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Audio theatre series Criterion collection ; 603 (set) Criterion collection ; 604 (In which we serve) Criterion collection ; 605 (This happy breed) Criterion collection ; 606 (Blithe spirit) Criterion collection ; 76 (Brief encounter) Criterion collection ; 938 Own the moments Studio classicFilter By Series
Audio theatre series Criterion collection ; 603 (set) Criterion collection ; 604 (In which we serve) Criterion collection ; 605 (This happy breed) Criterion collection ; 606 (Blithe spirit) Criterion collection ; 76 (Brief encounter) Criterion collection ; 938 Own the moments Studio classicSummary: On the eve of retirement, a judgmental middle-class snob discovers her husband has been having an affair with her best friend and is forced into exile with her bohemian sister who lives on an impoverished inner-city council estate.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FINSummary: An affair to remember: Nickie Ferrante and Terry McKay meet on an ocean liner and fall deeply in love. Though each is engaged to someone else, they agree to meet six months later at the Empire State Building if they still feel the same way about each other. But a tragic accident prevents their rendezvous, and the lovers' future takes an emotional and uncertain turn. Laura: A beautiful young...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2014
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ANSummary: Focuses on the complexities of human intimacy and deception in the modern age. Housewife Ann (Andie MacDowell) feels distant from her lawyer husband, John (Peter Gallagher), who is sleeping with her sister, Cynthia (Laura San Giacomo). When John's old friend Graham (James Spader) comes to town, Ann is drawn to the soft-spoken outsider, eventually uncovering his startling private obsession:...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SEXSummary: Joanna is in a touring girl's choir and Mark is a struggling architect when they first meet on the road in Europe. The film follows their life together - through courtship and marriage, infidelity and parenthood - all on the road.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY TWOSummary: In which we serve (1942): A sensitive and stirring piece of propaganda telling the tale of a group of Royal Navy sailors as they battle the Germans in the Mediterranean and of the lives they left back home.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA DAVSummary: The Tony-nominated Broadway phenomenon comes to the big screen. Composer-lyricist Sara Bareilles is Jenna Hunterson, a waitress and expert pie maker stuck in a small town and a loveless marriage. When a baking contest offers her a chance at escape, Jenna fights to reclaim part of herself. Waitress celebrates the power of friendship, dreams, the family we choose and the beauty of a well-baked pie.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS WAICopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WAISummary: Asked to write a screenplay for an American producer, a young French dramatist and his wife visit the producer's villa in Capri. There the wife and producer engage in an affair, and she decides to leave her husband. However, something quite unexpected happens.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CONMaugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)
Summary: There's something Constance's friends are dying to tell her: her husband is having an affair with her best friend! Despite their hints, Constance remains ever cool, and seemingly oblivious. Or is she? In this biting comedy of manners, marriages and mistresses, the not-so-desperate Constance has some ideas of her own about extra-marital activity.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: L.A. Theatre Works 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 791.447 MAUWest, Dominic
Summary: Follows the affair between a married waitress and a teacher who spends his summer at his in-laws' home on Long Island.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entert. 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV AFFSummary: A sweet, hilarious romantic comedy that examines the issues of marriage, monogamy and whether 'I do' is the only path to life-long love and happiness.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY IRASummary: Rural England, 1865. Katherine is stifled by her loveless marriage to a bitter man twice her age, whose family are cold and unforgiving. When she embarks on a passionate affair with a young worker on her husband's estate, a force is unleashed inside her, so powerful that she will stop at nothing to get what she wants.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Entertainment 2017