Penny Marshall
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Alice and Lester move to a new town, where their dad's bought a music store. Alice starts in 6th grade and joins the theater club, hoping to be the musical's princess. She's insecure but imagines herself cool, cute and confident.
6) Big
Language
English
Formats
Description
Josh is a 12-year-old who makes a wish from an old machine to be big. Not really believing it will work, Josh is very surprised to find himself BIG the next morning. Now he looks like a 30 years old guy, but he still behaves like a boy. He decide to go with his best friend to New York and try to find the machine that can fix his wish. In New York he gets a job in a toy company and develops a romantic crush of a beautiful woman. Now Josh must learn...
7) Big
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
1998, 1988
Language
English
Description
A 12-year-old boy's wish comes true when he asks a mechanical carnival genie to make him 'big'. He manages to land a job at a toy company where he experiences the complications of being an adult.
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1997?]
Language
English
Description
In 1943, a washed-up ballplayer is hired to coach in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League while the male pros are at war. Reluctant at first, he finds himself drawn back into the game by the heart and heroics of his team. Based on a true story.
Language
English
Formats
Description
During the Great Depression, an everyday common-man hero, James J. Braddock was to become one of the most surprising sports legends in history. With the Depression going strong in the early 1930s, the impoverished ex-boxer was seemingly as broken-down and out-of-luck as the rest of the America. Driven by love and determination, he returned to the ring. He did not have much of a shot, but James was fueled by something beyond mere competition. He kept...
Publisher
CBS DVD
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Bright-eyed, naive Shirley Feeney and brassy, tough-talking Laverne DeFazio are back, working in the Milwaukee brewery and getting into all sorts of hilarious situations. This season finds our feisty female roommates taking on everything from musical auditions to industrial espionage to amnesia, and there are also plenty of rollicking romantic foibles in store, too.
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
A computer operator at a bank is plunged into an exciting world of international intrigue, danger and romance when her terminal gets an S.O.S. from Jumpin' Jack Flash, a British spy stranded in Eastern Europe. She is soon matching wits with the deadliest members of the CIA to the KGB. A suspenseful, fast-paced and murderously funny comedy.
14) Awakenings
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
Awakenings: By opening one man's eyes to the world, he opened his own. A powerful, true story of a maverick doctor and the patients whose lives he changes. Dr. Malcolm Sayer, a shy research physician who uses an experimental drug to 'awaken' the catatonic victims of a rare disease.
The fisher king: Parry, a homeless history professor who lives in a fantasy world full of castles, Red Knights and damsels in distress.
15) The hard way
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
Popular movie star Nick Lang wants to learn how to play the role of a tough cop by spending a few weeks on the street with detective John Moss who wants nothing to do with Lang.
17) Big
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Tired of being a kid, Josh Baskin wishes he was big. When he wakes up the next day, he's an adult! Now, Josh must hold down a job and please a new boss. Tougher still, he must convince his best friend that he's still himself, and explain to a beautiful woman who falls for him, that he's not. Soon, Josh just wants to be a kid again, but can he?
Publisher
CBS DVD
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Bright-eyed, naive Shirley Feeney and brassy, tough-talking Laverne DeFazio are back, working in the brewery and getting into all sorts of hilarious situations. In this season, the girls' zany adventures take them from the high seas of a cruise ship to their highest comic heights as they pilot an airplane.
20) Going to America
Author
Language
English
Description
Two romantic and ambitious lunatics with a video camera and a dream escape from a psychiatric facility and document their romantic quest to find a princess in Los Angeles!