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1) King Lear
Author
Language
English
Description
Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, with marginal notes and explanations and full descriptions of each character.
2) My old lady
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Mathias Gold arrives at the sumptuous Parisian apartment he inherited from his father, he's surprised that the property comes with two stubborn live-in tenants who are not required to leave according to an ancient French real estate law. Unable to sell the place, Mathias moves in with the feisty Englishwoman Mathilde and her daughter, Chloe. But as Mathias and Chloe draw increasingly closer, Mathilde unveils a complex labyrinth of secrets that...
4) Bleak house
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Description
3 videodiscs (approximately 465 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The icily beautiful Lady Dedlock faces the revelation of her dark past once Mr. Tulkinghorn catches wind of it. Esther's background also comes to light after the murder of a strange man. An all-star cast comes together for this Dickens classics.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Raymond discovers that he has inherited an English countryside property. He finds that it is a crumbling church. He not only meets Rachel, but also is singled out by an orphan who believes that if he helps Raymond, he'll earn his angel wings.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Following her grandmother's last wish, Karen reluctantly travels to a remote, run-down mansion to sell the family estate where she grew up. She soon realizes that she's not alone at the property. Living in the shanty at the horse stables is Pierce, an odd and mysterious caretaker. With every passing night as she rummages through the dusty house, Karen's fond memories of her childhood turn into nightmares. Haunted, she feels relief when her sister...
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A princess sets out to return her throne to its rightful heir, who turns out to be a handsome young man, and ends up falling madly in love with him. Unfortunately, he's been trained by his mentor, an angry philosopher, to hate the princess. To set things right and win her heart's desire, the princess dresses herself as a man and begins wooing everyone in the philosopher's household, starting with his spinster sister.
11) A new leaf
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Henry Graham is a man with a problem: he has run through his entire inheritance and is completely unequipped to provide for himself. His childhood guardian, Uncle Harry, refuses to give him a dime, so Henry devises a plan with the help of his imaginative butler to make his money the old-fashioned way--he can marry it."--Container.
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jason thought his inheritance was going to be the gift of money and lots of it. Was he ever in for a big surprise. Based on the best-selling book "The Ultimate Gift" by Jim Stovall, the story sends trust fund baby Jason Stevens on an improbable journey of discovery, having to answer the ultimate question: "What is the relationship between wealth and happiness?" Jason had a very simple relationship with his impossibly wealthy Grandfather, Howard "Red"...
13) Mr. Deeds
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Small-town guy Longfellow Deeds goes to New York City to collect a $40 billion inheritance from a long lost uncle, even living in a palatial mansion with the services of an unusual valet. Things get better when he mets a beautiful woman. But money changes everything, and things aren't what they seem - his sweetie is actually a journalist feeding reports of his outrageous behavior to the press! Now, its up to Deeds to straighten everybody out.
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (275 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Sydney socialite Daisy Munroe and London lawyer Louis Oakley inherit a New Zealand vineyard, they quickly learn that they are not the 'sole heirs' as they believed and that the estate itself is a dilapidated money pit. The disenchanted duo want nothing more than to sell up, split up, and get out of there. But when they get an unexpected taste of success, they wonder if the vineyard may not be worthless after all. Despite never having done a hard...
15) Dawg
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (83 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Doug is cool, carefree, he loves women, but mostly he's a dawg. Women love him, that is until he disappears in a cloud of exhaust. Everything changes the day Anna comes along, because she has news about an inheritance that could be his on one condition - he has to track down the women he betrayed and get them to say "I forgive you". Anna, and the women in Doug's life, are about to try and teach this old dawg some new tricks.
Series
Language
English
Description
When small-town innocent Longfellow Deeds (Cooper) heads to New York to collect a $20 million inheritance, he ends up a target of ridicule thanks to Babe Bennett (Arthur), a cynical reporter whose demeaning stories have made him the joke of the city. So when he discovers his sweet and unassuming new girlfriend is actually the hardboiled Bennett in disguise, a disillusioned Deeds decides to give his fortune away, an act of charity his crooked lawyer...
17) Are you here
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When his off-the-grid best buddy Ben Baker inherits his estranged father's fortune, womanizing local weatherman Steve Dallas joins forces with him to battle the legal challenge brought by Ben's formidable sister.
Series
Criterion collection volume 513
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
The divergent paths of three adult siblings collide when their mother, heiress to an exceptional 19th century art collection, dies suddenly.
19) Billy Madison
Physical Description
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
He's heir to the Madison Hotel millions, but the only subjects Billy has studied are babes and booze. But when Brian Madison informs his goofball son that he plans to turn over his Fortune 500 company to vice president/weasel Eric Gordon, Billy makes the bet of his life. He's going back to school with hilarious results.
20) Inheritance
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A patriarch of a powerful family suddenly dies, leaving his wife and daughter with a secret inheritance that threatens to destroy their lives. Official Selection at the **Tribeca Film Festival**.
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