Jane Curtin
1) Great Joy
Author
Language
English
Description
Frances is worried about the monkey and organ grinder who play near her window, especially after she sees them sleeping outside on the cold street after midnight. To express her compassion, she finds just the right thing to say at the local Christmas pageant.
2) Maybe Baby
Author
Language
English
Description
A 57-year-old business man's yearning to begin settling down and taking things easy gets derailed when his 39-year-old wife, Julia, changes her longstanding stance about having children. The issue becomes a prominent topic of disagreement, ultimately coming to a head when Julia discovers that she is pregnant despite the slim odds.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Audrey and Morgan are two fairly ordinary 30-year-old women who live in Los Angeles. They are best friends, and they always stick together, so when Audrey discovers her ex-boyfriend is an international spy, Morgan joins her on an unlikely adventure. Together, the two of them must try to save him from assassins and help to save the world from a dangerous threat. As they travel around the globe with killers hot on their heels, they will discover hidden...
4) Queen bees
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"While her house undergoes repairs, fiercely independent senior Helen temporarily moves into a nearby retirement community. Once behind the doors of Pine Grove Senior Community, she encounters lusty widows, cutthroat bridge tournaments and a hotbed of bullying 'mean girls' the likes of which she hasn't encountered since high school, all of which leaves her yearning for the solitude of home. But somewhere between flower arranging and water aerobics...
Publisher
DreamWorks Pictures
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Formats
Description
After Peter gets engaged to the woman of his dreams, he realizes he has not one friend to serve as his best man. To rectify the situation, he goes on a series of man-dates before he meets Sydney Fife, with whom he instantly bonds. While Peter and Sydney become closer, his relationship with his fiancee begins to suffer, forcing him to choose between her or his new B.F.F.
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"Lee Israel made her living in the 1970s and 1980s profiling the likes of Katharine Hepburn, Tallulah Bankhead, Estee Lauder and journalist Dorothy Kilgallen. Though Lee Israel has undeniable profiling skills, her work has grown stale and hackneyed, rendering her profession unnecessary and insignificant. Now in times of financial hardship, Israel must find other ways to make a living. With assistance from her steadfast friend, Jack, the two endeavor...
7) Jules
Publisher
Decal
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Jules follows Milton who lives a quiet life of routine in a small western Pennsylvania town, but finds his day upended when a UFO and its extra-terrestrial passenger crash land in his backyard. Before long, Milton develops a close relationship with the extra-terrestrial he calls "Jules." Things become complicated when two neighbors discover Jules and the government quickly closes in. What follows is a funny, wildly inventive ride as the three neighbors...
8) Our town
Series
Publisher
PBS Broadcasting Service
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Stage production of Wilder's play; a study of life, love, and death in a New England town at the turn of the 20th century.
9) Great joy
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Just before Christmas, when Frances sees a sad-eyed organ grinder and his monkey performing near her apartment, she cannot stop thinking about them, wondering where they go at night, and wishing she could do something to help.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
A geeky librarian is hired by the prestigious Metropolitan Library, keeper of such top-secret treasures as Excalibur and Pandora's Box. When the Serpent Brotherhood, seeking world domination, steals one of three parts of the magical Spear of Destiny from the library, only this librarian, aided by a gorgeous bodyguard, has the knowhow to thwart their plan. But does he know how to be a hero?
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Eighty-six-year-old Betty Halbreich is a true original. A tough broad who could have stepped straight out of Stephen Sondheim's repertoire, she has spent nearly forty years as the legendary personal shopper at Bergdorf Goodman, where she works with socialites, stars, and ordinary women off the street. She has helped many find their true selves through clothes, frank advice, and her own brand of wisdom. She is trusted by the most discriminating persons--including...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
The series follows a former New York City police detective named Carrie Wells, who suffers from hyperthymesia, a rare medical condition that gives her the ability to remember everything. She is reluctantly asked by her former boyfriend and one-time partner to join his homicide unit after he asks for help with solving a case. The move allows her to do the one thing she has been trying to remember, that of finding out how her sister was murdered.
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Before he becomes the famed horror writer H. P. Lovecraft, young Howard Lovecraft is a curious and imaginative boy living with his mother. But after she unwittingly gives Howard the legendary Necronomicon, he is transported to a dangerous and frozen world populated by horrifying creatures. After saving and befriending one such creature, Spot, Howard and his new friend set off on a perilous quest to save the kingdom and get Howard home." --
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
While Flynn is bidding on a Ming vase, his girlfriend is ready to call their relationship off because he stood her up again. By the time he gets to their meeting place she has left, and once again he is alone and depressed. His employers tell him to take a vacation, and when he dreams about a woman asking him to find her he decides to go to New Orleans. In New Orleans he meets the girl in his dream, is chased by some Russian goons, and meets a professor...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Now a major motion picture starring Melissa McCarthy—Lee Israel's hilarious and shocking memoir of the astonishing caper she carried on for almost two years when she forged and sold more than three hundred letters by such literary notables as Dorothy Parker, Edna Ferber, Noel Coward, and many others.
Before turning to her life of crime—running a one-woman forgery business out of a phone booth in a Greenwich Village bar...
Before turning to her life of crime—running a one-woman forgery business out of a phone booth in a Greenwich Village bar...
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A group of aliens comes to Earth to learn about its population, customs, etc. To avoid detection, they take on human form which gives them human emotions and physical needs without understanding what they mean. Includes all 20 episodes from season 1.
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Four extra-terrestrials suddenly materialize in the college town of Rutherford, Ohio. Disguised as humans, they name themselves the Solomons. On the surface, this family functions as normal as possible, but underneath they are out of sync with every person on the planet. Their mission from The Big Giant Head is to study this confusing planet and its confounding inhabitants while trying to gain acceptance on Earth. The complete, uncut original broadcast...
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A group of aliens have come to Earth to learn about its population, customs, etc. To avoid detection, they have taken on human form which gives them human emotions, physical needs etc., but they have no idea how to use them.