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1) The whale
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A reclusive English teacher suffering from severe obesity attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter for one last chance at redemption.
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Linda is an English teacher with a small apartment full of a rich collection of great literature. Her only close personal relationships are those she has with her favorite authors. Her life is far less complicated than the dramas she reads, and she likes it that way. All that changes when former star pupil Jason returns to town after failing as a playwright in New York. To help him avoid law school, Linda mounts his play at school, and puts her own...
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Prep school teacher Jack Marcus meets his match in Dina Delsanto, an abstract painter and new teacher on campus. He challenges her to a war between words and pictures, and in the process, sparks an unlikely romance.
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 129 min. + extras) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Robin Williams portrays English professor John Keating, who, in an age of crew cuts, sport coats and cheerless conformity, inspires his students to live life to the fullest, exclaiming "Carpe Diem, lads! Seize the day. Make your lives extraordinary!" The charismatic teacher's emotionally charged challenge is met by his students with irrepressible enthusiasm--changing their lives forever.
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 291 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Living in the same universe as The Walking Dead, Fear the Walking Dead is a gritty drama that explores the onset of the undead apocalypse through the lens of a fractured family. Set in a city where people come to escape, shield secrets, and bury their pasts, a mysterious outbreak threatens to disrupt what little stability high school guidance counselor Madison Clark and English teacher Travis Manawa have managed to assemble. The everyday pressure...
6) 11/22/63
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (439 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
On November 22, 1963, President Kennedy was killed in Dallas and the world changed forever. But what if it could be changed back? James Franco stars as Jake Epping, an English teacher who accepts the monumental mission of trying to prevent the assassination of JFK. Luckily, he has the help of Sadie Dunhill (Sarah Gadon), a resourceful librarian who's trying to reconcile secrets of her own. Executive produced by J.J. Abrams and based upon the bestselling...
8) Wit
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An English professor, who alienates her students, has always had control over her life. That is until she is diagnosed with a devastating illness. She agrees to undergo a series of procedures that are brutal, extensive and experimental. She finds that the fine line between life and death can only be walked with wit.
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