Cloris Leachman
Author
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
vi, 281 p., 32 p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Film and television darling Leachman tells her life story through the challenges of her stellar career all while raising five children. She also discusses her many famous friends in the entertainment industry as well as in the political arena.
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (approximately 125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Pazu is an engineer's apprentice who finds Sheeta, a young girl, floating down from the sky, wearing a glowing pendant. Together, they discover both are searching for Laputa, a legendary floating castle. Together, they vow to unravel the mystery of the luminous crystal around Sheeta's neck. Their quest won't be easy. There are greedy air pirates, secret government agents and astounding obstacles to keep them from learing the truth.
Series
Criterion collection volume 549
Language
English
Description
Featuring evocative black-and-white imagery and profoundly felt performances, this hushed depiction of crumbling American values remains the pivotal film in the career of the invaluable director and film historian Peter Bogdanovich.
4) Beerfest
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Wolfhouse brothers go to Germany to take care of family business, but while there are humiliated in a beer-drinking contest. Vowing revenge, they return the next year to enter the Beerfest competition with their drinking buddies.
5) Hanging up
Pub. Date
©2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Three sisters struggle to deal with each other and their aging father.
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD)(106 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Summoned by a will to his late grandfather's castle in Transylvania, young Dr. Frankenstein soon discovers the scientist's step-by-step manual explaining how to bring a corpse to life. Assisted by the hunchbacked Igor and the curvaceous Inga, he creates a monster who only wants to be loved.
7) So B. It
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on the New York Times Best-selling novel, a young prodigy named Heidi has a lucky streak that has a way of pointing her in the right direction. When a mysterious word in her mother's vocabulary begins to haunt her, Heidi's thirst for the truth leads her on a cross-country journey in search of the secrets of her past.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 110 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The inspiring and unknown true story behind MercyMe's beloved, chart topping song that brings ultimate hope to so many is a gripping reminder of the power of true forgiveness.
10) Ponyo
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (approximately 103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young boy named Sosuke rescues a goldfish named Ponyo, and they embark on a fantastic journey of friendship before Ponyo's father forces her to return to the sea. Ponyo's desire to be human upsets the balance of nature and only Ponyo's mother, a beautiful sea goddess, can restore nature's balance and make Ponyo's dreams come true.
11) The Muppet movie
Language
English
Formats
Description
Celebrate The Nearly 35th Anniversary of the ultimate frogs-to-riches story with the one that started it all. Kermit and Fozzie travel to Hollywood to hit it big as stars. They're joined on the way by Miss Piggy and numerous other familiar faces.
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
9 videodiscs (DVD) in 2 separate volumes (approx. 19 hr., 59 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Croods is a prehistoric comedy adventure that follows the world's first family as they embark on the journey of a lifetime when the cave that has always shielded them from danger is destroyed. Traveling across a spectacular landscape, the Croods discover an incredible new world filled with fantastic creatures, and their outlook is changed forever.
13) The Muppet movie
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (Blu-ray) (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Celebrate The Nearly 35th Anniversary of the ultimate frogs-to-riches story with the one that started it all. Kermit and Fozzie travel to Hollywood to hit it big as stars. They're joined on the way by Miss Piggy and numerous other familiar faces.
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Croods need a new place to live. So, the first prehistoric family sets off into the world in search of a safer place to call home. When they discover an idyllic walled-in paradise that meets all their needs, they think their problems are solved, except for one thing. Another family already lives there: the Bettermans.
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Instant oil baron Jed Clampett moves Granny and his kin from the Ozark hills to Beverly Hills, where the unsophisticated, decent, hard-working, trusting family are perfect marks for the swindlers, social climbers and gold diggers who can't wait to welcome them.
16) Kiss Me Deadly
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 106 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In an atomic adaptation of Mickey Spillane's novel, directed by Robert Aldrich, the good manners of the 1950s are blown to smithereens. Snarling private detective Mike Hammer's decision one dark, lonely night to pick up a hitchhiking woman sends him down some terrifying byways. Brazen and bleak, it's a film noir masterpiece and an essential piece of Cold War paranoia. Featuring as nervy an ending as has ever been seen in American cinema.
Pub. Date
2017, c1996
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (80 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Our intrepid adolescent heroes wake up to find their beloved television stolen, and embark on an epic journey across America to recover it, and, who knows, maybe even score. On the way they encounter a murderous smuggler of a deadly virus and his treacherous wife, an FBI agent with a predilection for cavity searches, a couple of rather familiar looking ex-Motley Crue roadies, Mr. Van Dreesen singing "Lesbian Seagull," a little old lady and of course...
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (DVD) (506 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A one night stand becomes a life-long commitment when twenty-three-year-old Jimmy Chance inadvertently impregnates a wanted felon and decides to raise Hope (aka Princess Beyonce) on his own. Jimmy, together with his family, face play dates, family photo shoots, rock star dreams, vasectomies and more in the uproariously irreverent, critically acclaimed first season.
19) Prancer
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A little girl finds a wounded reindeer in the woods and believes it is Prancer. Her efforts to nurse it back to health so she can return it to Santa bring about wonderful changes in the lives of everyone- her father, their neighbor, a grouchy vet, a department store Santa and the people of the town.
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When the madame of a New Orleans bordello is arrested, the judge sentences her to the custody of a convent where she follows the rules or goes to jail. The sisters have very mixed reactions to their "guest."