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English
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Presents a musical retelling of the "Romeo and Juliet" story set in 1950s New York City, in which Tony, a former member of the Jets--an Anglo street gang--falls tragically in love with Maria, the innocent sister of Bernardo, leader of the Puerto Rican gang, the Sharks.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
In the glamorous and ego-driven world of advertising, everyone is selling something and nothing is ever what it seems. Set in 1960 New York, this series reveals the lives of the ruthlessly competitive men and women of Madison Avenue's "Golden Age," where key players make an art of the sell while their private world gets sold. And no one plays the game better than Don Draper, the biggest ad man--and ladies' man--in the business.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Mad Men is back and plunges into the seductive and intriguing world of Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce. Jon Hamm and the rest of the award-winning cast continue to mesmerize as they adapt .to changing times, social revolution, and a radical world. Lust is back. Adultery is back. Deception is back.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Angela De Marco (Michelle Pfeiffer) is stuck in a marriage to a philanderer who also just happens to be a mobster, but she gets a new lease on life when he's iced by a ruthless kingpin (Dean Stockwell) who's always had a thing for Angela. Kissing the mafia arrivederci, Angela finds a new job in a beauty salon, but Stockwell is hot on her trail, determined to make her his mob mistress. Now, Angela must choose between helping the FBI or spending the...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Jerry, a comedian, and his neurotic bestfriends - Elaine, George, and Kramer - go through everyday life, discussing various quirky situations that we can all relate to (especially if we live in New York). The eccentric personalities of the offbeat characters who make up Jerry's social circle contribute to the fun.
10) Brooklyn lobster
Publisher
Distributed by Warner, Elektra, Atlantic
Pub. Date
2006, c2005
Language
English
Description
Frank and Maureen Giorgio's lives are thrown into chaos when financial troubles threaten their lobster business. The very proud and stubborn Frank, along with his family and friends, attempts to save the shop that is the cornerstone of their identity.
13) Away: a novel
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Language
English
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Description
On a morning in 1924, a young woman rises from the floor of her family's small home in Belorussia to find her parents and her husband slaughtered beside her and her infant daughter, Sophie, missing. When her aunt tells her the baby is dead, Lillian emigrates to America. She is working as a seamstress at the Yiddish Theater and enjoying caf society when a cousin arrives and insists that her daughter is still alivein Siberia.Lillian cannot stop dreaming...
15) Inside man.
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Language
English
Formats
Description
NYPD Detective Keith Frazier struggles to outsmart Dalton, a high-stakes bank robber who, along with a well-trained crew of accomplices, has seized control of a Wall Street bank. The robbers turn what initially looks like a hostage crisis into a personal crusade to expose some mysterious evil secrets. As the dangerous cat-and-mouse game unfolds, Madaline, a power broker with her own agenda, emerges and injects even more instability into an already...
16) Sorry, haters
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Against the anxieties and fears of post-9/11 America, an Arab cab driver picks up a troubled professional woman with unexpected results.
17) Rent
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006, c2005
Language
English
Description
Focuses on the year in the life of a group of friends in New York's East Village. The bohemians live carefree lives of art, music, sex and drugs. With this being the late 1980s, the threat of AIDS is always present.
19) Kate & Leopold
Publisher
distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Language
English
Description
Kate and her actor brother live in 21st century New York. Her ex-boyfriend, Stuart, has found a spot near the Brooklyn Bridge where there is a gap in time-- one can return to the 19th century. Stuart goes back to the 1870s and takes pictures, then is followed back to New York by Leopold. Leopold gets help with fitting into the 21st century from Kate's brother Charlie, and meets Kate herself. Kate is climbing the corporate ladder in advertising,...
20) House of mirth
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Lily Bart, a socialite in turn of the century New York who learns the precariousness of her position when her beauty starts attracting unwelcome interest and jealousy.
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