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Language
English
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"In Searching for John Hughes, Jason tells how a Jewish kid from a broken home in a Chicago suburb--sometimes homeless, always restless--found comfort and connection in the likewise broken lives in the suburban Chicago of John Hughes's oeuvre. He moved to New York to become a writer. He started to write a book he had no business writing. In the meantime, he brewed coffee and guarded cupcake cafes. All the while, he watched John Hughes movies religiously."...
2) Home alone
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
When eight-year-old Kevin McCallister's family left for vacation, they forgot one minor detail: Kevin!
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Five high school students - a Rebel, an Athlete, a Brain, a Princess and a Basketcase - find themselves thrown together serving a Saturday morning detention. They do not have much in common, except giving up their day, sitting in the school library, and writing an essay for the principal. At first, they argue and hate each other, but after smoking some of John's marijuana, they begin to pour their hearts out to each other. They talk about their fears,...
4) Flubber
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Brilliant but befuddled Professor Phillip Brainard is on the brink of inventing a revolutionary energy source and missing his wedding for the third time! He develops a miraculous elastic goo flubber that enables anything it's applied to, to bounce super high and fast.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Christmas is the perfect season for Clark Griswold and his family. Clark's a disaster waiting to happen. You have to see it to believe it. There are 25,000 lights on the Griswold rooftop. An exploding turkey. And a house full of relatives.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ferris Bueller has played hooky a number of times. But this time he has the entire school and more believing he is on the verge of death. On this special day off, Ferris invites his friend Cameron and girlfriend Sloane to join him in his day of fun. Ferris talks Cameron into borrowing his father's precious Ferrari for the day's transportation. All the while, Principal Ed Rooney is determined to prove Ferris is faking his illness. Jeanie is Ferris's...
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Kevin McCallister is ready to turn the Big Apple into his own playground. The notorious Wet Bandits, Harry and Marv, still smarting from their last encounter with Kevin, are plotting a huge holiday heist. Kevin's ready to welcome them with a battery of booby traps that the bumbling bandits will never forget.
10) Home alone 3
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000?]
Language
English
Description
A band of international crooks hides a stolen military computer chip in a toy car, but an airport mix-up puts it in the hands of whiz-kid Alex Pruitt. When the criminals zero in on him, he sets an array of ambushes and booby traps.
11) Mr. Mom
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Michael Keaton plays a harried househusband and Teri Garr a rising business executive who encounter one problem after another.
12) Uncle Buck
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
©1998
Language
English
Description
Uncle Buck, an idle good-natured bachelor, is left in charge of his nephew and nieces during a family crisis. While his carefree ways easily charm the younger relatives, he meets more than a little hostility from Tia, his rebellious teenage niece, and Chanice, his impatient girlfriend.
Series
Criterion collection volume 905
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When Saturday detention started at Shermer High School, they were simply the Jock, the Princess, the Brain, the Criminal and the Basket Case, but by that afternoon they had become closer than any of them could have imagined.
14) Just visiting
Publisher
Hollywood Pictures Home Video
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Count Thibault is a brave warrior and respected nobleman in 12th century France. Count Thibault has a loyal servant in the half-bright Andre. An aging wizard demonstrates a new potion and Thibault and Andre find themselves transported to the year 2000. Julia, a museum employee who bears a striking resemblance to the Counts love, finds the visitors and becomes their unofficial guide to life in the Windy City. Thibault soon discovers that the young...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
They were five students with nothing in common, faced with spending a Saturday detention together in their high school library. At 7 a.m., they had nothing to say, but by 4 p.m. they had bared their souls to each other and become good friends.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A high school tomboy has a crush on her best friend, and is distraught when he falls for a rich snob. Keith, Watts and Amanda prove once and for all that you've got to risk a broken heart in order to find your one true love.
17) Weird science
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2003], ©1985
Language
English
Description
Two nerdy best friends have the power to create the "perfect woman". Like a computer-generated fairy godmother, the two use their creation to learn about the pleasures and pitfalls of adolescences.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Home alone: Eight-year-old Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin) has become the man of the house, overnight! Accidentally left behind when his family rushes off on a Christmas vacation, Kevin gets busy decorating the house for the holidays. But he's not decking the halls with tinsel and holly. Two bumbling burglars, Harry and Marv (Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern), are trying to break in, and Kevin's rigging a bewildering battery of booby traps to welcome...
19) Sixteen candles
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Samantha Baker is ready to make the most of her sweet sixteenth birthday, but only if someone, anyone from her family would just remember it. For her birthday, she has to endure creepy freshmen, spoiled siblings, confused parents and the beauty who stands in the way of the boy of her dreams.
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Uncle Buck: Uncle Buck has a reputation for being unreliable and a bit of a house wrecker. It is therefore with reluctance, his sister-in-law agrees to leave Buck looking after her three kids - two harmless youngsters and a rebelious teenager - while she visits her sick father.
The great outdoors: Chet is a family man who has brought his family to a lakeside resort area. His wife and kids aren't quite as excited as he is. His optimism is sabotaged...
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