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Series
Criterion collection volume 901
Language
English
Description
"With this furiously witty comedy of manners, Katharine Hepburn revitalized her career and cemented her status as the era's most iconic leading lady--thanks in great part to her own shrewd orchestrations. While starring in the Philip Barry stage play The Philadelphia Story, Hepburn acquired the screen rights, handpicking her friend George Cukor to direct. The intoxicating screenplay by Donald Ogden Stewart pits the formidable Philadelphia socialite...
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two local outcasts attempt to save a local video store. Amateur film director Mike must find a way to save the business after his magnetized friend, Jerry, erases every movie in the store. Using an outdated video camera and their own special effects, the two embark on an adventure to remake all the movies, from "Ghostbusters" to "Driving Miss Daisy," turning the two town misfits into local celebrities.
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a champion ping pong player gets hurt, his brother C-dub, a gansta-rapper wannabe, must face off against a devious rival player in the ping pong tournament of the year. With help from some unusual kids, C-dub just might be up to the challenge.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 91 min.) : sound, color ; 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 his sense of duty refuses to leave. He becomes the police department's eyes on the inside and attempts to stop the criminals...
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (80 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Onion News anchorman Norm Archer is asked to compromise his journalistic integrity to please a new corporate sponsor, he doesn't just get made, he gets-- angry. A movie of skits that mock cultural fads, commercials, and people of all races.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Watch John 'Four Leaf' Tayback as he fights a gruesome battle during the Vietnam War. But, this is actually a scene from 'Tropic Thunder,' a big-budget adaptation of Tayback's wartime memoir. Starring as the central platoon are Speedman, Lazarus, Chino and Portnoy, as well as young character actor Kevin Sandusky. To play the character of African American Sgt. Osiris, Lazarus dyes his skin dark and refuses to break from character. When a scene goes...
7) Time bandits
Language
English
Description
A troupe of tiny bandits, challenged with the task of patching up the handiwork of a Supreme Being who was forced into creating the world in only 6 days, instead steal the priceless map of the universe. Accompanied by an English school boy (Warnock), they are swept away on a whirlwind adventure through time and space, encountering bizarre incarnations of Napoelon (Holm), Robinhood (Cleese), Agamemnon (Connery), and others.
Language
English
Description
Laura Penney accidentally fell in her apartment and died. Or perhaps she was pushed. Either way, on-air film critic Terry Thorpe (William H. Macy) is suspect because he was there. He skims the hurdles of his perfect crime: a detective (Adam Arkin), a girlfriend, and a private investigator. Will he pull it off?.
Pub. Date
1938.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (80 min.) : sound, b/w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Madcap heiress and debutante pals solve a murder mystery in spite of disappearing corpses, official disbelief and a newspaperman who claims it is just another of the "mad Miss Manton's" silly hoaxes. In the end, the heiress and the newspaperman fall in love.
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It's two weddings and somebody's funeral when a pair of just-married couples discovers that both parties have booked the same reception hall on the same day at the same time. In this delightful screwball comedy, the bride and the groom are falling in love. Which is great, except that they've just tied the knot with someone else.
Language
English
Formats
Description
NASCAR sensation Ricky Bobby is a racing hero because of his "win at all costs" approach. He and his loyal racing partner, childhood friend Cal Naughton Jr., are a fearless duo. Dubbed "Shake" and "Bake" by their fans, the two have the ability to finish so many races in the #1 and #2 positions, with Cal always in second place. When flamboyant French Formula One driver Jean Girard challenges Ricky and Cal for the supremacy of NASCAR, Ricky must face...
16) Bringing up Baby
Series
Criterion collection volume 1085
Language
English
Description
"Screwball sparks fly when Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn let loose in one of the fastest and funniest films ever made--a high-wire act of invention that took American screen comedy to new heights of absurdity. Hoping to procure a million-dollar investment from a wealthy society matron for his museum, a hapless paleontologist (Grant) finds himself entangled with a dizzy heiress (Hepburn) as the manic misadventures pile up--a missing dinosaur bone,...
Series
Language
English
Description
Wallace Ritchie, an American vacationer in London, doesn't know that the bullets are real and the truth serum true. He thinks the intrigue erupting around him is part of an audience-participation theater event. Yet the world's fate depends on this gullible goofus who can't even spell CIA.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An uptight businessman faces disaster after disaster as he tries to get back home in time for his family's Thanksgiving dinner, and along the way is joined by an insane traveling salesman that will not leave him alone.
20) The awful truth
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 91 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A separated couple sabotages each other's love affairs while waiting for their divorce decree to become final.
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