Summary: Maurice and Ian are successful, but aging actors. The two are close friends whose conversation generally revolves around theatrical shop talk and the infirmities of other aging actors. Ian is fearful that death is right around the corner, so he agrees to let his niece's daughter, Jessie, move in to his flat to care for him. Jessie is a modern woman in her early twenties. She turns out to be a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY VENSummary: Twenty-one-year-old Emma Woodhouse loves playing matchmaker. When pretty, naive and socially inferior Harriet arrives, Emma decides to indulge her passion. Against the advice of family friend and surrogate older brother Mr. Knightly, she persuades Harriet to reject an advantageous marriage proposal from a local farmer in order to hold out for an offer from the dashing Mr. Elton. But Emma soon...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2010
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV EMMCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ESummary: A Londoner of lower class befriends and begins a romantic relationship with an aristocrat that becomes complicated when the aristocrat introduces his new friend to his sister.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax 2009
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV BRISummary: Friendless, orphaned Jane Eyre takes a job as governess to a lively French girl. In time, she finds herself in love with the child's guardian. When she saves him from a fire, she finds that there are many secrets to learn ... secrets that could destroy her happiness.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2007
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV JANSummary: Sense and sensibility: Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve when she falls in love with the charming but unsuitable John Willoughby, ignoring her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behavior leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Elinor, sensitive to social convention, struggles to conceal her own romantic disappointment, even from those closest to her. Will the sisters learn...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2008
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SENSummary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BECCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD MOVIE BECSummary: Captain Geoffrey Thorpe is the terror of the Spanish Main, striking crippling blows against the oppressive Spanish war machine, freeing English slaves from the galley ships and filling England's coffers with Spanish gold--with the tacit approval of England's Queen Elizabeth I. When the dashing Thorpe raids and sinks a diplomatic vessel bringing ambassador Don José Alvarez de Cordoba and his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2005
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE SEASummary: Nothing is quite as it seems in this lush retelling of Dickens' classic coming-of-age story with colorful characters: conspirators, rogues, rakes, and wretches.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2012
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV GRESummary: Tristan hopes to win the heart of his beautiful, but shallow love, Victoria. He promises to recover a star that fell somewhere beyond the stony Wall that sets between the mundane England and the fantasy kingdom of Stormhold. So Tristan sets forth on his own journey in Stormhold. Meanwhile in that magical land, the dying king has set his four surviving sons on a quest for the crown. And the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FANTASY STACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE STASummary: A vivid adaptation of Charles Dickens' powerful story of a young orphan boy who is released from his apprenticeship by a mysterious benefactor to be educated in London.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2004
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV GRESummary: Anne Elliot fell deeply in love with handsome young naval officer Frederick Wentworth at the age of nineteen. But with neither fortune nor rank to recommend him, Anne was persuaded to break off her engagement. Eight years later, Anne has lived to regret her decision. She never stopped loving Wentworth, and when he returns from sea with rank and fortune, she can only watch as every eligible...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Persuassion 2008Summary: In 1935, 13-year-old fledgling writer Briony Tallis and her family live a life of wealth and privilege in their enormous mansion. On the warmest day of the year, the country estate takes on an unsettling hothouse atmosphere, stoking Briony's vivid imagination. Robbie Turner, the educated son of the family's housekeeper, carries a torch for Briony's headstrong older sister Cecilia. He hopes that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Atonement 2008Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE ATOSummary: The rumor circling the halls is that Beecham House (the home for retired musicians) is soon to play host to a new resident. Word is, it's a star. Reginald, Wilfred and Cecily are in for a special shock when the new arrival turns out to be none other than their former singing partner, Jean. Her subsequent career as a star soloist, and the ego that accompanied it, split up their long friendship...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA QUACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD QUA RATED PG-13Summary: Kat Ellis is determined to attend her younger sister's wedding with a date. Rather than face the ridicule of her family, and in order to show up her ex-fiance, she resorts to the Yellow Pages to find an escort.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WeSummary: "In Jane Austen's gentle parody of gothic fiction, romance novel addict Catherine Morland is invited to a medieval country house that appeals to her most lurid fantasies. She forms a close friendship with the younger son on the estate, Henry Tilney, but their budding romance is mysteriously cut short"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2008