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2) P.s
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Louise is a divorced, thirty-something admission's office at Columbia University's School of Fine Arts who is unfulfilled in her love life. That is, until a graduate school application crosses her desk and she arranges to interview the young painter. Scott bears the same name and has an uncanny resemblance to Louise's high school boyfriend and one true love, an artist who died in a car accident twenty years earlier. Within hours of the interview,...
3) Emma
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
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...
4) Iris
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Adapted from the memoirs of literary critic John Bayley, the film recounts his courtship of and long marriage to British novelist Iris Murdoch. The scenario tacks back and forth from the young Iris--ready to seduce one and all with her coy command of words and sex appeal--to the elder Iris--slowly giving way to the cruel erasure of Alzheimer's.
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
The young Jane Austen wishes to be a writer. Her mother thinks otherwise. Although she is offered many marriage proposals she accepts none until the mischevious Thomas Lefroy shows up and turns her world around. At first she finds him ignorant and self centered but as she gets to know him, they start to flirt and eventually fall in love. Thomas' relatives disagree with the match and threaten to disinherit him if he marries her. Jane's mother also...
6) The hours
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1929, Virginia Woolf is starting to write her novel, 'Mrs. Dalloway, ' under the care of doctors and family. In 1951, Laura Brown is planning for her husband's birthday, but is preoccupied with reading Woolf's novel. In 2001, Clarrisa Vaughn is planning an award party for her friend, an author dying of AIDS. Taking place over one day, all three stories are interconnected with the novel: one is writing it, one is reading it, and one is living it....
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
[2001], 1996
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Emily Kennedy faces her future with a glad smile and an ever-hopeful philosophy. Her only worry is her delicate younger sister, Lucy. When a tragic set of circumstances force the sisters from their home, Emily is quickly forced to grow into womanhood and take on the responsibilities of an adult. Needing all her strength of will and character to see her through the difficult road she travels, Emily manages to cling bravely to her never-say-die...
8) Jagged edge
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Close stars as an attorney who falls in love with her client, a man accused of killing his wife.
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2003] c2001-2002
Language
English
Description
Will acclaimed sex columnist Carrie get back together with Mr. Big or will she end up with Aidan? Will Charlotte and Trey be able to live happily ever after? Will Samantha and Miranda ever commit to anything that resembles a lasting relationship? Find out in the eighteen shows of season four.
10) To die for
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
A black comedy in which an ammoral and ambitious news personality seduces a teenager to convince him to murder her husband.
11) Wit
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
English professor Vivian Bearing reflects on life when she is diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer.
13) Some like it hot
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
When Chicago musicians Joe and Jerry witness a gangland murder they realize that their only escape is to dress as women and join an all-girls band on the way to a tour of Florida.
14) Ambulance girl
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Celebrity food writer, Jane Stern is beset with phobias about everything. Despite her self-doubt she volunteers as an emergency medical technician. Her courageous adventures convince Jane that by helping others, she helps herself.
15) The color purple
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The story of Celie, a poor black woman from the south, whose friendship with two women helps her overcome the brutality of her father and husband.
Publisher
Distributed by Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of Evelyn Ryan. Offers a revealing study of the housewife's plight during the Eisenhower era, along with an inspiring tale of tenacity and survival against formidable odds. Evelyn is a cheerfully strong-willed mother of ten who compensates for the failings of her alcoholic husband by becoming the most successful "contester" in the country. Between the mid-1950s and the early '60s, Evelyn submitted cleverly worded poems, jingles,...
17) Anchorman
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment ; Universal City, CA
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
It's the 70's and Ron Burgundy is the king of San Diego. He's the most popular news anchor in town. He and his all male news team rule the city with their sauve looks, minimal IQ's and unbelievably bad hair. In Ron's world, women don't belong in the newsroom. So when rising star reporter Veronica Corningstone fills in for Ron one night and the ratings soar, it becomes more than a battle ... it becomes war.
18) Red doors
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A Chinese-American retiree's sudden disappearance inspires life-changing perspectives in each of his three daughters.
19) Phat girlz
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Jazmin is a sassy, tart, talented, and plus-size woman who lives in a world that insults and rejects her because she's fat - or is the emotional abuse she heaps on herself the real problem? She is a department store employee with fashion designer dreams who has created a designer line for full-figured ladies, but flounders until she wins a Palm Springs vacation. There she meets a handsome Nigerian doctor named Tunde. He cherishes Jazmin's full figure...
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