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Publication 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.
Publication 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...
Publication 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
Publication 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.
6) Curly top
Series
Publication 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.
Series
Criterion collection volume 253
Publication Date
2008.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (147 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A drama detailing the emotional breakdown of a suburban housewife and how her family struggles to save her from herself.
Publication Date
©2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This heartwarming and inspirational film tells the story of a young woman growing up in the 1950's who devotes her life to the service of God. However, her faith is tested with each tragedy endured on an extraordinary life journey.
9) In her shoes
Publication 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...
10) The last kiss
Publication 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...
11) Duck
Publication 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...
Publication 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...
Publication Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The past has cast a long shadow over the present. A picturesque farm is where the now-married Melanie lives unhappily with her husband. When Melanie invites fellow Holocaust survivor Jakob to her home, he unexpectedly brings Christopher, whose love for Melanie has never diminished since their confinement in an internment camp. Old feelings and long-suppressed memories are stirred up and reveal a climactic, life-changing feasts.
14) Brick lane
Publication 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...
16) Junebug
Publication 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,...
Publication 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.
18) Seven pounds
Publication Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (123 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Description
Tim Thomas was a gifted aerospace engineer with a beautiful wife. Then, while using his cell phone while driving, his car wandered across lanes and he became responsible for the deaths of 7 others, including his wife. Unable to forgive himself, Tim sets out to give 'pounds of flesh' that will give new life to seven deserving individuals to make up for the seven lives he destroyed. Tim intends to kill himself to atone for his sins. He decides to bestow...
19) Bloom
Publication 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.
Publication 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...
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