Hugh Grant
Author
Language
English
Description
Dean goes to the theatre with his family. He enjoys it so much, his friend James encourages him to go to a drama group. He's very nervous and finds it hard to join in at first. But once he gets to know people he has a really good time, doing both backstage roles and acting. Drama groups are a good way to meet new friends and to take part in a theatre production. You can be an actor, or take on a backstage role – like painting the scenery, lighting,...
Author
Language
English
Description
Dr. Guy Luthan did everything right, but it turned out wrong. A patient under his care at New York's Gramercy Hospital mysteriously died, and now Luthan wants to know why. However, when he looks for postmortem details, he finds no body...and no records. Hugh Grant plays Luthan in Extreme Measures, "one of the most effective paranoid suspense movies since The Fugitive" (Chicago Tribune). Gene Hackman and Sarah Jessica Parker costar in this mystery...
4) The Rewrite
Author
Language
English
Description
Once upon a time, Keith Michaels (Hugh Grant - About a Boy, Love Actually) was an award-winning Hollywood screenwriter, but divorce and a string of unsuccessful films have left him with nothing but bad debts and blank pages. So when his agent arranges a job as guest screenwriting professor at a remote university in upstate New York, a desperate Keith can't say no. Initially hoping to give minimal effort to actual teaching so he can focus on his next...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Lucy Kelson is Chief Counsel for the Wade Corporation, one of New York City's top commercial real estate developers. She's a brilliant lawyer with a sharp, strategic mind; she also has an ulcer and doesn't get much sleep. It's not the job that's getting to her. It's her millionaire boss, George Wade. Handsome, charming and undeniably self-absorbed, he treats her more like a nanny than a Harvard Law grad and can barely choose a tie without her help....
Series
Publisher
Sony Pictures Classics
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Persuasion: Anne Elliot will do anything to get Captain Wentworth, now that he is interested in Louisa Musgrove. Sense and sensibility: Tells of the Dashwood sisters, sensible Elinor and passionate Marianne, whose chances at marriage seem doomed by their family's sudden loss of fortune.
7) The rewrite
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Screenwriter Keith Michaels was once on top of the world. Now he's divorced, broke, approaching fifty, and hasn't written a hit film in years. So when a university in the quiet town of Binghamton asks him to teach a course in screen writing, Keith can't say no. His attitude slowly begins to change once he gets to know his students, including Holly, a single mom looking to start a new chapter in life
Series
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
In her mid-thirties, still single and still being set up with dates by her mom, Bridget decides she needs to make a change in her life. She falls for her boss who uses her and then dumps her. In the meantime, Bridget keeps running into the divorced guy her mom tried to set her up with, and he happens to be ex-friends with her boss. She uses her diary as a confessional and she begins to wonder if she will ever find true love
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Language
English
Description
It's all about love and holiday cheer in London. The Prime Minister is smitten with his caterer; a widower's young son nurses the ultimate schoolboy crush; a writer falls for his Portuguese housekeeper; a devoted wife and mother copes with her potentially unfaithful husband; and a lovelorn American is desperately attracted to a colleague
10) Notting Hill
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
The world's most famous movie star falls in love with a small-time bookstore owner
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A New York socialite who dreams of becoming a great opera singer. While the voice she hears in her head is beautiful, to everyone else it is hilariously awful. Her husband and biggest fan, St. Clair Bayfield is determined to protect his beloved Florence from the truth. But when Florence stages a huge concert at Carnegie Hall, he faces his greatest challenge to make sure her performance is a rousing success
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Comedy drama based on the true story of the American opera singer. World renowned as a virtuosic pianist, Florence Foster Jenkins has a new dream: to become a famous opera singer. Her voice, however, leaves a lot to be desired and she becomes famous for her lack of talent. Despite the constant criticism from her peers and audiences which Florence's manager and partner St. Clair Bayfield (Hugh Grant) endeavours to keep from her, Florence battles on...
13) Impromptu
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Brazenly forward George Sand and frail, romantic Frederic Chopin are drawn together as lovers by an unnerving bond that cannot be broken despite the best efforts of those around them to keep them apart
14) About a boy
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Will is a good-looking, smooth-talking bachelor whose primary goal in life is to avoid any kind of responsibility. So he decides to invent an imaginary son in order to meet attractive single moms. Will gets a lesson about life from a bright but hopelessly geeky 12-year-old named Marcus. Now, as Will struggles to teach Marcus the art of being cool, Marcus teaches Will that you are never too cool to grow up
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Super spy Orson Fortune must track down and stop the sale of a deadly new weapons technology wielded by billionaire arms broker Greg Simmonds. Reluctantly teamed with some of the world's best operatives, Fortune and his crew recruit Hollywood's biggest movie star Danny Francesco to help them on their globe-trotting undercover mission to save the world
16) Cloud atlas
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
An exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution. The story is a time-shifting weave of six interlinking narratives, with diverse settings from the savagery of a Pacific Island in the 1850s to a dystopian Korea of the near future
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A charming thief and a band of unlikely adventurers undertake an epic heist to retrieve a lost relic, but things go dangerously awry when they run afoul of the wrong people in this hilarious and action-packed adventure
18) The gentlemen
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Enteratinment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
American ex-pat Mickey Pearson built a highly profitable marijuana empire in London. When word gets out that he₂s looking to cash out of the business forever, it triggers plots, schemes, bribery and blackmail in an attempt to steal his domain out from under him
19) The undoing
Publisher
HBO Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A thrilling mini-series from HBO about a successful New York therapist who's life begins to spin out of control
20) The gentlemen
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
American ex-pat Mickey Pearson built a highly profitable marijuana empire in London. When word gets out that he's looking to cash out of the business forever, it triggers plots, schemes, bribery and blackmail in an attempt to steal his domain out from under him