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Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The collection includes all 91 Peabody's Improbable History episodes from The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends original animated television series! Join the world's smartest dog, Mr. Peabody, and his boy Sherman as they travel way back in time to change the course of history. Jump aboard the WABAC machine to get a close-up view of the distant past in this complete collection of the hilarious, original episodes.
3) The mummy
Language
English
Description
Thought safely entombed deep beneath the desert, an ancient princess whose destiny was unjustly taken from her is awakened in our current day. Her malevolence has grown over millennia and with it come terrors that defy human comprehension.
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Major Sinclair Yeates is a retired English army officer who becomes a Resident Magistrate in pre-independence West Ireland. Living in a ramshackle country house surrounded by the community's eccentric inhabitants, Major Yeates struggles to apply judicial logic in a country where the inevitable never happens, but the improbable frequently does.
6) Jane Eyre
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Jane Eyre is the orphan girl who secures a position as a governess to the ward of Edward Rochester, lord of an English manor house called Thornfield, whose halls hide a dark and sinister secret.
Series
Criterion collection volume 224
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Petty crook Skip McCoy has his eye set on the big score. When the three-time convict picks the pocketbook of unsuspecting Candy, he finds a haul bigger than he ever could have imagined: a strip of microfilm bearing confidential U.S. secrets. Tailed by the Feds and the unwitting courier's Communist puppeteers, Skip and Candy find themselves in a precarious gambit that pits greed against redemption.
9) Ball of fire
Series
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A band of scholars set out to write a new encyclopedia. By their ninth year, the grumpy grammarian of the group, Bertram Potts, is up to 'S' for slang. In order to brush up on modern lingo, the professor decides to attend a nightclub, where he meets Sugarpuss O'Shea, a burlesque queen who spices up his language and steals his heart. But he soon discovers he's not the only one in pursuit of Sugarpuss, and now he and his gang of professors must outwit...
Publisher
Nickelodeon
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Twenty-five episodes of Rugrats, the classic Nickelodeon series, in one two-disc collection. Join the hunt for Grandpa's dentures, explore Stu's mysterious workshop, and cheer on contestant Tommy in the 'Little Miss Lovely' Contest. Those adventures, and over twenty more, baldly go where no baby's ever gone before.
11) A star is born
Series
Publisher
Kino Classics
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at a Hollywood party, she catches the eye of alcoholic star Norman Maine, is given a shot at stardom, and is caught up in the Hollywood glamour machine. She and her idol Norman marry; but as her star rises, his comes crashing down.
13) Criss cross
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
An armored car driver is suckered into a burglary by his ex-wife and her hoodlum husband. Multiple back-stabbing and double-crosses ensue.
Series
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
See what happens when a family is torn apart by one sister's selfishness and another sister's refusal to let go of the love of her life. All the while, Madea is in rare form and is determined to get and keep the family together.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
These eight episodes have been deemed essential viewing for anyone who wants to fully experience all the thrills, mysteries and nuances of the upcoming theatrical movie. Themes center around alien abductions, psychic phenomenon and life forms not quite human. An exclusive collection.
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
When beautiful starlet Shelah Fane is murdered in Hawaii, suspicion points to a psychic advisor with a spirited nature. But when Chan uncovers a link to the unsolved murder of screen heartthrob Denny Mayo, the Chinese supersleuth soon discovers that, in Hollywood, fame can be murder.
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
40-year-old Andy Stitzer has a cushy job stamping invoices at an electronics superstore, a nice apartment that includes a collection of action figures and comic books, good friends, a nice attitude. But at 40, Andy is still a virgin. His friends think he's a bit of an oddball, but they consider it their duty to help Andy out of his dire situation and decide to go to great lengths to help him. But nothing proves effective enough to lure their friend...
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
"Duck soup": To rescue the small country of Freedonia from bankruptcy, Mrs Teasdale agrees to donate 20 million dollars if Rufus T. Firefly is appointed its new president. "Horse feathers": Professor Quincy Wagstaff has just been installed as the new president of Huxley College. "Monkey business": While stowing away on a ship to America, the boys get involuntarily pressed into service as toughs for a pair of feuding gangsters. "Animal crackers": Captain...
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