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Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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A polar bear of many words, Norm's greatest gripe is simple: there is no room for tourists in the Arctic. But when a maniacal developer threatens to build luxury condos in his own backyard, Norm does what all normal polar bears would do: he heads to New York City to stop it. With a cast of ragtag lemmings at his side, Norm takes on the Big Apple, big business, and a big identity crisis to save the day.
3) The nut job
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Language
English
Description
Follow the travails of Surly, a mischievous squirrel, and his rat friend Buddy, who plan a nut store heist of outrageous proportions and unwittingly find themselves embroiled in a much more complicated and hilarious adventure.
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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
An assessment of the making of Nora Ephron's revered trilogy, 'When Harry Met Sally," "You've Got Mail," and "Sleepless in Seattle" shares an intimate portrait of the writer's life and her enduring influence on a generation of Hollywood women.
When Harry Met Sally, You've Got Mail, and Sleepless in Seattle brought romantic comedies back to the fore. Carlson takes readers on a trip to Ephron's New York City, where reality took a backseat to romance....
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
John Madden directs this British comedy drama starring Judi Dench, Bill Nighy, Dev Patel, Tom Wilkinson and Maggie Smith. The film follows the experiences of a group of elderly Brits who arrive to take up residence in a newly-opened retirement home in Bangalore, India. Despite its glossy publicity campaign, the Marigold turns out to be rather different from the refurbished luxury hotel advertised in the brochures. However, it soon begins to reveal...
Pub. Date
[2014], c2010
Language
English
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Before they became the most celebrated comedy duo of all time, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy were stars in their own right. This program presents five of the funniest silent solo efforts of these great comic actors produced and released in the 1920s, the golden age of classic comedy. See Stan Laurel as a gold rush miner pit against a corrupt sheriff in The Soilers; a bungling professor on a journey bogged down by a piano and a bathtub and chased by...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A rom-com screenwriter who doesn't believe in love or soulmates and a hopelessly romantic divorce attorney who does are forced together at their high school reunion fifteen years after their messy breakup and who, during a charged exchange, make a bet on the outcome of five relationships--including their own--over the next five years with the winner to be declared the ultimate authority on true love"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
Español
Description
"Molly Marks writes Hollywood rom-coms for a living--which is how she knows 'romance' is a racket. The one and only time she was naive enough to fall in love was with her high school boyfriend, Seth--who she ghosted on the eve of graduation and hasn't seen in fifteen years. Seth Rubinstein believes in love, the grand, fated kind, despite his job as, well…one of Chicago's most successful divorce attorneys. Over the last decade, he's sought 'the one'...
Author
Series
Primas of power volume 1
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Description
"After a messy public breakup, soap opera darling Jasmine Lin Rodriguez finds her face splashed across the tabloids. When she returns to her hometown of New York City to film the starring role in a bilingual romantic comedy for the number one streaming service in the country, Jasmine figures her new 'Leading Lady Plan' should be easy enough to follow--until a casting shake-up pairs her with telenovela hunk Ashton Suárez."--Publisher's description....
13) Houseboat
Pub. Date
[2002, c1958]
Language
English
Description
Shows Cary Grant as a government attorney, living in a houseboat, widowed and left with three unruly kids. He hires Sophia Loren as a governess and ends up falling in love with her.
14) License to wed
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Newly engaged couple, Ben Murphy and Sadie Jones can't wait to be married and live their life together. The problem is that Sadie's family church, St. Augustine's, is run by Reverend Frank, who won't bless them until they pass his patented, "fool-proof" marriage-prep course. The course consists of outrageous classes, outlandish homework assignments and some outright invasion of privacy. Reverend Frank's rigorous curriculum puts Ben and Sadie's relationship...
16) Mouse hunt
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Down-on-their luck brothers Lars and Ernie Smuntz don't think much of the crumbling old mansion they inherit until they discover that their dilapidated estate is actually worth millions. But before they can cash in, they've got to rid the house of its single, stubborn occupant: a tiny and tenacious mouse. What might seem like child's play becomes an epic battle of hysterical proportions.
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"Name That Movie! A Painless Vocabulary Builder: Romantic Comedy & Drama Edition includes 300 primary vocabulary words drawn from movies popular with female students (who of course take a variety of standardized tests, including the SAT, ACT, GED, and GRE!). Cumulatively, the book will present 700 vocabulary words, including synonyms. Here's how it works: 1. A movie quote is presented to the reader. 2. The reader identifies the movie and scene from...
20) The rom-commers
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"She's rewriting his love story. But can she rewrite her own? Emma Wheeler desperately longs to be a screenwriter. She's spent her life studying, obsessing over, and writing romantic comedies-good ones! That win contests! But she's also been the sole caretaker for her kind-hearted dad, who needs full-time care. Now, when she gets a chance to re-write a script for famous screenwriter Charlie Yates-The Charlie Yates! Her personal writing god!-it's a...
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