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Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When their father passes away, four grown siblings, bruised and banged up by their respective adult lives, are forced to return to their childhood home and live under the same roof together for a week. Confronting their history and the frayed states of their relationships among the people who know and love them best, they ultimately reconnect in hysterical and emotionally affecting ways amid the chaos, humor, heartache and redemption that only families...
3) Bad words
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Guy Trilby is a 40-year-old who finds a loophole in the rules of The Golden Quill national spelling bee and decides to cause trouble by hijacking the competition. While reporter Jenny Widgeon attempts to discover his true motivation, Guy finds himself forging an unlikely alliance with a competitor: awkward ten-year-old Chaitanya Chopra, who is completely unfazed by Guy's take-no-prisoners approach to life.
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
After both her career and relationship hit the skids, Imogene is forced to make the humiliating move back home to New Jersey with her eccentric mother and younger brother. Adding further insult to injury, there's a strange man sleeping in her old bedroom, and an even stranger man sleeping in her mother's bed.
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Set in the 1920s, Stanley, an Englishman posing as an Asian magician, attempts to debunk fake spiritualists. He then travels to the south of France to unmask a supposed medium named Sophie as a good-looking fake, but he ends up falling for her real-world charms instead.
"Ms. Stone is entrancing, whether Sophie is in or out of her trance state, and so is the movie as a whole."--Wall Street Journal
"The cinematography is radiant, the vintage cars...
8) 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.
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Monk is a frustrated novelist who's fed up with the establishment that profits from Black entertainment that relies on tired and offensive tropes. To prove his point, he uses a pen name to write an outlandish Black book of his own, a book that propels him to the heart of hypocrisy and the madness he claims to disdain.
10) Bad moms
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
When three overworked and under appreciated moms are pushed beyond their limits, they ditch their conventional responsibilities for a jolt of long overdue freedom, fun, and comedic self indulgence.
11) The farewell
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Chinese-born, U.S.-raised Billi reluctantly returns to Changchun to find that, although the whole family knows their beloved matriarch, Nai-Nai, has been given mere weeks to live, everyone has decided not to tell Nai Nai herself. To assure her happiness, they gather under the joyful guise of an expedited wedding, uniting family members scattered among new homes abroad. As Billi navigates a minefield of family expectations and proprieties, she finds...
12) I Am Comic
Pub. Date
[2011], c2010
Language
English
Description
An ode to the art and occupational hazards of stand-up comedy! Through candid interviews and unprecedented backstage access, this documentary explores the world of the working comedian and reveals a funny psychological profile of its practitioners. Also, we follow a retired comic's attempt to get back on stage after a 13-year absence. Ritch Shydner, at the top of his game in the 1980s, had HBO specials, shot five pilot TV shows, and had numerous high-profile...
13) Improv show
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Learn all about putting on an improv show.
14) Kick-ass 2
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Dave (Kick-Ass) decides to start the world's first superhero team with Mindy (Hit Girl). Unfortunately, Mindy is busted for sneaking out as Hit Girl, and she's forced to retire. Dave must join forces with Justice Forever, run by a born-again ex-mobster named Colonel Stars and Stripes. Just as they start to make a real difference on the streets, the world's first super-villain, the Mother F%&*r̂, assembles his own evil league and puts a plan in motion...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"Sally Milz is a sketch writer for The Night Owls, the late night live comedy show that airs each Saturday. With a couple of heartbreaks under her belt, she's long abandoned the search for love, settling instead for the occasional hook-up, career success, and a close relationship with her stepfather to round out a satisfying life. But when Sally's friend and fellow writer Danny Horst begins dating Annabel, a glamorous actress who guest-hosted the...
16) The borrowers
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Come along on an adventure with a family of Borrowers, the Clocks, who reside under the floorboards of Aunt Sophie's house in England. The Clocks, like all other Borrowers, survive by borrowing items from the humans. But life for the Clocks takes a turn for the worse when Arrioty befriends a human and the secrets of the Borrower world are discovered. What fate lies in the waiting for the Borrowers?
Series
Studio classic volume 25
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A woman and a burglar hatch a scheme to swipe a forgery from an art museum to conceal her father's art forgeries.
18) Good burger 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Calling all dudes buckle up, because the new adventures of Ed and Dex start now! Your favorite fast-food duo is back and serving up nostalgic laughs and new antics in Good Burger 2. Follow Dexter Reed and original cashier Ed as they reunite in the present day at fast-food restaurant Good Burger with a hilarious new group of employees. Dexter is down on his luck after another one of his inventions fails. Ed welcomes Dex back to Good Burger with open...
19) Legally blonde
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
When a blonde sorority queen is dumped by her boyfriend, she decides to follow him to law school to get him back and, once there, learns she has more legal savvy than she ever imagined.
20) Mom's day away
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Stay-at-home mom Laura Miller chose family life over a glamorous career. Her husband Michael, a workaholic realtor, eternally conducts business on his cell phone while her seventeen-year-old son and twelve-year-old daughter are absorbed in their young life dramas. It's Mother's Day weekend and still nobody is paying attention to Laura's needs.
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