Hugh Grant
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Headstrong and beautiful, the young housemaid Sally Jupp is put rudely in her place, strangled in her bed behind a bolted door. Coolly brilliant policeman Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard must find her killer among a houseful of suspects, most of whom had very good reason to wish her ill.
2) Notting Hill
Publisher
Universal Studios
Language
English
Description
The world's most famous movie star falls in love with a small-time bookstore owner.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
American ex-pat Mickey Pearson built a highly profitable marijuana empire in London. When word gets out that he's looking to cash out of the business forever, it triggers plots, schemes, bribery and blackmail in an attempt to steal his domain out from under him.
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Romantic comedy about a young man who meets the girl of his dreams at a friend's wedding. However, she slips through his fingers when the timing seems wrong, and they meet at three more weddings and a funeral before the two finally connect.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Not that Bridget is counting, but it's been six wonderful weeks, four fabulous days, and seven percious hours with one flawless boyfriend, Mark. But when mischievous and devilishly charming Daniel arrives on the scene claiming to be a reformed man, can Bridget find a way to make true love last forever?
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
Michael Felgate, a Manhattan art auctioneer, is eager to marry Gina, a schoolteacher he's been dating for three months. Gina's father is a gangster who extracts money for the mob, and he starts to out the squeeze on Michael, using the auction house as money laundering scam for dubious artwork.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Meryl and Paul Morgan are a highly successful Manhattan couple. Their almost perfect lives have only one notable failure - their dissolving marriage. But they witness a murder and become the targets of a contract killer. The Feds, protecting their witnesses, whisk them from their beloved New York to a tiny town in Wyoming, and a relationship that was on the rocks threatens to end completely, unless with their new Blackberry-free lives, the Morgans...
10) Music and lyrics
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Alex Fletcher is a washed-up 80s pop star who has been reduced to working the nostalgia circuit of county fairs and amusement parks. The charismatic and talented musician gets a chance at a comeback when reigning pop diva Cora Corman invites him to write and record a duet with her. The only problem is that Alex has not written a song in years, he has never written lyrics, and what's worse, he has to come up with a hit in a matter of days. Sophie Fisher...
11) Extreme measures
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Something is amiss at New York's Gramercy Hospital. A patient under the care of Dr. Guy Luthan mysteriously dies and the body disappears without a trace. Luthan wants to know why. However, when he looks for post-mortem details, he finds no body ... and no record.
12) American Dreamz
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
"American Dreamz" is a wildly popular television singing contest program that has captured the country's attention. This new season showcases a competition between Sally, a young Midwestern gal and Omer, a showtunes-loving young man from Orange County. The recently depressed President of the United States wants in on the craze and signs up for the potentially explosive season finale.
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A New York socialite who dreams of becoming a great opera singer. While the voice she hears in her head is beautiful, to everyone else it is hilariously awful. Her husband and biggest fan, St. Clair Bayfield is determined to protect his beloved Florence from the truth. But when Florence stages a huge concert at Carnegie Hall, he faces his greatest challenge to make sure her performance is a rousing success.--
14) The rewrite
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Screenwriter Keith Michaels was once on top of the world. Now he's divorced, broke, approaching fifty, and hasn't written a hit film in years. So when a university in the quiet town of Binghamton asks him to teach a course in screenwriting, Keith can't say no. His attitude slowly begins to change once he gets to know his students, including Holly, a single mom looking to start a new chapter in life." --
15) Romantic comedy
Publisher
Passion River
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A documentary that goes beneath the surface of some of the favorite films, seeking to better understand the way society views love, relationships, and romance. Romantic comedies are hugely successful and deeply loved by many but often have avoided critical analysis. Helped by a diverse chorus of writers, actors, and filmmakers, and with original songs by her band Summer Camp, director Elizabeth Sankey embarks on a journey of investigation and self-discovery."...
Series
Publisher
Columbia
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
After years of humiliation and failed attempts to win the Pirate of the Year Award, Pirate Captain and his oddball crew go on a race to pillage the most booty. They soon cross paths with scientist Charles Darwin, who persuades the Captain that the crew's 'parrot,' Polly, could be the answer to the riches they are searching for.
17) Two weeks notice
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Lucy Kelson, Chief Counsel for the Wade Corporation, one of New York City's top commercial real estate developers. She's a brilliant lawyer with a sharp, strategic mind. She also has an ulcer and doesn't get much sleep. It's not the job that's getting to her. It's her millionaire boss, George Wade. Handsome, charming and undeniably self-absorbed, he treats her more like a nanny than a Harvard Law grad and can barely choose a tie without her help....
Series
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
After years of humiliation and failed attempts to win the Pirate of the Year Award, Pirate Captain and his oddball crew go on a race to pillage the most booty. They soon cross paths with scientist Charles Darwin, who persuades the Captain that the crew's 'parrot,' Polly, could be the answer to the riches they are searching for.
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A New York socialite who dreams of becoming a great opera singer. While the voice she hears in her head is beautiful, to everyone else it is hilariously awful. Her husband and biggest fan, St. Clair Bayfield is determined to protect his beloved Florence from the truth. But when Florence stages a huge concert at Carnegie Hall, he faces his greatest challenge to make sure her performance is a rousing success.--
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
In her mid-thirties, still single and still being set up with dates by her mom, Bridget decides she needs to make a change in her life. She falls for her boss who uses her and then dumps her. In the meantime, Bridget keeps running into the divorced guy her mom tried to set her up with, and he happens to be ex-friends with her boss. She uses her diary as a confessional and she begins to wonder if she will ever find true love.
