Laura Linney
Publisher
Sony Pictures Television
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 240 minutes) : sound, color ; 12 cm.
Description
In the final season of this popular series, Emmy and Golden Globe winner Laura Linney reprises her role as Cathy Jamison, who comes to a realization about her battle with skin cancer. Deciding to quit chemotherapy, Cathy finds peace and resolution with her husband, son and even her estranged father. With four one-hour episodes, Cathy's journey is filled with laughter, tears and poignancy- a fitting farewell to this acclaimed series.
Publisher
Distributed by Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (135 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story takes place at the opening of a new century, one that held forth all kinds of promises, especially for women. In this post-Victorian Fifth Avenue milieu, Lily Bart, an unmarried woman of 29 with dwindling prospects, needs a husband badly. She lives beyond her means, relying on the grudging charity of her elderly aunt. She is the kind of girl who would make an admirable decoration on some fine gentleman's arm, but there is a liveliness--a...
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (1 hr., 56 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Susan is living through an unfulfilling marriage when she receives a package containing a novel manuscript from her ex-husband, Edward. The novel is dedicated to her but its content is violent and devastating. Susan cannot help but reminisce over her past love story with the author. Increasingly she interprets the book as a tale of revenge, a tale that forces her to re-evaluate the choices that she has made, and reawakens a love that she feared was...
Publisher
Paramount Classics
Pub. Date
[2001], c2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Sammy is a single mom living in a small Catskill town with her eight-year-old son. A lot happens all at once to Sammy as she, sort of, picks up with an old boyfriend, gets a new boss and her wayward brother finally shows up after months of no communication. A crisis of sorts ensues when the son meets his estranged father.
25) Arthur Christmas
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
On Christmas night at the North Pole, Santa's youngest son looks to use his father's high-tech operation for an urgent mission.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
As Great Britain faces an imminent war with Germany, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt ... and his wife, Eleanor ... , invite the King and Queen of England for a weekend at their home in upstate New York. But during the first-ever visit of a reigning British monarch to America, international affairs must be juggled with the complexities of FDR's domestic establishment, as wife, mother, and mistresses all conspire to make the royal trip an unforgettable...
27) Love actually
Formats
Description
It's all about love and holiday cheer in London. The Prime Minister is smitten with his caterer; a widower's young son nurses the ultimate schoolboy crush; a writer falls for his Portuguese housekeeper; a devoted wife and mother copes with her potentially unfaithful husband; and a lovelorn American is desperately attracted to a colleague.
28) Mystic River
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 138 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Boston childhood friends Jimmy, Sean and Dave are reunited after a brutal murder. Reformed confict Jimmy and his devoted wife Annabeth find out that their teenage daughter Katie has been beaten and killed. Jimmy's old friend Sean is the homicide detective assigned to the case. Jimmy gets his relatives, the Savage brothers to conduct their own investigation. Jimmy and Sean soon suspect their old pal Dave, who now lives a quiet life, but harbors some...
29) Savages
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Jon and Wendy Savage (Hoffman and Linney) are two siblings who have spent their adult years trying to recover from their abusive father, Lenny (Bosco). Suddenly, a call comes in that Lenny's girlfriend has died and he cannot care for himself. Lenny suffers from dementia and her family dumps Lenny on his children. Despite the fact Jon and Wendy have not spoken to Lenny for twenty years and he is even more loathsome than ever, the Savage siblings feel...
Publisher
Showtime Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 323 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
San Francisco is the hippest city in America, and right in the middle of it are the residents of 28 Barbary Lane. In the early 80's, San Francisco was a sunny, comfortable place where everyone smiled most of the time, possibly because sex was rarely further than a wink and a nod away, as this installment of the series makes clear. The various inhabitants of Mrs. Madrigal's building are living the San Francisco high life to the fullest as unusual...
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approx. 116 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Susan is living through an unfulfilling marriage when she receives a package containing a novel manuscript from her ex-husband, Edward. The novel is dedicated to her but its content is violent and devastating. Susan cannot help but reminisce over her past love story with the author. Increasingly she interprets the book as a tale of revenge, a tale that forces her to re-evaluate the choices that she has made, and reawakens a love that she feared was...
32) The fifth estate
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 128 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on true events, this global thriller takes you behind the headlines. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg team up to become underground watchdogs of the very powerful. They create a platform that allows whistleblowers to anonymously leak covert data. But when Assange and Berg gain access to the biggest trove of confidential intelligence documents in U.S. history, they battle each other and a defining question...
Series
Publisher
Ardustry Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 290 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Brought to life is San Francisco in the 1970's. The quirky lovelorn tenants of 28 Barbary Lane are following their fortunes and follies under the watchful eye of their maternal landlady. Intersecting lives, gleeful coincidences and innocent raunch are all part of the fun.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (122 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A skeptical attorney defends a Catholic priest accused of criminal negligence after a "possessed" girl he performed an exorcism on dies. Based on the true story of Anneliese Michel, a young German Catholic woman who died in 1976.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
2 DVD videodiscs (ca. 269 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The house of mirth: The glittering yet treacherous world of New York High Society comes to life in the heartbreaking story of Lily Bart, a renowned beauty of exquisite charm who seeks a wealthy husband but winds up disgraced and discarded.
Les miś?rables: Tells the story of Jean Valjean and his relentless pursuit by police inspector Javert.
36) The dinner
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
1 DVD (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It is a dark psychological thriller about a fierce showdown between two couples during the course of an ornately prepared meal at a fancy restaurant. When Stan Lohman, a popular congressman running for governor, invites his troubled younger brother Paul and his wife Claire to join him and his wife Katelyn for dinner at one of the town's most fashionable restaurants, the stage is set for a tense night.
Publisher
Outcast Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Jennifer Kroot's documentary about the creator of Tales of the city moves nimbly between playful and poignant and laugh-out-loud funny. Maupin offers a disarmingly frank look at the journey that took him from the jungles of Vietnam to the bathhouses of '70's San Francisco to the front line of the American culture war.
39) John Adams
Formats
Description
While our new nation was suffering attacks from both within and without, John Adams had a vision of a nation of liberty and justice for all. He guided his peers--General George Washington, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson--in setting the values and agenda for a glorious, free America. Adams and his wife Abigail refined these ambitious democratic ideals, and their partnership became one of the most moving love stories in American history.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (364 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The Italian job: Charlie, the mastermind of a Venice heist, is overseen by John, a lifelong criminal. But the thieves are ruthlessly double-crossed by one of their own, Steve. In order to get their stolen gold bars back, Charlie enlists John's reluctant safecracking-prodigy daughter, Stella. But Steve proves himself to be one step ahead of them, and Charlie finds that he'll have to make some daring last-minute changes to their plan by creating the...