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21) The best of me
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of Dawson and Amanda, two former high school sweethearts who find themselves reunited after twenty years apart, when they return to their small town for the funeral of a beloved friend. Their bittersweet reunion reignites the love they've never forgotten, but soon they discover the forces that drove them apart twenty years ago live on, posing even more serious threats today.
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 126 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When Susan moves with her father from America to England, she ends up falling in love with and marrying Sir John Ashwood, an English baronet. But, before their son is born, Susan loses her husband to World War I. When World War II breaks out years later, her son's own tour of duty begins. Finding out whether he will return home safely or not makes for some of the most dramatic moments in motion picture history.
24) The breadwinner
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (1 hr., 33 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Parvana is an eleven-year-old girl growing up under the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2001. When her father is wrongfully arrested, Parvana cuts off her hair and dresses like a boy in order to support her family. Working alongside her friend Shauzia, Parvana discovers a new world of freedom, and danger. With undaunted courage, Parvana draws strength from the fantastical stories she invents, as she embarks on a quest to find her father and reunite her...
Author
Formats
Description
Screen legends Tyrone Power ("The Razor's Edge"), Marlene Dietrich ("Judgment at Nuremberg") and Charles Laughton ("The Night of the Hunter") star in this "brilliantly made courtroom drama" (Film Daily) that left audiences reeling from its surprise twists and shocking climax. Directed by Billy Wilder ("Avanti!"), scripted by Wilder and Harry Kurnitz ("One Touch of Venus"), and based on Agatha Christie's hit London play, this splendid, one-of-a-kind...
27) The hippopotamus
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It is the story of a poet who is summoned to his friend's country manor to investigate a series of unexplained miracles. The disgruntled, cantankerous, semi-famous poet Ted Wallace is hired to investigate strange doings at Lord and Lady Logan's country manor, Swafford Hall.
30) The Onion movie
Pub. Date
©2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (80 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A movie of random skits made into a movie, skits that mock cultural fads, commercials, and people of all races. Bonus features include: Forced Trailers: Hitman, Meet the Spartans, AVP-R; deleted scenes and more.
31) 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.
Series
Criterion collection volume 747
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (129 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 fold-out insert.
Description
Follows the exploits of two pansexual young men-the handsome scholar Encolpius and his vulgar, insatiably lusty friend Ascyltus-as they move through a landscape of free-form pagan excess.
35) Oliver Twist
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (176 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This gripping tale of Charles Dickens' classic remains faithful to the spirit of the novel while delivering a modern, thrilling, tragic, and occasionally comic edge.
36) The romantics
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Alliances are tested when seven college pals reunite to watch two of their own say 'I do' at a seaside wedding. But the maid of honor and the groom share a passionate history, and the bride isn't the only one who's wondering if it's all in the past, proving that nothing complicates friendship like love.
37) Blowup
Series
Criterion collection volume 865
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (64 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.)
Description
A London photographer takes some pictures of a couple in a park and discovers that he may have recorded evidence of a murder.
38) Sophie's choice
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (150 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A drama set in post-World War II Brooklyn revolves around Sophie, a Polish Catholic beauty who survived Auschwitz, her lover, Nathan, and Stingo, a would-be writer. As the three grow closer, Stingo discovers the captivating and moving truths that each harbors.
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (138 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun slaying of the patrons at an all-night diner in this lush tribute to tough film noir crime films.
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