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About a Boy - Hugh Grant got rave reviews in this excellent adaptation of  Nick Hornby’s novel.

  Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood - Grab your tissues and send the guys away, because Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood is the most pedigreed chick flick since Steel Magnolias.

  Dr. T and the Women - Legendary director Robert Altman has assembled a star-studded cast for this comedy, centered on Dr. T (Richard Gere), a Dallas gynecologist going through a mid-life crisis.

  The Forsyte Saga -  A new adaptation from British TV.

  Frighteners (video only) - Michael J. Fox stars in this early film by Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson.

  Heavenly Creatures - Another early film by director Peter Jackson. This tells the disturbing true story of two teenage girls in Australia who murdered one of their mothers. One of the girls grew up to be well-known author Anne Perry.

  Importance of Being Earnest (dvd only) - Splendidly adapted from the wittiest play in the English language, The Importance of Being Earnest stars Colin Firth as an English gentleman who pretends to be his own brother, named Ernest, so he can enjoy himself in the city without besmirching his reputation at his country estate.

  Reign of Fire - The Road Warrior meets Dragonslayer in the briskly entertaining post-apocalyptic action thriller starring very buff Christian Bale and Matthew McConaughey

  Score - Robert De Niro, Marlon Brando and Ed Norton in a heist thriller directed by Frank Oz.

  Scorpion King - Former WWF wrestling star The Rock stars in this action-packed spin-off of The Mummy Returns (also available at the Library on video and dvd).

Shipping News (dvd only) - Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Annie Proulx, the story is about a man named Quoyle (Keven Spacey), a newspaper writer, who moves his aunt and his two daughters back to his ancestral home in a Newfoundland fishing town after his adulterous wife dies in a car crash.

  Signs - A widowed Pennsylvania farmer,  (Mel Gibson), discovers strange 500-foot crop circles in his corn fields. Were they created by pranksters or … aliens? Along with his brother, Merrill (Joaquin Phoenix), and his two children he searches for the answer.

  Star Wars II: Attack of the Clones - Obi-Wan Kenobi and young Anakin Skywalker face danger galore in this thrilling episode in the Star Wars series.

  Stuart Little 2 - Michael J. Fox and Geena Davis voice the lovable characters in this charming sequel to the 1999 film.

  Sum of All Fears ­- In this adaptation of Tom Clancy’s novel, Ben Affleck stars as CIA operative Jack Ryan chasing down a nuclear bomb set to go off in Baltimore.

  Birthday Girl - The story of a mild-mannered bank manager (Ben Chapman) from suburban London who orders a Russian bride (Nicole Kidman) over the Internet. He gets more than he bargained for when her Russian cousins throw themselves into the mix.

Brotherhood of the Wolf - One of the five most popular films of the year in France, Wolf is a cross-cultural hoot that no one should take too seriously.

Count of Monte Cristo - Jim Caviezel and Guy Pearce star in this visually stunning remake of Alexandre Dumas’ famous book.

Italian for Beginners – A delightful fable about a group of six lonely Copenhagen thirtysomethings who try to connect with each other, romantically and otherwise, through a language class in a community center.

John Q. – Denzel Washington plays an unstable father who takes a hospital’s emergency room hostage after he’s told they can’t give his son the heart transplant he needs because of insurance problems.

Monsters, Inc. - Billy Crystal and John Goodman lend their voices to this delightful animated film .

Murder by Numbers - Sandra Bullock plays Cassie Mayweather, a crime scene specialist on the trail of two high-school students Richard Haywood and Justin Pendleton accused of murder.

Panic Room - Jodie Foster plays a divorced woman who is forced to hide out in her home’s hidden room when violent thieves invade her house.

The Rookie - Based on the true story of Jim Morris who, at the age of 35, successfully gets drafted in to the major league as a pitcher, becoming the oldest rookie in more than 30 years.

Songcatcher - Essential viewing for anyone who cares about American popular music and its roots, Songcatcher tells the story of a English musicologist researching folk songs in 1920s Appalachia.

We Were Soldiers - Mel Gibson stars in this highly-acclaimed film about U.S. troops’ first battle in Vietnam.

A Walk to Remember - A love story so sweet, sincere and positive that it sneaks past the defenses built up in this age of irony.

Oldies but Goodies Now Available on DVD

  North by Northwest - Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint in one of Alfred Hitchcock’s most entertaining thrillers. The scene atop Mount Rushmore is a “must see.”

  The Right Stuff - Winner of four Academy Awards, this adaptation of Tom Wolfe’s book chronicles the story of the pioneering Mercury astronauts: Shepard, Grissom, Glenn, Carpenter, Schirra, Copper and Slayton.

  Bullitt - Steve McQueen as tough-guy detective Frank Bullitt. One of the best car-chase sequences ever filmed.

  Cleopatra - Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison, what more could you want?