Frances McDormand
2) Primal fear
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (2 hr., 10 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Chicago defense attorney Martin Vail must defend a choir boy accused of murder, while competing against his former lover, the prosecution.
Pub. Date
©2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Shows how human desires are an essential, intricate part of natural history. The program will explore the natural history of four plants -the apple, the tulip, marijuana, and the potato - and the corresponding human desires - sweetness, beauty, intoxication and control. This two-hour documentary begins in Michael Pollan's garden, and roams the world, from the fields of Iowa to the apple forests of Kazakhstan, from a medical marijuana hot house to...
4) Fargo
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (4 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
A midwestern policewoman investigates a series of brutal and interconnected crimes. Steadily, she tightens the net on the killers and their accomplices in a kidnapping scheme gone wildly wrong.
5) Blood simple
Pub. Date
©2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A jealous husband hires a detective to murder his wife and her lover.
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Osbourne Cox is a CIA analyst who quits his job after being demoted. He decides to write a memoir about his life in the CIA. His wife, Katie, wants a divorce and, based on the advice of her divorce lawyer, she downloads many of his personal and financial files onto a disc. Katie's lover is Treasury agent Harry Pfarrer. The disc eventually finds its way to Hardbodies, a workout gym. An employee of the gym, Chad Feldheimer obtains the disc and ascertains...
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, tells the story of two twelve-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. As various authorities try to hunt them down, a violent storm is brewing off-shore, and the peaceful island community is turned upside down in more ways than anyone can handle.
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Corporate salesman Steve Butler has been dispatched to the rural town of McKinley with his sales partner to offer much-needed relief to the economically hard-hit residents in exchange for drilling rights to their properties. As they grapple with a surprising array of both open hearts and closed doors, the outsiders soon discover the strength of an American small town at a crossroads.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In a small upstate New York town, two 11-year-old girls from opposite sides of the tracks are convicted of murdering an infant and sentenced to juvenile detention facilities. But when a toddler goes missing seven years later, Detective Nancy Porter begins to suspect recently released Ronnie and Alice. As the investigation deepens, Porter may discover that the truth can hide the most shocking secrets of all. Diane Lane and Common co-star in this grim,...
10) Hail, Caesar!
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An all-star comedy set during the latter years of Hollywood's Golden Age. It follows a single day in the life of a studio fixer who is presented with plenty of problems to fix.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1939 London, Miss Guinevere Pettigrew is a middle-aged governess who finds herself once again unfairly dismissed from her job. Now she must seize the day if she wants a job. She does this by intercepting an employment assignment outside of her comfort level as social secretary. Arriving at a penthouse apartment for the interview, Miss Pettigrew is catapulted into the glamorous world and dizzying social whirl of an American actress and singer, Delysia...
12) Paradise road
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (132 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Fact-based recounting of a group of women who are imprisoned on the island of Sumatra by the Japanese during World War II and used music as a relief to their misery.
13) Olive Kitteridge
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 240 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The four-part drama that tells the story of a seemingly placid New England town that is actually wrought with illicit affairs, crime and tragedy, all told through the lens of Olive, whose wicked wit and harsh demeanor mask a warm but troubled heart and staunch moral center. The story spans 25 years and focuses on Olive's relationships with her husband, Henry, the good-hearted and kindly town pharmacist; their son, Christopher, who resents his mother's...
15) Laurel Canyon
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Harvard graduate Sam and his fiancée, Alex, move into Sam's mother's house in upscale Laurel Canyon, thinking that she would not be there. Only problem is that she is still there, supposedly finishing up a record that she's producing for her boy toy, Ian's band. Sam's mom seems more interested in smoking pot and drinking than actually working, though. Alex doesn't mind, but Sam is quite upset. Alex starts off focused as she works on finishing a...
16) Women talking
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Do nothing. Stay and fight. Or leave. In 2010, the women of an isolated religious community grapple with reconciling a brutal reality with their faith.
The women of an isolated religious community grapple with reconciling their reality with their faith. Though the backstory, we see a community of women come together to figure out how they might move forward together to build a better world for themselves and their children. Stay and fight or leave....
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (128 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Harry Sanborn is a perennial playboy with the libido of a much younger man. During what was to be a romantic weekend with his current infatuation, Marin, at her mother's Hampton beach house, Harry develops chest pains. He winds up being nursed by Marin's reluctant mother, Erica. When Harry hesitates to act on his feelings for Erica, Harry's thirtysomething doctor steps in and starts to pursue Erica. Harry, who has always had the world on a string,...
18) Chattahoochee
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Fictionalized account of a decorated Korean War veteran's ordeal of incarceration in Florida's state mental institution and his campaign to reform its unjust practices and improve inmate living conditions.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
What if the asteroid that forever changed life on Earth missed and giant dinosaurs never became extinct? In this epic journey into the world of dinosaurs, an Apatosaurus named Arlo makes an unlikely human friend. While traveling through a harsh and mysterious landscape, Arlo learns the power of confronting his fears and discovers what he is truly capable of.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After months have passed without a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at William Willoughby, the town's revered chief of police. When his second-in-command Officer Dixon, an immature mother's boy with a penchant for violence, gets involved, the battle between Mildred and Ebbing's law enforcement is only exacerbated.