Adam Arkin
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Formats
Description
Hollywood producer Bobby Gould has spent a career reaping what others sow, until he's forced to choose between his friend's sure hit and a beautiful girl's art house project. During an evening of seduction and manipulation, Bobby discovers that the power he exerts is more elusive than it seems.
Pub. Date
©2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color w/b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Horatio Nelson Jackson, an eccentric Vermont doctor, drove from San Francisco to New York City, in 1903 to became the first person to drive an automobile across the continent - a feat never before accomplished. It would mark the beginning of a new era in America and the end of another. It took Lewis & Clark over two years to go from the Atlantic to the Pacific - Horatio went the opposite direction, by means of the "Horseless carriage", in less than...
5) Pig
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A truffle hunter who lives alone in the Oregonian wilderness must return to his past in Portland in search of his beloved foraging pig after she is kidnapped.
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (840 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Tells the story of ordinary people in four quintessentially American towns - Waterbury, Connecticut; Mobile, Alabama; Sacramento, California; and Luverne, Minnesota - and examines the ways in which the Second World War touched the lives of every family on every street in every town in America.
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 360 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, and Sarah Botstein's three-part, six-hour documentary series examines how the American people and leaders responded to one of the greatest humanitarian disasters of the twentieth century, and how this catastrophe challenged America's identity as a nation of immigrants and the very ideals of democracy.
9) Sight Unseen
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Donald Margulies and L.A. Theatre Works present the story of Jonathan Waxman, an up-an-coming artistic genius on a path to ultimate success and exposure. However, during his course, Jonathan discovers his ex-lover Patricia; the commercialization of American art; and inevitable questions of anti-Semitism.
10) Damaged care
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the tradition of Erin Brockovich, based on the true story of one woman doctor's quest to bring justice to people battling HMOs to get the care they need.
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
7 videodiscs (approximately 840 minutes) : sound, color with black & white segments ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Profiles Theodore, Franklin, and Eleanor Roosevelt, three members of the most prominent and influential family in American politics. It is the first time in a major documentary television series that their individual stories have been interwoven into a single narrative. This seven-part, 14 hour film follows the Roosevelts for more than a century, from Theodore's birth in 1858 to Eleanor's death in 1962. Over the course of these years, Theodore would...
12) My Louisiana Sky
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A young girl comes of age in this bittersweet story of family pride in the rural South of the 1950s. A movie for anyone who has ever been surprised by the small miracles of life, touched by memories, and thankful for booth.
13) The Doctor
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Being a patient for the first time changes the life of a surgeon, as he experiences what it's like to be on the other side of a medical chart.