Catalog Search Results
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Desperate to start a family, schoolteacher April Epner is thrown into confusion when she is unexpectedly abandoned by her husband. She gets another shock when she meets her unusual birth mother, a self-centered talk show host.
"A smart, subtle and seriously funny dramedy bound to find favor with sophisticated auds."--Variety.
"...a fine, tense, unpredictable comedy of mixed-up emotions and sudden illuminations."--New Yorker.
"...a serious comedy,...
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (124 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of two brothers, Norman and Paul Maclean, growing up in Montana. While Paul rebels against the stern nature of the boys' father Rev. Maclean, Norman pursues his dream of becoming a writer. However, despite the brothers' differences they are ultimately bonded by their mutual love of fly-fishing.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Edition
Special ed.; widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sensitive and moving tale of the romance of two individuals whose political and religious ideologies are exact opposites. Streisand plays a Jewish student radical in love with a conservative young Protestant writer.
4) War horse
Publisher
distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (146 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set against a sweeping canvas of rural England and Europe during the First World War, begins with the remarkable friendship between a horse named Joey and a young man called Albert, who tames and trains him. When they are forcefully parted, the film follows the extraordinary journey of the horse as he moves through the war, changing and inspiring the lives of all those he meets; British cavalry, German soldiers, and a French farmer and his granddaughter....
5) Atonement
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (123 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1935, thirteen-year-old fledgling writer Briony Tallis and her family live a life of wealth and privilege in their enormous mansion. On the warmest day of the year, the country estate takes on an unsettling hothouse atmosphere, stoking Briony's vivid imagination. Robbie Turner, the educated son of the family's housekeeper, carries a torch for Briony's headstrong older sister Cecilia. He hopes that Cecilia has comparable feelings. All it will take...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Bruce Banner is forced back to civilization after hiding out and seeking an antidote for the powers inside him, he discovers that he must become the Hulk to defeat a creature known as the Abomination.
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 114 min.) : sd., col.
Language
English
Description
Rob Gordon is the owner of a semi-failing record store in Chicago whose long-time girlfriend has just walked out on him. In order to figure out where things went wrong (and why he can't commit), he examines his past relationships with other women.
9) Moby Dick
Series
Publisher
MGM/UA Home Video
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A skipper of a 19th century whaling boat is obsessed with the idea of harpooning the whale that is responsible for the loss of his leg.
10) Arrival
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When mysterious spacecraft touch down around the world, a team, including linguist Louise Banks, is brought together to investigate. As mankind teeters on the verge of global war, Banks and the team race against time for answers, and to find them, she will take a chance that could threaten her life, and quite possibly humanity.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Max has an active imagination and will throw a fit if others don't go along with what he wants. Following an incident with his sister Claire and her friends, Max throws a tantrum and runs away from home when his mother pays more attention to her boyfriend than to him. Wearing his wolf costume at the time, Max not only runs away physically, but runs toward a world in his imagination. This world, an ocean away, is inhabited by large wild beasts, including...
12) The bookshop
Language
English
Formats
Description
England, 1959. Free-spirited widow Florence Green (Emily Mortimer) risks everything to open a bookshop in a conservative East Anglian coastal town. While bringing about a surprising cultural awakening through works by Ray Bradbury and Vladimir Nabokov, she earns the polite but ruthless opposition of a local grand dame (Patricia Clarkson) and the support and affection of a reclusive book loving widower (Bill Nighy). As Florence’s obstacles amass...
13) Doctor Zhivago
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
[Widescreen format], Deluxe ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodisc (200 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A poet and surgeon, husband and lover finds his life disrupted by war. It alters the lives of many, including Tonya, the gentle woman he marries and Lara, the woman he cannot forget.
14) The Danish girl
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The remarkable love story inspired by the lives of artists Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegener. Lili and Gerda's marriage and work evolve as they navigate Lili's groundbreaking journey as a transgender pioneer.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 89 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Following his divorce and the loss of his job as a homicide detective with the LAPD, Jesse Stone travels across the country to Paradise, Massachusetts where he is recruited by the town's board of selectmen to become the new Chief of Police. But things are not quite so heavenly in Paradise, as Stone starts off his first day on the job investigating a domestic abuse case that leads to a money-laundering scheme possibly involving bank manager Hasty Hathaway--...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (130 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
François and his fellow teachers prepare for a new year at a high school in a tough neighborhood. Armed with the best intentions, they brace themselves to not let discouragement stop them from trying to give the best education to their students. Cultures and attitudes often clash in the classroom, a microcosm of contemporary France. As amusing and inspiring as the teenaged students can be, their difficult behavior can still jeopardize any teacher's...
17) In her shoes
Publisher
20th Century Fox
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 130 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4in.
Language
English
Description
Free-wheeling irresponsible Maggie gets through her life thanks to her remarkable looks and her complete lack of scruples. She constantly goes to her straight-laced, plain-Jane successful lawyer sister Rose when she is in need of financial help. The two sisters have been very close to each other in part because their troubled mother died when they were girls. Maggie discovers hidden letters that reveal she and Rose have a grandmother, but Maggie ends...
18) The graduate
Publisher
MGM DVD
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (feature: 106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Uncertain of what he wants to do with his life, college graduate Benjamin Braddock returns home. The wife of his father's business partner, the sexy Mrs. Robinson, seduces him, which only deepens his confusion. Then he meets the girl of his dreams but she is Mrs. Robinson's daughter.
Series
Harry Potter volume 02
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2003], c2002
Edition
Widescreen version (2.35:1 ; 16x9)
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (161 min.) sd., col. 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Cars fly, trees fight back and a mysterious elf comes to warn Harry Potter at the start of the second year of his amazing journey into the world of wizardry. This year at Hogwarts, spiders talk, letters scold and Harry's own unsettling ability to speak to snakes turns his friends against him. From dueling clubs to rogue Bludgers, it's a year of adventure and danger when bloody writing on a wall announces: The Chamber of Secrets has been opened. To...
20) Little women
Series
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
2000, c1994
Edition
Widescreen format.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Four sisters living with their mother in New England during the Civil War without the guidance of their father, who is away serving with the Union army, learn about life and love as they grow up.
In CLOVER Interlibrary Loan
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by VOKAL can be requested from other CLOVER Interlibrary Loan libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup.
Make a purchase suggestion
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request