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Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
Mary Lennox is a prickly and unloved ten-year-old girl, born in India to wealthy British parents. When they suddenly die, she is sent back to England to live with her uncle. There, she begins to uncover many family secrets, particularly after meeting her sickly cousin Colin, who has been shut away in a wing of the house. Together, these two damaged, slightly misfit children heal each other through their discovery of a wondrous secret garden.
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Westminster Read a Book Made Into a Movie and Watch the Movie READO Suggestions
Description
Taken from the poverty of her parents' home in Portsmouth, Fanny Price is brought up with her rich cousins at Mansfield Park, acutely aware of her humble rank and with her cousin Edmund as her sole ally. During her uncle's absence in Antigua, the Crawford's arrive in the neighbourhood bringing with them the glamour of London life and a reckless taste for flirtation. Mansfield Park is considered Jane Austen's first mature work and, with its quiet heroine...
7) 1981
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Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
When his family moves into their new home, young Ricardo Trogi feels different from his classmates. He creates a new reality to avoid being discovered for what he really is. How long can the truth be denied?
8) Cabin boy
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
1994
Description
A spoiled rich kid's plans for a ritzy Hawaiian cruise backfire when he gets lost at sea with a gang of salty old sailors that teach him lessons in life.
9) Richie Rich
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2005
Description
A likable but isolated kid has everything money can buy except friends--until he hits it off big with a group of sandlot kids.
10) Blank check
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Video
Pub. Date
1993
Description
A kid receives a blank check from a mobster who accidentally hits him with his car, and is surprised when he actually cashes it for a million dollars.
12) Holiday wishes
Publisher
Lifetime
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
Britney, a rich, spoiled child, and Rachel, an orphan, switch bodies after a visit to the mall with Santa Claus. Each girl wakes up as the other, with Britney in the orphanage and Rachel at Britney's family's mansion. With the magical intervention of a professional party planner Rachel teaches Britney's unloving family the true meaning of Christmas, and Britney learns that giving is better than getting.
13) Kids vs monsters
Publisher
Monarch Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
The six richest people in the world each have one thing still dragging them down, their intolerable kids. Luckily, there is a mysterious entity known as The Boss who with his assistant Heinrich is happy to help. He has some monsters of his own, and they are just dying to test out their skills. The parents arrange to drop their six troublesome kids, at one big creepy house attended to by The Butler.
14) The toy
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001
Description
Gleason is U.S. Bates, a megalomaniac millionaire who owns most of south central Louisiana. Pryor is Jack Brown, a former journalist who has worked his way down the vocational ladder to the position of janitor in Bates' department store. Bates' son, Eric, selects an elaborate toy--Jack Brown--and the relationship teaches Eric more about life than fun and games.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
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Description
Mary Lennox is a prickly and unloved ten-year-old girl, born in India to wealthy British parents. When they suddenly die, she is sent back to England to live with her uncle. There, she begins to uncover many family secrets, particularly after meeting her sickly cousin Colin, who has been shut away in a wing of the house. Together, these two damaged, slightly misfit children heal each other through their discovery of a wondrous secret garden.
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"Orson Welles's beautiful, nostalgia-suffused second feature--the subject of one of cinema's greatest missing-footage tragedies--harks back to turn-of-the-twentieth-century Indianapolis, chronicling the inexorable decline in the fortunes of an affluent family. Adapted from an acclaimed Booth Tarkington novel and featuring restlessly inventive camera work and powerful performances from a cast including Joseph Cotten, Tim Holt, and Agnes Moorehead,...
17) Major Barbara
Publisher
L.A.Theatre Works
Pub. Date
p2008
Description
Barbara is a Major in the Salvation Army, but also the daughter of Andrew Undershaft, a millionaire arms manufacturer. A comedic battle rages between daughter and father, posing the question, does salvation come through faith or finance?
Series
Criterion collection volume 952
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"Orson Welles's beautiful, nostalgia-suffused second feature--the subject of one of cinema's greatest missing-footage tragedies--harks back to turn-of-the-twentieth-century Indianapolis, chronicling the inexorable decline in the fortunes of an affluent family. Adapted from an acclaimed Booth Tarkington novel and featuring restlessly inventive camera work and powerful performances from a cast including Joseph Cotten, Tim Holt, and Agnes Moorehead,...
20) The landlord
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
Legendary filmmaker Hal Ashby makes his directing debut with this acclaimed social satire starring Beau Bridges as a wealthy young man who leaves his family's estate in Long Island to pursue love and happiness in a Brooklyn ghetto. When Elgar Enders buys a Park Slope tenement, he fully intends to evict the occupants and transform the building into a chic bachelor pad.
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