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1) Hamlet
Author
Description
The play, set in the Kingdom of Denmark, recounts how Prince Hamlet exacts revenge on his uncle Claudius for murdering the old King Hamlet (Claudius's brother and Prince Hamlet's father) and then succeeding to the throne and marrying Gertrude (the King Hamlet's widow and mother of Prince Hamlet).
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Description
Confronted with evidence that his uncle murdered his father, and with his mother’s infidelity, Hamlet must find a means of reconciling his longing for oblivion with his duty as avenger. The ghost, Hamlet’s feigned madness, Ophelia’s death and burial, the play within a play, the “closet scene” in which Hamlet accuses his mother of complicity in murder, and breathtaking swordplay are just some of the elements that make Hamlet an enduring masterpiece...
4) The tree
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Following the death of her husband in a car crash, a grieving widow in the Australian countryside struggles to help her children deal with their loss.
5) In country
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Dramatic portrayal of a reclusive war vet and his 17-year-old niece as they struggle to heal the wounds of Vietnam.
6) True grit
Series
Formats
Description
U.S. Marshall Rooster Cogburn is hired by a 14-year-old girl to kill the man who murdered her father and stole the family nest egg. She accepts the help of a Texas Ranger, who is intent on the reward, and accompanies them on the quest.
7) Cat Ballou
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
2000.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When her father is murdered by a powerful businessman, a woman hires a has-been gunfighter to help her gain revenge.
Author
Series
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xl, 338 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Description
This Norton Critical Edition includes: • The Second Quarto text, edited by Robert S. Miola and accompanied by his footnotes, headnotes, and introductory materials. • Eighteen illustrations from 1604 to 2008, three of them new to the Second Edition. • The Actors’ Gallery, presenting actors―from Sarah Bernhardt and Ellen Terry to Kenneth Branagh and David Tennant, two of them new to the Second Edition―reflecting on their roles in major productions...
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The continuing misadventures of the Wolfpack. After the death of his father, Alan turns to the Wolfpack in his time of grief. This time, there's no wedding, no bachelor party, just one simple road trip. What could possibly go wrong?
10) Ramen shop
Pub. Date
2019
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The film tells the story of young Ramen Chef Masato who leaves his home and family's shop in Japan after his father dies in search of his mother's family and the recipes she left behind in Singapore. There he traces a culinary path of delicious signature dishes to find his estranged family across the sea. With the help of food blogger Miki, he learns the recipes of his mother's homeland and the way to his grandmother's heart.
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The son of a deceased climber that died on a Swiss Alps mountain peak, wants to visit the place of his father's death. He follows a 19th-century British climber to the peak.
Publisher
Screen Media
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
On the tenth anniversary of his father's mysterious death, Gio brings a birthday cake prepared by his mother to a memorial celebration hosted by his uncle Angelo, a Brooklyn mafia boss. Gio's life begins to change as he pieces together what happened to his father all those years ago, coming face to face with a kind of violence he has been trying to avoid his whole life.
13) Tommy
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A classic rock opera about a boy who is traumatized by the death of his father. He is "cured" several years later, only to be hailed as a "Messiah."
14) People like us
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
While settling his recently deceased father's estate and reconnecting with his estranged family, a twenty-something salesman discovers he has a half sister.
15) Shotgun stories
Publisher
Distributed by Genius Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This film tracks a blood feud between two sets of half brothers in the cotton-fielded back roads of Southeast Arkansas. The first set of Hayes boys were deserted by a violent, alcoholic father who never gave them proper names. The second Hayes family knew a different, sober man who led a comfortable middle-class life. When those first sons crash his funeral, the anger that had rested in the background of their lives threatens to rise up and overtake...
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray disc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The continuing misadventures of the Wolfpack. After the death of his father, Alan turns to the Wolfpack in his time of grief. This time, there's no wedding, no bachelor party, just one simple road trip. What could possibly go wrong?
17) Hamlet
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (242 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Description
In this first-ever full-text film of William Shakespeare's work, the Prince of Denmark, Hamlet, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother remarrying the murderer. Meanwhile, war is brewing.
18) True grit
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Mattie Ross is determined to avenge her father's blood by capturing Tom Chaney, the man who shot and killed him for two pieces of gold. Just fourteen, she enlists the help of Rooster Cogburn, a one-eyed, trigger-happy U.S. Marshal with an affinity for drinking, and hardened Texas Ranger LaBoeuf to track the fleeing Chaney. Despite their differences, their ruthless determination leads them on a perilous adventure that can only have one outcome: retribution....
19) True grit
Publisher
DreamWorks Pictures
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Mattie Ross is determined to avenge her father's blood by capturing Tom Chaney, the man who shot and killed him for two pieces of gold. Just fourteen, she enlists the help of Rooster Cogburn, a one-eyed, trigger-happy U.S. Marshall with an affinity for drinking, and hardened Texas Ranger LaBoeuf to track the fleeing Chaney. Despite their differences, their ruthless determination leads them on a perilous adventure that can only have one outcome: retribution"--Container....
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (473 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Danger-courting excursionist James Delaney returns to London in 1814 in order to attend his father's funeral. He not only inherit his notorious father's shipping empire, but all the enemies and debts created by his father's dubious dealings.
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