John Hughes
1) Home alone
Language
English
Formats
Description
An eight-year-old boy is left home alone on Christmas, and has to defend his home against two bumbling burglars.
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An uptight businessman faces disaster after disaster as he tries to get back home in time for his family's Thanksgiving dinner, and along the way is joined by an insane traveling salesman that will not leave him alone.
3) Uncle Buck
Pub. Date
1998
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Uncle Buck, an idle good-natured bachelor, is left in charge of his nephew and nieces during a family crisis. While his carefree ways easily charm the younger relatives, he meets more than a little hostility from Tia, his rebellious teenage niece, and Chanice, his impatient girlfriend.
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Kevin McCallister is ... ready to turn the Big Apple into his own playground. ... The notorious Wet Bandits, Harry and Marv, still smarting from their last encounter with Kevin, are plotting a huge holiday heist. Kevin's ready to welcome them with a battery of booby traps that the bumbling bandits will never forget"--Container.
6) Home alone 3
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A band of international crooks hides a stolen military computer chip in a toy car, but an airport mix-up puts it in the hands of whiz-kid Alex Pruitt. When the criminals zero in on him, he sets an array of ambushes and booby traps.
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Christmas is the perfect season for Clark Griswold and his family. Clark's a disaster waiting to happen. You have to see it to believe it. There are 25,000 lights on the Griswold rooftop. An exploding turkey. And a house full of relatives.
8) Curly Sue
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Chicago. Another town, another scam for vagabond Bill Dancer and the curly-topped orphan he's cared for since infancy. This time, however, Bill hits the jackpot and his newest con whisks them both from the poorhouse to the penthouse with lots of laughs along the way.
Pub. Date
1998
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When an unannounced, uninvited and unwelcome family of fun-loving misfits converge upon a lakeside resort to join their relatives for a summer of relaxation, the result is anything but restive in this raucous comedy.
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Flashback ed. ; Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Five high school students - a Rebel, an Athlete, a Brain, a Princess and a Basketcase - find themselves thrown together serving a Saturday morning detention. They do not have much in common, except giving up their day, sitting in the school library, and writing an essay for the principal. At first, they argue and hate each other, but after smoking some of John's marijuana, they begin to pour their hearts out to each other. They talk about their fears,...
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
They are five high school students with nothing in common, faced with spending a Saturday morning detention together in their school library. At 7 a.m. they had nothing to say to each other, but by 4 p.m., they had bared their souls and become good friends.
12) Baby's day out
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
Anamorphic widescreen and standard.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Baby Bink is kidnapped by three men posing as photographers. While his wealthy parents frantically search for him, the three crooks have their hands full keeping up with their infant charge.
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures Corp
Pub. Date
[2000]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A chronicle of the events in the day of a rather magical 17-year-old who has an overwhelming urge to cut school one spring day and head for downtown Chicago with his girl and best friend to see the sights and experience a day of freedom.
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The all-American Clark family wins a deluxe European vacation tour. Ecstatic Mr. Clark (who seems to have O.D.'d on "Father Knows Best" reruns) plans a getaway jammed with forced family togetherness, two weeks sure to become a treasure trove of golden Griswald memories. For the Griswalds, it's typical holiday road havoc.
15) Vacation
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
20th anniversary ed. ; Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a typical American family takes a cross-country vacation, it can only mean one thing: total disaster!
Author
Publisher
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
[2015].
Lexile measure
AD 570L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
This illustrated storybook is adapted from the classic movie, 'Home alone'. When eight-year-old Kevin McCallister is accidentally left behind as his family embarks on a Christmas trip, the boy gleefully embraces solo run of the house, until he has to fend off would-be burglars and then wishes his family would return.
17) Pretty in pink
Series
Publisher
Paramount Picture
Pub. Date
©2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 audio disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.).
Language
English
Description
A poor girl falls in love with a rich guy, and it angers both their families and their friends.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
30th anniversary edition ; Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (1 hr., 37 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Five high school students-- a Rebel, an Athlete, a Brain, a Princess and a Basketcase-- find themselves thrown together serving a Saturday morning detention. They do not have much in common, except giving up their day, sitting in the school library, and writing an essay for the principal. At first, they argue and hate each other, but after smoking some of the Rebel's marijuana, they begin to pour their hearts out to each other. They talk about their...
20) Pretty in pink
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Everything's Duckie ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A poor girl falls in love with a rich guy, and it angers both their families and their friends.