Summary: Macbeth is the chef in a 3-star restaurant; Beatrice and Benedict are rival co-anchors; Titania and Bottom carouse in a tawdry theme resort; and Petruchio sets out to tame the conservative Kate in a politically incorrect marriage of convenience.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SHASummary: In Dhadkan (Heart beat), Anjali (Shilpa Shetty) is forced by her parents to marry a man they choose rather than Dev (Sunil Shetty), an illegitimate child. Anjali's marriage to Ram (Akshay Kumar) gets off to a disastrous start, as Anjali refuses to acknowledge Ram as her husband. But despite herself Anjali is drawn into Ram's family's intrigue, overcomes her memory of Dev, and gradually comes to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Eros International 2000
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DHASummary: Daniel Deronda is sensitive and charming, the illegitimate son of an aristocrat, haunted by the secrets that shroud his birth. Beautiful, vivacious Gwendolen Harleth is a gambler and short on cash. When they meet at the roulette table, sparks fly. But above all, Gwendolen needs money, and the icy aristrocrat Henleigh Grandcourt is more than happy to provide. As her situation becomes more and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2007
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DANSummary: How do you find lasting love in today's world? For documentary-maker and dating app addict Zoe, swiping right has only delivered an endless stream of Mr. Wrongs, to her eccentric mother Cath's dismay. For Zoe's childhood friend and neighbor Kaz, the answer is to follow his parents' example and opt for an arranged (or "assisted") marriage to a bright and beautiful bride from Pakistan. As Zoe...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY WHASummary: Prince Seretse Khama of Botswana causes an international stir when he marries a white woman from London in the late 1940s. When they decided to marry, just as apartheid was being introduced into South Africa, it caused an international uproar. However, their passionate romance triumphed over every obstacle and changed the course of African history.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA UNISummary: Joy is dumped by her boyfriend and her friends recommend she take a vacation to Las Vegas to get him out of her mind. After Jack gets fired by his dad from the family business, he ends up in Vegas too. After a night of drinking, the two wake up the following morning to discover they have gotten married. One of them wins a $3 million jackpot - using the quarter of the other. Both want to end the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY WHACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE WHASummary: Focuses on the complexities of human intimacy and deception in the modern age. Housewife Ann (Andie MacDowell) feels distant from her lawyer husband, John (Peter Gallagher), who is sleeping with her sister, Cynthia (Laura San Giacomo). When John's old friend Graham (James Spader) comes to town, Ann is drawn to the soft-spoken outsider, eventually uncovering his startling private obsession:...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SEXSummary: Before sunrise: An American man, Jesse, and a Paris woman, Celine, meet on a train bound for Vienna and decide to spend the day together before Jesse departs the next morning.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Matt LeBlanc plays an old-school guy confronting the modern challenges of parenting, marriage, and family. After hitting a rough patch with his construction business, Adam's wife, Andi, has proposed they start a house-flipping business together along with his brother, Don, and friend, Lowell. In the midst of all this, Adam also has to juggle his three children and deal with his sister-in-law,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MANSummary: Matt LeBlanc plays an old-school guy confronting the modern challenges of parenting, marriage, and family. After hitting a rough patch with his construction business, Adam's wife, Andi, has proposed they start a house-flipping business together along with his brother, Don, and friend, Lowell. In the midst of all this, Adam also has to juggle his three children and deal with his sister-in-law,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MANSummary: Married couple Ian and Emma negotiate the insecurities, the ambiguities, the hopes and the fears, and the risks and the gifts of a long-term intimate relationship.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MARSummary: A close-up look at the ups and downs of dating and marriage. Take a look at three men and three women New Yorkers, who unknowingly form a tangled web of relationships.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Video 2002
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SIDSummary: Joanna is in a touring girl's choir and Mark is a struggling architect when they first meet on the road in Europe. The film follows their life together - through courtship and marriage, infidelity and parenthood - all on the road.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY TWOSummary: A father's life unravels while he deals with a marital crisis and tries to manage his relationship with his children.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2011
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVDCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CRA RATED PG-13Summary: A princess flees marriage to her father by wearing his prize donkey skin as a disguise. When a neighboring Prince comes to town, a romance is born.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Koch Lorber Films/Koch Vision [distributor] 2005
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DONSummary: Rose, a literature professor who lives with her mother, is in search of passion. Gregory, a mathematics professor who has been hurt in the past, is afraid to start a new relationship. Fate brings the two together and they soon agree to a marriage of convenience, built on intellectual passion instead of sexual heat. Then they fall in love.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Mirror 2004Summary: A party girl decides she has had enough of the wild lifestyle and returns to her childhood home, where she finds security with a new husband but soon finds herself in an affair with his best friend.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CLASummary: The remarkable love story inspired by the lives of artists Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegener. Lili and Gerda's marriage and work evolve as they navigate Lili's groundbreaking journey as a transgender pioneer.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD DANCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DANSummary: Jamie Wellerstein is an up and coming Jewish novelist who falls in love with Cathy Hiatt, a Shiksa Goddess and struggling actress. Their story is told almost entirely through songs using an intercutting time line device; all of Cathy's songs begin at the end of their marriage and move backwards in time to the beginning of their love affair while Jamie's songs start at the beginning of their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Based on a true story about revenge, fear and redemption. In 19th century St. Pierre, a convict sentenced to death strives to better himself in the eyes of the police chief's beautiful wife and that of the town that she has him working in. Since there is no guillotine or executioner, one of each has to be sent for from France.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WIDSummary: "Bathed in lurid Technicolor, melodrama maestro Douglas Sirk's Written on the Wind is the stylishly debauched tale of a Texas oil magnate brought down by the excesses of his spoiled offspring. Features an all-star quartet that includes Robert Stack as a pistol-packin' alcoholic playboy; Lauren Bacall as his long-suffering wife; Rock Hudson as his earthy best friend; and Dorothy Malone as his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WRICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD MOVIE WRISummary: After a Mongolian desert herder hurts her back, she realizes that to support her family she must legally divorce her husband while looking for a man who will agree to take care of all of them.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Home Video 2008