Catalog Search Results
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1992
Appears on these lists
Description
When Chicago musicians Joe (Tony Curtis) and Jerry (Jack Lemmon) accidentally witness a mob hit, they trade in their union suits for flapper frocks and hightail it down to Florida as the newest members of an all-girl jazz band, "Josephine" and "Daphne". Their cover is perfect...until a lovelorn singer (Marilyn Monroe) falls for "Josephine," and a mob boss refuses to fall for their hoax! Nominated for 7 Academy Awards®, "SOME LIKE IT HOT" is...
Publisher
Cinedigm Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
A redemptive movie about a young man, the son of a preacher, who rejects his father's desire for him to join the ministry and instead embarks on a career as a rock singer. As he struggles to pursue his dream and rise to stardom, he finds love, pain, success and failure, and ultimately uncovers a hidden family secret that reveals who he really is. It's a captivating story about a family restored, and a life discovered.
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
Max Bialystock was once the king of Broadway, but now he only seems to be able to produce flops. Things turn around for Max when he's visited by the neurotic accountant Leo Bloom, who proposes a scheme tailor-made for producers who can only make flops: raise far more money than you need, then make sure the show is despised. No one will be interested in it, so you can pocket the surplus. With this in mind, they decide to produce a musical called 'Springtime...
Publisher
Wolfe Video
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
Armed with a magical love potion and empowered by dazzling musical fantasies, struggling with his identity and acceptance, adorable teen, Timothy (dreamy Tanner Cohen) turns his narrow-minded town gay while capturing the heart of Jonathon (buff Nathaniel David Becker), the rugby jock of his dreams. Also starring Wendy Robie (Twin Peaks), Broadway star Judy McLane (Mamma Mia), Zelda Williams (House of D), and Jill Larson (Opal on All My Children),...
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
A fast living, cynical London music executive heads to a remote Cornish village where he's pranked by his boss into trying to sign a group of shanty singing fishermen. He struggles to gain the respect or enthusiasm of the unlikely boy band and their families. Soon he's forced to reevaluate his own integrity and ultimately question what success really means.
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Video
Pub. Date
2003
Description
Five electrical appliances find that their young owner has disappeared. The toaster takes charge, rounding up the vacuum cleaner, the electric blanket, bedside lamp and radio. Together they take off for the big city in search of their master.
8) Tár
Pub. Date
[2022]
Formats
Description
Set in the international world of classical music, the film centers on Lydia Tár, widely considered one of the greatest living composer/conductors and first-ever female chief conductor of a major German orchestra.
9) Rocketman
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2019]
Formats
Description
An epic musical fantasy about the uncensored human story of Sir Elton John's breakthrough years.
10) Crazy heart
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
The powerful story of a country music star's rocky road to redemption. Bad Blake is a boozy, broken-down singer who reaches for salvation with the help of Jean, a journalist who discovers the real man behind the music. But will Bad's hard-livin' ways and crazy heart cost him his last chance at a comeback?
11) Love & mercy
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2015]
Formats
Description
An unconventional portrait of Brian Wilson, the mercurial singer, songwriter and leader of The Beach Boys. Set against the era defining catalog of Wilson's music, the film intimately examines the personal voyage and ultimate salvation of the icon whose success came at extraordinary personal cost.
12) Wild Rose
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
Rose-Lynn Harlan is bursting with raw talent, charisma, and cheek. Fresh out of jail and with two young kids, all she wants is to get out of Glasgow and make it as a country singer in Nashville. Her mom Marion has had a bellyful of Rose-Lynn's Nashville nonsense. Forced to take responsibility, Rose-Lynn gets a cleaning job, only to find an unlikely champion in the middle-class lady of the house.
13) Mamma mia!
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Description
20 year old Sophie is preparing to marry at her mother's hotel on a Greek island. She has a carefree life, a loving fiancee, and great friends. She is only missing one thing: a father. By reading her mother's diary she discovers that she has three possible fathers. Sophie secretly invites all three men to the wedding in a desperate bid to discover which of them is her father. But not all goes according to plan. Now, old loves are re-kindled, new loves...
14) Into the woods
Series
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
A modern twist on several of the beloved Brothers Grimm fairy tales, intertwining the plots of a few choice stories and exploring the consequences of the characters' wishes and quests. This humorous and heartfelt musical follows the classic tales of Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Jack and the Beanstalk, and Rapunzel, all tied together by an original story involving a baker and his wife, their wish to begin a family and their interaction with...
15) Funny face
Description
Paris, the City of Light, shines even brighter when Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire team up, bringing their luminous starpower to this exquisite **Oscar**-nominated musical featuring songs by George and Ira Gershwin. Featuring iconic performances from two legends of the silver screen, this joyous, stylish film is sure to leave you singing and dancing. Nominated for Best Original Screenplay at the **Academy Awards**. Nominated for the Palme d'Or at...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2006
Description
Neil Young will play three nights at Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, the original home of The Grand Ole Opry, performing songs from his new album, as well as six of his all-time greatest hits. All of the songs for this album were written while Neil was recuperating from a brain aneurysm that he suffered in April of this year. The film will be a compilation of these three shows - a true concert film. Performers will wear costumes evoking the rural extravagance...
Publisher
Rhino
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Recently orphaned Corinne "Third Degree" Burns enlists her sister and cousin to launch a punk rock band, The Stains. Three rehearsals later, The Stains score the opening slot on a cross-country tour with aging metal act The Metal Corpses and British punk rockers The Looters. The Stains' meteoric rise (and equally lightning-quick fall) owes more to TV exposure than to talent.
20) Chicago
Series
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Appears on list
Formats
Description
At a time when crimes of passion result in celebrity headlines, nightclub sensation Velma Kelly and spotlight-seeking Roxie Hart both find themselves on Chicago's famed Murderess Row. They also share Billy Flynn, the town's slickest lawyer with a talent for turning notorious defendants into local legends.
Didn't Find It?
Didn't find it in CW MARS? You can request titles from other Massachusetts library networks through the Commonwealth Catalog.
If you need assistance, please reach out to your local library.