Hugh Grant
Author
Language
English
Description
Dean goes to the theatre with his family. He enjoys it so much, his friend James encourages him to go to a drama group. He's very nervous and finds it hard to join in at first. But once he gets to know people he has a really good time, doing both backstage roles and acting. Drama groups are a good way to meet new friends and to take part in a theatre production. You can be an actor, or take on a backstage role – like painting the scenery, lighting,...
Author
Language
English
Description
Dr. Guy Luthan did everything right, but it turned out wrong. A patient under his care at New York's Gramercy Hospital mysteriously died, and now Luthan wants to know why. However, when he looks for postmortem details, he finds no body...and no records. Hugh Grant plays Luthan in Extreme Measures, "one of the most effective paranoid suspense movies since The Fugitive" (Chicago Tribune). Gene Hackman and Sarah Jessica Parker costar in this mystery...
4) The Rewrite
Author
Language
English
Description
Once upon a time, Keith Michaels (Hugh Grant - About a Boy, Love Actually) was an award-winning Hollywood screenwriter, but divorce and a string of unsuccessful films have left him with nothing but bad debts and blank pages. So when his agent arranges a job as guest screenwriting professor at a remote university in upstate New York, a desperate Keith can't say no. Initially hoping to give minimal effort to actual teaching so he can focus on his next...
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Bridget is happy with Mark, but her petty jealousies are starting to get the best of her, and their relationship. She is jealous of Mark's new intern, who is gorgeous and has a knack for doing everything right.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A New York socialite who dreams of becoming a great opera singer. While the voice she hears in her head is beautiful, to everyone else it is hilariously awful. Her husband and biggest fan, St. Clair Bayfield is determined to protect his beloved Florence from the truth. But when Florence stages a huge concert at Carnegie Hall, he faces his greatest challenge to make sure her performance is a rousing success.
8) About a boy
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
1 digital videodisc (1 hr. 42 mins.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A New York socialite who dreams of becoming a great opera singer. While the voice she hears in her head is beautiful, to everyone else it is hilariously awful. Her husband and biggest fan, St. Clair Bayfield is determined to protect his beloved Florence from the truth. But when Florence stages a huge concert at Carnegie Hall, he faces his greatest challenge to make sure her performance is a rousing success.
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Charles has found the perfect woman in Carrie, who he keeps running into at weddings. This new edition features deleted scenes, cast and crew interviews, a new documentary, and more.
*** Recommended.--Video Librarian
11) Music and lyrics
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 104 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4in.
Language
English
Description
When the hottest teen music sensation asks an aging '80s pop has-been to write her a song, he realizes he will need help with the words. Together with an unlikely partner, he finds that to write a love song, it helps to fall in love.
12) Maurice
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
1987.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (141 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Set against the stifling conformity of pre-World War I English society, MAURICE is a story of coming to terms with one's sexuality and identity in the face of disapproval and misunderstanding. Maurice Hall (James Wilby) and Clive Durham (Hugh Grant) find themselves falling in love at Cambridge. At a time when homosexuality is punishable by imprisonment, the two must keep their feelings for one another a secret. After a friend is arrested and disgraced...
13) The undoing
Publisher
HBO Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (332 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A thrilling mini-series from HBO about a successful New York therapist who's life begins to spin out of control just before her first book is published.
14) Cloud atlas
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 172 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present, and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution. The story is a time-shifting weave of six interlinking narratives with diverse settings, from the savagery of a Pacific Island in the 1850s to a dystopian Korea of the near future.
15) Wonka
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on the extraordinary character at the center of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the jewel in the Roald Dahl crown and one of the best-selling children2s books of all time, 3Wonka4 tells the wondrous story of how the world2s greatest inventor, magician and chocolate-maker became the beloved Willy Wonka we know today. This irresistibly vivid and inventive big-screen spectacle will introduce audiences to a young Willy Wonka, chock-full of ideas...
16) Notting Hill
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Anna Scott is the world's most famous movie star. Her picture has been plastered on the cover of every magazine and every time she makes a move, the entire world knows about it. William Thacker owns a travel bookstore in the quaint neighborhood of Notting Hill with a roommate from hell and a nonexistent love life. When their paths cross, the couple comes to face with the ultimate question: can two people fall in love with the whole world watching?...
17) Bitter Moon
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1992.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (134 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
British couple Fiona (Kristin Scott Thomas) and Nigel Dobson (Hugh Grant) are sailing to Istanbul en route to India. Nigel encounters a beautiful French woman and her crippled American husband Oscar, who tells him their story... While living in Paris for several years trying to be a writer, he became obsessed with a woman he met by chance on a bus. He tracked her down and they started a steamy love affair. Oscar soon found himself enslaved by her...
Series
Publisher
Miramax Films
Pub. Date
[2004?]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
In Fielding's reinterpretation of Austen's Pride and Prejudice, slightly overweight 30-something London single woman Bridget Jones (Zellweger) is goodhearted, insecure, bumbling, and desperate-to-be-attached. On New Year's Day Bridget resolves to cut down on alcohol, cigarettes, and sweets, lose 20 pounds, and find a man, all while recording her progress and thoughts in a journal. She soon catches the eye of Daniel Cleaver (Grant) and Mark Darcy...