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English
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After returning from World War II, a young G.I. finds he has little in common with the wife he left behind. Disillusioned, he heads north to work as a travelling salesman where he meets the daughter of a wealthy vineyard owner. On her way home, she is terrified of what her father will do when he learns she is unmarried and pregnant. The young man gallantly offers to help by posing as her husband for one night, unaware that doing so will change both...
7) Leap!
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
An orphan girl dreams of becoming a ballerina and flees her rural Brittany for Paris, where she passes for someone else and accedes to the position of pupil at the Grand Opera house.
Publisher
Two Roads Picture Co
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Sam, a brilliant computer hacker seeking a better life, always seems to make the wrong choices, even under the watchful eye of his probation officer, Harry. Now, barred from using the Internet and stuck working fast food with his best friend and fellow hacker, Stanley, Sam poses as a Postal Worker, stealing people's mail to make ends meet. Until one letter changes everything." --
Publisher
CJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
Korean
Description
Amid national chaos and fear for his life, tyrannical King Gwanghae orders his trusted counselor to find a royal body double. He recruits a crude, working-class peasant, Ha-seon, a village performer who bears a startling resemblance to the ruler. When the king falls into a coma from poisoning, he is secreted away to recover and Ha-seon reluctantly assumes the throne, forced to pull off history's biggest masquerade.
12) Housesitter
Publisher
MCA/Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
1992, 1998.
Language
English
Description
Shortly after an architect's girlfriend turns down his marriage proposal, he encounters a woman who decides on her own to move into his empty dream house and pass herself off as his new wife--with hilarious and romantic consequences.
Author
Series
Spotlight dramabook ; SD6
Publisher
Hill and Wang
Pub. Date
[1963]
Language
English
Description
A dark comedy set in a town that is regularly attacked by arsonists. Disguised as door-to-door salesmen, they talk their way into people's homes and settle down in the attic, where they set about planning the destruction of the house.
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Terry Griffith enrolls in a new high school as "Just one of the guys" after her journalism teacher refuses to enter her article in a competition to win a summer internship on the local newspaper because of her sex.
15) Mumford
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
When a would-be psychologist, curiously named Dr. Mumford comes to the idyllic town of the same name, and offers his talent for listening and a disarming frankness, the town's quirkiest citizens scramble for a seat on his couch.
18) Zelig
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
This spoof of documentary films stars Woody Allen as Leonard Zelig, the famous "Chameleon Man" of the 1920's, whose personality was so vague he would assume the characteristics of whomever he came into contact with. Filmed in black-and-white, the movie simulates the look of a newsreel, complete with stentorian narration.
19) Nuns on the run
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Brian and Charlie are good-guy London gangsters who decide to leave the criminal life forever by stealing one million dollars in drug money from the Chinese Triads. But when their getaway goes wrong, they grab the loot and hide inside a nearby convent school. Now disguised as S̀ister Inviolata of the Immaculate Conception' and S̀ister Euphemia of the Five Wounds', Charlie and Brian find themselves chased by their vicious former gang, Hong Kong's...
20) My man Godfrey
Series
Criterion collection ; 114
Language
English
Description
"A scatterbrained socialite hires a vagrant as a family butler ... but there's more to Godfrey than meets the eye." --
"Irene, an eccentric, wealthy Manhattanite, wins a society-ball scavenger hunt after finding a "forgotten man"-- an apparent down-and-out drifter-- at a dump. She gives him work as the family butler and soon falls head over heels for him. Her attempts to both woo Godfrey and indoctrinate him in the household's dysfunction make for...