm)
Description
"Golden-age Hollywood's humanist master Leo McCarey brings his graceful touch and relaxed naturalism to this sublime romance, one of cinema's most intoxicating tear-wringers. Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer are chic strangers who meet and fall in love aboard an ocean liner bound for New York. Though they are both involved with other people, they make a pact to reconnect six months later at the top of the Empire State Building--until the hand of fate...
15) Labor Day
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 111 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Thirteen-year-old Henry Wheeler struggles to be the man of his house and care for his reclusive mother Adele, all the while confronting the pangs of adolescence. Henry and his mother encounter Frank Chambers, an intimidating man clearly in need of help. Frank convinces them to take him into their home and later is revealed to be an escaped convict. The events of this long Labor Day weekend will shape them for the rest of their lives.
17) Lovely, still
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
With the approach of Christmas causing him to feel lonely in life and love, Robert Malone braves the wintery snow to arrive home from his job at the grocery store only to find a stranger standing in his home. What begins as an odd and awkward encounter quickly blossoms into what appears to be a romantic late life love affair that takes a heartfelt and wonderful journey with an unexpected turn.
18) Deck the heart
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
DVD-R. When a NYC businessman without any Christmas spirit inherits his grandfather's Maine lake house, he learns that the will stipulates he host the family's celebration.
19) Hearts & vines
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (86 min.) ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
DVD-R. The hosts of a home-renovation show end up quarantined over the holidays in a home they're working on.
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (124 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It all begins with a choice. In the third chapter of Stephenie Meyer's phenomenal Twilight series, Bella Swan is surrounded by danger as Seattle is hit by a string of murders and an evil vampire continues her quest for revenge. In the midst of it all, Bella is forced to choose between her love, Edward Cullen, and her friend, Jacob Black, knowing that her decision may ignite the ageless struggle between vampire and werewolf.
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