Summary: Max Skinner is a ruthless, successful English investment broker with no time for life outside of his job. When his uncle dies, Max inherits the chateau and vineyard in the south of France where he grew up, but he then meets a potential rival to the inheritance, a young American who claims to be his illegitimate cousin. His first intention is to sell the vineyard as quickly as possible, but...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GOO

Summary: Determined to collect an inheritance from a dying relative, a bourgeois couple travel across the French countryside while civilization crashes and burns around them. Featuring a justly famous centerpiece sequence in which the camera tracks along a seemingly endless traffic jam, and rich with historical and literary references, Weekend is a surreally funny and disturbing call for revolution, a...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2012

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN WEE

Summary: The fortunes of Cedric Fauntleroy and his widowed mother "Dearest" change when the elderly Earl of Dorincourt has Cedric, his rightful heir, brought from the slums of New York to England. The Earl welcomes Cedric but banishes his mother to a cottage outside the manor, unjustly accusing her of marrying his son for the money.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2005

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LIT

Summary: Two sisters attempt to win over their terminally ill, difficult-to-please aunt in hopes of becoming the beneficiaries of her wealthy estate, only to find the rest of their greedy family members have the same idea in this hilarious comedy about family being the worst.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY EST

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE EST

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Estate