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2) Jumpers
Author
Series
An Evergreen book volume E626
Language
English
Formats
Description
Murder, marriage and metaphysics are the three elements that link the bizarre series of events in Tom Stoppard's high-spirited comedy, Jumpers. The protagonists include George Moore, an aging professor of moral philosophy whose quest to compose a lecture on 'Man--Good, Bad or Indifferent' is put on hold while he ponders the existence of his sock; his youthful wife Dotty, a former musical star on a downward spiral whose charm may explain the corpse...
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Tango Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Deutsch
Description
An inept group of middle-class German radicals plot to kidnap the director of a multinational company. Their position is compromised by the arrival of two mysterious strangers, yet still they persist with their controversial strategy.
Author
Publisher
S. French
Pub. Date
[1949]
Language
English
Description
So swift is the action, so involved the situations, so rib-tickling the plot in this London hit that at its finish audiences are left as exhausted from laughter as though they had run a foot race. Galloping in and out of the four doors of an English vicarage are an American actor and actress (he is now stationed with the Air Force in England), a cockney maid who has seen too many American movies, an old maid who "touches alcohol for the first time...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Mass murders, kidnappings and a flasher may be troubling to the residents of Fernwood, Ohio. But pigtailed, gingham-frocked housewife Mary Hartman has a much more serious problem: waxy buildup on her kitchen floor. And while her husband Tom struggles in the bedroom and her best friend, country singer Loretta Haggers, struggles to make it big in Nashville, Mary teeters closer to the edge, desperate to save her marriage, keep her family together and...
11) Sordid lives
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002, c2000
Language
English
Description
Hilariously tawdry details about a Southern family surface when relatives converge to mourn Grandma Peggy, who died tripping over her lover's wooden leg.
15) Sweet movie
Series
Criterion collection volume 390
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Miss Canada wins the contest of the "most virgin" Miss Monde 1984 and the prize is marriage to a milk industry tycoon along with his 50 billion dollars fortune. During their honeymoon, Miss Canada does not accept the "golden" penis of her husband, and with the help of black man Jeremiah Muscle, she runs away to Paris. There she meets a Latin singer, El Macho, they have intercourse in the Eiffel Tower and get stuck together. She moves to a weird anarchic...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
A black comedy on a woman who hires a hit man to kill her accident-prone husband before he kills her. He breaks her arm during an embrace, his lovemaking gives her concussion, he wrenches her neck, breaks her toe. It's him or her, she decides. By the author of After Moondog.
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