Library offers laughs in classic comedies.
9 to 5 (Nine to Five) (DVD): Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Dolly Parton
Three female employees of a "sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot" find a way to turn the tables on him.
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941 (DVD): Dan Aykroyd, Ned Beatty, John Belushi
Hysterical Californians prepare for a Japanese invasion in the days after Pearl Harbor.
Adam's Rib (DVD): Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy
Domestic and professional tensions mount when a husband and wife work as opposing lawyers in a case involving a woman who shot her husband.
Adaptation (DVD): Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep
Charlie Kaufman writes the way he lives... With Great Difficulty. His Twin Brother Donald Lives the way he writes... with foolish abandon. Susan writes about life... But can't live it. John's life is a book... Waiting to be adapted. One story... Four Lives... A million ways it can end.
Airplane (DVD): Leslie Nielsen, Robert Hays, Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves
An airplane crew takes ill. Surely the only person capable of landing the plane is an ex-pilot afraid to fly. But don't call him Shirley.
Amazing Grace (DVD): Moms Mabley, Slappy White, Moses Gunn
An elderly woman in a Baltimore neighborhood finds out that a somewhat slow-witted neighbor is being put up for local office by some shady politicians who have no interest in their neighborhood but are interested in getting their hands on the money that comes into it. She gets some neighborhood people together and together they plan to thwart the politicians' schemes.
Animal Crackers (VHS): 1930 - Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Groucho Marx, Zeppo Marx, Lillian Roth, Margaret Dumont
Mayhem and zaniness ensue when a valuable painting goes missing during a party in honor of famed African explorer Captain Spaulding.
Annie Hall (DVD): Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts, Carol Kane, Paul Simon, Janet Margolin, Shelley Duvall, Christopher Walken, Colleen Dewhurst
Romantic adventures of neurotic New York comedian Alvy Singer and his equally neurotic girlfriend Annie Hall. The film traces the course of their relationship from their first meeting, and serves as an interesting historical document about love in the 1970s.
Antonia (VHS): 1995 - Willeke van Ammelrooy, Els Dottermans, Jan Decleir
In an anonymous Dutch village, a sturdy, strong-willed matriarch looks back upon her life, the generations of family and friends gathered around her table, and ponders the cyclical nature of time.
The Apartment (DVD): 1960 – Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine
An ambitious office clerk plans to get ahead by lending out his apartment to his philandering bosses, but falls in love with the big boss's girlfriend instead. Which is more important, the girl or the job?
As Good as it Gets (VHS): 1997 – Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt
New York City. Melvin Udall, a cranky, bigoted, obsessive-compulsive writer, finds his life turned upside down when neighboring gay artist Simon is hospitalized and his dog is entrusted to Melvin. In addition, Carol, the only waitress who will tolerate him, must leave work to care for her sick son, making it impossible for Melvin to eat breakfast.
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