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Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
1985, 1998
Language
English
Description
They were five teenage students with nothing in common, faced with spending a Saturday detention together in their high school library. At seven a.m. they had nothing to say, but by four p.m., they had bared their souls to each other and become good friends.
Publisher
Monarch Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Millions of people know the stories of A.A. Milne, but few are aware that a real bear inspired them. Milne and his son Christopher met the real Winnie at the London Zoo in 1926. A Bear Named Winnie is based on the story of that amazing bear.
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
In the 1930's, Emmet Ray ruled as the second greates jazz guitarist in the world. But his reputation was eclipsed by his eccentric careet moves, hilarious clashes with gangsters and stormy love affairs with two very different women.
Publisher
Sullivan Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
"An Avonlea Christmas pays tribute to the indominable and sometimes intolerable matriarch of the King family, Hettie King. When she suddenly collapses during the holidays, Hetty is hospitalized. Feeling homesick and alone, she begins to re-evaluate her relationships and her accomplishments in life. The story takes place against the backdrop of World War I as the King family prepares for its traditional Christmas dinner"--Container.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Heartwarming drama about love, life and the perfect game. Legendary Detroit Tigers pitcher Billy Chapel has always been better at baseball than at love. Nobody knows that better than his on-again, off-again girlfriend, Jane. At the end of a disappointing season, just before what may be the last professional game of his life, Jane tells Billy she's leaving him.
6) The Jackal
Publisher
Universal
Language
English
Description
Jackal--the greatest assassin in history--out to eliminate a top U.S. government official. Declan Mulqueen, an imprisoned underground operative, is the only man who can stop him. Now, the Deputy Director of the FBI is taking the biggest risk of all ... he's releasing one criminal to stop another.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Rebels in a politically volitile Latin American country have kidnapped Alice Bowman's husband for ransom--$3 million. Terry Thorne is the hostage retrieval expert who becomes Alice's only hope in navigating a high-stacks game where terrorists value money over life.
8) Lassie
Publisher
Weinstein Company
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
The Carraclough family is forced to sell Lassie when they fall on hard times. On her journey of 500 miles, Lassie faces dangers, natural and human, and finds help in unexpected places as she returns to her home and the boy she loves.
10) The jerk
Language
English
Formats
Description
Steve Martin portrays Navin Johnson, adopted son of a poor black sharecropper family, whose crazy inventions lead him from rags to riches and right back to rags. Along the way, he's smitten with a lady motorcycle racer, survives a series of screwball attacks by a deranged killer and becomes a millionaire by inventing the ₁Opti-grab₂ handle for glasses. It's an outrageous comedy with one laugh after another!
Series
Pub. Date
[2001], c2000
Language
English
Description
Sammy is a single mom living in a small Catskill town with her eight-year-old son. A lot happens all at once to Sammy as she, sort of, picks up with an old boyfriend, gets a new boss and her wayward brother finally shows up after months of no communication. A crisis of sorts ensues when the son meets his estranged father.
12) The Graduate
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
A rich, recent college graduate comes of age and finds himself by being led into an affair with the wife and daughter of his father's friend.
Series
Matrix volume 3
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
©2004
Language
English
Description
Neo leads Zion to the conclusion of their long battle against the machines.
14) The conversation
Language
English
Formats
Description
Provoking mystery/thriller starring Gene Hackman as Harry Caul, an expert surveillance man. A routine wiretapping job turns into a nightmare when Harry hears something disturbing in his recording of a young couple in a park. His investigation of the tape and how it might be used sends Harry spiraling into a web of secrecy, murder, and paranoia. Set against the backdrop of San Francisco. A harrowing psychological thriller that symbolizes the uneasy...
15) Dayveon
Publisher
FilmRise
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In the wake of his older brother's death, 13-year-old Dayveon spends the sweltering summer days roaming his rural Arkansas town. When he falls in with a local gang, he becomes drawn to the camaraderie and violence of their world.
Publisher
Flicker Alley
Pub. Date
1898.
Language
English
Description
Workers Leaving the Lumiere Factory, The Gardener, Arrival of a Train at La Ciot Station and many more are on display in Lumiere's First Picture Show; a collection of firsts from the filmakers that started a business of film production, exhibition and distribution. The acknowledged birth of film history was December 28, 1895 when the first paying audience gathered at the Grand Cafe on Boulevard des Capucines, Paris, for a performance of films on the...
17) Il posto
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Italiano
Description
When young Domenico (Sandro Panseri) ventures from the small village of Meda to Milan in search of employment, he finds himself on the bottom rung of the bureaucratic ladder in a huge, faceless company. The prospects are daunting, but Domenico finds reason for hope in the fetching Antonietta (Loredana Detto). A tender coming-of-age story and a sharp observation of dehumanizing corporate enterprise, Ermanno Olmi's Il posto is a touching and hilarious...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Italiano
Description
Tormented by twisted desires, a young man takes drastic measures to rid his grotesquely dysfunctional family of its various afflictions in this astonishing 1965 debut from Marco Bellocchio. Charged by a coolly assured style, shocking perversity, and savage gallows humor, Fists in the pocket was a gleaming ice pick in the eye of bourgeois family values and Catholic morality, a truly unique work that continues to rank as one of the great achievements...
19) Say anything
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Language
English
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
I see a new world. Do you see it? If you listened to the city back in 1984, here's what it told you: there are dark days coming, and the only way to survive them is by being rich. Made during the re-election year of Ronald Reagan, the election year of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and the very beginnings of the shattering saving and loan scandal that would come to look like candy store shoplifting a generation on, Ron Mann's rare early non-documentary...