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Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Language
English
Description
When Chris' best friend Annie loses her husband, Chris derives a scheme to memorialize him. The two women, along with some of their friends - all fiftysomething women - will make a nude calendar to raise money for the hospital where he died. The calendar becomes hugely popular. Based on actual events.
Publisher
Distributed by Universal Studios Canada
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Hoping to earn extra money, an innocent and reserved scholarship student at an exclusive prep school agrees to look after a blind, retired Lieutenant Colonel, who takes him off for a wild weekend in New York City.
4) Barton Fink
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
A trendy playwright is trying to write a simple movie script, but to his misfortune has a bit of writer's block.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1994, 2003
Language
Français
Description
A daredevil race-car driver and a movie script girl meet while visiting their children's boarding school. They soon share a love filled with warmth, humor and truth, and intertwined with the demands of career and parenthood.
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
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Description
Ella lives in a fanciful and magical world where all children are given a "gift" from their fairy Godmother at birth. Ella's gift - and curse - was that of obedience. As a result, Ella cannot refuse any command, and as a result she is often taken advantage of. In a bid to regain control of her life, Ella goes on a quest to free herself from this mysterious "gift". Ella must outwit a kingdom filled with ogres, giants, wicked stepsisters, talking books...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Max thinks his life could not get any worse. He is teased by his classmates because he's smart. He meets nasty slime-producing demon Phears and finds himself protecting the sibling ghosts of the children who used to live in his house.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
Story of a cold, suave British assassin hired by the French OAS to kill General Charles de Gaulle. Nameless and faceless, the killer, known by the code name of Jackal, relentlessly moves toward the date with death that would rock the world. The tension mounts as the methodical preparations of the Jackal are paralleled with the efforts of the police to uncover the plot, which gives the story non-stop, edge-of-your-seat suspense.
12) The band wagon
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Fading movie musical star Tony Hunter, down and out in Hollywood, decides to try his luck on the Broadway stage.
13) Cinema paradiso
Publisher
The Weinstein Company Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Italiano
Description
A filmmaker returns to his Sicilian hometown for the first time in 30 years and looks back on his life.
14) Hancock
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
A superhero with total disregard for the damage he causes while saving people finds himself having his image changed by a public relations executive, in return for saving the executive's life.
15) Lassie come home
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
The collie is sold and makes a cross-country journey back to her original family.
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
Two lions on a man-eating rampage have shut down the construction of a railway in 1896 East Africa. The beasts hunt together, showing no fear of man or fire. What's more, they're killing for sport rather than for food--and they have an almost supernatural knack for knowing what traps await them. Big-game hunter Remington and construction engineer Patterson set out to stop these unstoppable monsters. But, in this astonishing tale of man against beast,...
17) Sweet land
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Inge is a feisty German mail-order bride who has come to Minnesota to marry Olaf, a young Norwegian immigrant farmer of few words. But in a post-WWI, anti-German climate, the local minister openly forbids the marriage. Inge and Olaf fall in love despite the town's disapproval. But when the town banker attempts to foreclose on the farm of his friend Frandsen, Olaf takes a stand.
18) Grand Hotel
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004], c1932
Language
English
Description
Berlin's plushest, most expensive hotel is the setting where in the words of Dr. Otternschlag "People come, people go. Nothing ever happens.". The doctor is usually drunk so he misses the fact that Baron von Geigern is broke and trying to steal eccentric dancer Grusinskaya's pearls, but ends up stealing her heart instead. Powerful German businessman Preysing brow beats his lowly bookkeeper, Kringelein, but in the end it is Kringelein who holds all...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Don Baker is a blind young man who is determined to make a life for himself despite his handicap. He becomes involved with his next-door neighbor Jill and their relationship is threatened by his mother's intrusions and by Jill's life-style.
20) Born free
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
When game warden George Adamson is forced to kill a lion and lioness, he and his wife Joy adopt their three cubs. Two are sent off to zoos but the third is kept, a female they name Elsa. When Elsa is fully grown, the Adamsons realize she must be taught to survive on her own.
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