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Alison Steadman
1) The switch
Author
Language
English
Description
Leena is too young to feel stuck. Eileen is too old to start over. It's time for the switch. Ordered to take a two-month sabbatical after blowing a big presentation at work, Leena escapes to her grandmother Eileen's house for some overdue rest. Newly single and about to turn 80, Eileen would like a second chance at love. But her tiny Yorkshire village doesn't offer many eligible gentlemen.So Leena proposes a solution: a two-month swap. Eileen can...
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
Delighted to be invited to the wedding of Gwenda, her former housemaid, Miss Marple travels to the isolated island where Gwenda lives with her fiancé, Leo Argyle, and his grown children. Though they are happy for their father, the Argyles are still reeling from the murder of their mother and the execution of their brother Jacko for the crime. Then a stranger arrives who exonerates Jacko, leading all to realize that the real murderer is still in their...
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the role that won her Broadway’s acclaimed Tony Award, Pauline Collins is the hilariously endearing SHIRLEY VALENTINE, a wisecracking, completely unpredictable English housewife who proves it’s never too late to recapture your dreams. Bored with her suburban life, Shirley takes a chance on adventure when a friend invites her on a vacation to Greece. Within no time she’s back to her rebellious teenage roots, saying yes to a wild fling with...
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
In this delicious comedy which takes place in a little-known Yorkshire town during the thin times of 1947, plans are afoot to fatten a contraband pig destined for the centerpiece of a celebration banquet. However, chaos ensues when a social climbing middle-class couple steal the pig to impress their friends at their own banquet.
Series
Criterion collection volume 659
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
An amusing portrait of a working-class family in a suburb just north of London, an irrepressible mum and dad and their night-and-day twins, a bookish good girl and a sneering layabout. A vivid, lived-in story of ordinary existence, in which even modest dreams (such as the father's desire to open a food truck) carry enormous weight.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
An outstanding cast of acclaimed British actors bring the First World War to life in this stirring documentary created to commemorate the conflict's centennial in 2014. This unique four-part series mixes archival footage with reenactments by actors playing real participants in the war and performing excerpts from their original letters, memoirs, and diaries of the time.
9) Confetti
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Description
Three couples compete to win the title of Most Original Wedding of the Year. The dueling couples include Matt and Sam, whose unfortunate wedding theme is Hollywood musicals ; the hypercompetitive tennis partners Josef and Isabelle ; and the uninhibited nudists Michael and Joanna. At stake is a million-dollar dream home.