Julianne Moore
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An ink-setter in New York returns to his family's home, a fishing town in Newfoundland, with his daughter after a traumatizing experience with her mother. His articles find an audience and the town changes his life.
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Nic and Jules are in a long term, committed, loving but by no means perfect relationship. Nic, a physician, needs to wield what she believes is control, whereas Jules, under that control, is less self-assured. They have two teen-aged children, Joni, who is Nic's biological child, and Laser, who is Jules' biological child. A big-hearted, sexy and uproariously funny movie that combines comedic surprise with poignant emotional truth.
24) Freeheld
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a New Jersey police lieutenant is diagnosed with terminal cancer, she and her registered domestic partner must work to secure her pension benefits.
Author
Description
"February 1862. The Civil War is less than one year old. The fighting has begun in earnest, and the nation has begun to realize it is in for a long, bloody struggle. Meanwhile, President Lincoln's beloved eleven-year-old son, Willie, lies upstairs in the White House, gravely ill. In a matter of days, despite predictions of a recovery, Willie dies and is laid to rest in a Georgetown cemetery. "My poor boy, he was too good for this earth," the president...
26) Still Alice
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approx. 101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children, is a renowned linguistics professor who starts to forget words. When she receives a diagnosis of Early-Onset Alzheimer's Disease, Alice and her family find their bonds thoroughly tested. Her struggle to stay connected to who she once was is frightening, heartbreaking, and inspiring.
27) The big Lebowski
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A lazy, unemployed Southern Californian stoner who loves bowling gets mistaken for a millionaire with the same name. He's beaten up by men looking for money from the rich man's wife and gets drawn into the kidnapping of the millionaire's wife.
28) What Maisie knew
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Tells the story of Maisie, a captivating little girl struggling for grace in the midst of her parents' bitter custody battle. Told through her eyes, Maisie navigates this ever-widening turmoil with a six-year-old's innocence, charm and generosity of spirit.
29) Carrie
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 100 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After merciless taunting from classmates and abuse at the hand of her mother, Carrie's anger, and her telekinetic powers, are unleashed. And when a prom prank goes horribly wrong, events spiral out of control until the terrifying conclusion of this powerful, pulse-quickening horror story.
30) One more thing
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
6 sound discs (7 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A boy wins a $100,000 prize in a box of Frosted Flakes, only to discover that claiming the winnings may unravel his family. A woman sets out to seduce motivational speaker Tony Robbins. A school principal unveils a bold plan to permanently abolish arithmetic. An acclaimed ambulance driver seeks the courage to become a singer-songwriter. Author John Grisham contemplates a monumental typo. These and many more short stories are included in an original...
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Isabel has devoted her life to working with the children in a Calcutta orphanage. Theresa is the multimillionaire leader of a media company who lives with her artist husband in New York. When Isabel hears of a mysterious and generous grant for the financially strained orphanage, she must travel to New York to meet the benefactor, Theresa, in person, who then insists she stay for a family wedding.
32) Game change
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Game Change is a searing, behind-the-scenes look at John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign, from the decision to select Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as McCain's running mate to the ticket's ultimate defeat in the general election just sixty days later. Told primarily through the eyes of senior McCain strategist Steve Schmidt, who originally championed Palin and later came to regret the choice.
33) Being Flynn
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A compelling exploration of the unbreakable yet fragile bonds between parent and child. Nick Flynn is a young writer seeking to define himself. His father Jonathan, however, scrapes through life on his own terms and has not seen his son in 18 years. Taking a job at a homeless shelter, Nick finds purpose in his own life and work until one night Jonathan arrives seeking a bed. To give the two of them a shot at a real future, Nick wrestles with the notion...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Meet the Weiss family, who are making their way in Hollywood rife with money, fame, envy, and relentless hauntings. Stafford Weiss is a famed TV self-help therapist with an A-list celebrity clientele. Meanwhile, Cristina Weiss has her work cut out managing the career of their disaffected child-star son, Benjie, a fresh graduate of rehab at age thirteen. Yet unbeknownst to them, another member of the Weiss family has arrived in town, mysteriously scarred...
35) Wonderstruck
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Tells the tale of two deaf children separated by fifty years. In 1927 New York City, Rose searches for the actress who's life she chronicles in her scrapbook; in 1977 in the Midwest, Ben runs away from home to find his father. The movie is based on the novel of the same title by Brian Selznick, which is the predecessor to his screen-adapted novel The Invention of Hugo Cabret.
36) Suburbicon
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A peaceful, idyllic suburban community with affordable homes and manicured lawns, the perfect place to raise a family, and in the summer of 1959, the Lodge family is doing just that. The tranquil surface masks a disturbing reality, as husband and father Gardner Lodge must navigate the town's dark underbelly of betrayal, deceit, and violence. This is a tale of very flawed people making very bad choices.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (1 hr., 39 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on the true story of Evelyn Ryan. Offers a revealing study of the housewife's plight during the Eisenhower era, along with an inspiring tale of tenacity and survival against formidable odds. Evelyn is a cheerfully strong-willed mother of ten who compensates for the failings of her alcoholic husband by becoming the most successful "contester" in the country. Between the mid-1950s and the early '60s, Evelyn submitted cleverly worded poems, jingles,...
39) Savage grace
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A dramatization of the true story of a young woman who married into a wealthy family whose extremely close relationship with her son turns into a deadly tragedy.
40) Magnolia
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (191 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Magnolia is a mosaic of American Life woven through a series of comic and poignant vignettes. Nine people will weave and warp through each other's lives on a day that builds to an unforgettable climax.