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1) Emma
Language
English
Description
Emma Woodhouse is a young woman who, having engineered the marriage of her companion, turns her attention toward making a match for the local vicar and her new protegée, Harriet Smith. Her one voice of reason and restraint is Mr. Knightley, who has known her since she was a child and who watches her behaviour with wry amusement and sometimes with real anger. Emma presides over the small provincial world of Highbury with enthusiasm, but she will find...
Publisher
Miramax Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
London, the 1920s. Lottie and Rose are two married women who share the misery of empty marriages and decide to rent an Italian castle for the spring to get away. In order to save money, they advertise for two other women to join them. Mrs. Fisher is an elderly widow is struggling with a lonely and regimented existence. She jumps at the chance to join the vacation. Lady Caroline Dester is a gorgeous flapper who has been grabbed one too many times and...
3) Chocolat
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Anamorphic widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (122 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A single mother and her daughter move to rural France and open a chocolate shop just before Lent across the street from the local church in a rigidly moral community.
Publisher
Miramax Films
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (167 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in New York City just prior to the Civil War, a man seeks to avenge the death of his father and gets caught in the middle of the powerful and corrupt political machines of Manhattan.
Publisher
Miramax Films
Pub. Date
[2011], 1997
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After her husband Prince Albert dies, Queen Victoria becomes depressed and introverted. Her servant, simple Scottish Highlander John Brown, makes her enjoy life again through his kindness and friendship with her. However, their relationship causes a scandal that rocks the British Isles.
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011?]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Romantic fantasy set in early 20th century Mexico about a young couple, Tita and Pedro, blocked from marrying by a family tradition strictly enforced by Tita's cold and selfish mother. To be near his love the young man marries her sister, while Tita, as the family cook, expresses her passion for him through her cooking.
Publisher
Miramax Films
Pub. Date
[©2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Born with cerebral palsy, the 10th of 22 children of a Dublin bricklayer and his wife, Christy Brown was doomed to life as a vegetable by physicians in 1932. His strong-willed mother's love and faith encouraged him to overcome this label. At age seven, he made a mark with chalk grasped between the toes of his left foot, the only limb on his body he could control. With this proof of intelligence, his schooling begins, and aided by his loving family,...
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