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21) The good liar
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Consummate con man Roy Courtnay has set his sights on his latest mark: the recently widowed Betty McLeish, worth millions. But this time, what should have been a simple swindle escalates into a cat-and-mouse game with the ultimate stakes.
22) Men
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 100 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the aftermath of a personal tragedy, Harper retreats alone to the beautiful English countryside, hoping to find a place to heal. However, someone or something from the surrounding woods appears to be stalking her. What begins as simmering dread soon becomes a fully formed nightmare, inhabited by her darkest memories and fears.
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When the husband of a high-society woman is killed in an accident, she realizes she has nothing left except a house in rural Georgia that is being used as a foster home. Moving in with the intentions of selling it, she finds a new meaning and purpose to her life when she ends up helping to care for the rebellious teenagers who live there that have issues of their own.
24) Hot pursuit
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An uptight and by-the-book cop tries to protect the outgoing widow of a drug boss as they race through Texas pursued by crooked cops and murderous gunmen.
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Two years after the death of her husband, Missie knows that it is time to move on. She heads home with her son to be near her parents and to return to teaching. Certain she will never find love again, Missie redirects her feelings and when the "orphan train" arrives in town, she adopts Belinda, a feisty young teenager who's arrived with a secret. As Missie struggles with raising Belinda, she finds she is falling for the local sheriff who might be...
26) Red Joan
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Joan Stanley is a widow living out a quiet retirement in the suburbs when, shockingly, the British Secret Service places her under arrest. The charge: providing classified scientific information, including details on the building of the atomic bomb, to the Soviet government for decades. As she is interrogated, Joan relives the dramatic events that shaped her life and beliefs: her student days at Cambridge, where she excelled at physics while challenging...
27) Love after love
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the wake of a husband and father's death, the family members he leaves behind find themselves adrift, and in danger of drifting apart, as they each try to find meaning in a world without the man who held them together.
28) The face of love
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Five years after the death of her beloved husband Garrett (Ed Harris), Nikki (Annette Bening) meets Tom, a man who seems to be Garrett s exact duplicate. Not only does Tom possess the same physical characteristics, but he also shares Garrett's kindness, humor, and passion for art. And yet he is a stranger. As romance blossoms between Nikki and Tom, she finds she can't bring herself to tell him the truth about what drew her to him. But as their relationship...
29) Tumbledown
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Years after the accidental death of her folk-singer husband, Hannah has yet to fully accept her small town life without him. Then she is approached by a charming New York writer, intent on penning a biography of her late husband's life, and Hannah finds herself opening up again.
30) Rememory
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Gordon Dunn, a visionary scientific pioneer, is found dead shortly after he unveils his newest work: a device able to extract, record, and play a person's memories. Soon, a mysterious man shows up at his widow's door, claiming to be a friend of her late husband. After stealing the machine from the house, the man uses it to try and solve the mystery of Gordon's death, beginning an investigation on memories that lead him to unexpected and dangers places....
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 159 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When the beautiful widow Helen Graham moves into the derelict Wildfell Hall with her son, she arouses great curiosity from the local villagers. Gilbert Markham is a handsome young farmer who finds himself drawn to the enigmatic Helen and encourages her to open up to him. But even the sympathetic Markham is unprepared for the secrets Helen will ultimately reveal, secrets which the repressed Victorian society would rather bury forever.
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.
33) The meddler
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
With a new iPhone, and apartment near the grove, and a comfortable bank account left to her by her beloved late husband, Marnie Minervini has happily relocated from New Jersey to Los Angeles to be near her daughter Lori and smother her with motherly love. When the dozens of texts, unexpected visits, and conversations dominated by unsolicited advice force Lori to draw strict personal boundaries, Marnie finds ways to channel her eternal optimism and...
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Miranda Wells is a hard-working young widow struggling to raise three children on her own. A powerful storm brings a devastating challenge and a mysterious man, Bray Johnson, into her life. In just a few short days, Bray's presence re-ignites the family's spirit, but he also carries a secret, and it's a secret that could change everything.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 368 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on Gerald Durrell's trilogy of Corfu novels, this latest season sees sparky English widow Louisa Durrell and her brood continue to put down roots in their dilapidated rented house, alongside an ever-increasing menagerie of animals brought home by youngest son Gerry.
36) Hive =: Zgjoi
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (83 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Sundance's triple award-winning film is a searing drama based on the true story of Fahrije, who, like many of the other women in her patriarchal village, has lived with fading hope and burgeoning grief since her husband went missing during the war in Kosovo. To provide for her struggling family, she pulls the other widows in her community together to launch a business selling a local food product. Together, they find healing and solace in considering...
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1950s London, a widowed cleaning lady falls madly in love with a couture Dior dress, deciding she must have one of her own. After working to raise the funds to pursue her dream, she embarks on an adventure to Paris that will change not only her own outlook, but the very future of the House of Dior.
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (138 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A man falls from a mountain peak to his death. The detective in charge of the investigation, Hae-Joon, comes to meet the dead man's wife Seo-Rae. When she becomes a suspect, Hae-Joon finds himself slowly developing an interest in her.
40) Weeds: season 5
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (ca. 360 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Nancy is pregnant with the child of a powerful politician turned dangerous drug lord, or is she? Doug and Silas are trying to branch out on their own, Andy is looking to score, and Celia attempts to turn the tables on her kidnappers. With enemies out to smoke the Queen of Green, Nancy's sure to find a whole new crop of trouble.
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