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81) Carrie
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1952.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (122 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Based on the Theodore Dreiser novel that publishers deemed "too immoral," William Wyler's Carrie is a power-house of human passions transformed into soul-withering frailties. As Carrie, the smalltown girl come to Chicago, Jennifer Jones "seems to have stepped out of the pages of the book" (Time). And Laurence Olivier gives one of his finest portrayals as love-doomed Hurstwood. "Olivier has always given credit to Wyler for teaching him how to act in...
82) Bill
Publisher
BBC Us / Canada
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
1 video disc [94 min.]
Language
English
Description
Celebrate Shakespeare's 400th anniversary with this hilarious comedy about the playwright's mysterious lost years. Bill Shakespeare is a hapless lute player with a big dream. When his bandmates kick him out of their group, Bill leaves his wife and kids behind to seek fame and fortune in the big city of London. He's written a great work for the stage and he's certain he'll prove all his doubters wrong.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Having not spoken to each other in a year, three American brothers set off on a train voyage across India with a plan to find themselves and bond with each other. The brothers wanted to regain their friendship of each other. Their "spiritual quest," however, veers rapidly off-course -- thanks in part to over-the-counter pain killers, Indian cough syrup, and pepper spray. Eventually the three find themselves stranded alone in the middle of the desert...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set against the backdrop of a beautiful London garden, tis contemporary fairy tale. Facing eviction in a month if she can't resurrect the dying garden in her backyard, reclusive librarian Bella Brown meets her grumpy next-door neighbor, who happens to be a talented horticulturalist. As the two form an unlikely friendship, Bella begins to wonder if she can revive both the garden, and her dreams of becoming a children's book author.
86) Don't look now
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1973.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (110 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Working with elements of the traditional horror genre - second sight, ESP, warnings from the dead, a mad killer - and a cinematography of disquieting beauty and dreamlike sense of dislocation, director Nicolas Roeg weaves a fabric of anxiety that questions all reality. The evocative use of the back streets of Venice is a sinister participant in the action based on the novel by Daphne du Maurier. This intensely erotic and macabre film boasts outstanding...
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 68 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Follow Ron Naveen and his team of biologists to one of the harshest corners of the planet, where they track the impact of climate change and ocean health by counting penguin populations.
88) The weather man
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (102 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Popular Chicago weatherman Dave Spritz (Nicolas Cage) has a shot at the big time when a national morning television show calls him for an audition. Professionally, Dave is on top of the world, but his personal life is in complete disarray. The harder he tries to hold on, the more he loses his grip. His painful divorce, his Pulitzer Prize-winning dad’s (Michael Caine) illness, and trouble with his kids have Dave poised on the knife’s edge between...
89) Gladiator
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (155 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"The general who became a slave, the slave who became a gladiator, the gladiator who defied an empire"--container.
90) Jurassic Park
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2000
Edition
Collector's ed., Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (127 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 leaflet.
Language
English
Description
A wealthy entrepreneur invites a top paleontologist, a paleobotanist, a mathematician/theorist, and his two eager grandchildren to visit his secret island theme park featuring living dinosaurs created from prehistoric DNA.
91) Tortilla soup
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (105 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Three grown sisters, Maribel, Leticia and Carmen try to cope and live with the fact that their father Martin, a veteran chef, is slowly losing his sense of taste. Martin has one simple rule: be at home for Sunday dinner and attendance is both mandatory and non-negotiable. A rift in the family develops when the sisters develop relationships and an obnoxious woman sets her sights on Martin's affections.. Winner of Best Supporting Actress in a Motion...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A CIA agent who is on the run from a mass slaughter in his research office suddenly finds himself the target of both his employers and the unknown killers of his associates.
93) Ronin
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a world where loyalties are easily abandoned and allegiances can be bought, a new and deadlier terrorist threat has emerged -- free-agent killers! The Cold War may be over, but a new world order keeps a group of covert mercenaries employed by the highest bidder. These operatives, known as "Ronin," are assembled in France by a mysterious client for a seemingly routine mission: steal a top-secret briefcase. But the simple task soon proves explosive...
94) My king
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Admitted to a rehabilitation center after a serious ski accident, Tony becomes dependent on the medical staff and pain relievers while looking back on a turbulent relationship she experienced with megalomaniac Georgio. Who is this man that she loved so deeply, and how did she allow herself to submit to this suffocating and destructive passion?
Publisher
Distrib Films
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (103 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
This social dramedy stars Francois Cluzet as a devoted and revered countryside doctor whose life gets rocked by a middle-age woman who has come from the city hospital to earn her chops. Challenging each other with opposite views on medicine, the pair eventually bonds and learns from one another. . Nominated for Best Actor (François Cluzet) at the César Awards. Nominated for an Audience Award at the Edinburgh International Film Festival.. "Persuasively...
97) Hold the Sunset
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Gentle comedy starring John Cleese and Alison Steadman as widow and her old flame, whose rekindled romance is disrupted when her 50-year-old son moves back in. He announces that he's left his wife, his kids and his good job at the bank, and come home in an attempt to find his lost happiness again. And in a blink, to Edith's dismay and Phil's fury, all dreams are on hold.
98) Grownups
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
From the creator of Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps comes a hilarious urban comedy about a group of friends caught in that tricky place between their teens and 2.4 children. Michelle is 26 years old, living in Manchester with friend Claire, dating Dean who wants an open relationship and hurtling towards her thirties. When Michelle's brother Mike lands on her doorstep with his best friend Grant in tow, it all starts to get very complicated....
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The holiday season is in full swing when a cultured gentleman with twinkling eyes, and ample belly, and a snowy bread is hired as Macy's department store Santa. He claims his name is Kris Kringle, and soon fills everyone with Christmas spirit; except for his boss, Doris Walker, who's raising her daughter to not believe in Santa. But when Kringle is declared insane, and put on trial, everyone's faith is put to the test.
"***1/2 Highly recommended."--Video...
100) The Truman show
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c1999
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An insurance salesman, Truman Burbank, begins to doubt reality when he realizes that his life is a TV program. Nominated for six Golden Globes.
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