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Movies and videos with a feminist edge: located in the Sweet Briar College library according to number.

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Absolutely Fabulous. Series 1 ; part one

Video Cassette No.2067

Absolutely Fabulous. Series 1 ; part two

Video Cassette No.2068

Absolutely Fabulous. Series 2 ; part one

Video Cassette No.2069

Absolutely fabulous. Series 2 ; part two

Video Cassette No.2070

Absolutely Fabulous. Series 3

Video Cassette No.2334 Pt.1

Absolutely Fabulous. Series 3

Video Cassette No.2335 Pt.2

Acqua E Sapone
Comedy based on the adventures of a young woman in the high fashion world in Rome. Complications set in when a handsome janitor impersonates her tutor-priest.

Video Cassette No. 441

An Awfully Big Adventure
A comedy about a starstruck girl lured into the grown-up world of the theater.

Video Cassette No.2553

Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City
Armistead Maupin's beloved bestseller comes to life in this hilarious and poignant chronicle of San Francisco in the 1970s. The carefree chaos revolves around the funky old apartment house at 28 Barbary Lane where landlady Anna Madrigal welcomes tenants by taping homegrown joints to their doors and presides over their lives with an almost maternal affection.

Video Cassette No.1719, 1720, & 1721

As You Like It
An adaptation of one of Shakespeare's comedies about the star-crossed lovers Orlando and Rosalind. A pastoral romance set in the Forest of Arden in medieval France, this story is full of kindliness, good fellowship, and goodwill.

Video Cassette No. 65, 1178, & 1533

Atame! Tie me up, tie me down
Comedy in which an orphaned mental patient kidnaps a porn star in an irrationally inspired bid for love.

Video Cassette No.1464

Ay, Carmela!
Aragon, Spain, 1938. Carmela and her two companions quit their posts as entertainers for the Republican troops in search for a better fortune. By mistake, they cross over to the Nationalist zone, get arrested and are given the chance to perform for their freedom.

Video Cassette No.2057

Ball of fire
When a serious-minded professor and his high brow colleagues begin work on a new encyclopedia, he enlists the aid of a beautiful but shady night club queen to explain slang, unaware that she is wanted by the law.

Video Cassette No. 370

Barcelona
Ted Boynton is an American businessman looking for love. His cousin, Fred, is out for lust. Together, they launch an all-out attack to find the girl of their dreams in the city of Barcelona.

Video Cassette No.2548

Bar Girls
Romantic comedy featuring a group of women whose lives and loves intertwine against the backdrop of a Los Angeles lesbian bar.

Video Cassette No.2470

Belle of the Nineties
Mae West plays a popular burlesque performer in swinging St.Louis, who travels to New Orleans and thwarts Ace Lamont's attempts to steal her jewels.

Video Cassette No.1364

Bernice Bobs her Hair
Under the direction of her vampish cousin, a young, sweet-but- dull flapper bobs her hair to gain peer approval. The make-over works too well--she becomes the belle of the ball and captivates every boy--including her cousin's boyfriend.

Video Cassette No.1216

Born yesterday
A millionaire junk dealer arranges for his unsophisticated girlfriend to take a course in "culture".

Video Cassette No.1092

Breakfast at Tiffany's
Comedy-romance about a New York City playgirl and her next-door neighbor, a writer "kept" by a wealthy woman.

Video Cassette No. 549

Bringing up Baby
Crazy comedy about an heiress who is determined to catch a stuffy zoologist, and uses her pet leopard, Baby, to help get his attention.

Video Cassette No. 1075

Broadcast News
Jane Craig, a brilliant producer, has the job of trying to make Tom Grunick, the perfect modern anchorman, with charm and good looks but no background for the job, look like a newsman. Then there is Aaron Altman, a dedicated reporter, utterly devoid of on-camera charisma and jealous of Jane and Tom's relationship as well as Tom's success with the public.

Video Cassette No.1712

Bull Durham
Comedy about a romantic triangle involving a baseball team's unofficial female trainer and handler and two minor league baseball players .

Video Cassette No. 498

Burglar
Ex-con Bernice Rhodenbarr is tough, smart, funny--and in one heluva mess. A double-dealing cop's got the goods on her for a long-ago theft and wants $20,000 to keep from squealing. Of course, there's only one way Bernice can come up with dough like that--turn burglar for one last heist. Starring Whoopi Goldberg.

Video Cassette No.1021

Carefree
Radio star Amanda Cooper seeks help from a psychiatrist as to whether or not she should marry her boyfriend. Starring Ginger Rogers.

Video Cassette No.72

Chasing Amy
Follows the complications of love and friendship among three New Jersey comic book artists, Holden, Banky his partner, and Alyssa, the woman of Holden's dreams who at times prefers other women.

Video Cassette No.3176

City Lights: A Comedy Romance in Pantomime
A tramp wins the love of a blind flower girl.

Video Cassette No.913

Clueless
It's not easy being the most popular and glamorous girl at Beverly Hills High, yet somehow 15-year-old Cher manages. Starring Alicia Silverstone.

Video Cassette No.2460

Death Becomes Her
A dark comedy about greed, vanity, sex, immortality, life--and death. Starring Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn.

Video Cassette No.2969

Eat Drink Man Woman
Three unmarried daughters are skeptical about marriage until their father, a retired master chef and widower surprises them with his secret love affair with a young woman many years his junior.

Video Cassette No.2399

Eating
As women at a trendy Southern California birthday party talk about food, what they say reveals what they think about life, love, men and each other.

Video Cassette No.1303

Exit to Eden
Two of the straightest undercover cops in L.A. find themselves on a sex fantasy island, where the secret of keeping their cover is to uncover more than the truth. Starring Rosie O'Donnell and Dana Delany.

Video Cassette No.2960

Forget Paris
An NBA referee and an airline rep think they've found happiness together, until they meet each other's family and friends. Starring Deborah Winger.

Video Cassette No.2587

Four Weddings and a Funeral
Romantic comedy about a young woman who meets a man she becomes interested in at a friend's wedding. He thinks she's the woman of his dreams, but she slips through his fingers when the timing seems wrong, and they meet again at three more weddings and a funeral before the two finally connect. Starring Andie MacDowell.

Video Cassette No.2336

French Kiss
When her fiance is smitten by a beautiful Frenchwoman, Kate flies to Paris determined to win him back. However, nothing prepares her for Luc, a cunning, sexy Frenchman with a gift for gab and a fondness for thievery. A self-proclaimed expert on affairs of the heart, Luc promises to help Kate win back her man. But one star-crossed misadventure after another sweeps them across France, ultimately changing them in ways they never dreamed possible. Starring Meg Ryan.

Video Cassette No.2974

French Twist

Video Cassette No.

Go Fish
A lesbian romantic comedy about a band of young Chicago dykes in a funny, sophisticated, and real modern-day romance.

Video Cassette No.2603

I've Heard the Mermaids Singing
A klutzy carrot top lands a job in a trendy art gallery whose curator is chic and sophisticated.

Video Cassette No.451

Jumpin' Jack Flash
Whoopi's bank computer terminal is invaded by British intelligence operative "Jumpin' Jack Flash" so he can enlist her help in getting out of a very sticky situation in Eastern Europe. Starring Whoopi Goldberg.

Video Cassette No.1004

Much Ado About Nothing
A dramatization of William Shakespeare's play of a romantic comedy of love involving an innocent heroine who is denounced for unchastity by her intended bridegroom.

Video Cassette No.1184

Muriel's Wedding
Nobody ever seemed to pay much attention to plain-Jane Muriel, until she heads off to the big city and becomes engaged to a foriegn sports hero who needs an Australian wife for citizenship reasons.

Video Cassette No.2653

My Best Friend's Wedding

Video Cassette No.

Orlando
Orlando, an English nobleman, defies the laws of nature with surprising results. Immortal and highly imaginative, he undergoes a series of extraordinary transformations that humorously, hauntingly illustrate the eternal war between the sexes.

Video Cassette No.2307

Polyester
Comic melodrama about a typical American housewife whose life is going to pot.

Video Cassette No.3047

The Princess Bride
Return to a time when men were men and swamps were fire swamps, full of quicksand and rodents of unusual size. Lagoons were inhabited by shrieking eels, and the most beautiful woman in the world was named... Buttercup? Well, it's a bent fairy tale, complete with all the fencing, fighting, chases, escapes and silly accents you'd expect.

Video Cassette No.267 & 1039

The Road to Wellville
Comedy about a young couple hoping to improve both their health and their marriage. To do so, they visit the spa/hospital founded and run by the inventor of corn flakes, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg where they open their minds about sexuality. He may know his breakfast food, but some of his ideas about physical fitness are a little strange. Starring Bridget Fonda.

Video Cassette No.2880

She's Gotta Have It
Nola and her three boy friends try to cope with the fact that she doesn't want to give up any of them.

Video Cassette No.1950

Welcome to the Dollhouse
Eleven-year-old Dawn "Wienerdog" Wiener is a junior high geek who just wants to be popular. Teased by her classmates and tormented by the school bully, Dawn develops an improbable plan to seduce the star of a high-school garage band.

Video Cassette No.2913

The Witches of Eastwick
The "witches" are three modern-day women yearning for Mr. Right in a quaint New England town. Wealthy Daryl Van Horne arrives in town and sets out to prove he's a devil with the ladies. Starring Cher, Susan Sarandon and Michelle Pfeiffer.

Video Cassette No.477


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