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Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
329 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A brilliantly funny and razor-tongued debut which follows a writer lured to Los Angeles to adapt her feminist mermaid novel into a big-budget action film, who believes her heroine has come to life to take revenge for Hollywood's violations. Penelope Schleeman, a consistently broke Connecticut high school teacher, is as surprised as anyone when her sensitive debut novel, "American Mermaid"-the story of a wheelchair-bound scientist named Sylvia who...
22) The reckoning
Publisher
Hallmark Movies & Mysteries
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Shunned by the township she was raised in, a young Amish woman finds herself enjoying an affluent life in the secular world and engaged to a successful businessman. When a long lost love unexpectedly returns from her past with a startling revelation, she is torn between her newfound modern life and the simplicity of her humble past, and must now choose the life, and the man, that wll finally give her peace of mind.
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
This is the story of the magical journey that led to the creation of Ebenezer Scrooge (Christopher Plummer), Tiny Tim and other classic characters from *A Christmas Carol*. Charles Dickens (Dan Stevens) mixed real life inspirations with his vivid imagination to conjure up unforgettable characters and a timeless tale, forever changing the holiday season into the celebration we know today. Nominated for Achievement in Visual Effects, Best Adapted Screenplay...
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 110 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson return as Christian Grey and Anastasia Steele in Fifty Shades Freed, the climactic chapter based on the worldwide bestselling Fifty Shades phenomenon. Believing they have left behind shadowy figures from their past, newlyweds Christian and Ana fully embrace an inextricable connection and shared life of luxury. But just as she steps into her role as Mrs. Grey and he relaxes into an unfamiliar stability, new threats could...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 90 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Zamiatou is the mother of two quarrelsome boys and a depressed teenage girl. She is also the wife of a man arrested for political reasons who returned from prison mentally and physically destroyed. She struggles hard to survive in a poor and desolate area. She is ready to face anything to keep the family alive except prostituting her beautiful daughter.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Jane Austen's classic tale of the tangled relationships between lovers from different social classes in nineteenth century England is faced with a new challenge: an army of undead zombies.
27) The castle
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 123 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Deutsch
Description
Michael Haneke's adaptation of Franz Kafka's The castle is an ingenious, faithful interpretation evoking Kafka's vision of a dystopian society hobbled by paperwork and bled dry by conformism and convolution.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (25 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on the bestselling children's book by Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury. the story follows siblings Stan, Katie, Rosie, Max, the baby, and Rufus the dog, who decide one day to go on an adventure through whirling snowstorms, oozing mud, and dark forests in search of bears. But when Rosie and Rufus become separated from the rest of the family, it looks like bear hunting might not be quite as fun after all.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A tight knit team of rising investigators, along with their supervisor, is suddenly torn apart when they discover that one of their own teenage daughters has been brutally murdered.
30) Appaloosa
Publisher
New Line Productions, Inc
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Full screen and widescreen versions.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
1880s, the American West. Randall Bragg is a rich landowner who is wanted for murdering the town marshal. Lawman Virgil Cole and his deputy Everett Hitch are two friends who are hired to defend a lawless town from the murderous rancher. Their efforts become complicated and their friendship is tested when a young widow arrives in town.
31) The glass castle
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Chronicling the adventures of an eccentric, resilient and tight-knit family. A remarkable story of unconditional love. A young woman who, influenced by the joyfully wild nature of her deeply dysfunctional father, found the fiery determination to carve out a successful life on her own terms.
32) Liz in September
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 93 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Español
Description
Based on the classic lesbian play, Last Summer at Bluefish Cove, the gorgeous drama Liz in September stars Latina lesbian supermodel Patricia Velasquez as Liz, a hardcore party girl and womanizer. Liz (who is ill) and her friends are at a beach resort celebrating what they don't realize could be her last birthday. When an outsider joins the party, Liz's friends dare her to seduce the newcomer - and nothing turns out as expected.
Publisher
Under the Milky Way
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (97 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
Camille (Audrey Tautou. Amelie, The Da Vinci Code) works evenings as an office cleaning woman and makes graceful drawings in her free time while living in the attic of a Parisian apartment block. Philibert (Laurent Stocker) is a young, aristocratic history buff living - temporarily - in an apartment lower down, part of the estate of his late grandmother. He has let out part of it to up-and-coming cook, Franck (Guillaume Canet), a gruff young loner...
Publisher
Binge Box
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (621 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hunt for Red October: A new technologically superior Soviet nuclear sub, the Red October, is heading for the United States coast under the command of Captain Ramius. The American government thinks Ramius is planning to attack. A lone CIA analyst has a different idea: he thinks Ramius is planning to defect, but he has only a few hours to find him and prove it. At the same time, the entire Russian naval and air commands are trying to find Ramius too.
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35) Monsieur hire
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 79 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
Adapted from the book by celebrated Belgian crime novelist Georges Simenon, Monsieur Hire is a film of gorgeously muted widescreen color and"funereal beauty" (The Washington Post) that coolly unpacks sexual obsession and romantic love with an intelligence and understated intensity "so delicate that you almost hold your breath for the last half-hour" (Roger Ebert).
36) The Big Short
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on the true story of four outsiders (Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling and Brad Pitt) who saw what the big banks, media and government refused to: the global collapse of the economy. A bold investment leads them into the dark underbelly of banking, where everyone and everything is in question. Winner of an **Academy Award** and a **BAFTA Award** for Best Adapted Screenplay and nominated for Best Film. Nominated for four **Golden Globes**...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Released in conjunction with the 75th-anniversary DVD release of The Wizard of Oz, this book is the definitive story of how one of America's most beloved movies was made and a marvelous, unprecedented examination of how Hollywood used to make movies. This updated edition includes numerous photos and shares hundreds of interviews with cameramen, screenwriters, costume designers, directors, producers, light technicians, actors, and more to reveal how...
38) Thunderbolt
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 103 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A story from the burgeoning video industry of Nigeria combines melodrama and issues of ethnicity, gender, culture and identity in post-colonial Africa. Thunderbolt will come as a bolt out of the blue to most Americans, even aficionados of African cinema. It is one of the best examples of the little-known but burgeoning video industry of Nigeria. Most films in this Library of African Cinema catalog ironically are seen more in the West than in Africa...
39) The Trojan women
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 105 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
The women of defeated Troy are at the mercy of the Greeks in this adaption of Euripedes' tragic anti-war play. The unbeatable cast is lead by Katharine Hepburn, Irene Papas, Genevieve Bujold and Vanessa Redgrave.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Formats
Description
What starts out as a lavish train ride through Europe quickly unfolds into one of the most stylish, suspenseful and thrilling mysteries ever told. From the novel by best-selling author Agatha Christie, tells the tale of thirteen strangers stranded on a train, where everyone is a suspect. One man must race against time to solve the puzzle before the murderer strikes again.
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