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1) Julia
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (144 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Julia is a 40-year-old alcoholic on the constant decline. She spends the nights partying, usually not knowing where she is when she wakes up. Because of that, she loses her job. Her only friend, Mitch, a recovering alcoholic himself, makes her go to an AA meeting, where she meets her neighbor, Elena. Elena tells Julia that she wants to kidnap her son who is living with his very rich grandfather and go back to Mexico with him and she needs Julia to...
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Bobby Eckstrum is known around the town of Columbia as a drunk. In a surprising turn of events, he is thought to have murdered and robbed Roger Simms, a local rancher. A posse is organized, and they hunt down and kill the man they believe to be Bobby. But Destiny Eckstrum, Bobby's daughter, believes they did not kill her father, but rather his equally shiftless brother who is said to live elsewhere in Colorado. When no one will listen to her, she...
3) Lawman
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Western about a stoic sheriff who comes into an unfamiliar town to bring in a bunch of cowboys who, on a drunken spree, accidentally killed an old man.
5) Smashed
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (81 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A woman seeks professional help when she realizes that her love for excessive drinking and partying is taking its toll on her marriage and career.
Pub. Date
2002, c1982
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Mac Sledge is a down-and-out country singer battling alcohol and depression. His ex-wife, Dixie, will not allow him to see their eighteen year old daughter Sue Ann, and Dixie is now making popular the songs that Mac had written and sung. Mac's new family will not let his heartbreaks bring him down again. Together they are determined to find success and happiness.
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Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (112 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Description
Withering from alcoholism, British consul Geoffrey Firmin stumbles through a small Mexican village amidst the Day of the Dead fiesta, attempting to reconnect with his estranged wife, but only further alienating himself.
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (652 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Scrappy, stubborn and strong, the Gallaghers are tested by changing times, but Season Six finds them older, wiser, and better at playing the system. Used to their natural state of chaos, the Gallaghers are as surprised as anyone at how life is turning out for them. But as they come into their own and find out who they really are is it really possible that they could grow apart for good?
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (662 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Frank comes out of a drug-induced haze and decides it's finally time to be a contributing member of society. Fiona faces hard decisions when she discovers her success as a landlord may mean someone else's misfortune. Lip struggles with staying sober, while Ian takes up a cause in hopes of getting back with Trevor. Debbie builds her future at welding school while juggling life as a single working mom, as Carl gets creative finding tuition money after...
11) Crazy heart
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The powerful story of a country music star's rocky road to redemption. Bad Blake is a boozy, broken-down singer who reaches for salvation with the help of Jean, a journalist who discovers the real man behind the music. But will Bad's hard-livin' ways and crazy heart cost him his last chance at a comeback?
12) The way back
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Jack Cunningham was a basketball star with a full university scholarship when he walked away from the game, forfeiting his future. Now years later, Jack is spiraling down, and drowning in alcoholism. When he is asked to coach the team at his alma mater, he reluctantly accepts. As the boys start to come together as a team and win, Jack may have finally found a reason to confront his demons. But will it be enough to heal the deep wounds of his past...
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (66 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Nancy Archer is a wealthy woman who is fresh from the loony bin and ticked off. Her husband has been putting the moves on Honey Parker and scheming about the day when Nancy's fortune will be theirs. That day will never come, especially not since Nancy has an alien encounter that zaps her metabolism into overdrive. Soon, Nancy's size matches her rage."
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
On the rocky path to sobriety after a life-changing accident, John Callahan discovers the healing power of art, willing his injured hands into drawing hilarious, often controversial cartoons, which bring him a new lease on life.
15) The butcher boy
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Francie lives with a violent, alcoholic father and a manic depressive, suicidal mother. The pressures on Francie to grow up are immense. When his mother commits suicide and his friend, Joe, goes off to boarding school, Francie sinks ever deeper into paranoia thanks mainly to his nasty neighbour Mrs. Nugent. He begins to have a fantasy where he has visions of the Virgin Mary. After his father dies, Francie becomes more despondent, culminating in the...
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Rachel is unemployed and devastated by a recent divorce. She fills her time with drinking, riding the commuter train, and fantasizing about a seemingly perfect couple the train passes by every day. Then one morning, Rachel sees something shocking that unravels her and entangles her in an unfolding mystery.
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (642 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert
Description
Season five finds the Gallaghers dealing with both the upside and downside of personal and urban renewal as Frank, Fiona, Lip and their family and friends band together to fight the invading hipster hordes and real estate speculators in their beloved South Side. But, as the neighborhood changes, the Gallaghers begin to reconcile their chaotic past in the hopes of building a better future.
18) Rio Bravo
Pub. Date
©2007
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (141 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the small Texas town of Rio Bravo, law and order is maintained by three unlikely enforcers: hard-boiled sheriff Chance; former quick draw artist Dude, now gone drunk and disheveled; and the crippled, wisecracking Stumpy, who patrols the jail with a shotgun. The arrest and incarceration of Joe Burdette for murder has set these three at odds with his brother, corrupt and wealthy landowner Nathan Burdette. Nathan assembles a force of hired guns to...
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
DVD-R. Matt, a loner alcoholic, struggles to maintain sobriety and honor his mother's dying wish to see him get sober. His AA sponsor offers him refuge at his farm where Matt finds Yup'ik, a stray husky with a unique talent. Their relationship struggles at first, but with the help of their Montana community, the two strays find a connection and discover what it takes to pull through to the finish line.
20) Silent movie
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A has-been movie director (Mel Brooks) intends to make a comeback by making a silent movie, and in the process, save his film studio from a takeover by a New York-based conglomerate.
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