Ryan Gosling
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (130 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The financial meltdown from the perspective of a number of players: Michael Burry, a bizarre autistic-like stock-picking genius, and the first to realize that the market's housing boom is based on a "house of cards" sham; Mark Baum, self-loathing fictional character whose firm picks up insider trading information from a wrong number phone call; Jared Vennet, a smart-aleck broker who confirms the ominous suspicion; and Charlie Gellar and Jamie Shipley,...
2) The notebook
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 124 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Allie Hamilton and Noah Calhoun meet one evening at a carnival. But they are separated by Allie's parents who dissaprove of Noah's unwealthy family, and move Allie away. When Allie doesn't hear from Noah after several years, she meets and becomes engaged to a handsome young soldier named Lon. Allie, with her love still alive for Noah, stops by Noah's home to check on him. Seeing that their reunion has rekindled a passionate romance, Allie must now...
3) Stay
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Henry, a college student, plans to kill himself in three days, unless psychologist Sam can save him. After his first encounter with Henry, Sam finds he's losing his own grip on reality, as he is thrust into a nightmarish place between life and death.
4) Fracture
Pub. Date
©2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Ted Crawford is a wealthy, brilliant, and meticulous structural engineer who lives in Los Angeles. He shoots his wife and entraps her lover. After the police arrive, he signs a confession. At his arraignment, he asserts his rights to represent himself and asks the court to move immediately to trial. The prosecutor is Willy Beachum, a hotshot D.A. who is getting ready to leave for a civil-law firm. He is told by everyone the case is open and shut....
5) First man
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 141 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The riveting story behind the first manned mission to the moon, focusing on Neil Armstrong and the decade leading to the historic Apollo 11 flight. A visceral and intimate account told from Armstrong's perspective, based on the book by James R. Hansen, the film explores the triumphs and the cost, on Armstrong, his family, his colleagues and the nation itself; of one of the most dangerous missions in history.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An honest, moving and uninhibited love story. The uncompromising portrait of Dean and Cindy, a young married couple who have grown apart, taking one night away from their daughter to try to save their relationship. Highlighted by provocative scenes alternately intimate and intense, the film captured audiences and critics alike.
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
During the frantic last days before a heavily contested Ohio presidential primary, an up-and-coming campaign press secretary finds himself involved in a political scandal that threatens to upend his candidate's shot at the presidency.
10) La La Land
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (128 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A jazz pianist falls for an aspiring actress in Los Angeles. This original musical about everyday life explores the joy and pain of pursuing dreams.
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The clues in a Jane Doe murder case points one way, yet detective Cassie Mayweather thinks another way. There's something too perfect about the way the forensic evidence leads to an obvious perpetrator - something that ties to Cassie's secret past.
12) Half nelson
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A high school teacher with a drug habit finds a friendship in an unlikely source - one of his troubled students. Will their relationship help them or harm them?
13) The nice guys
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1970s Los Angeles, down-on-his-luck private eye Holland March and hired enforcer Jackson Healy must work together to solve the case of a missing girl and the seemingly unrelated death of a porn star. During their investigation, they uncover a shocking conspiracy that reaches up to the highest circles of power.
14) Drive
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Driver is a Hollywood stunt driver by day, and moonlights as a top-notch getaway driver for hire in the criminal underworld. He finds himself a target for some of LA's most dangerous men after agreeing to aid the husband of his beautiful neighbor, Irene. When the job goes dangerously awry, the only way he can keep Irene and her son alive is to do what he does best, Drive!
15) Gangster squad
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Los Angeles, 1949. Ruthless mob king Mickey Cohen runs the show in this town, reaping the ill-gotten gains from the drugs, guns, and if he has his way, every wire bet placed west of Chicago. And he does it all with the protection of not only his own paid goons, but also the police and the politicians who are under his control. It's enough to intimidate even the bravest, street-hardened cop, except for the small, secret crew of LAPD outsiders who come...