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1) Compulsion
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 103 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Chicago, 1924. Two young men, one bossy and intimidating, the other sensitive and introverted, thought their superior intellect would enable them to pull off "The perfect crime." The result is a sensational case with defense attorney Jonathan Wilk putting capital punishment itself on trial.
2) Wall Street
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (126 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An ambitious young stockbroker is lured into the illegal, lucrative world of corporate espionage.
4) Smile
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Barbed, merciless send-up of small-town America focusing on a group of naive California girls who compete for the 'Young American Miss' crown amid rampant commercialism.
6) Rushmore
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A gifted, rebellious teenager finds himself in competition with a wealthy older man for a favorite teacher's affections.
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (71 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
DVD-R. "The camera soars over mountain headwaters, dives into schools of salmon, and captures turbines grinding to a halt as the largest dam removal project in history begins. The film features people and perspectives on all sides of the Elwha debate, reflecting the many voices of the Elwha valley"--Film website.
9) 2010
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
American and Soviet astronauts go to Jupiter in an attempt to solve the puzzle of the original Discovery flight made in 2001.
10) Dark horse
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Romance blooms between two thirty-somethings in arrested development: an avid toy collector who is the dark horse of his family and a depressed woman on the rebound.
11) Under the sea
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (41 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Transports you to some of the most exotic and isolated undersea locations on Earth, including Southern Australia, New Guinea, and others in the Indo-Pacific region and allows you to experience face-to-face encounters with some of the most mysterious and stunning creatures of the sea.
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"As a musician, Townes Van Zandt was legendary, perhaps one of the greatest who ever lived, inspiring artists from Bob Dylan to Norah Jones to Steve Earle. As a man, a husband, and a father his life was as tragic and as beautiful as the songs he wrote. Townes was an enigma to his family, pinned between a deep longing for home and nomadic lifestyle that was necessary for his livelihood."--Container.
14) Mystic pizza
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col., stereo. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Three young women, waitresses at a pizza parlor in Mystic, Connecticut, spend a special summer discovering romance.
15) Bye bye Birdie
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When rock star Conrad Birdie gets drafted, his manager organizes a nationwide contest in which one lucky girl wins a farewell kiss on The Ed Sullivan show.
16) Five easy pieces
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Character study of a talented pianist who has given up a promising career and now works on oil rigs. After 20 years he returns home to his father's deathbed perhaps to reconcile himself with his fear of failure and desire for greatness.
17) Moby Dick (1956)
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Captain Ahab sails the seven seas seeking revenge on Moby Dick, the great white whale who maimed and disfigured him.
18) Marty
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Marty is the story of a 34-year-old Bronx butcher who fears that he will never find love, but at a Saturday night dance he meets a lonely schoolteacher with similar fears.
19) The misfits
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (125 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Following her divorce, a lonely young woman befriends a couple of down-on-their-luck cowboys. Both men desire her, but she longs for only one, who represents for her the freedom she's never had. Teaming up with a weather-beaten rodeo rider, the foursome goes into the mountains on a quest for rare and elusive wild horses. There they come to realize that, for all their differences, they share fundamentally similar needs and desires.
20) I am
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 78 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of a successful Hollywood director, Tom Shadyac, who experienced a life-threatening head injury, and his ensuing journey to try and answer two very basic questions: 'What's wrong with the world?' and 'What can be done about it?' With a film crew of four, Tom visits some of today's great minds, including authors, poets, teachers, religious leaders, and scientists, searching for the fundamental endemic problem that causes all the other problems,...
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