William Hurt
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Published in 1926 to explosive acclaim, The Sun Also Rises stands as perhaps the most impressive first novel ever written by an American writer. A roman ̉clef about a group of American and English expatriates on an excursion from Paris's Left Bank to Pamplona for the July fiesta and its climactic bull fight, a journey from the center of a civilization spiritually bankrupted by the First World War to a vital, God-haunted world in which faith and honor...
2) Syriana
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (128 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
There is less oil than the world requires, and that will make some people rich and others dead. Career CIA field operative Bob Barnes is sorting out his midcareer issues--his bosses want him quietly confined to a desk job. Bryan Woodman, an expatriate in Geneva, becomes the financial adviser to idealistic Gulf Prince Nasir. Corporate lawyer Bennett Holiday is finessing the questionable merger of two powerful U.S. oil companies. In Prince Nasir's country,...
3) Mr. brooksb
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 120 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4in.
Language
English
Description
Mr. Brooks, a successful businessman, a generous philanthropist, a loving father, and a devoted husband, is seemingly perfect, but he has a secret. He is also the notorious Thumbprint Killer, and no one has ever suspected it until now.
"This is a tense and engaging thriller."--ReelViews.
"The appeal of Mr. Brooks is as obvious as it is hard to resist..."--San Francisco Chronicle.
"So well made, and so compelling as a portrait of a man at war with...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1988
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Award-winning drama about the trials of one man. After a man loses his son and his wife leaves him, he becomes detached from the world, until a strange dog-trainer meets him and brings him back out.
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (168 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Edward is the only witness to his father's suicide and is a member of the Skull and Bones Society while a student at Yale. He is a morally upright young man who values honor and discretion. These are the qualities that help him become recruited for a career in the newly founded Office of Strategic Services (CIA). While working there, his ideals gradually turn to suspicion influenced by the Cold War paranoia present within the office. Eventually, he...
6) Body heat
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
1981.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (113 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Academy Award winner William Hurt stars with Kathleen Turner in a taut story of lust, greed and murder set in a steamy South Florida town.When libidinous but not-very-smart attorney Ned Racine (Hurt) begins an affair with Matty Walker (Turner), the beautiful, young wife of an unscrupulous tycoon, their desire to be together leads to thoughts of murder. But after the meticulously planned crime is committed, Ned begins to wonder if Matty loves her late...
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Edition
15th anniversary collector's ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + booklet ([5] p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Language
English
Description
Seven college housemates from the 1960s who have drifted apart reunite at the funeral of a friend. Having entered adulthood as non-conformists, most now belong to the establishment. Stunned by the death of their peer, sensing their own mortality and the loss of their innocence, each takes the opportunity to reevaluate his or her life and re-establish their bonds.
8) The village
Series
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment :
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In a quiet, isolated village in olde Pennsylvania, there lies a pact between the people of the village and the creatures who reside in the surrounding woods. The townspeople do not enter the woods, and the creatures do not enter the village. The pact stays in tact for many years, that is until the headstrong Lucius Hunt seeks medical supplies from neighboring towns beyond the woods. Animal carcasses begin to appear around the village, causing the...
9) Dark City
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (101 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
What if you woke one morning to realize that every memory, every emotion, every fact you believed true about your life had been manufactured by someone else and placed in your mind? In this fascinating and provocative science fiction tale, John Murdoch—wanted for a series of brutal murders—realizes that everything he believes about himself is a lie. Murdoch's bittersweet childhood, his love for his estranged wife and the hideous series of murders...
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (121 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Academy Award winners William Hurt and Geena Davis star with Kathleen Turner in this touching story of a travel writer who hates to travel, a man who lives a well-ordered life in his well-ordered world until suddenly everything changes for THE ACCIDENTAL TOURIST. When Macon Leary's (Hurt) wife, Sarah (Turner), leaves him, Macon withdraws even further into his protected world. But an event that Macon did not plan and cannot control occurs: He breaks...
11) Days and nights
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Movie star Elizabeth takes her paramour Peter to her lakeside estate to visit her family during Memorial Day weekend. There they meet up with Elizabeth's ailing brother, her artist son, the family doctor, the estate's custodian, its careless caretaker, their temperamental daughter, and her long suffering ornithologist husband who's the keeper of the sacred land where a bald eagle is trying to raise its young.
Publisher
Marvel Studios
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 147 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After another incident involving the Avengers results in collateral damage, political pressure mounts to install a system of accountability, headed by a governing body to oversee and direct the team. The new status quo fractures the Avengers, resulting in two camps, one led by Steve Rogers and his desire for the Avengers to remain free to defend humanity without government interference, and the other following Tony Stark's surprising decision to support...
13) Beowulf
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (561 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
This spectacular drama reimagines one of literature's most enduring heroes, the great warrior BEOWULF. Featuring an ensemble cast of fascinating and fantastical characters, this epic drama follows Beowulf as he strives to be a man as well as hero, challenging the notions of good and evil, heroes and villains, and the rule of law against one's moral code. Featuring Kieran Bew, William Hurt, Ed Spee.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (43 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Herot is bustling as the town makes preparations for the Gathering at which the next ruler of the Shieldlands will be elected. With the other tribal leaders due to arrive in Herot at any moment however, the pressure mounts to catch Herot’s killer before another victim is claimed.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (45 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
With Slean and Thane Scorann missing, BEOWULF and Rate, Thane of the Varni, charge out into the forest in search of them. But with the Gathering fast approaching and Rheda’s bid for leadership depending on the hope of ever-loyal Scorann’s vote, BEOWULF questions whether their disappearance might be more than a simple coincidence.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (45 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
The day of the Gathering. The fate of the Shieldlands lies moments away, but having lost some of her closest allies, Rheda’s chances of becoming leader of these great realms and thus preventing civil war looks bleak and her worries escalate. With the odds against her, Rheda knows that if she loses, she must fight to the death.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (45 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Our group continue their perilous journey to Mere to bolster the new treaty, but now without Roth to guide them, the dangers they face look far from over. As they tackle various assaults the group’s situation goes from bad to desperate. For Elvina, this is a return to her homelands; she recalls her mother’s old tales of Mere as she guides them past the rivers and dunes towards the hidden tribe.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (43 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
BEOWULF gets to work re-building the town’s defences - a need that becomes even greater when iron-miner Greff, is attacked by one of the most dangerous Mudborn creatures known to humans – a Troll. Usually able to keep these deadly creatures at bay, such an unprovoked attack spells unquantifiable danger for the people of the Shieldlands and must therefore be investigated immediately by BEOWULF.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (40 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
With Slean and his uncle Abrecan failing to warn Herot about the Wulfing Raider attack, the marauders arrive at the peripheries of an unsuspecting Herot and set their Barghest wolves free to terrorise the town.
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