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21) Five easy pieces
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Character study of a talented pianist who has given up a promising career and now works on oil rigs. After 20 years he returns home to his father's deathbed perhaps to reconcile himself with his fear of failure and desire for greatness.
22) Bye bye Birdie
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When rock star Conrad Birdie gets drafted, his manager organizes a nationwide contest in which one lucky girl wins a farewell kiss on The Ed Sullivan show.
23) Marty
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Marty is the story of a 34-year-old Bronx butcher who fears that he will never find love, but at a Saturday night dance he meets a lonely schoolteacher with similar fears.
24) Lorenzo's oil
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (136 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A boy develops a disease so rare that nobody is working on a cure, so his father decides to learn about it and tackle the problem himself.
Pub. Date
[1999?]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on a true story about 73-year-old Alvin Straight who embarks on a dangerous and emotional journey to make amends with his 75-year-old brother Lyle before his brother dies. Alvin can no longer drive a car because of his eyesight and has to walk with 2 canes, but he climbs aboard his 1966 John Deere lawnmower and drives the 260-mile course from Laurens, Iowa to Mt. Zion, Wisconsin.
27) Best worst movie
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1989, a group of unknown Utah actors starred in what would be crowned the worst movie of all time: Troll 2. Now, after two decades of running from this cinematic disaster, the cast can no longer hide from the legion of followers who celebrate them for their ineptitude.
29) I am
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 78 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of a successful Hollywood director, Tom Shadyac, who experienced a life-threatening head injury, and his ensuing journey to try and answer two very basic questions: 'What's wrong with the world?' and 'What can be done about it?' With a film crew of four, Tom visits some of today's great minds, including authors, poets, teachers, religious leaders, and scientists, searching for the fundamental endemic problem that causes all the other problems,...
30) The atomic cafe
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (188 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
One of the defining documentaries of the 20th centry, this film offers a darkly humorous glimpse into mid-century America, an era rife with paranoia, anxiety, and misapprehension. Whimsical and yet razor-sharp, this timeless clasic illuminates the often comic paradoxes of life in the "Atomic Age," while also exhibiting a genuine nostalgia for an earlier and more innocent nation.
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (50 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
DVD-R. "Paolo Soleri, architect, philosopher and a citizen of the planet. Fans have gone as far as to compare him to DaVinci and Gandhi, but critics believed him to be an ego driven eccentric with a failed experiment out in the desert A student of Frank Lloyd Wright, Paolo's Utopian vision has been steadfast, urban sprawl is destroying the planet and the answer is to build mega-structure cities a hundred times the size of the Empire State Building....
32) Breakheart Pass
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A governor, a woman, a group of cavalrymen, and a mysterious man travel on a train through Idaho in 1870. One is actually a murderer.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The trouble with Harry is that he's dead, and while no one really minds, everyone feels responsible. Shirley Maclaine makes her screen debut in this New England romp that includes romance, humor ... and several unearthings of the corpse.
34) Top hat
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Rogers and Astaire are caught up in a mistaken identity plot, in which Rogers assumes that Astaire is already married, and is alternatively charmed and repelled by his advances.
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Once a vibrant part of american culture, drive-ins reached their peak in the late 50s with almost 5,000 dotting the nation from big cities to small rural towns. Although drive-ins are experiencing a resurgence in the new millennium, today less than 400 remain. In a nation that loves cars and movies, why haven't they survived?
36) Runaway bride
Pub. Date
©1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An unlikely love story develops when a cynical, big-city columnist comes to a small town to cover the story of Maggie Carpenter, a bride who's left men at the altar several times.
37) Reality bites
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sd., color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The irreverent portrayal of the harsh realities of life after college captures the misadventures of Lelaina, an ambitious TV production assistant, and her relationships with her sarcastic roommate, Vickie, friends Sammy and Troy, and an ambitious video executive, Michael.
38) Singles
Pub. Date
©1999, ©1992
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This tale of Seattle twentysomethings searching for and running from love, centers around a romantically aloof rocker and his lovestruck neighbor who hopes to get him to change his tune.
39) Measure of a man
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A bullied teen experiences a turning point summer and learns to stand up for himself.
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