Julia Roberts
Author
Series
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Read by Julia Roberts
Based on the real-life experiences, the inside story on the real lives of the rich and privileged from the women who know all the secrets - the nannies.
THE NANNY DIARIES deftly skewers the manner in which America's over-privileged raises les petites - as if grooming them for a Best of Show competition. A poignant satire, it punctures the glamor of Manhattan's upper class to tackle head-on the truer state of backstairs...
Based on the real-life experiences, the inside story on the real lives of the rich and privileged from the women who know all the secrets - the nannies.
THE NANNY DIARIES deftly skewers the manner in which America's over-privileged raises les petites - as if grooming them for a Best of Show competition. A poignant satire, it punctures the glamor of Manhattan's upper class to tackle head-on the truer state of backstairs...
2) Larry Crowne
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
When he suddenly finds himself without his long-standing blue-collar job, Larry Crowne enrolls at his local college to start over. There, he becomes part of an eclectic community of students and develops a crush on his teacher. Now this simple guy will discover that when you think everything worth having has passed you by, you just might find your reason to live.
3) Wonder
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Based on the New York Times bestseller, this tells the incredibly inspiring and heartwarming story of August Pullman, a boy with facial differences who enters fifth grade, attending a mainstream elementary school for the first time.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Widescreen [ed.].
Language
English
Description
In the early 1980s, Charlie Wilson is best known as a womanizing US congressional representative from Texas. He seemed to be in the minor leagues, except for the fact that he is a member of two major foreign policy and covert-ops committees. However, once Charlie is prodded by his major conservative supporter, Joanne Herring, Wilson learns about the plight of the people who are suffering from the effects of the brutal Soviet occupation of Afghanistan....
Publisher
Fox Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
In this suspenseful romantic thriller, Julia Roberts stars as Laura, a young woman who thinks she's found the man of her dreams in Martin (Patrick Bergin). Only after they are married does she discover the real Martin--compulsive, controlling and dangerously violent. After three years of living in fear and dread, Laura finally escapes, only to have Martin track her down.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Language
English
Description
A happily married woman who is trying to get pregnant realizes that her life needs to go in a new direction. After a very painful divorce, she risks everything and embarks on a journey around the world that becomes a quest for self-discovery.
10) Money monster
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
Financial TV host Lee Gates and his producer Patty are put in an extreme situation when an irate investor who has lost everything forcefully takes over their studio. During a tense standoff broadcast to millions on live TV, Lee and Patty must work furiously against the clock to unravel the mystery behind a conspiracy at the heart of today's fast-paced, high-tech global markets.
11) The ant bully
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Full screen ed.
Language
English
Description
When you're as small as an ant, the world is big - and the adventure is bigger! That's what young Lucas learns after he aims his water pistol at some hapless ants. They retaliate with a secret potion that shrinks him down to their size.
12) Wonder
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
DVD [edition].
Language
English
Description
August Pullman is a boy with facial differences who enters fifth grade, attending a mainstream elementary school for the first time.
13) Hook
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Peter Banning is a 40-year-old acquisitions attorney who has forgotten how to let the child within himself take flight. When his children are kidnapped by his old nemesis, Captain Hook, he is forced to fight his fears and make a fantastic return to Neverland to regain not only his children, but the child he once was.
14) Pretty woman
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
15th anniversary special ed.
Language
English
Description
A corporate raider pays a gorgeous hooker to be his escort for a business week in Beverly Hills ... and then falls for her.
15) Mother's Day
Publisher
Open Road Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
This celebration of mothers everywhere invites all to enjoy the laughter, tears and love as three generations come together in the week leading up to Mother's Day.
16) Steel magnolias
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
Special ed.
Language
English
Description
"Six divas of the silver screen - Sally Field, Dolly Parton, Shirley MacLaine, Daryl Hannah, Olympia Dukakis and Julia Roberts - come together as bosom buddies in this hilarious and heartwarming story of life, love and loss in a small Louisiana Parish. At the center of the group is Shelby Eatenton (Roberts), newly married and joyfully pregnant, despite the fact that her diabetes could make childbirth life-threatening. Terrified and angry at the possibility...
17) Notting Hill
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
Collector's edition; widescreen.
Language
English
Description
The world's most famous movie star falls in love with a small-time bookstore owner.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Gwen and Eddie are the countries favorite on-screen couple. Having to promote their latest movie, the couple, whose public romance had turned into a private breakup, have to count on their veteran press agent and Gwen's assistant-sister, Kiki, to keep the press from knowing about the real story. Can true love, happily ever after and other Hollywood endings really happen?
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2013
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Valentine's Day (2010, 125 min.): Stories crisscross, collide and boomerang in this look at a day in the life of love.
New Year's Eve (2011, 118 min.): Celebrate love, hope, forgiveness, second chances and fresh starts in intertwining stories told amidst the pulse and promise of New York City.
20) Charlotte's web
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
Widescreen [ed.].
Language
English
Description
In ordinary Somerset County, a young farm girl named Fern rescues the runt of a litter of pigs from her father's ax. Fern names the pig Wilbur, takes care of him, and continues to visit him every day after he is moved to her Uncle Homer Zuckerman's barn across the road. But it's Wilbur's friendship with Charlotte the spider that ultimately saves him from the "smoke house" when Charlotte's talent for weaving praiseworthy words about Wilbur into her...