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Series
Pub. Date
©2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (40 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Description
In 1910, Bill, a Chicago steel worker accidentally kills his supervisor. He flees to the Texas panhandle with his lover Abby and little sister Linda, where they work harvesting wheat in the fields of a stoic farmer. When Bill learns that the farmer is ill and has less than a year to live, he encourages Abby to accept the man's attentions. The Farmer and Abby marry, and she and her "siblings" live in the big house, waiting for the Farmer to die, so...
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Nate Saint is a pilot and Christian missionary who, with his family, lives and works in the jungles of the Amazon River Basin in South America. Nate is fascinated by tales he's heard of the Waodani, a violent and aggressive tribe living nearby, and with a group of fellow Christians takes it upon himself to teach them the importance of compassion and forgiveness. However, the leader of the Waodanis, Mincayani, does not trust the white visitors, and...
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 95 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Lola Delaney is a vulgar, dumpy, less-than-bright "shotgun bride" who is married to recovering alcoholic Doc Delaney. Their unhappy marriage is made even more unhappy when a sexy stranger, Marie, rents a room from Lola. Lola is a tiresome creature who never stops talking, especially about the "imminent" return of her runaway dog Sheba. Doc is having enough trouble staying from the bottle and resigning himself to his marriage without the curvaceous...
5) Yes
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Feeling trapped in her marriage to a politician, an American scientist begins an affair with a Lebanese surgeon living in exile in London. As the affair goes on the couple finds it difficult to put aside their very different beliefs.
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set against a romantic Parisian backdrop, the lives of four strangers, an innocent woman with a dangerous secret, a seductive cabaret dancer, a mysterious stranger, and an unscrupulous operatic tenor, collide on one fateful evening when secrecy is a matter of survival.
7) Curly top
Series
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (75 min.) : sound, color & black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Edward Morgan, rich trustee of an orphanage, meets and is entranced with little Elizabeth and her older sister Mary. He adopts them and they come to adore Edward. Mary falls in love with Edward, and he has the same feelings; Elizabeth plays matchmaker.
8) In her shoes
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc ( 130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Free-wheeling irresponsible Maggie gets through her life thanks to her remarkable looks and her complete lack of scruples. She constantly goes to her straight-laced, plain-Jane successful lawyer sister Rose when she is in need of financial help. The two sisters have been very close to each other in part because their troubled mother died when they were girls. Maggie discovers hidden letters that reveal she and Rose have a grandmother, but Maggie ends...
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Michael and Jenna have been a couple for three years. At dinner one night, Jenna's parents, Anna and Stephen, announce that they are having a baby. Jenna is overjoyed, but everyone else has mixed emotions. At a wedding the next day, Jenna and Michael meet up with friends Chris, who is tired of his wife telling him how bad he is as she deals with their whiny baby; Izzy who is taking the break-up of his most current relationship badly and does not react...
10) Duck
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Los Angeles, 2009. Arthur is a retired widower in a dystopian society where social services have gone the way of social graces, and another Bush occupies the White House. Forced from his home with only a duck named Joe to accompany him, Arthur embarks on a quest for purpose and community across the urban desert of Los Angeles. Arthur learns that saving the life of this duck may have led to the salvation of his own. In a duck who believes him to be...
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Sarah Cain is sweet, successful, slightly self-absorbed and a city girl through and through. But when the untimely death of her sister draws her to Amish country for a funeral, she makes a discovery that will change her life: she is now the legal guardian to five Amish nieces and nephews! Desperately trying to juggle the kids, her career and her comfort level, Sarah must reevaluate her priorities as she prepares for the biggest culture shock of everyone's...
12) Barry Lyndon
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 184 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Rise and fall of a young 18th century Irishman bent on achieving fame and fortune, mainly by marriage.
13) Brick lane
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Nazneem is a young Bangladeshi woman who arrives in London during the 1980s. She leaves behind her beloved sister and home, for an arranged marriage and a new life. In a loveless marriage to the middle aged Chanu, she feels trapped within the four walls of her flat in East London. She begins to fear that her soul is quietly dying. Meanwhile, her sister Hasina, continues to live a carefree life back in Bangladesh. Nazneen struggles to accept her lifestyle...
15) Junebug
Pub. Date
©2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Junebug is a deceptively simple, deeply resonant story about the inherent loneliness of family, embracing the texture of a world the movies rarely visit. Three years have passed since George has been home, and he is bringing his bride, Chicago art dealer Madeleine. His family--father Eugene, mother Peg, brother Johnny and sister-in-law Ashley--await them with a mixture of excitement, anxiety, and dread. Junebug sounds a paean to yearning, alienation,...
16) Bloom
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A story of love, loss, and lust and all of life in a single day takes place on the morning of June 16, 1904 in Dublin, Ireland. Jewish-Irish Leopold Bloom is a tragic figure who walks the streets of Dublin while his wife Molly commits adultery with barely the regard to try to conceal it. Intermingled is the story of Stephen Dedalus, a philosophical young English poet who is in the service of the Catholic Church in Ireland.
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 122 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Turning her back on her wealthy, established family, Diane Arbus falls in with Lionel Sweeney. Sweeney is an enigmatic mentor who introduces Arbus to the marginalized people who help her become one of the most revered photographers of the twentieth century. Diane's strange, new world unlocks her deepest secrets, awakens her remarkable artistic genius, and launches her path to becoming the artist she is meant to be.
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Andreas arrives in a strange city with no memory of how he got there. He is presented with a job and an apartment, but before long, Andreas notices that something is wrong. The people around him seem cut off from any real emotion and communicate only in superficialities. He makes an attempt to escape from the city, but he discovers there is no way out. Andreas meets a man who has found a crack in a wall in his cellar. Beautiful music streams out from...
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It's love at first sight when bridesmaid Senta falls into the life of a handsome young Phillipe at the wedding of his younger sister. As passion for one another intensifies, Phillipe slowly discovers that Senta is shrouded in mystery. When one day she asks Phillipe to perform a terrible deed as proof of his love for her, Phillipe must come to terms with who his lover might really be.
20) Network
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (121 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A television newscaster's mental breakdown turns him into a celebrity when the network tries to profit from his illness.
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