Tracey Ullman
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"There's no right way to keep a diary, but if there's an entertaining way, David Sedaris seems to have mastered it. If it's navel-gazing you're after, you've come to the wrong place; ditto treacly self-examination. Rather, his observations turn outward: a fight between two men on a bus, a fight between two men on the street, pedestrians being whacked over the head or gathering to watch as a man considers leaping to his death. There's a dirty joke...
3) Howards End
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"Margaret Schlegel is an intelligent, idealistic young woman who is courted by the older Henry Wilcox, a self-made conservative businessman, after his wife Ruth Wilcox dies unexpectedly and he becomes owner of Howards End. Meanwhile, Margaret's passionate and capricious younger sister Helen Schlegel takes up the cause of Leonard Bast, a young bank clerk who falls on hard times at work and at home with his partner Jacky. In the absence of their late...
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Victor has messed up his vows during a wedding rehearsal, and is traveling through the woods, reciting his vows. He stops to rest in the woods, and while practicing. He finally gets them right and ceremoniously puts the wedding ring on a finger-shaped stick in the ground and says his wedding vows. The stick turns out to be a rotted finger belonging to a murdered girl who has returned as a zombie and insists that she is now Victor's lawfully wedded...
9) Panic
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Alex wants out of the family business. Trouble is, the family business is murder-for-hire, and his father won't let him quit.
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Queen Aggravian sabotages the efforts of every young princess who hope to marry her son, Prince Dauntless - and no one else can settle down until he does. Honorable Sir Harry is determined to marry the lovely Lady Larken, so he sets off for faraway lands and returns with an unlikely candidate: Princess Winnifred from the swamps. It's love at first sight for the Prince, so the Queen sets about planning her most difficult challenge yet. The palace is...
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"An ex-con and his manicurist wife find their get-rich-quick scheme leaves them rolling in dough. When a bank heist takes a comical twist, the couple discovers that cookies pay better than crime. A suave art dealer has his own plot to cash in on their success and add two bumbling crooks to the mix"--Container.
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Most are single character representation and were a riot and very likeable, while the format is a five-minute monologue. Ning Nong Nang, the Vietnamese donut-store owner delivers hers at the end of a long day in the kitchen with her bare feet resting in the next days' donut batter! Tracey takes on a different topic in each episode, giving different characters opinions.
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Tracy Ullman is back with her colorful look at all that is good, bad, and ridiculous about the United States. From the everyday 'Joe Six Pack' to the world famous, no one is safe from the satirical look at day-to-day life. Celebrity impressions include: former First Lady Laura Bush, Dan Rather, Celine Dion, J.K. Rowling, and others.
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Nancy Savoca's star-studded indie gem Household Saints is a chronicle of a spirited Italian American New York family that perfectly balances humor, tragedy, and pathos. Joseph Santangelo is a butcher with a wicked sense of humor who "wins" his wife Catherine in a pinochle game. Over the protests of his mother who talks to ghosts and makes deals with saints, Joseph marries Catherine. When the old lady dies, her spirit is channeled into her granddaughter...
17) Plenty
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Susan Traherne is a former World War II French Resistance fighter who returns to her home in post-war Britain haunted by her experiences in occupied France. She finds that she is having trouble fitting back into formal British society after the war.
18) Plenty
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Screen adaptation of David Hare's highly acclaimed masterpiece charting the clash of attitudes in the post-war world. Susan Traherne returns home to Britain after World War II, haunted by her experiences as a Resistance fighter in occupied France. Strong-willed and confident, Susan's unconventional behavior begins to destroy her own sanity and alters irreparably the lives of those around her.
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The tale of Peter Rabbit: Peter disobeys his mother by going into Mr. McGregor's garden and almost gets caught. The tale of Jeremy Fisher: Jeremy the frog loves to catch minnows for dinner with friends. Instead, he catches a spiny stickleback and almost becomes dinner himself. Puss in Boots: The tale of a cunning cat who wins for his master the lordship of a manor and the hand of a princess.
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The tale of Peter Rabbit: Peter disobeys his mother by going into Mr. McGregor's garden and almost gets caught. The tale of Jeremy Fisher: Jeremy the frog loves to catch minnows for dinner with friends. Instead, he catches a spiny stickleback and almost becomes dinner himself. Puss in Boots: The tale of a cunning cat who wins for his master the lordship of a manor and the hand of a princess.