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Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (825 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A ratings sensation for ABC, it was already a successful 1956 novel and 1957 film, made its way to network television in 1964. A prime-time soap opera whose influences can be seen in later beloved programs such as Dallas, Knots Landing, and Twin Peaks, the show examined the complex web of scandals, schemes, and sex in a New England town.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (790 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on the Grace Metalious novel. Set in a small New England town, Peyton Place deals with the secrets and scandals of two generations of the town's inhabitants. An unmarried woman, Constance, and her daughter Allison are at the dramatic center of the story.
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (810 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The winter holidays have come and gone, and the new year begins with a fresh dusting of snow and the return of Elliot Carson to Peyton Place. Behind the picket fences of the clapboard houses, beyond the historic pillory in the quaint town square, the neatly wrapped New England town continues to unravel in ways no one could have imagined.
6) Beetlejuice
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After Barbara and Adam Maitland are killed in a car crash, they find themselves trapped as ghosts in their beautiful New England farmhouse. Their peaceful 'existence' is disrupted when a yuppie family, the Deetz's, buy their house. The Maitlands are too nice and harmless as ghosts and all their efforts to scare the Deetz's away are unsuccessful. They decide to call to Beetlejuice, a people-exorcizing ghost, for help.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (990 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A ratings sensation for ABC, it was already a successful 1956 novel and 1957 film, made its way to network television in 1964. A prime-time soap opera whose influences can be seen in later beloved programs such as Dallas, Knots Landing, and Twin Peaks, the show examined the complex web of scandals, schemes, and sex in a New England town.
Series
Criterion collection volume 95
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Cary Scott, an attractive and wealthy New England widow, creates a social outcry in her community and within her family when she becomes romantically involved with Ron Kirby, her much younger gardener.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The trouble with Harry is that he's dead, and while no one really minds, everyone feels responsible. Shirley Maclaine makes her screen debut in this New England romp that includes romance, humor ... and several unearthings of the corpse.
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (126 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story focuses on the riotous confusion created when a Russian submarine gets stuck on a New England sandbar and the landing crew goes ashore for help-only to be mistaken for an invasion force by the over-imaginative townspeople.
11) Summer stock
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Romance blooms during the summer in New England when Jane Falbury's sister shows up with a theatrical troupe and convinces her to let them stage a musical in the barn.
13) The finest hours
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 117 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In February of 1952, one of the worst storms to ever hit the East Coast struck New England, damaging an oil tanker off the coast of Cape Cod and literally ripping it in half. On a small lifeboat faced with frigid temperatures and 70-foot high waves, four members of the Coast Guard set out to rescue the more than 30 stranded sailors trapped aboard the rapidly-sinking vessel.
14) Little women
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (194 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in New England during the Civil War, it chronicles the lives and loves of Jo, Meg, Amy, and Beth, four sisters who must rely on each other for strength in the face of tragedies both large and small, after their father leaves for battle.
15) The holdovers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (134 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually, he forms an unlikely bond with one of them a damaged, brainy troublemaker, and with the school's head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam.
16) Moonrise kingdom
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, tells the story of two twelve-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. As various authorities try to hunt them down, a violent storm is brewing off-shore, and the peaceful island community is turned upside down in more ways than anyone can handle.
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