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2) 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.
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...
Series
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Seven classic comedies starring the Three Stooges. In the first work, they try to break into the wrestling racket, in the second they are mistaken for dentists, in the third Curly steps into his father's place to keep him from marrying a curvaceous blonde. "Three little pirates" has them escaping from the governor of Dead Man's Island and trying to survive Black Louie's Pirate den and in "Uncivil war birds", they decide to join the army as the Civil...
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
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Zohan Dvir is an ex-commando Mossad agent who decides to fake his death so he can re-emerge in New York City as a hair stylist. He romances his clients by giving them extra 'special services' in the back room of the beauty shop he works in. However, he is eventually recognized, and risks losing his newfound life and career.
12) The house bunny
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
When Playboy Bunny, Shelly, is tossed out of the Playboy Mansion, she has nowhere to go. She quickly falls in with the sorority girls from Zeta Alpha Zeta. The members of the sorority, all seven of whom are socially inadept, are about to lose their house. The girls need a dose of what only the eternally bubbly Shelley can provide. Eventually, the girls, and Shelly, learn to stop pretending to be what they think others want them to be and start being...
13) Hamlet 2
Series
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
When his Tucson, AZ school's theater department is threatened to be cut, failed-actor-turned-high-school-drama-teacher Dana Marschz writes a play that he hopes will solve everything. He decides to write a sequel to Shakespeare's Hamlet. Now, the drama department will stage one of the most politically incorrect musical extravaganzas ever seen. Dana and his class will put it all on the line for a night of conflict and controversial.
Pub. Date
1938.
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.
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...
20) Be kind rewind
Pub. Date
[2008]
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.
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