Cicely Tyson
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A frustrated teacher in a southern town, whose education is being underutilized, finds his own purpose in helping bring meaning to the last days of a young man due to be executed. In teaching one person to die with dignity, he redeems himself.
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Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (146 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1960s Mississippi, Skeeter, a southern society girl, returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends' lives, and a small Mississippi town, upside down when she decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent southern families. Aibileen, Skeeter's best friend's housekeeper, is the first to open up, to the dismay of her friends in the tight-knit black community.
Pub. Date
[1999?], c1991
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (137 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A chance encounter in a nursing home leads to an unexpected friendship between a dowdy housewife and a spry octagenarian who tells her the story of a fiercely independent woman half a century ago, inspiring the housewife to change her life, often with hilarious results.
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 125 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Thirty years after they served together in Vietnam, a former Navy Corpsman Larry "Doc" Shepherd re-unites with his old buddies, former Marines Sal Nealon and Reverend Richard Mueller, to bury his son, a young Marine killed in the Iraq War.