Joely Richardson
1) Matilda
Author
Language
English
Description
Matilda applies her untapped mental powers to rid the school of the evil child-hating headmistress, Miss Trunchbull, and restore her nice teacher, Miss Honey, to financial security.
Matilda is a sweet, exceptional young girl, but her parents think she's just a nuisance. She expects school to be different, but there she has to face Miss Trunchbull, a kid-hating terror of a headmistress. When Matilda is attacked by the Trunchbull, she suddenly discovers...
Publisher
Showtime Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Presents the rarely dramatized, tumultuous early years of King Henry VIII's nearly 40-year, omnipotent reign (1509-1547). In addition to his famous female consorts and 20+ year marriage to Catherine of Aragon and the infamous dalliance with Anne Boleyn, the series delves into Henry's most notable political relationship and the deconstruction of the Roman Catholic Church in England. Contains ten episodes, plus episodes from United States of Tara; Dexter;...
3) The patriot
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Edition
Special ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (165 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A hero of the French and Indian conflict, Benjamin Martin had renounced fighting forever to raise his family in peace. However, when British troops arrive at his South Carolina home and endanger his family, he takes up arms alongside his idealistic patriot son, Gabriel.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1959, Miami journalist and aspiring writer Ed Myers travels to Havana to meet his idol, Ernest Hemingway. A fascinating and unexpected friendship develops as the legendary author mentors young Myers in deep-sea fishing, drinking, and finding his literary voice, while the Cuban Revolution comes to a boil around them. The first U.S. movie filmed in Cuba in more than half a century, it offers an extraordinary glimpse into the life of a uniquely American...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Widescreen format.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 6 hr.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Six episodes combine history, biography, iconic performances, new analysis, and the personal passion of their celebrated hosts (Ethan Hawke, Jeremy Irons, Derek Jacobi, Trevor Nunn, Joely Richardson, and David Tennant) to tell the story behind the stories of Shakespeare's greatest plays.
6) Maggie
Publisher
Grindstone
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A post-apocalyptic thriller set against the backdrop of a deadly epidemic. As the nation reels from a virus that turns its victims into zombies, Wade's daughter Maggie has been infected. Now, as Maggie's condition worsens, Wade will stop at nothing to protect her from the authorities seeking to kill her to eradicate the virus.
7) Red sparrow
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ballerina Dominika Egorova is recruited to Sparrow School, a Russian intelligence service where she is forced to use her body as a weapon. Her first mission, targeting a C.I.A. agent, threatens to unravel the security of both nations.
9) 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
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (158 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Hoping to distance himself from the fallout of a libel conviction, journalist Mikael Blomkvist retreats to a remote island in Sweden's far north where the unsolved murder of a young girl still haunts her industrialist uncle forty years later. Ensconced in a cottage on the island where the killer may still roam, Blomkvist's investigation draws him into the secrets and lies of the rich and powerful, and throws him together with one unlikely ally: tattooed,...
12) Return to me
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
It took a lot of coaxing to get a recently widowed architect to go on a blind date at a quirky Irish-Italian eatery. But once there, he's smitten instantly ... not with his date, but with the sharp-witted waitress.
13) The last Mimzy
Series
Language
English
Description
When Emma and Noah find a mysterious box of toys on the beach, strange things start happening. The kids develop special powers and with their parents and teachers, they realize that their mission is far more important than they had ever dreamed.
When Noah and Emma Wilder discover a special box on the beach, they open it and unlock an exciting adventure beyond imagination. Inside they find Mimzy, a magical stuffed rabbit along with other mystical...
14) Wallis & Edward
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
Widescreen
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Edward, Prince of Wales, has a string of mistresses until he falls for American divorcee Wallis Simpson. When he becomes King of England, he must give her up, which divides him between the love for a woman and his duty to his country.
15) Maybe baby
Publisher
USA Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002], c1999
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sam and Lucy are a married couple who seem to have it all. The only thing missing is a child that they both desperately want. Between busy careers and trying to conceive, life becomes completely unpredictable. Now their love for each other will truely be put to the test.
16) 101 dalmatians
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In their small London flat, Dalmatians Pongo and Perdy, along with their human pets Roger and Anita, are overjoyed by the arrival of their litter of 15 puppies. But when the spotted-fur-loving Cruella De Vil and her clumsy cohorts, Jasper and Horace, dognap the litter along with every other Dalmatian pup in London, it will be up to Pongo and Perdy to rally the town's animals to aid in the puppies rescue. Now the puppies have to outwit their captors...
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
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) Wetherby
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jean Travers is a schoolteacher whose life changes completely when a young man breaks into her home, and then kills himself right in front of her for no apparent reason. As Jean's friends struggle to help her, Jean is drawn deeper and deeper into a web of memories and deceptions.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004], ©2003
Edition
DVD format.
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (approximately 638 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sean McNamara and Christian Troy are two plastic surgeons running a partnership in Miami, Florida with different views on life. Sean is a weak family man who distances himself with work to avoid a dysfunctional home life that includes his wife Julie, and his rebelious teenage son Matt. Christian is an arrogant, narcissistc, unethical, ladies man who worships wine, women, and the all mighty dollar. He is just slick enough to do just about anything...
20) Shining through
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (133 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A secretary ends up behind the lines as a secret agent during World War II.