Alison Steadman
1) The switch
Author
Language
English
Description
Leena is too young to feel stuck. Eileen is too old to start over. It's time for the switch ? Ordered to take a two-month sabbatical after blowing a big presentation at work, Leena escapes to her grandmother Eileen's house for some overdue rest. Newly single and about to turn 80, Eileen would like a second chance at love. But her tiny Yorkshire village doesn't offer many eligible gentlemen ? So Leena proposes a solution: a two-month swap. Eileen can...
Publisher
British Broadcasting Corporation
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Gavin and Stacey along with their dysfunctional family and friends return for a Christmas special and a final season. Season Three finds Smithy feeling left out now that his best friend Gavin has moved to Wales with Stacey. Meanwhile, all seems to be happy with Nessa who has shacked up with her boyfriend Dave. In the Christmas special, Gavin and Stacey's families meet in Essex to celebrate the holiday, but an unexpected surprise announcement from...
Publisher
British Broadcasting Corporation
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Returns for a second season of romance and more misunderstandings and run-ins between their hilarious families! Season Two finds Gavin and Stacey just returning from their honeymoon. The happy couple plans to live with Gavin's parents in Essex until they can get a place of their own. However, while Gavin won't even consider moving to Barry, Stacey feels bad for leaving her family and wants to be there to support her newly pregnant best friend Nessa....
Language
English
Description
Independent Elizabeth Bennet is determined that she will wed only for love. Her parents have five unmarried daughters for whom the mother is determined to find advantageous marriages. The wealthy Mr. Bingley, his friend, the mysterious and proud Mr. Darcy, and Mr. Wickham, a charming, but "scandalous cad," come to visit the countryside and become interested in three of the Bennet daughters.
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Gavin and Stacey speak every day on the phone at work, and yet they've never met... until now. Gavin is an ordinary boy from England. Stacey is an ordinary girl from Wales. When Gavin and Stacey finally meet, the peculiar personalities of their families and friends guarantee that there will be no such thing as 'ordinary' ever again.
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Edith and Phil are retired and in love. When she finally agrees to marry him, they're all set to move to a place in the sun. But then Edith's son Roger crashes back into their lives. Fifty going on twelve, Roger has had a mid-life breakdown and left his wife, children and job. As Roger and a host of other unwanted visitors cause havoc around their house, Edith and Phil's lives explode into farce." --
10) Life is sweet
Series
Criterion collection ; 659
Language
English
Formats
Description
An amusing portrait of a working-class family in a suburb just north of London, an irrepressible mum and dad and their night-and-day twins, a bookish good girl and a sneering lay about. A vivid, lived-in story of ordinary existence, in which even modest dreams (such as the father's desire to open a food truck) carry enormous weight. Perched on the line between humor and melancholy.
11) Confetti
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Three couples compete to win the title of Most Original Wedding of the Year. The dueling couples include Matt and Sam, whose unfortunate wedding theme is Hollywood musicals; the hypercompetitive tennis partners Josef and Isabelle; and the uninhibited nudists Micahel and Joanna. At stake is a million-dollar dream home.
12) Clockwise
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
John Cleese stars as Stimpson, the compulsively punctual headmaster of a British high school. On the day he is to give a major speech at a posh teachers conference, he finds himself in a frantic cross-country chase filled with missed trains, confused cops, strange monks, odd old ladies and stolen clothes. Can Stimpson make up for precious lost time or is the entire world conspiring to make him late for the most important appointment of his life?
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
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