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Friday, October 23

Films: Classic Comedies

The Awful Truth (DVD): Irene Dunne, Cary Grant

Unfounded suspicions lead a married couple to begin divorce proceedings, whereupon they start undermining each other's attempts to find new romance.


Back to the Future (DVD): Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson

It's the mid-80's, and Marty McFly is your average 17-year-old slacker who happens to be friends with an inventor, Doc Brown. Doc's latest invention is a time machine, that ends up transporting Marty back to 1955 where he must bring his parents together so that he will exist when he gets back to his own time


Bananas (DVD): Woody Allen, Louise Lasser, Carlos Montalban, Howard Cosell

A part of the boxed “Woody Allen Collection” 8 DVDs

Absurd humor borders on insanity as a tester of strange gadgets quits his Manhattan job and flees to South America to eventually become leader of a mythical country.


Being John Malkovich (DVD): John Cusack, Cameron Diaz

Craig Schwartz is a struggling street puppeteer; in order to make some money, Craig takes a job as a filing clerk. One day he accidentally discovers a door ... a portal into the brain of John Malkovich! For 15 minutes, he experiences the ultimate head trip--He is John Malkovich! Then he's dumped onto the New Jersey turnpike. With his beautiful office mate Maxine and his pet-obsessed wife, they hatch a plan to let others into John's brain for just $200 a trip.


Being There (DVD): Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine

Circumstances propel a feeble-minded gardener, whose entire knowledge of life comes from watching television, into becoming adviser to the president of the United States and a powerful but dying tycoon.


Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion (Pygmalion) (VHS): Wendy Hiller, Leslie Howard, Wilfrid Lawson

Follows the transformation of a Cockney flower girl's speech, dress, and manners as the result of a wager between Professor Henry Higgins and Colonel Pickering until she successfully passes as a duchess at an ambassador's ball.


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