Shirley Knight
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
When novelist Charles Condomine invites a medium into his house in order to learn about the occult for his new book, the last thing he or his second wife dream is that the séance will bring back his first wife, Elvira, who wants Charles all to herself! Things are further complicated by the fact that only Charles can see her, which results in some hilarious exchanges and misunderstandings. Elvira's plots to get him to 'the other side' do not go to...
2) Endless love
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A story of the doomed romance between seventeen-year-old David and fifteen-year-old Jade. Banished from Jade's home by her daddy Hugh, David obsessively cooks up a scheme to get back into the family's good graces. Since this plan involves setting Jade's house on fire, the puppy-love romance is in for a bumpy ride. Jailed for arson, David heads directly to Jade the moment that he's released, with tragic results.
Publisher
Screen Media Films
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After nearly two decades under the wing of an aging, avuncular husband, dutiful mother and housewife Pippa Lee undergoes a midlife breakthrough. Unearthing the sexually curious wild child of her teens, middle-aged Pippa sparks a relationship with a divorcee loner. Pippa Lee is a resilient woman, refusing to let life pass her by.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2002
Edition
Widescreen version (16x9 ; 2.35:1)
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Like mother, like daughter. Neither a hard-as-nails New York playwright nor her flaky Louisiana mother will take the necessary steps to mend their long-time rift. No, this is a job for the Sisterhood, sworn life-long friends who stage an outlandish "intervention" to bring daughter and mother back together again.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (139 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Melvin Udall is an obsessive-compulsive novelist with Manhattan's meanest mouth. But when his gay neighbor Simon is hospitalized, Melvin is forced to babysit Simon's dog. And that unexpected act of kindness-- along with waitress Carol Connelly-- helps put Melvin back in the human race.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After six years of keeping our malls safe, Paul Blart has earned a well-deserved vacation. He heads to Vegas with his teenage daughter before she heads off to college. But safety never takes a holiday and when duty calls, Blart answers.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2006, c1961
Edition
Widescreen format.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Chance Wayne returns to his southern home with faded, alcoholic movie star Alexandra Del Lago. He hopes to capitalize on her fame but is regarded by others as a cheap hustler who is not welcome back in town, especially by the father of his previous girlfriend.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 videodisc / digital copy : (ca. 99 min. : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.)
Language
English
Description
By day, 35-year-old Alex is the world's oldest video game tester, but at night he is privately developing the next big game for the X-Box generation. When one of his roommates spends all the rent money on Filipino hookers, Alex gets kicked out of his apartment. He finds himself forced to live with his grandmother and her friends Grace and Bea. To save face with his friends and co-workers, he brags about the three hot babes living with him.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Paul Blart is a mild-mannered, dutiful family man who works as a security guard in a New Jersey mall. He has applied to become a cop for years, but he always fails the physical exam because he is overweight. One day, a gang of organized criminals put the mall under siege and take hostages. Blart becomes trapped inside and because of he feels that it is his sense of duty, refuses to leave. He becomes the police department's eyes on the inside and attempts...
10) Redwood highway
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Living in a comfortable retirement community in Southern Oregon, estranged from her family and generally not happy about life, Marie decides to journey 80 miles on foot to the coast and revisit the ocean of her past for the first time in 45 years. Once reluctant to attend her granddaughter's wedding, she now arrives as an unexpected guest. Along the way, she meets an extraordinary cast of characters and discovers that she's never too old to learn...
11) Grandma's boy
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
By day, 35-year-old Alex is the world's oldest video game tester, but at night he is privately developing the next big game for the X-Box generation. When one of his roommates spends all the rent money on Filipino hookers, Alex gets kicked out of his apartment. He finds himself forced to live with his grandmother and her friends Grace and Bea. To save face with his friends and co-workers, he brags about the three hot babes living with him.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2002
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Like mother, like daughter. Neither a hard-as-nails New York playwright nor her flaky Louisiana mother will take the necessary steps to mend their long-time rift. No, this is a job for the Sisterhood, sworn life-long friends who stage an outlandish "intervention" to bring daughter and mother back together again.
13) Playing for time
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (150 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Fania Fenelon is a Jewish cabaret singer in Paris during the Nazi invasion. Fania and thousands of other Jewish and political prisoners are sent to the Auschwitz death camp. She and a group of other classical musicians are spared from death in exchange for performing music for their captors. They are also ordered to play for the thousands being herded to the gas chambers, a 'humane' means of easing the condemned into the next world.
14) Petulia
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An unhappily married socialite woman is trying to get through to a recently divorced doctor, who in his own words just wants to feel something.
15) Juggernaut
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Britannic is halfway across the Atlantic when an anonymous telephone caller threatens to blow up the ship unless he receives 1 1/2 million dollars.
16) The group
Publisher
MGM/Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
Widescreen Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer limited edition collection.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (150 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This engaging film focuses on the changing roles and relationships of eight Vassar graduates during the years before WWII.
Author
Series
Publisher
L.A. Theatre Works
Pub. Date
p2002
Physical Desc
2 sound discs (118 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Presents a dramatization of John Steinbeck's novel about the plight of American farmers who were forced off their farms by drought and foreclosure during the Great Depression.
Author
Series
Publisher
L.A. Theatre Works
Pub. Date
p1996
Physical Desc
2 sound discs (102 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Modern parallels abound in the plight of Cambridge-educated mathematics wiz Vivie Warren, who discovers that her comfortable upbringing was financed in unspeakable ways.