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Publisher
Delta Entertainment/Laserlight
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
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Description
Rich and strange: Instead of waiting for their inheritance, Fred and Emily Hill ask for it in advance. Their rich uncle surprisingly obliges. They set out to use the money in the best possible way--by spending it.
Sorcerer's Apprentice: An offbeat young man is befriended by a circus magician and his wife who turn a magic trick into terror.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Three orphaned children uncover a relative's sinister plot to kill them and take the fortune their deceased parents have left for them.
Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire are taken in by a series of oddball relatives and others after their wealthy parents are killed in a fire. The first to take them in is the dastardly and cunning Count Olaf, who is only interested in their inheritance.
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Includes 5 classical musical films with Bing Crosby. Waikiki wedding: A beauty contest winner of the "Miss Pineapple Princess" pageant takes part in a publicity scheme in Hawaii, and is pursued by an advertising executive for the agency doing the promotion. Double or nothing: A dying millionaire instructs his laywer to drop 25 purses on the streets of New York City. Four honest people find them and return them to the lawyer. Under the terms of the...
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Princess Mia has just graduated college. She is soon going to take over as Queen of Genovia from her grandmother, Queen Clarisse. However, Mia learns that she must marry in 30 days or forfeit the crown of Genovia to another rightful heir, Nicholas Devereaux. His uncle, Vicount Mabrey is really the one who wants Nicholas to be King. Not trusting Nicholas, Mia picks a decent guy who's sweet and charming and likeable, but can she go through with the...
27) Seven chances
Series
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
[Seven chances] A romantically jinxed young man must marry by 7 PM to inherit seven million dollars. While fate seems to thwart his efforts to woo the object of his true affection, public announcement of his strange predicament provides him with a throng of would-be brides. [Neighbors] Buster tries to woo his tenement sweetheart in spite of the barriers that stand between them. [The balloonatic] Buster is carried by hot air from a cityside amusement...
29) Snow dogs
Series
Publisher
[Walt Disney Home Entertainment]
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
A Miami dentist, who has an aversion to snow and dogs, inherits a rundown house and a sled dog team in Alaska. His first thought is to sell them and return to Miami, but a local woman acquaints him with Alaskan life.
After being named in his birth mother's will, Miami dentist Ted Brooks travels to Alaska to claim the inheritance, her team of sled dogs. Now he must learn how to race them or give them up to a crusty mountain man who wants the dogs...
Series
Criterion collection volume 952
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A brilliant, moving portrayal of an aristocratic American family in what many critics consider a masterpiece equal to Citizen Kane. Based on a novel by Booth Tarkington, the drama begins in the 1870s when the Amberson family is at the height of its wealth and prestige. But the day arrives when all the Ambersons are stunned by the truth of their financial ruin.
"Orson Welles's beautiful, nostalgia-suffused second feature--the subject of one of cinema's...
Publisher
Hallmark Channel
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Librarian Aurora Teagarden is known around her small town as a master sleuth. When her friend Jane unexpectedly dies and leaves Aurora everything in her will, she also leaves a troubling murder mystery. It is up to Aurora to piece together the clues and solve the murder before she becomes the next victim.
32) Mousehunt
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
Down-on-their luck brothers Lars and Ernie Smuntz don't think much of the crumbling old mansion they inherit until they discover that their dilapidated estate is actually worth millions. But before they can cash in, they've got to rid the house of its single, stubborn occupant: a tiny and tenacious mouse. What might seem like child's play becomes an epic battle of hysterical proportions.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Longfellow Deeds (Cooper), a small-town poet, inherits $20 million from his uncle and wants to give it away to needy people. Petty moochers, greedy relatives, conniving lawyers and big executives, who all want a piece of the pie, attempt to have Deeds declared incompetent.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Description
A bumbling police file clerk is surgically altered with animal by-products and becomes superhuman; Joe Dirt searches for his family, who left him at the Grand Canyon when he was a boy; a man from a small town goes to the big city to collect an huge inheritance; an Italian waiter discovers that he is one in a long line of family members who are masters of disguise; a constantly drunk and aging Davey Stone faces the possibility of prison until he meets...
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