Madeline Kahn
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English
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Celebrate The Nearly 35th Anniversary of the ultimate frogs-to-riches story with the one that started it all. Kermit and Fozzie travel to Hollywood to hit it big as stars. They're joined on the way by Miss Piggy and numerous other familiar faces.
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English
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Never give a saga an even break! Blazing Saddles is an iconoclastic, not-politically-correct parody and one of the 1970s most successful and popular films. Every cliched element from every Western ever made is turned upside down and inside out featuring all the familiar characters of the genre: a dance-hall girl, a gunslinger, a sheriff, and a town full of "pure" folk. Mel Brooks redefined film comedy proving that even sophomoric, scatological humor...
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English
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The grandson of Victor Frankenstein is a teaching surgeon who has spent his life living down the legend of his grandfather, even changing the pronunciation of his name. Summoned by a will to his late grandfather's castle in Transylvania, young Dr. Frankenstein soon discovers the scientist's step-by-step manual explaining how to bring a corpse to life. Then things get a little silly. He becomes obsessed with duplicating his grandfather's work. Due...
7) Paper moon
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English
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A smooth-talking con man and a nine-year-old orphan are up to tricks in depression-era Kansas. Also includes a prologue by Peter Bogdanovich in which he shares insights about being a director and goes behind the scenes of Paper Moon.
8) A bug's life
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English
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Cute and clever, "A Bug's Life" is a relatively straight retelling of Kurosawa's "The Seven Samurai," except of course that the characters are bugs! Idealistic young ant Flik is a sweet-natured dreamer and inventor. But his innovative thinking makes him an outcast when one of his inventions goes awry and destroys the food sacrifice that the colony makes annually to a gang of grasshopper hooligans led by the sinister Hopper. Disgraced, Flik is sent...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Blazing saddles: A railroad needs to be built, but the land necessary is already owned. Needing to drive out the town folk, you appoint a new sheriff you figure will last about 24 hours. High anxiety: Harvard psychiatrist Dr. Richard Thorndyke is a nut-job with a paralyzing fear of heights. He had just become head of the Psycho-Neurotic Institute for the Very Very Nervous. History of the world part 1: Find out what really happened throughout time....
Publisher
Rhino Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
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The Little Ponies must stop the evil witch Hydia and her two incompetent daughters Reeka and Draggle from covering Dream Valley in a purple goo called "the Smooze." The Little Ponies find help from the friendly Grundles and the magic powers of the Flutter Ponies.
Pub. Date
[1999]
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English
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...shows a rather different side of Moses, the Stone Age and the Roman Empire - in which Brooks is a stand-up philosopher playing Caesar's Palace. Next, the truth is finally told about the Spanish Inquisition in a splashy production number featuring song-and-dance monks and swimming nuns...It's history as you've never known it - completely irreverent and positively hilarious. -- Container.
14) An American tail
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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A Jewish-Russian mouse lands in New York in the 1880s. The courageous young Fievel braves the perils and wonders of a strange new world in a thrilling quest to find his family.
15) What's up, doc?
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English
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Four red plaid traveling cases -- one of each belonging to a befuddled Iowa musicologist, a strange but bright young woman, a rich matron and a suspicious fellow -- are mixed up at a San Francisco hotel, with hilarious results.
16) High anxiety
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Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
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English
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In this manic spoof of Hitchcock, a neurotic psychiatrist becomes the new head of a sanitarium and is caught up in kidnapping, murder, and mistaken identity.
17) An American tail
Publisher
MCA Home Video
Pub. Date
[1987]
Language
English
Description
This film follows the humorous and dramatic adventures of Fievel, a little boy mouse who journeys from Russia to America with his family to seek a new life free of cat persecution. During the stormy boat trip Fievel is lost at sea, finally washing up ashore in New York Harbor, where he vows to find his family.
18) Mixed nuts
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003].
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English
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A wild and wacky comedy about oddball characters in Los Angeles at Christmastime, centered around a suicide hotline service.
19) Betsy's wedding
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English
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Scandal. Lust. Disaster. Intrigue. --and the invitations haven't even gone out yet! Betsy's wedding is a funny, feel good movie about a wonderfully eccentric family and their hilarious trials and tribulations. It's about everything but their daughter's wedding! Anything can and does happen when the freespirited bride-to-be casually announces her engagement, setting off a series of crazy events, including accidental meetings with the mafia, oddball...