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Comedy films Food service employees New York (State) New York Drama Man-woman relationships Man-woman relationships Drama Man-woman relationships New York (State) New York Drama Man-woman relationships United States Drama Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) Drama New York (State) New York Queens (New York, N.Y.) Drama Video recordings for the hearing impairedSummary: Harry Sanborn is a perennial playboy with the libido of a much younger man. During what was to be a romantic weekend with his current infatuation, Marin, at her mother's Hampton beach house, Harry develops chest pains. He winds up being nursed by Marin's reluctant mother, Erica. When Harry hesitates to act on his feelings for Erica, Harry's thirtysomething doctor steps in and starts to pursue...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2004
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SOMCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Something 2004Summary: Joe is a boxer who is headed for a championship fight when he is killed in a plane crash. Unfortunately for Joe, he was not supposed to die in the crash, but was instead brought up to heaven too soon by an overeager angel. It is now up to Mr. Jordan, the angel's boss, to find Joe a new body and give him another chance to fight for the title. Joe meets an idealistic young woman to whom he is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY HERESummary: In 1985, teen-nerd Ted challenges a high-schooler who's bullying retarded Warren. His concern prompts Warren's sister, the dazzling and desirable Mary to choose Ted as her senior prom date, but the date never happens. 13 years later Ted hires Pat to locate Mary, and the private investigator finds her in Miami. Pat claims to be a Harvard-educated architect and Mary falls in love with him....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY THESummary: A sharp comedy centered on a group of 20-something New Yorkers struggling to figure out themselves, their lives, and their loves. Captures the uncertainty and angst of what it is to be young, vulnerable, and desperate to find out who you are - or, perhaps more importantly, who you want to be.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY HAPSummary: Guru Pitka is an American-born, Indian-raised guru who was taught to become an expert in matters of love. Now, a world famous spiritual advisor, he guides hundreds of followers. A way for Pitka to increase his popularity is by helping to heal the troubled relationship between Toronto Maple Leafs hockey player Darren Roanoke and his wife, Prudence. Jane Bullard is the owner of the Maple Leafs...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY LOVSummary: Distraught over breaking up with his girlfriend Desiree, Zia slashes his wrists. Zia discovers that there is no real ending, only a run-down afterlife that is strikingly similar to his old one, just a bit worse. Discovering that Desiree has also "offed" herself, he sets out on a road trip, with his Russian rocker friend, to find her. Their journey takes them through an absurd purgatory where...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY WRISummary: A classic Hepburn-Tracy romance, about the head of the research department at a TV network and an absent-minded computer genius.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY DESCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Desk 2004Summary: Mary Haines (Norma Shearer) loses her husband to ruthless Crystal Allen (Joan Crawford) who is aided and abetted by Sylvia Fowler (Rosalind Russell) whose own spouse has taken up with another woman. In Reno, in the throes of divorce, all wage war on one another.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2002
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY WOMSummary: Annie is a young girl from a working-class neighborhood who suddenly finds herself working as a nanny for a wealthy family in Manhattan's Upper East Side. Between catering to the every whim of her employers and their precocious son and falling in love with their gorgeous neighbor, Annie tries to figure out what she wants to do with her life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Weinstein Company 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD NANDujardin, Jean
Summary: An actor famous for his roles in silent films forms a relationship with a dancer/actress who is headed for fame in the new era of sound films.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ARTCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ARTSummary: Nora Wilder is a thirty-something Manhattanite plugging away at her job, but her quest for love consistently results in falling flat on her face. After a series of disastrous first dates, she meets Julien, a quirky Frenchman with an unabashed passion for living. Inevitably, Nora discovers she must look inward before finding a new outlook on life and love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BROCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Broken 2007Summary: Allen portrays Isaac Davis, a successful comedy writer whose wife, having left him for another woman, is now embarking on a book about their failed marriage. Isaac happily consoles himself in the arms of an adoring 17 year-old schoolgirl until he meets someone closer to his own age, who happens to be his best friend's mistress.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment Inc. 2000
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MANArthur, Jean
Summary: Comedy in which the daughter of an eccentric family falls for the son of a wealthy New York family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY YOUSummary: Realtor Oren Little, willfully obnoxious to anyone who might cross his path, wants nothing more than to sell one last house and retire in peace and quiet. Then, his estranged son drops off a granddaughter he never knew existed. Clueless about how to care for the abandoned nine-year-old, he pawns her off on his determined and lovable neighbor Leah and tries to resume his life. But little by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2014
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ANDCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ANDCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie And 2014Summary: For Becky, running a TV show in New York City was the big break she dreamed of, until star co-anchors Mike and Colleen declare an all-out, on-air war. Making the show work with its cast of eccentric characters and outrageous story angles will take a major miracle, but Becky is ready to rise and outshine.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2011
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MORCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Morning 2011Summary: Is there really such a thing as a benevolent destiny that will eventually reunite true soul mates separated by time and distance? It begins at Christmastime in a New York department store, where two people meet by chance -- while shopping for their "significant others"--And are immediately attracted to each other. After spending a romantic evening together, they reluctantly part, secretly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Serendipity 2002Summary: When Juliette marries Jean, she comes to live with him aboard the barge "L'Atalante", where they travel along the Seine River. The bride, becomes bored and leaves the ship for Paris where she starts flirting with other men.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ATASummary: Chaos reigns when the beautiful daughter of a family casually announces her plans to marry. What follows is a warmly humorous story, with wedding preparations, ruffled egos and the unavoidable meeting with the prospective in-laws.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2006
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FATSummary: Pampered African Prince Akeem is a rebel who is against an arranged marriage and heads to Queens, New York to find a new bride. His regal father agrees to allow the prince 40 days to roam the U.S., sending the prince's faithful retainer Semmi along to make sure nothing untoward happens. To avoid fortune hunters, Prince Akeem conceals his true identity and gets a "regular" guy job at a fast-food...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY COMSummary: A father's life unravels while he deals with a marital crisis and tries to manage his relationship with his children.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2011