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1) Sweetie
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jane Campion, director of The Piano, will always be remembered for this stunning debut feature. The focus of this film is the hazardous relationship between button-down, superstitious Kay, and her rampaging sister, 'Sweetie.'
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 145 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1929, an impoverished fishing village father sells his nine-year-old daughter, Chiyo, to a geisha house in Kyoto's Gion district and she becomes subjected to cruel treatment from the owners and the head geisha Hatsumomo. As she grows older, her stunning beauty attracts the vindictive jealousy of Hatsumomo. She is rescued by and taken under the wing of Hatsumomo's bitter rival, Mameha. Under Mameha's mentorship, Chiyo becomes the geisha named Sayuri,...
Series
The Sapranos volume s. 2
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Tony Soprano is a middle-aged, Italian-American businessman in New Jersey with a wife, a daughter, a son, and an elderly mother. He's got a psychiatrist to tell all his secrets to, except the one she already knows. He's also a mob boss facing several crises. Rival boss Johnny Sack is in prison and the always tense relations between the New Jersey and New York families are strained through the unpredictable behavior of Sack's surrogates.
Publisher
Genius Products
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (119 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Danish
Description
Jacob runs a struggling orphanage in one of India's poorest regions. Desperate to save an orphanage from closing, he returns to Denmark to meet Jorgen, a wealthy businessman and potential benefactor. What appears to be nothing more than a friendly gesture to attend a wedding sets in motion an increasingly devastating series of surprises, revelations, and confessions that will forever change their lives.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 146 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
With the Nazi invasion of Holland, Corrie ten Boom's family joins the resistance to help save persecuted Jewish families. When they are arrested and imprisoned in concentration camps themselves, they have nothing left to cling to but their faith.
Publisher
IFC FirstTake
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (124 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Story about a woman who works with the homeless, and a paranoid Vietnam vet who both become interested in the death of a Pakistani man killed in a drive-by shooting, but for totally different reasons.
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (129 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Mr. Bennet is an English gentleman living in Hartfordshire with his overbearing wife and 5 daughters. There is the beautiful Jane, the clever Elizabeth, the bookish Mary, the immature Kitty and the wild Lydia. Unfortunately, if Mr. Bennet dies their house will be inherited by a distant cousin whom they have never met. The family's future happiness and security is dependent on the daughters making good marriages. Life is uneventful until the arrival...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 96 min.) : anamorphic, sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
When a small-time crook and his young girlfriend have a child, he decides to sell the baby for money. When his girlfriend finds out, she goes into shock. While she recovers in the hospital, he tries to get their son back and redeem himself.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Three female friends find themselves at life's crossroads. Money, sex, and marriage, it's not adding up like they thought it would. Each of them is plagued with extreme lack, extreme excess, or both. All are on the edge, and some will fall.
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (ca. 720 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Think having three wives is a dream come true? Think again. Meet Bill Henrickson (Bill Paxton), a practicing polygamist who lives in suburban Salt Lake City with his three wives and seven children. An independent businessman who runs a growing chain of hardware stores, Bill faces a myriad of challenges in meeting the emotion, romantic and financial needs of his wives while dealing with their kids, three adjoined houses, an ever-mounting avalanche...
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Mike is a sensitive narcoleptic who dreams of the mother who abandoned him. Scott is a wayward son of the mayor of Portland and the object of Mike's desire. Navigating a volatile world of junkies, thieves, and johns, Mike takes Scott on a quest from the grungy streets to the open highways of the Pacific Northwest, in search of an elusive place called "home". A stirring look at unrequited love and life at society's margins.
Publisher
2 entertain/BBC Video
Pub. Date
2006, c1978
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 212 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The tragic tale of Maggie Tulliver, the miller's daughter, who defies her embittered brother in standing by the man she loves - shocking the stifling society in which she lives - in an attempt to pursue her blighted dreams.
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Korean
Description
Two friends meet after being apart for years -- one in the United States studying film, and the other a professor at a university. When they start talking they realize they both loved the same woman, and decide to go find her to see if any sparks fly.
14) Mamitas
Publisher
Screen Media Films
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two Latino youths from different backgrounds form a life-changing friendship.
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ben Crane is a Kentucky horse trainer who watches in horror as a championship filly breaks a leg during a practice run. Ordinarily the horse would have to be put down, but today Ben's daughter, Cale, is at the track. Ben impulsively buys the horse, which causes him to lose his job. The rehabilitation process of the horse is almost too much for a farm that's already struggling to survive in a modern economy, but the horse turns out to be a much-needed...
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Turning her back on her wealthy, established family, Diane Arbus falls in with Lionel Sweeney. Sweeney is an enigmatic mentor who introduces Arbus to the marginalized people who help her become one of the most revered photographers of the twentieth century. Diane's strange, new world unlocks her deepest secrets, awakens her remarkable artistic genius, and launches her path to becoming the artist she is meant to be.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (158 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A down-and-out silver miner raising a son, self-made oilman Daniel Plainview has a voracious appetite for oil and it turns him into a California tycoon in the early years of the 20th century. Getting the oil from the ground is an intensely physical process that later broadens into Plainview's equally indomitable urge to control land and power. Along the way, Plainview deals with a mighty derrick fire, a visit from a long-lost brother, the ongoing...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
On his Sussex estate Captain Shotover, an eccentric poet, retired seafarer and inventor, is reluctantly hosting a weekend house party for his two daughters and their bohemian friends.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
6 videodisc ( 957 min) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Here today: Seismic shifts: A stunned White House deals with the revelation in the leak investigation.Santos, mired in the polls, shakes up his campaign staff. And Ellie Bartlet has big news for her parents.
The Al Smith dinner: A pro-life 527 committee runs a sleazy anti-Santos ad. Soon both Santos and Vinick are slugging it out in the abortion wars. Will steps into Toby's job...and into a hornet's nest.
The debate (West Coast): No red lights,...
20) Yesterday
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Zulu
Description
After falling ill, Yesterday learns that she is HIV positive. With her husband in denial and a young daughter to tend to, Yesterday's one goal is to live long enough to see her child go to school. Set against the awesome, harsh landscapes of South Africa.
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