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1) Home alone
Language
English
Formats
Description
Accidentally left behind when his parents rush off on their Christmas vacation, eight-year-old Kevin McCallister embarks on a hilarious, madcap mission to defend the family home when two bumbling burglars try to break in and find themselves tangled in Kevin's bewildering battery of booby traps. MPAA Rating: PG.
3) Uncle Buck
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
Uncle Buck, an idle good-natured bachelor, is left in charge of his nephew and nieces during a family crisis. While his carefree ways easily charm the younger relatives, he meets more than a little hostility from Tia, his rebellious teenage niece, and Chanice, his impatient girlfriend.
Publisher
New Line Turner
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
When a young woman is fed up with love, she decides to shun everything romantic. No love stories, romantic ideas, or dating. Unfortunately for her, fate has something else in store for her. The romantic comedies she once loved are becoming a nightmare that she must relive every single day. How will she get over her disenchantment with love while she's forced to be in a romantic comedy that she despises.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In I'll Have What She's Having entertainment journalist Erin Carlson tells the story of the real Nora Ephron and how she reinvented the romcom through her trio of instant classics. With a cast of famous faces including Rob Reiner, Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, and Billy Crystal, Carlson takes readers on a rollicking, revelatory trip to Ephron's New York City, where reality took a backseat to romance and Ephron--who always knew what she wanted and how she wanted...
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
A mild-mannered security guard gets his chance to show the world what he is made of when a heist shuts down the mall complex and he becomes the police department's eyes on the inside. His sense of duty prompts him to try to save the day all by himself and prove that an average Joe can make a difference. Includes commentary, deleted scenes, featurettes, stunts, and more.
"Has a few surprises in store."--Entertainment Weekly
"It's as slam-bang preposterous...
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Faber College has one frat house so disreputable it will take anyone. The campus's only other frat house is full of white, anglo-saxon, rich young men that no one except Dean Wormer can stand. The dean enlists the help of that fraternity to get the boys of Delta House off campus. The dean's plan comes into play just before the homecoming parade.
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
A committed bachelor who thinks nothing of breaking up with several women on a conference call is visited by the ghosts of his former jilted girlfriends, who take him on a hilarious adventure through his failed relationships - past, present, and future.
"... the season's first genuine guilty pleasure."--New York Post
"...prankish and inventive..."--Entertainment Weekly
"McConaughey and Garner have perfect chemistry."--ReelzChannel
11) Turner & Hooch
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
A compulsively neat detective's tidy world goes to the dogs when he is forced to team up with a drooling slob of a junkyard dog named Hooch.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
It's Evie Summers's job to find out. Because if she can't convince her film agency's biggest client, Ezra Chester, to write the romantic-comedy screenplay he owes producers, her career will be over. The catch? He thinks rom-coms are unrealistic--and he'll only put pen to paper if Evie shows him that it's possible to meet a man in real life the way it happens on the big screen. Cynical Evie might not believe in happily ever after, but she'll do what...
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Driven by his personal duty to protect and serve the mall and its patrons, security guard Ronnie seizes an opportunity to showcase his underappreciated law enforcement talents on a grand scale. He hopes catching a flasher will earn him a coveted spot at the police academy, and the heart of his elusive dream girl Brandi.
"For better or worse, the weirdest, wildest comedy of the year so far."--Newsday
"Hilarious."--Rolling Stone
"It's funny and uncompromising,...
15) Game night
Publisher
Warner Brothers Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A group of friends who meet regularly for game nights find themselves trying to solve a murder mystery.
"Mark Perez has written one of the tightest comedy scripts to make it to be the big screen in ages."--Village Voice.
"McAdams, whose comedic skills have gone unsung for way too long, is dizzy fun. The whole movie is, actually..."--Entertainment Weekly.
16) The break-up
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Brooke calls it quits with her boyfriend Gary. Neither one is willing to move out of the condo they once shared. Taking the advice of their respsective friends and confidants, including a few complete strangers, they both engage in mental warfare designed to force the other person to flee the premises. But they might just realize that they might be fighting to keep their relationship alive.
18) Senior moment
Publisher
Screen Media Films
Pub. Date
©2020.
Language
English
Description
After losing his license for drag racing around Palm Springs, a retired NASA test pilot is forced to take public transportation where he finds a second chance at love.
20) Last Christmas
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A woman sees her life take a sudden turn when she finds a new love interest while working as Santa's elf in a department store.