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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
One of William Shakespeare's most farcical comedies, "The Comedy of Errors" is notable for its use of mistaken identity to achieve a slapstick comedic effect. Ripe with the bard's characteristic word play, the comedy concerns the lives of two sets of identical twins that were accidentally separated shortly after their birth. The play begins by the elderly Syracusian trader Egeon relating the back-story of his family. When Egeon was young, he married...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In the new Pelican Shakespeare series, each title is redesigned in an easy-to-read format that preserves the favorite features of the original, including an essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare, an introduction to the individual play, and a note on the text used.
5) Happy Texas
Series
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2000, c1999
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A hilarious comedy where a case of mistaken identity leads to a beauty of a con game! When escaped convicts Harry Sawyer and Wayne Wayne Jr. are pulled over in the town of Happy, Texas ... while driving a stolen Winnebago..they think they're being arrested.
Publisher
Hollywood Pictures Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998?], c1995.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A lonely young woman saves the life of a handsome stranger she has fallen in love with from afar. His family mistakes her for his fiancee, and she goes along because she likes his offbeat family so much. Matters take a hilarious turn when she meets and falls in love with her make-believe lover's brother.
8) Unstoppable
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dean Cage is a former Special Ops agent. Now he is a marked man who becomes the victim of mistaken identity. Injected with a powerful hallucinogenic drug that is supposed to force him to tell secrets he doesn't have to give, Cage races against time to clear his name and find an antidote that will save his life. Unfortunately, the only thing that can save him is some thing he doesn't want to trust: his own mind.
9) Jabberwocky
Series
Criterion collection volume 903
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Blu-ray special edition.
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A witless, bumbling young peasant is mistaken for the man the townspeople are expecting to save the kingdom from a terrible dragon.
10) Big business
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Comedy about two sets of identical twins who are mismatched at birth, and forty years later their paths cross in Manhattan at New York's Plaza Hotel.
11) Monte Carlo
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Get ready for an awesome adventure of a lifetime in Monte Carlo! Grace, a high-spirited high school grad, is looking forward to a vacation in Paris with her best friend Emma and stepsister Meg. Just as the girls think their trip is ruined when their hyperactive tour guide leaves them behind, Grace is mistaken for a wealthy socialite and the trio is whisked away to Monte Carlo for a thrilling week of glitz, glam, and unforgettable fun.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An 18-year-old girl is mistaken for the widow of a millionaire's son. Homeless, penniless and pregnant, the girl reluctantly accepts the generosity of the dead man's grieving mother and finds herself falling in love with her late husband's twin brother.
13) The wrong man
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The first Hitchcock film based on a true story. A nightclub musician is falsely accused of a robbery, an accusation that ruins his life.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
Widescreen and full screen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 84 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jon Arbuckle travels to the London and decides to bring his cat, Garfield, along for the trip. A case of mistaken cat identity finds Garfield ruling over a castle after swapping places with an aristocratic kitty who has inherited a fabulous castle. Garfield's reign is soon jeopardized by the nefarious Lord Dargis, who has designs on the estate.
15) The big Lebowski
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A stoned-out leftover from the 1960s is asked to be the go-between when the wife of a rich man for whom he is mistaken is kidnapped.
17) Top hat
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Rogers and Astaire are caught up in a mistaken identity plot, in which Rogers assumes that Astaire is already married, and is alternatively charmed and repelled by his advances.
19) Funny money
Publisher
Starz Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Henry Perkins, a mild-mannered accountant, accidentally trades briefcases with another man to find out that there's a million dollars inside. Henry tells his unsuspecting wife of their new-found fortune, but she doesn't embrace it as well as he does. Soon they're joined by their best friends, a cop on the take, a cop on the hunt, and the dreaded Mr. Big who has come to claim his money.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
c2013.
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (109 minutes) : digital, sound, black & white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Joss Whedon's sexy and contemporary spin on Shakespeare's classic comedy about the story of sparring lovers Beatrice and Benedick offers a sensual, tragic and occasionally absurd view of the intricate game that is love.
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