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6) The Holiday
Author
Description
An iconoclastic young man who's engaged to a snooty heiress discovers he's really in love with his fiancee's down-to-earth sister.
Pub. Date
2008
Description
Crusading newspaper publisher Matt Drayton's liberal principles are put to the test when his daughter, Joey, announces her engagement to John Prentice, an internationally renowned African-American physician. While Matt's wife, Christina, readily accepts Joey's decision, Matt intends to withhold his consent, forgetting that when it comes to matters of the heart, true love is colorblind.
8) Summertime
Pub. Date
c2000
Description
The story of a witty but lonely secretary who takes a vacation in Venice, hoping to fall in love. She does -- with a very handsome but very married Italian man.
9) Holiday
Series
Cary Grant box set volume 4
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
An iconoclastic young man engaged to a snooty heiress discovers he's really in love with his fiancee's down-to-earth sister.
10) Desk set
Series
Studio classic volume 18
Pub. Date
2004.
Description
A classic Hepburn-Tracy romance, about the head of the research department at a TV network and an absent-minded computer genius.
11) Summertime
Series
Criterion collection volume 22
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
A lonely secretary travels to Venice on a vacation with the secret hope of falling in love.
12) Rooster Cogburn
Pub. Date
c[2003]
Description
Wayne reprises his role from True Grit as a hard-drinking deputy marshall. He teams up with a prim missionary to avenge the death of her father.
14) The Rainmaker
Pub. Date
2005
Description
A con-man trying to sell rainmaking powers to drought-stricken ranchers falls in love with a lonely ranch girl.
Pub. Date
[2010]
Formats
Description
At the start of World War I, German imperial troops burn down a mission in Africa. The mission's reverend was so overtaken with disappointment that he passes away. Shortly after his well-educated, snooty sister Rose buries her brother, she must leave on the only available transport, the 'African Queen' steamboat. The boat is manned by the ill-mannered bachelor, Charlie. Together they embark on a long difficult journey, without any comfort. Rose grows...
Series
Pub. Date
2000.
Description
Beautiful Catherine Holly is committed to a mental institution after witnessing the horrible death of her cousin at the hands of cannibals. Her rich aunt tries to influence a young neurosurgeon to surgically end Catherine's haunting hallucinations. By utilizing injections of truth serum, the neurosurgeon discovers that Catherine's delusions are in fact true and must confront the rich aunt about her own involvement in her son's violent death.
18) The trojan women
Pub. Date
2004.
Description
After their ten year siege, the victorious Greek army seeks to curse those Trojans whom fate has yet spared. Separated from their children, denied their mourning and destined to slavery, the woman of fallen Troy huddle within the parched wreckage of their once glorious city. Beautiful Cassandra is betrothed against her will despite her vanishing sanity. Andromache, discovers her son is to be executed to end her royal bloodline. Helen disparately wields...
20) On Golden Pond
Pub. Date
1981.
Description
Norman Thayer, a cranky but loveable old man, is preoccupied with death, afraid of losing his faculties, & emotionally distant from his daughter.
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