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2) Beast beast
Publisher
Passion River
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Three interwoven stories of youth navigating identity, first love, petty crime, and gun violence in a Southern, American town.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (127 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Hamish Bond is a plantation owner who has a secret past of slave trading. Rau-ru is a freedom-yearning slave who has been raised as a son by Bond. Amantha Starr is a fiery belle who goes on the auction block when her part-African heritage is revealed - and is sold to Bond. She loathes Bond at first but is eventually won over.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Lazarus is an extremely religious man who is broken hearted after his wife leaves him for his own brother. Rae is the town slut, apparently afflicted with the "disease" of uncontrollable nymphomania. After a night of hard partying and sleeping around, Rae, is beaten up and left by the roadside near Lazarus' house. Lazarus takes her in and chains her to his radiator while trying to "cure" her insatiability. Eventually, the two become friends and help...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After his mother's death, Collin Fenwick goes to live with his father's cousins, the wealthy, avaricious, and controlling Verena Talbo, and her compliant, earthy sister Dolly. When a city slicker comes to town and convinces Verena to market Dolly's locally-famous tonic, Dolly finally gets some backbone, refuses to divulge the formula, and heads for a tree house with Collin and Catherine, the loyal maid.
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (130 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In a racially divided Alabama town in the 1930s, widowed lawyer Atticus Finch agrees to defend a young black man accused of raping a white woman, teaching his children valuable lessons about prejudice and empathy.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Lily Owens is a young girl who lives on the peach farm that her abusive father owns. Rosaleen is a black woman hired by Lily's father to be a stand-in mother for Lily. When Rosaleen and Lily walk into town, they are approached by some white men. Rosaleen insults these racists by standing up for her rights. The angry men give her a beating and she ends up in the hospital. Lily's father rescues Lily but not Rosaleen, so Lily talks Rosaleen into running...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (123 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"John Singer, who is deaf . . . moves from a small town in order to be close to his institutionalized friend Antonapoulos, who is deaf and mentally impaired. Singer rents a room with a family whose father, Mr. Kelly, is unable to earn a living due to a serious injury. His teen-aged daughter Mick is at first resentful of Singer's presence, but he ingratiates himself by introducing her to classical music (which he can "feel," if not hear). Singer likewise...
10) Cookie's fortune
Publisher
Alliance Atlantis
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"The small southern town of Holly Springs hasn't had such a claim to fame since the advance of General Grant was halted there in 1862. But now the mysterious death of Holly Springs matriarch Jewel Mae, known affectionately as 'Cookie, ' has the small town in an uproar. Who is the murderer? Where is the murderer? Has there even been a murder?"--Container.
11) Paper moon
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (102 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A smooth-talking con man and a nine-year-old orphan are up to tricks in depression-era Kansas. Also includes a prologue by Peter Bogdanovich in which he shares insights about being a director and goes behind the scenes of Paper Moon.
12) Rambling Rose
Publisher
Artisan Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Rose, an alluring young woman, is hired by a Southern family to care for their children, and changes their lives forever. She is an innocent who relates to everyone she meets in the only way she knows how-- with sexuality she cannot restrain. The mother of the family takes Rose under her wing, offering love and protection, while the teenaged son finds Rose both his fantasy and a profound mystery.
Publisher
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A devoted old couple are separated when the wife dies. The husband struggles to cope with his loneliness and failing health, but his spirit is fading when a mysterious white dog appears and reawakens his joy of life.
14) Wise blood
Series
Criterion collection volume 470
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (106 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (12 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.).
Description
U.S. Army war veteran Hazel Motes may not be a believing Christian, but he somehow makes observations about the state of a run-down country church and understands that there are ridiculous frauds on the streets. When a cab driver insists he looks like a preacher in his new hat, Hazel takes on the part. He starts his own new Church of Truth, without the crucified Jesus. His first disciple is an 18-year old simpleton with a 'prophetic gift.'
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
1 DVD (130 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The setting is a dusty Southern town during the Depression. A white woman accuses a black man of rape. Though he is obviously innocent, the outcome of his trial is such a foregone conclusion that no lawyer will step forward to defend him--except the town's most distinguished citizen. His compassionate defense costs him many friendships but earns him the respect and admiration of his two motherless children.
16) My cousin Vinny
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2000, p1992
Physical Desc
1 DVD (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A college student and his friend are accused of murder in the depths of the South, and law school graduate cousin Vinny comes to the rescue. The trouble is, Vinny passed the bar on his sixth try and has never appeared in court before.
17) Monster's ball
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (112 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Hank and Leticia inhabit stark, queasy realities of the contemporary South, he as a death row corrections officer and she as the soon-to-be widow of an inmate whose execution Hank helps conduct. In the aftermath of the execution, both lose their children to tragic deaths and they form an unlikely bond.
18) The apostle
Publisher
USA Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (134 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Sonny is a preacher whose honest conviction won him the respect of his town until one day he commits a crime of passion.
Publisher
Manufactured and distributed by Sony Wonder
Pub. Date
[2002?]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Miss Jane Pittman is celebrating her 110th birthday. As the civil rights movement heats up, Miss Jane, a former slave, recounts her memories of the black experience from picking potatoes on a southern plantation to fetching water for soldiers in the Civil War to her views on the current and turbulent equal rights movement.
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