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English
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Elsa is seven years old; her grandmother is seventy-seven years old. She is Elsa's best, and only, friend. At night Elsa takes refuge in her grandmother's stories, in the Land of Almost-Awake and the Kingdom of Miamas where everybody is different and nobody needs to be normal. When Elsa's grandmother dies and leaves behind a series of letters apologizing to people she has wronged, the letters lead her to an apartment building full of drunks, monsters,...
3) Pet sematary
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 100 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on the seminal horror novel by Stephen King, Pet Sematary follows Dr. Louis Creed, who, after relocating with his wife Rachel and their two young children from Boston to rural Maine, discovers a mysterious burial ground hidden deep in the woods near the family's new home. When tragedy strikes, Louis turns to his unusual neighbor, Jud Crandall, setting off a perilous chain reaction that unleashes an unfathomable evil with horrific consequences....
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The true story of a small-town father who must find the courage and conviction to share his son's extraordinary, life-changing experience with the world. Colton claims to have visited Heaven during a near death experience. He recounts the details of his amazing journey with childlike innocence and speaks matter-of-factly about things that happened before his birth.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a mysterious virus turns people into mindless, flesh-eating zombies, a handful of survivors wage a desperate, last-stand battle to stay alive ... and human! The last remaining humans escape to a Milwaukee shopping mall, where they decide that the only way to truly elude the approaching throng of undead is to somehow make their way to an island that is supposedly zombie-free.
Series
Criterion collection volume 11
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Special ed. ; Full screen ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (97 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Language
Swedish
Description
Antonius Block is a knight, who along with his squire, are returning home from the crusades. Black Death is sweeping their country. As they approach home, Death appears to the knight and tells him it is his time. Antonius challenges Death to a chess game for his life. Antonius and Death play as the cultural turmoil envelopes the people around them as they try, in different ways, to deal with the upheaval that the plague has caused.
7) God's Pocket
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (89 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
After Mickey Scarpato's stepson Leon, is killed in a construction "accident", Mickey quickly tries to bury the bad news along with the body. But even in the gritty, blue-collar neighborhood of God's Pocket, PA, no secret can stay hidden forever. When a local columnist comes sniffing around for the truth, Mickey quickly finds himself stuck in a life-and-death struggle compounded by a body he can't bury, a wife he can't please, and a debt he can't pay....
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A decade after the death of an American TV star, a young actor reminisces the written correspondence he once shared with the former, as well as the impact those letters had on both their lives.
Series
Film Movement volume 5, film 3
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Norwegian
Description
"Andreas arrives in a strange city with no memory of how he got there. He is presented with a job and an apartment, but before long, Andreas notices that something is wrong. The people around him seem cut off from any real emotion and communicate only in superficialities. He makes an attempt to escape from the city, but he discovers there is no way out. Andreas meets a man who has found a crack in the wall in his cellar. Beautiful music streams out...
10) All of me
Series
Publisher
Trimark Home Video
Pub. Date
1998, c1984
Edition
Standard format.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A dying spinster tries to get a second chance at life by having her soul transmigrated to another woman's body. Her plan goes awry, and her soul takes over the right side of a male attorney's body, forcing the two to live together.
Series
Film Movement volume 9, film 5
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104, 5 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
עברית
Description
The Human Resources Manager of Jerusalem's largest bakery is in trouble. He is separated from his wife, distanced from his daughter, and stuck in a job he hates. When one of his employees, a foreign worker, is killed in a suicide bombing, the bakery is accused of indifference, and the HR Manager is sent to the victim's hometown in Romania to make amends. Far from home, on a mission to honor a woman he didn't even know but has somehow grown to admire,...
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (111 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
When small-time mob leader Zhou Zenong (Chinese superstar Hu Ge) accidentally kills a cop, a dead-or-alive bounty is placed on his head, forcing him on the lam from both the police as well as dangerous gangsters out for the reward. Hiding out in China’s densely populated (and deeply divided) Wuhan province, Zhou becomes entangled with a beautiful, enigmatic woman, who has mysterious intentions of her own. Featuring gorgeous, neon-drenched cinematography...
13) Ordinary people
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c2001
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (124 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The "ordinary" existence of an upper middle class family is shattered with the death of the older son and the struggle of the younger son against guilt and suicide.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When the tyrannical ruler Stalin dies, his hapless inner circle scrambles to come up with the next evolution of the revolution, but it's clear everyone is really out for themselves. Proof that comedy, like politics, is all in the execution.
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (96 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Korean
Description
An aging poet, Younghwan, summons his two estranged sons to a solitary hotel beside the Han River because he feels his death is near. While waiting for them to arrive, he meets two women out walking in the new-fallen snow and is struck by their angelic beauty. But the women have come to the hotel to do some healing of their own. As Younghwan moves between the women and his bickering sons, he also moves between his two minds: one that walks on the...
Author
Series
Livre de poche volume 33115
Publisher
Editions Grasset & Fasquelle
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1. ed.
Physical Desc
789 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
Français
Description
When Barry Fairbrother dies in his early forties, the town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty facade is a town at war. Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with their pupils, Pagford is not what it first seems. And the empty seat left by Barry on the town's council...
18) Tumbledown
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Years after the accidental death of her folk-singer husband, Hannah has yet to fully accept her small town life without him. Then she is approached by a charming New York writer, intent on penning a biography of her late husband's life, and Hannah finds herself opening up again.
19) Amador
Series
Film Movement volume 10, film 3
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113, 18 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Marcela, a young immigrant with financial troubles, finds a summer job looking after Amador, a bed-ridden elderly man whose family is away. She thinks her problems are solved, but Amador dies shortly thereafter, putting Marcela in a predicament. His death leaves her jobless, something she can't afford to let happen. Faced with a difficult moral dilemma, Marcela will prove that death can't always stop life.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on four best-selling non-fiction books of over 700 Darwin Award cases, an insurance claims investigator teams up with a forensic detective, to team up to investigate potential Darwin Award cases. Winners are saluted for the improvement of the human genome by honoring those who accidentally kill themselves in really stupid ways.
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