Jessica Tandy
1) Camilla
Author
Language
English
Description
A feel-good comedy about an unlikely pair who set off one the road to do everything they always wanted. On their madcap journey together, they find themselves losing their car in a lake, being duped by a con man, staging a kidnapping - and having the time of their lives! A delightfully entertaining story that shows that friendship, fun and adventure are all just part of the ride!
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
1982.
Language
English
Description
In this taut, neo-noir thriller, Dr. Sam Rice (Roy Scheider) is a successful psychiatrist who becomes involved in a murder investigation after his client is found dead. First, the cops come looking for answers, and then the victim’s enigmatic mistress (Meryl Streep) comes looking for a whole lot more! Sam succumbs to her charms, but he soon begins to suspect that she knows more than she’s saying!
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
1984.
Language
English
Description
Boston, 1876: At a Women's Movement meeting, fiercely independent Olive (Vanessa Redgrave) becomes mentor to gifted young orator Verena (Madeleine Potter) - who soon attracts the amorous attentions of Olive's Southern cousin Basil (Christopher Reeve). The contesting demands of courtship and sapphic friendship in this love-triangle in all but name are further complicated by New York society matron Mrs. Burrage, who tries to secure Verena for her son....
6) The birds
Series
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
A small California town is attacked by thousands of birds.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Academy Award winner Robin Williams, Glenn Close and John Lithgow star in this film based on John Irving's expansive, offbeat best-selling novel. When Jenny Fields (Close) decides to become a mother, she has no intention of finding a husband or of having marital sex, so she gets herself pregnant by a hospitalized solder on his deathbed. And so begins the unusual life of Garp (Williams), who is destined to be anything except what he himself desires...
Language
English
Formats
Description
Paul Newman earned an Oscar® nomination plus Best Actor honors from the National Society of Film Critics and New York Film Critics Circle for his portrayal of Sully, a likeable working stiff who’s made a lifetime of bad decisions. But he unexpectedly has a chance to make right on some of them when his estranged son – and grandson – drop into his life. Melanie Griffith and Jessica Tandy are among the talented costars of this engaging film honored...
11) The Bostonians
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Olive, a militant suffragette, takes on the education of Verena, a brilliantly gifted but naive young girl. Olive wants to mold and use this gift for the feminist cause. But Verena is also loved by Basil Ransom, an impecunious young lawyer with views strenuously opposed to the Boston feminists. The contest is met between Basil and Olive. The prize: possession of Verena.
12) The story lady
Publisher
Image Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
The simplistic style of a storyteller is traded by two zealous execs for national network ratings and big dollars.
13) Camilla
Publisher
Distributed by Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertaiment
Pub. Date
[2002?]
Language
English
Description
An unlikely pair, Jessica Tandy and Bridget Fonda, set off down the road to do everything they always wanted. On the way, they stage a kidnapping, get duped by a con man, lose their car in a lake and have the time of their lives.
15) Cocoon
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
"When visitors from a distant galaxy return to earth on a secret mission, their other-worldly powers afford a group of senior citizens who had expected nothing more from life than bingo, shuffleboard, aches and pains, the chance to recapture their youth"--Container.
Series
Publisher
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Pub. Date
[2002], c1993
Language
English
Description
A devoted old couple are separated when the wife dies. The husband struggles to cope with his loneliness and failing health, but his spirit is fading when a mysterious white dog appears and reawakens his joy of life.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003, c1987
Language
English
Description
When Emily Crane refuses to cooperate with the House Un-American Activities Committee chairman, Ray Salwen, she's blacklisted and immediately fired from her job. But when she stumbles upon Salwen's nefarious plot to smuggle Nazi war criminals into the U.S., she - and an FBI agent she's enlisted to help her - must find a way to bring an end to Salwen's conspiracy - before he brings an end to them.
Publisher
Distributed by Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
In this affectionate story of small town life in upstate New York, Sully, a fitfully employed 60-year-old construction worker, is a cheerful curmudgeon who has made a lifetime of bad decisions. He unexpectedly has a chance to make some of them right when his estranged son and grandson drop back into his life.
A dramatization of the development of the atomic bom by the Manhattan Project, during World War II, with emphasis on the relationship between...