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5) Home alone 3
Pub. Date
[1998].
Language
English
Description
A band of international crooks hides a stolen military computer chip in a toy car, but an airport mix-up puts it in the hands of whiz-kid Alex Pruitt. When the criminals zero in on him, he sets an array of ambushes and booby traps.
7) Home alone
Language
English
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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!
8) Uncle Buck
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c1998.
Language
English
Description
Uncle Buck has a reputation for being unreliable and a bit of a house wrecker. It is therefore with reluctance, his sister-in-law agrees to leave Buck looking after the kids (two harmless youngsters and a rebelious teenager) when she visits her sick father.
Series
Criterion collection volume 905
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Saturday detention started, they were simply the Jock, the Princess, the Brain, the Criminal and the Basket Case, but by that afternoon they had become closer than any of them could have imagined.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008.
Language
English
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Description
Five high school students - a Rebel, an Athlete, a Brain, a Princess and a Basketcase - find themselves thrown together serving a Saturday morning detention. They do not have much in common, except giving up their day, sitting in the school library, and writing an essay for the principal. At first, they argue and hate each other, but after smoking some of John's marijuana, they begin to pour their hearts out to each other. They talk about their fears,...
14) Sixteen candles
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A young girl's "sweet sixteenth" birthday becomes anything but special as she suffers from every embarrassment possible.
15) Dutch
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Dutch Dooley is a working-class good guy who's the new boyfriend of a wealthy big shot's ex-wife. But when the woman's spoiled son refuses to come home from his southern prep school for Thanksgiving, Dutch volunteers to pick the bratty boy up for a road trip back to Chicago that quickly goes hilariously wrong. From fireworks fiascos to hitchhiking with hookers, can a man who's really just a grown-up kid find a way to bring out the child in a little...
17) Weird science
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
Two nerdy best friends have the power to create the "perfect woman". Like a computer-generated fairy godmother, the two use their creation to learn about the pleasures and pitfalls of adolescences.
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
The all-American Griswold family wins a deluxe European vacation tour. Ecstatic Clark (who seems to have O.D.'d on "Father Knows Best" reruns) plans a getaway jammed with forced family togetherness, two weeks sure to become a treasure trove of golden Griswold memories. For the Griswolds, it's typical holiday road havoc.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
It's Christmas time and Clark decides to invite all the family to have 'the most fun-filled old-fashioned family Christmas, that no one will ever forget.' When the first relatives arrive, Clark goes out on the roof to rig the lighting. The one thing that Clark wants is to surprise the whole family with is the installation of a pool, which he already ordered. Unfortunately, the bonus check Clark expects any minute is overdue. Tempers rise and not just...