Hugh Grant
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English
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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,...
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English
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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...
5) The Rewrite
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English
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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...
6) Impromptu
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English
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George Sands was perhaps the most celebrated novelist of the early nineteenth century and its most notorious Bohemian, better known in her own day that even Charles Dickens. Frederic Chopin was among the greatest musicians of his age. A prodigy who rapidly gained a legendary reputataion all over Europe as both a pianist and a composer. IMPROMPTU is the comic and tender tale of how George Sands and Chopin met; of how Sands recklessly pursued Chopin;...
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English
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The Golf Delusion is a collection of stories, instruction and step-by-step photography designed to improve the swing of the amateur golfer. Each entry is a light-hearted but informative look at the golf swings of the famous – and sometimes not so famous – pupils of the Knightsbridge Golf School, founded by Leslie King, who pioneered a new approach to golf swing tuition in the 1950s. Over the past 60 years, the Knightsbridge Golf School has improved...
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[1999]
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English
Description
Michael Felgate, a Manhattan art autioneer, is eager to marry Gina, a schoolteacher he's been dating for three months. Gina's father is a gangster who extracts money for the mob, and he starts to out the squeeze on Michael, using the auction house as money laundering scam for dubious artwork.
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English
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Based on the incredible true story, Meryl Streep delivers a hilarious and touching performance as 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 (Hugh Grant) is determined to protect his beloved Florence from the truth. But when Florence stages a huge concert at Carnegie Hall, he faces his...
10) Our Sons
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English
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Julie Andrews and Ann-Margret star as the mothers of two gay sons, one of whom is dying from AIDS. As a small town waitress, Luanne Barnes must overcome her own homophobia and learn to love her son Donald unconditionally. Throughout the process, she cements a true bond with Audrey Grant, mother to Donald's boyfriend, James. Inspired by the 1987 documentary, 'Too Little, Too Late.'
11) Restoration
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English
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Robert Merivel is a young man who seems to have everything...until a passionate affair leads to scandal, suddenly leaving him heartbroken and penniless. But it's only after losing it all that he becomes the man he never dreamed he could be!
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Pub. Date
[2004]
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English
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Course language.
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.
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Pub. Date
[2000?]
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English
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A young man offends an entire town by declaring their mountain-- a prized local landmark-- to be a "hill." The eccentric and funny townspeople rally around their "mountain" and a fiery young woman charms the puzzled out-of-town cartographer into seeing things their way.
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.
17) Two weeks notice
Pub. Date
[2003]
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English
Description
Lucy Kelson became 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...
18) Notting Hill
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
The world's most famous movie star falls in love with a small-time bookstore owner.
20) Love actually
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English
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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.