Richard Dreyfuss
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One of America's proudest achievements, our national infrastructure, is now its most dangerous embarrassment. Our bridges, dams, levees and highways are crumbling, toppling, being washed away, and putting American citizens and cities at risk. How could the most powerful nation on the planet let this happen? Narrated by Academy Award winner Richard Dreyfuss and featuring interviews with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists, noted scientists, whistleblowers...
2) Tin Men
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Two rival "Tin Men" (aluminum siding salesmen) attempt to outsmart each other in the name of revenge in Baltimore circa 1963.
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City by city, mile by mile, an embattled married couple embarks across the country to attend their son's wedding. It's a chance to revisit their tumultuous past, to discover what went wrong, and to find new roads toward a better understanding of what it means to fall in and out of love-and maybe back again.
4) Astronaut
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Angus, a lonely widower, has his long-extinguished dream to become an astronaut reignited when a national competition is announced. The prize? One ticket for a trip to space! Way over the age-limit, Angus alters his birthdate so he can enter the competition. Against all odds, but with help coming from his dysfunctional family, he must battle against preconceptions, ill health and time, to win the ticket and take the trip of his dreams.
5) Let It Ride
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Joe Pytka's comedy stars Richard Dreyfuss as Trotter, a cab driver who gets a hot tip on a horse race and soon finds himself on the gambling hot streak of his life.
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James Krippendorf, is an anthropologist and a single dad trying to raise three kids and he's having a tough time of it. For the past two years, he's been living off a proxmire foundation grant to study an "undiscovered" tribe in New Guinea. Word comes that his lecture is due, but he's not ready. There is no tribe. and he's spent all the money rearing his dysfunctional children. As he bluffs his way through his presentation, he's shocked when informed...
7) The Crew
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THE CREW is a riotous caper involving four retired mobsters who lead a quiet life in a decaying residential hotel in Miami. When the hotel's owners try to squeeze them out to attract higher-paying clientele, the four plan a way to save their home.
9) Nuts
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©2003, ©1987
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1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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The pending case: The People of the State of New York vs. Claudia Draper. The issue: Is Claudia mentally competent to stand trial? Sure, she's shocking, outspoken, explosive. But is she "nuts?" Claudia holds nothing back as she takes on the judicial system, modern psychiatry, personal demons and anyone in her way.
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"The Lincoln-Douglas Debates, seven legendary meetings between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas during their 1858 senatorial campaign in Illinois, made history, and changed its course as well. ... The debates were the culmination of a political rivalry that had its origin twenty-five years before, when Lincoln and Douglas were aspiring politicians in the Illinois legislature. The main theme was slavery and its expansion into the western territories....
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[2015]
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1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Hollywood actress Suzanne Vale is on a slippery slope as a recovering addict. On exit from rehab, it is recommended she stay with her mother, who has become a somewhat champion drinker herself. Suzanne therefore struggles to maintain her sobriety and her sanity in the company of Doris.
13) The competition
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[2012]
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1 video disc (ca. 125 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Two young competitors at one of the world's most important music awards defy the rivalry that should exist between them and fall in love. He knows that this may be his last chance for success, and she is the protege of a famous teacher who warns her to stay away from romance, so the competition tests the strength of their love.
14) The lightkeepers
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2010
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1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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The year is 1912. Vowing to swear off women for good, curmudgeonly Seth Atkins takes refuge tending a remote Cape Cod lighthouse. Then, a mysterious stranger literally washes ashore in Seth's life, with a past full of secrets and a similar aversion to females. But the arrival of two beautiful, spirited women will test the men's resolve.
15) Always
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c1999
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1 videodisc (123 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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A legendary pilot with a passion for daredevil fighting sacrifices himself to save his best friend and then help his lover move on with her life.
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[2022]
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1 videodisc (127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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In a gold-rush boomtown that has gone bust, a prospector strikes gold - and is murdered. Sheriff James Ambrose assumes the killer to be a newcomer, a former enslaved person who calls himself Cicero. But as it becomes clear that Cicero is innocent, and as the mystery of the prospector's death deepens and puts the whole town in jeopardy, the town's new minister, Thaddeus Murphy must stand up to Sheriff Ambrose and bring the true culprit to justice.
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2023.
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1 videodisc (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Inspired by true events, witness the extraordinary journey of Nat 'Sweetwater' Clifton, who made history as the first Black player to sign an NBA contract. At a time when segregation divided sports, New York Knicks coach Joe Lapchick and team executive Ned Irish see the future of basketball in Sweetwater's dazzling and unorthodox displays of entertaining athleticism. Together, they challenge convention and break through barriers that would change...
18) The crew
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[2000?]
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1 videodisc (88 mins.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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A story about a set of golden-year goodfellas fighting to protect their last piece of turf! Back in the days when mobsters were larger than life, none lived bigger than Bobby, "Bats," "The Brick," and "Mouth." But now well into retirement, the old crew find themselves suddenly facing eviction from their run-down Miami Beach hotel -- The Raj Mahal. That's when they decide there's only one thing left to do -- turn back the clock and pull one last hit...
19) Stand by me
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[2000]
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1 videodisc (88 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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This film about friendship and the indelible experiences of growing up takes place in a small Oregon town as four boys set out on a two-day search for a missing teenager's body, a search that turns into an odyssey of self-discovery.
20) Book club
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2018.
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1 videodisc (103 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Four friends' lives are turned upside down to hilarious ends when their book club tackles the infamous "Fifty Shades of Grey." From discovering new romance to rekindling old flames, they inspire each other to make their next chapter the best chapter.