Marc Shaiman
1) Patch Adams
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Patch Adams is a doctor like no other who believes that laughter is the best medicine, even at the risk of his career.
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
After Mary Poppins departed London, Jane and Michael Banks grew up into loving and responsible adults. When Michael becomes a single father of three children after the death of his wife, Mary Poppins revisits the Cherry Tree Lane home again to try to help Michael and his family cope and move beyond their grief. Time passes quickly for most normal mortals. Mary Poppins has never been normal. Although it's now the 1930s, she looks exactly the same....
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 2 hrs.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in 1962, Tracy Turnblad becomes an overnight sensation after appearing on a Baltimore TV dance show. With her newfound popularity, she twists and shakes her hometown, teaching them a thing or two about racial equality, and of course, the power of big hair.
5) Rumor has it
Language
English
Description
Sarah has finally agreed to marry her boyfriend Jeff, but isn't sure if marriage is what she wants. Now she's on her way home to attend her sister's wedding, which means spending a lot of time with the tennis-obsessed Pasadena family that she's never felt quite a part of. It isn't until Sarah stumbles into a well-kept family secret that she starts to question her roots and sets off in search of the man who may have answers the she has been looking...
9) Misery
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After an almost fatal car crash, novelist Paul Sheldon finds himself being nursed by a deranged fan who holds him captive.
10) Alex & Emma
Author
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Alex is an author whose writer's block and gambling debts have landed him in trouble. In order to get the loan sharks off his back, he must finish his novel in 30 days or end up dead. To help him complete his manuscript, he hires stenographer, Emma. As Alex begins to dictate his tale of a romantic love triangle, Emma challenges his ideas at every turn. Her unsolicited, yet intriguing input, begins to inadvertently influence Alex and his story and...
Series
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (81 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
South Park is a quiet place until the latest Terrance and Philip movie comes out. Once all the kids see it, all hell breaks loose and the citizens declare war on Terrance and Philip's home country, Canada.
13) Misery
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After an almost fatal car crash, novelist Paul Sheldon finds himself being nursed by a deranged fan who holds him captive.
Pub. Date
[between 2000 and 2009?]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (approximately 207 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A nightclub singer is forced to take refuge from the mob in a convent. While there she turns the convent choir into a "soulful chorus of swingin' sisters." The sudden celebrity of the choir jeopardizes her identity.
Whoopi Goldberg returns as the lounge singer who goes undercover as a nun to help an ailing inner-city school.
15) Alex & Emma
Author
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Alex is an author whose writer's block and gambling debts have landed him in trouble. In order to get the loan sharks off his back, he must finish his novel in 30 days or end up dead. To help him complete his manuscript, he hires stenographer, Emma. As Alex begins to dictate his tale of a romantic love triangle, Emma challenges his ideas at every turn. Her unsolicited, yet intriguing input, begins to inadvertently influence Alex and his story and...
16) Get over it
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tells the tale of a high school boy who is down on his luck. He loses his girlfriend and will do anything to get her back--including quitting the basketball team and trying out for an acting role in a Shakespeare play. But as soon as he stops moping over his break up, he begins to take interest in his best friend's little sister, and finds that romance is everywhere.
17) Hairspray
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. +
Language
English
Description
In 1962 Baltimore, all the kids watch the Corny Collins Show. Every day after school Tracy Turnblad, an overweight teenager with all the right moves, and her best friend Penny run home to watch and drool over teenage heartthrob Link Larkin. When one of the "Council Kids" goes on a leave of absence, Tracy auditions to be the replacement, is sent to detention for skipping school, and thereby meets Seaweed--who shows her how to really shake 'em down....
18) The Bucket List
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 digital disc 97 minutes
Language
English
Description
Corporate billionaire Edward Cole and working class mechanic Carter Chambers have nothing in common, except they both have been diagnosed with terminal illnesses. While sharing a hospital room together, they decide to make a Bucket List of all the things they have ever wanted to do before they die. In the process of completing the list, both of them heal each other, become unlikely friends, and ultimately find the joy in life.