Anna Deavere Smith
Author
Description
Compiled from dozens of interviews conducted by the author, Anna Deavere Smith's Let Me Down Easy is a bracing, tender, melancholy, and triumphant exploration of death and dying. The speakers Smith inhabits include healthcare professionals, theologians, artists, athletes, and activists. They speak of the body as a battleground, a tool, a weapon, a joy, a burden. Smith's great gift has always been her ability to break down her subjects' defenses and...
Publisher
Lions Gate
Pub. Date
©2014
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (280 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The show returns for a fifth season. After leaving rehab early, Jackie finds sobriety and relative happiness, but that is the calm before the storm. With her marriage coming to an end, a careless accident sends Jackie to her own all Saints Hospital for emergency care. While recovering, she meets NYC policeman Frank Verelli, whose flirtatious advances may lead Jackie into uncharted territory: dating.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (280 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Jackie Peyton, a strong-willed and brilliant but very flawed emergency room nurse. This season, Jackie comes to realize that both karma and sobriety can be a pain. In addition to finally confronting her addiction, Jackie's street smarts and sardonic wit are tested even further by an ambitious new hospital administrator determined to run a tight ship and keep Jackie in line.
4) Life support
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 88 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Ana is an HIV-positive woman and recovering junkie, taking care of a 9-year-old daughter and a husband who is also HIV-positive. While making the most of a local social services program in order to regain stability in her life, she also attempts to reunite with her estranged teenage daughter, living with Ana's mother.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (333 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Jackie Peyton is a sharp-tongued and quick-witted nurse who is trying to survive the chaotic grind of saving lives in a hectic New York City hospital. Jackie's a woman of substance who knows how to handle it all. With a white lie here, a bent rule there, and a steady dose of pain relievers for her chronic back pain, Jackie does whatever it takes to get the job done.
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (334 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Jackie's best friend and husband put the pieces together about her pill-popping ways and confront her about her addiction. But if the people in her life think one little intervention is going to stop her, they don't know Jackie. The great white liar returns for another hilarious season of 12 episodes.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In and out of rehab for the past 10 years, Kym Buchman returns to the family home for the wedding of her sister Rachel. She brings with her a long history of personal crisis and family conflict. The wedding party, friends and relatives have gathered for an idyllic weekend of feasting, music and love, but Kym's passion for the dramatic incites tension in the family.