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42) The Bachelor
Pub. Date
2001, c1999
Description
A committment-phobic man goes in search of a bride including his fed up girlfriend, to inherit his grandfather's $100 million inheritance.
43) Elf
Pub. Date
[2008], c2003
Description
A human baby accidentally ends up at the North Pole and grows up among the elf community. Buddy, as he comes to be known, knows that he's "special". When he's 30, Buddy learns from Santa that he's really a human. He decides to go in search of his father, to find out where he belongs. He walks to Manhattan, and is immediately run over by a cab. His father at first rejects him and Buddy ends up in a department store where other elves are working. But...
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
This John Wayne collection presents nine of the Duke's greatest westerns. In The man who shot Liberty Valance (1962), a politician recounts his friendship with a dead gunslinger. In True Grit (1969), a U.S. Marshal tracks down a murderer who has escaped into Indian Territory. In Hondo (1953), a half-Indian cavalry scout finds a young mother living on an isolated ranch in unfriendly Apache country. In McLintock (1963), a wealthy cattle baron attempts...
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
Apple Dumpling Gang: Three orphan children strike gold in 1878 California.
Apple Dumpling Gang rides again: Amos and Theodore are back and trying to make it on their own. When they arrive at the town they are going to, all sorts of things go awry.
Hot lead & cold feet: A tough father is out to take control of a small western town with the help of his twin sons: one a gunfighter, the other a mild-mannered coward.
Gus: The California Atoms are in...
46) Double feature: Jack Frost, National Lampoon's Christmas vacation 2, Cousin Eddei's island adventure
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Jack Frost: On the verge of making it big, long-struggling musician Jack Frost suddenly realizes he's missing something vital: time with his wife and young son Charlie. But before Jack can make up for lost time, he swerves off an icy mountain road. Then, one cold winter's night, Jack magically returns as a walking, talking, ski-slope-shredding snowman. Determined to be the father he always wanted to be, Jack embarks on a quest to show Charlie that...
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"Jen, a poised and put together woman with a dark sense of humor and an anger problem that she doesn't necessarily want to deal with. Jen has been struggling to keep it together in the months since her husband was killed in a hit-and-run accident. When she joins a grief support group she meets Judy, a free spirit with a shocking secret."--container.
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Elf: "Once upon a Christmas Eve, an orphan baby crawled into Santa's bag of gifts and was taken to the North Pole. Raised by Papa Elf, Buddy comes to realize he doesn't fit in with the other elves. Determined to find a place where he belongs, Buddy searches for his real dad -- in New York City! In the Big Apple, Buddy finds out why his dad is on the naughty list! But most importantly, he sees that the world is seriously lacking in Christmas spirit,...
Author
Series
Conversations with God volume 6
Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
Offers a perspective on the current global crisis while challenging readers to shift away from stereotypical opinions, presenting strategies for addressing and resolving cultural problems that are resulting in conflict.
51) Gus
Series
Pub. Date
[199-?]
Description
A mule who kicks 100-yard field goals becomes the star player of a pro football team.
52) Roots
Pub. Date
[2007], c1977
Description
Follows several generations in the lives of a slave family. The saga begins with Kunta Kinte, a West African youth captured by slave raiders and shipped to America in the 1700s. The family is depicted up until the Civil War, when Kunte Kinte's grandson gains his emancipation.
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Christmas in wonderland: when Brian and Mary find a hoard of cash at the local mall and launch a shopping spree, things start looking a lot like Christmas.
How the toys saved Christmas: a group of toys take matters into their own hands when their Christmas delivery is in jeopardy.
Man who saved Christmas: toy maker A.C. Gilbert convinced the U. S. Congress, during the rationed times of WWII, to save his factory and keep the Christmas spirit alive.
Hobo's...
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Love finds you in Charm. Young Emma Miller would appear to be the luckiest girl in Indiana: An Amish beauty with a loving family and a marriage offer from the community's most eligible young man, Emma's future seems right on track. Yet she yearns for adventure and romance and when given the opportunity to spend the season helping her widowed cousin's market business in scenic Charm, Ohio, she jumps at the chance to see what else the world has to offer.
Love...
Pub. Date
[2011]
Appears on list
Description
An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", in which Haley traces his African American family's history from the mid-18th century to the Reconstruction era.
Golden Globes (USA), 1978: Best TV-Series - Drama.
Emmy Awards, 1977: Outstanding Achievement in Film Sound Editing for a Series ; Outstanding Achievement in Music Composition for a Series (Dramatic Underscore) ; Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series ; Outstanding Film Editing in a Drama Series...
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