Jessica Tandy
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
A chance encounter in a nursing home leads to an unexpected friendship between a dowdy housewife and a spry octagenarian who tells her the story of a fiercely independent woman half a century ago, inspiring the housewife to change her life, often with hilarious results
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Christmas story lady: An elderly lady has a gift for storytelling that brings a troubled family together and envelops them in a world of imagination.
Scrooge: Another screen adaptation of the classic Charles Dickens tale "A Christmas carol" in which Scrooge, the ultimate Victorian miser, hasn't a good word for Christmas, though his impoverished clerk Cratchit and nephew Fred are full of holiday spirit. In the night, Scrooge is visited by spirits...
Publisher
Hallmark Hall of Fame Productions, Inc
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
A devoted old couple are separated when the wife dies. The husband struggles to cope with his loneliness and failing health, but his spirit is fading when a mysterious white dog appears and reawakens his joy of life.
8) Cocoon
Publisher
20TH Century/Fox Video
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
When the Antareans, advanced beings from another planet, arrive at an old age home in Florida, the senior citizens there get a second chance at being young in this story of youth, old age, and how people choose to live their lives.
Author
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1993
Language
English
Description
It tells the story of genteel but strong-willed Southern matron Daisy Werthan and her patient but equally determined chauffeur Hoke. For two people so different, they have a lot in common. And the bumpy road they travel ultimately leads to the friendship of a lifetime.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Set in Atlanta in the 1950's, a textile factory owner insists on hiring an ever-patient chauffeur for his aging head-strong mother. The Jewish woman and her African American driver eventually build a relationship over many years.
13) The Birds
Publisher
MCA Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
1985
Language
English
Description
The residents of Bodega Bay are attacked by hundreds of birds of all shapes and sizes in this classic Hitchcock thriller.
14) The Birds
Language
English
Description
Melanie Daniels is a beautiful blonde who arrives in Bodega Bay in pursuit of the handsome and eligible Mitch Brenner. But love is not the only thing in the air when thousands of birds descend upon the town, attacking and terrorizing its residents. Soon Melanie and Mitch are fighting for their lives against a deadly, unexplainable force in this spine-tingling portrait of nature at its most powerful and ruthless.
15) The Desert Fox
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Mason plays a smooth Erwin Rommel in this film biography which follows his defeat in North Africa and his disillusionment upon his return to Germany.
17) Nobody's fool
Series
Language
English
Description
Trying to get back on her feet, wild child Tanya looks to her buttoned-up, by-the-book sister Danica to help her get on track. As these polar opposites collide, with hilarious and sometimes disastrous results, Tanya discovers that Danica's picture-perfect life, including her mysterious boyfriend, may not be what it seems.
18) Cocoon
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
"When visitors from a distant galaxy return to earth on a secret mission, their other-worldly powers afford a group of senior citizens who had expected nothing more from life than bingo, shuffleboard, aches and pains, the chance to recapture their youth"--Container.
19) The Desert Fox
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c1951
Language
English
Description
Field Marshal Rommel leads his tanks and joins a doctor's plot to kill Hitler. Directed by Henry Hathaway.
20) Cocoon
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
"When visitors from a distant galaxy return to earth on a secret mission, their other-worldly powers afford a group of senior citizens who had expected nothing more from life than bingo, shuffleboard, aches and pains, the chance to recapture their youth"--Container.