Winona Ryder
Pub. Date
[1999], ©1997
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Ellen Ripley died fighting the perfect predator. Two hundred and eight horrific experiments later, she's back. A group of scientists had cloned her--along with the alien queen inside her--hoping to breed the ultimate weapon.
Series
Johnny Worricker trilogy volume pt. 2
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Worricker after the director of MI5 dies. A conspiracy to turn control of MI5 over to the Prime Minister leads Worricker to the islands known as the Turks & Caicos, where he is persuaded by the CIA to deal with a group of ambiguous Americans attending a high-level conference. At the same time, an old girlfriend, Margot Tyrrell, is being asked to betray her boss in London in order to establish an illicit connection between the prime minister and dark...
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When Frank and Lindsay meet on a way to a destination wedding, they soon discover they have a lot in common: they both hate the bride, the groom, the wedding, themselves, and most especially each other. As the weekend's events continually force them together, and their cheerlessness immediately isolates them from the other guests, Frank and Lindsay find that if they verbally spar with someone long enough, anything can happen.
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Once upon a time in a castle high on a hill lived an inventor whose greatest creation was, Edward. Although Edward had an irresistible charm, he was not quite perfect. The inventor's sudden death left him unfinished, with sharp shears of metal for hands. Edward lived alone in the darkness until one day a kind Avon sales person took him home to live with her family. And so began Edward's fantastical adventures in a pastel paradise known as Suburbia....
7) Dracula
Pub. Date
c1997
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 130 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The tortured journey of the devastatingly seductive Transylvanian Prince as he moves from Eastern Europe to 19th century London in search of his reincarnated long-lost love.
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sd., color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The irreverent portrayal of the harsh realities of life after college captures the misadventures of Lelaina, an ambitious TV production assistant, and her relationships with her sarcastic roommate, Vickie, friends Sammy and Troy, and an ambitious video executive, Michael.
10) Mermaids
Pub. Date
[2001?]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (1 hr., 50 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Mrs. Flax is a free-spirited and unconventional woman. She's exasperating to her daughters, Charlotte, age 15, and Kate age 9. Mrs. Flax meets Lou Landsky who tries to turn the trio into a family.
11) Beetlejuice
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After Barbara and Adam Maitland are killed in a car crash, they find themselves trapped as ghosts in their beautiful New England farmhouse. Their peaceful 'existence' is disrupted when a yuppie family, the Deetz's, buy their house. The Maitlands are too nice and harmless as ghosts and all their efforts to scare the Deetz's away are unsuccessful. They decide to call to Beetlejuice, a people-exorcizing ghost, for help.
12) Star Trek
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (126 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
On the day of James Kirk's birth, his father dies on his ship in a last stand against a mysterious alien vessel. He was searching for Ambassador Spock, who is a child on Vulcan, disdained by his neighbors for his half-human nature. Twenty years later, Kirk has grown into a young troublemaker. He is inspired by Capt. Christopher Pike to fulfill his potential in Starfleet, even though he annoys his instructors. Suddenly, there is an emergency on Vulcan...
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After nearly two decades under the wing of an aging, avuncular husband, dutiful mother and housewife Pippa Lee undergoes a midlife breakthrough. Unearthing the sexually curious wild child of her teens, middle-aged Pippa sparks a relationship with a divorcee loner. Pippa Lee is a resilient woman, refusing to let life pass her by.
14) Little women
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Story about the March family of four daughters and a strong mother who, because her husband is away serving in the Army during the Civil War, must raise her "little women" on her own. The daughters include: spirited Jo who longs for a career as a writer; beautiful and conservative older sister Meg; fragile Beth; and the romantic Amy. Through the years, as they become women, the sisters share their most cherished and painful moments of self-discovery...
15) The black swan
Description
A psychological thriller set in the world of New York City ballet. An insecure ballet dancer wins the lead in Swan Lake but slowly loses her grip on sanity when a seductive newcomer is out to steal her role.
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (366 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The Levins are a working-class Jewish family in Newark, New Jersey in an Alternate America during WWII, observing the political rise of aviation hero Charles Lindbergh, a xenophobic populist who captures the presidency in 1940 and turns the nation toward fascism.
17) Night on earth
Series
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (128 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (40 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm)
Description
A collection of five stories involving cab drivers in five different cities. Los Angeles - A talent agent for the movies discovers her cab driver would be perfect to cast, but the cabbie is reluctant to give up her solid cab driver's career. New York - An immigrant cab driver is continually lost in a city and culture he doesn't understand. Paris - A blind girl takes a ride with a cab driver from the Ivory Coast and they talk about life and blindness....
Pub. Date
c2001.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (138 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In New York City in the 1870s, a rigid social code governs how people talk, walk, meet, part, dine, earn their livings, fall in love, and marry. Not a word of the code is written down anywhere, but these people have been studying it since they were born. In this elegant milieu, marriages, like treaties between nations, exist to provide for the orderly transmission of wealth; scions of old and rich families understand that their personal desires have...