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Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (134 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Writer-director Greta Gerwig has crafted a film that draws on both the classic novel and the writings of Louisa May Alcott and unfolds as the author's alter ego, Jo March reflects back and forth on her fictional life. In Gerwig's take, the beloved story of the March sisters, four young women each determined to live life on her own terms, is both timeless and timely.
2) Knock knock
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 100 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A family man's kind gesture turns into a dangerous seduction and a deadly game of cat and mouse when he opens the door to two stranded young women.
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Cassie is wickedly smart, tantalizingly cunning, and she's living a secret double life by night. Now, an unexpected encounter is about to give Cassie a chance to right the wrongs of the past but will jeopardize her future.
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Rattling around in his mansion in the Hamptons, faded Sinatra-esque crooner and notorious ladies man Paul Lombard stews over the acclaim that eluded him in his career and the trail of romantic wreckage he left in his wake. Matters are complicated when his punk rocker daughter Jude arrives in need of a place to stay and burdened with problems of her own, including a rivalry with her overachieving sister, her own ruinous love life, and, above all, a...
5) Middlemarch
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (420 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
One double-sided disc contains episodes 1-3 on side A (200 min.) and episodes 4-6 on side B (220 min.). Based on George Elliot's novel, Middlemarch is set in early nineteenth century England and charts the impact of the Industrial Revolution on the town as it divides its population into two opposing factions: the conservatives and the liberals.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (129 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Description
Mr. Bennet is an English gentleman living in Hartfordshire with his overbearing wife and 5 daughters. There is the beautiful Jane, the clever Elizabeth, the bookish Mary, the immature Kitty and the wild Lydia. Unfortunately, if Mr. Bennet dies their house will be inherited by a distant cousin whom they have never met. The family's future happiness and security is dependent on the daughters making good marriages. Life is uneventful until the arrival...
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 351 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Newcomer Gabriel Cochrane arrives in Candleford with a vendetta against the evil banker Steerforth, who he feels has tricked him into losing his business. Elsewhere, Dorcas makes an ill-judged intervention, Minnie becomes worried that Alfie might fall out of love with her, and Emma is left in a precarious financial position.
9) Slash/Back
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In Pangnirtung, Canada, just 31 miles south of the Arctic Circle, it's just a typical summer day with no school, no cool boys (well... except one), and 24-hour sunlight. But for Maika and her friends, everything changes when they discover an alien invasion threatening their small village. These teenagers have been underestimated their whole lives but, using makeshift weapons and their horror movie knowledge, they fight to show the aliens that you...
10) The road dance
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In a small, remote village in the Outer Scottish Hebrides, Kirsty yearns for adventure and another life across the ocean. Though she finds comfort in time spent with her mother and younger sister, she sees hope and a future with Murdo, an intelligent, curious poet. The two fall in love as World War I looms, and Murdo is soon conscripted to join the other men of the village to fight. As a gesture of farewell, the village hosts a road dance, a celebration...
11) Emma
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Description
Handsome, clever, and rich, Emma Woodhouse is a restless queen bee without rivals in her sleepy little town. In this glittering satire of social class and the pain of growing up, Emma must adventure through misguided matches and romantic missteps to find the love that has been there all along.
12) Emma
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (240 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Twenty-one-year-old Emma Woodhouse loves playing matchmaker. When pretty and socially inferior Harriet arrives, Emma decides to indulge her passion. Against the advice of family friend and surrogate older brother Mr. Knightly, Emma persuades Harriet to reject a marriage proposal from a local farmer in order to hold out for an offer from the dashing Mr. Elton. But Emma soon discovers Mr. Elton's true motives and her advice to Harriet goes terribly...
15) The miniaturist
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 162 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A woman moves to live with her new husband in seventeenth century Amsterdam, but soon discovers that not everything is what it seems.
16) Hustlers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 111 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Inspired by a true story, Hustlers follows Destiny, a young stripper struggling to make ends meet. That is, until she meets Ramona, the club's savvy top earner, who shows her the way toward making big bucks. But when the 2008 economic collapse hits their Wall Street clientèle hard, Destiny and Ramona concoct a plan with their fellow strippers to turn the tables on these greedy power players in this wild, modern-day Robin Hood.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 129 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The journey of Belle, a bright and independent young woman who takes her father's place as the prisoner of a beast in his castle. As Belle befriends the castle's enchanted staff, she and the Beast slowly begin to look beyond their initial reactions to each other and see who they truly are. But back in Belle's village, her father's fears for her safety drive him to rally the villagers to free Belle from the castle--a plan that goes awry, with dangerous...
18) 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...
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