Hugh Grant
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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
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
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.
8) 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.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Love knows no boundaries and is causing chaos on Christmas Eve in London for everyone, from the new bachelor Prime Minister who found love at first sight, to a schoolboy trying to get the attention of the most popular girl in school.
Perfectly wonderful if not completely perfect.--Detroit News
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...
13) Impromptu
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Language
English
Description
George Sands was perhaps the most celebrated novelist of the early nineteenth century and its most notorious Bohemian, better known in her own day that even Charles Dickens. Frederic Chopin was among the greatest musicians of his age. A prodigy who rapidly gained a legendary reputataion all over Europe as both a pianist and a composer. IMPROMPTU is the comic and tender tale of how George Sands and Chopin met; of how Sands recklessly pursued Chopin;...
Author
Language
English
Description
The Golf Delusion is a collection of stories, instruction and step-by-step photography designed to improve the swing of the amateur golfer. Each entry is a light-hearted but informative look at the golf swings of the famous – and sometimes not so famous – pupils of the Knightsbridge Golf School, founded by Leslie King, who pioneered a new approach to golf swing tuition in the 1950s. Over the past 60 years, the Knightsbridge Golf School has improved...
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Language
English
Description
Based on the incredible true story, Meryl Streep delivers a hilarious and touching performance as 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 (Hugh Grant) is determined to protect his beloved Florence from the truth. But when Florence stages a huge concert at Carnegie Hall, he faces his...
17) Our Sons
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Language
English
Description
Julie Andrews and Ann-Margret star as the mothers of two gay sons, one of whom is dying from AIDS. As a small town waitress, Luanne Barnes must overcome her own homophobia and learn to love her son Donald unconditionally. Throughout the process, she cements a true bond with Audrey Grant, mother to Donald's boyfriend, James. Inspired by the 1987 documentary, 'Too Little, Too Late.'
18) Restoration
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Language
English
Description
Robert Merivel is a young man who seems to have everything...until a passionate affair leads to scandal, suddenly leaving him heartbroken and penniless. But it's only after losing it all that he becomes the man he never dreamed he could be!