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Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 discussion sheet.
Description
The viewer is taught how to deal with the death of a loved one by being taken through seventeen segments explaining the grieving process. Experts give advice designed to help understand different grieving styles and to help the grieving party slowly move toward acceptance of their loved one's death. Featured experts' backgrounds range from religious to psychological.
122) Poor things
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (142 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The tale and fantastical evolution of Bella Baxter, a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter. Under Baxter's protection, Bella is eager to learn. Hungry for the worldliness she is lacking, Bella runs off with Duncan Wedderburn, a slick and debauched lawyer, on a whirlwind adventure across the continents. Free from the prejudices of her times, Bella grows steadfast in her purpose to stand for equality...
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (136 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Qiao is in love with Bin, a local mobster. During a fight between rival gangs, she fires a gun to protect him. Qiao gets five years in prison for this act of loyalty. Upon her release, she goes looking for Bin to pick up where they left off.
124) On Chesil Beach
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1962 England, a young couple find their idyllic romance colliding with issues of sexual freedom and societal pressure, leading to an awkward and fateful wedding night.
125) Falling for Figaro
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It follows a brilliant young fund manager named Millie, who quits her job and ends things with her long-term boyfriend to fulfill her dream of becoming an opera singer in the Scottish Highlands. She begins intense vocal training lessons with a renowned but fearsome singing teacher and former opera diva Meghan Geoffrey-Bishop. It is there she meets Max, another of Meghan's students who is also training for the upcoming "Singer of Renown" contest. The...
126) The double
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a United States Senator is brutally murdered, the evidence points to a Soviet assassin codenamed Cassius, who was long thought to be dead. Two men who know Cassius best are thrown together to catch him. Paul Shepherdson is a retired CIA operative who spent his career tracking Cassius around the globe. Ben Geary is a hotshot young FBI Agent and family man who has studied the killer's every move. Ben thinks he knows Cassius, but Paul knows he is...
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (299 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on the novels by Val McDermid, this is the story of a clinical psychologist, Dr. Tony Hill, who is called upon by the police to investigate mysterious killings across the north of England that are too baffling for most detectives. The hit dramatic crime series that doesn't pull any punches in its depiction of the darker side of the human psyche, which only serves to make each episode particularly intriguing, and often authentically gruesome....
128) Wetherby
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Jean Travers is a schoolteacher whose life changes completely when a young man breaks into her home, and then kills himself right in front of her for no apparent reason. As Jean's friends struggle to help her, Jean is drawn deeper and deeper into a web of memories and deceptions.
130) Belle de jour
Series
Criterion collection volume 593
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + e 1 booklet (28 p. : col. ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
A Paris housewife begins secretly spending her afternoon hours working in a bordello in an examination of contemporary social mores and class divisions.
131) Little Bird
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (360 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1968, five-year-old Bezhig Little Bird was forcibly removed from Long Pine Reserve and adopted into a Jewish family in Montreal, and renamed Esther Rosenblum. Eighteen years later, she embarks on a journey to unravel her history.
132) The closer: season 2
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (694 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A tough, CIA-trained detective with Southern charm has been brought from Atlanta to Los Angeles to head up the Priority Murder Squad, a special unit of the LAPD that handles sensitive, high-profile murder cases. With her offbeat personality, a tough-as-nails approach and a track record as one of the country's leading investigators, Deputy Chief Brenda Johnson is a force to reckon with.
Pub. Date
[2017?]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (72 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of three women; a Southern artist redefining herself through her art; a high school senior struggling to gain independence; and a Brazilian living in NY, navigating first-time motherhood, all of whom lost their mothers during adolescence. Structured around a series of "dialogues" featuring Rosie O'Donnell, Molly Shannon and Jane Fonda that focus on various themes threading their stories together.
134) Gaslight
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
DVD-R. A susceptible young woman marries a suave, romantic man never suspecting that he is a murderous scoundrel, obsessed with finding the jewels hidden in her London home. She becomes the helpless victim as slowly, insidiously, he drives her to the brink of insanity.
Series
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Somewhere in the 1700s, an evil pirate captain is assaulting a ship at sea, determined to capture and hold hostage the Prince and Princess sailing on it. Robert the Terrible seizes the Prince, but misses the Princess, who uses her father's HelpSeeker to find someone to help her rescue her brother. Timid Elliot (Larry the Cucumber), lazy Sedgewick (Mr. Lunt), and unsure George (Pa Grape) work as cabin boys at a buccaneer-themed dinner theater. Auditioning...
136) Lonely hearts
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on a true story. In the late 1940's, Martha Beck and Raymond Fernandez became known as the notorious "Lonely Hearts Killers". They would swindle and then viciously murder war widows who would answer their personal ads. Ray would describe himself as a sexy Latin Lover. Martha was Ray's initial mark. But when they met, it was love at first sight. With Martha posing as Ray's sister, they bilked elderly spinsters and widows of their savings and...
137) Hot fuzz
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Nicholas Angel is the finest cop London has to offer. He has an arrest record that is higher than any other officer on the force. As a result, Angel's superiors send him to a place where his talents won't be quite so obvious. They send him to the sleepy and seemingly crime-free village of Sandford. He is partnered with the well-meaning but overeager police officer Danny Butterman, who is the son of the police chief. Danny is a huge action movie fan...
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