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1) Lady Bird
Language
English
Formats
Description
Directed by Greta Gerwig and nominated for five **Oscars**, LADY BIRD is a warm, affecting comedy about a high schooler (Saoirse Ronan) who must navigate a loving but turbulent relationship with her strong-willed mother (Laurie Metcalf) over the course of her eventful and poignant senior year of high school. **Golden Globe** winner for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy and Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy....
Publisher
Home Box Office, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (DVD) (approximately 503 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A bizarre murder brings together three law-enforcement officers and a career criminal, each of whom must navigate a web of conspiracy and betrayal in the scorched landscapes of California.
3) Poltergeist
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Freeling family is a typical middle class family living in the peaceful Cuesta Verde Estates. Steve, his wife Diane, 16-year-old daughter Dana, 8-year-old Robbie, and 5-year-old Carol Ann live in a tract house. Soon strange things begin to happen around the house; the pet canary dies, mysterious storms occur, and Carol Ann is summoned to the TV set, where a strange shaft of green light hits her and causes the room to shake. As the curious events...
4) Nope
Publisher
Universal
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Following their father's shocking death, Hollywood animal wrangler OJ and his sister Emerald begin observing unexplained phenomena on their vast Southern California ranch that leads them down an obsessive rabbit hole as they plot attempts to capture the mystery on camera. Along with a former child star turned family them park ringmaster who neighbors the siblings, the pair's efforts to chase the spectacle soon bring terrifying consequences and unimaginable...
Language
English
Description
Two determined California college students, Arian and Ernest, follow the inspiration of their idealistic professor, Dr. Malley, and attempt to do something important with their lives. The two make the bold decision to join the battle in Afghanistan. Dr. Malley is both moved and distraught. Now, as Arian and Ernest fight for survival in the field and the human consequences of war becomes clear for these two students trapped behind enemy lines. They...
Series
Language
English
Description
It seems like Steve and Doug Butabi will never be cool enough to make the Roxbury Club's guest list. That is, until they have a fender bender with their role model, club regular Richard Grieco. Eager to avoid litigation, Grieco befriends the pair and escorts them into the glittery world they only dreamed about. No longer will the hapless Butabis be A-club wannabes.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (338 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
On the surface, everything seems the same in the seaside town of Monterey, CA: mothers continue to dote, husbands support, children are adorable, houses are beautiful. But the night of the school fundraiser changed all that. Meanwhile, Perry's grieving mother Mary Louise Wright comes to town in search of answers after her son's death.
9) San Andreas
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a magnitude nine earthquake leaves California in ruins, a helicopter pilot and his estranged wife make their way to San Francisco to save their only daughter.
10) Erin Brockovich
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2000]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 132 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Erin Brockovich is a feisty young mother who convinces attorney Ed Masry to hire her and promptly stumbles upon a law case against a giant corporation for water pollution. Erin's determined to take on this powerful adversary even though no law firm has dared to do it before. The two begin a legal fight that will bring a small town to its feet and a huge company to its knees.
11) Freedom Writers
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A true story about a teacher in a racially divided school who gives her students what they've always needed: a voice. Draws heavily from the published journals of the real students themselves.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Widescreen version ; second-disc collector's edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (158 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Self-made oilman Daniel Plainview has a voracious appetite for money and power. Working with his "son and partner," 11-year-old H.W., he becomes a California tycoon in the early years of the 20th century. His only challenge comes from a young, ambitious charismatic preacher, Eli Sunday.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (158 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in the early 20th century, the film follows the rise to power of Daniel Plainview, a ruthless oil prospector. When Plainview learns of oil-rich land in California that can be bought cheaply, he moves his operation there and begins manipulating the local landowners into selling him their property. He encounters resistance from a young reverend of the local church, who has his own ambitions for his diocese and the profit from the oil.
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (approximately 988 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Enter the complex world of the Walkers and explore what it means to be an American family in the 21st century. Though they live very different and conflicting lives, the Walkers find unity under the family roof. Relationships bend but never break as they strive to find their own identities and embrace each other's differences.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Screwball comedy about two high school students who face a difficult history exam. With the help of a time-traveling messenger they round up some historical heavyweights for their class project!
16) High Sierra
Publisher
[Turner Entertainment]
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Bogart plays a convicted killer sprung from jail by a mobster who wants him to assist in a California hotel holdup.
17) The fog
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A charter boat captain and his first mate uncover a buried treasure off the rocky shores of an isolated Northern California town from a ship that sank 100 years ago. They are not aware of the ship's horrible history and awaken the spirits of the dead. Shrouded within a supernatural fog, the ghosts will kill anyone who stands in their murderous way.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (513 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A smart, independent brunette named Chelsea may finally have turned party-boy Charlie into a man. Jake locks lips with the cute girl next door, the one whose football-star dad is named Mad Dog. Judith prepares for a midlife baby, who may end up looking a lot like Alan. Alan dates his receptionist, then ends up in bed with her frisky mom.
20) The line
Publisher
Maya Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tijuana, Mexico. Veteran assassin Mark Shields is assigned to track down Pelon. Pelon is the head of the Salazar Crime Cartel. Unknowingly and through several twists of fate, Shields' path will take him on a torrid encounter with Olivia, a local woman who is fighting her own demons for the sake of her daughter. Shows the plight of souls in one of the most dangerous cities in North America.
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