Matthew Modine
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (92 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Featuring the voices of Oscar-winner Whoopi Goldberg and Oscar-nominee James Woods, "Mia and the Migoo" is a stunningly beautiful, hand-painted animated feature film. Pedro leaves his poor village and finds work drilling a tunnel through an area of exceptional natural beauty that is to become a luxurious hotel complex. But mysterious forces are working against the project. When a landslide blocks the entrance to the tunnel, Pedro is left trapped....
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (102 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Based on a true story, a struggling inner-city mother sacrifices everything to give her son a good education and launches a movement that could save his future - and that of thousands like him.
4) Mrs. Soffel
Pub. Date
1984.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (112 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Academy Award winners Mel Gibson and Diane Keaton star in a drama based on the true story of the forbidden romance between Ed Biddle and Mrs. Soffel. 1901. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Wife and mother Kate Soffel (Keaton) chafes within the confines of her repressive life and yearns for something more than her proper, boring husband can offer. She devotes her free time to reading to the inmates of the county prison--where she meets and falls in love with...
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (93 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
As single mom Grace juggles work, bills, and her affair with a married doctor, her daughter, Ansiedad, plots a shortcut to adulthood after finding inspiration in the coming-of-age stories she's reading for school.
6) Foster Boy
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (105 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
A corporate lawyer and a young man who suffered in foster care, must work together to expose the system.
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After her husband goes missing, Sue Buttons, an under-appreciated suburban wife, gets a taste of being a local celebrity as she embarks on a city-wide search in Yuba County to find him. She stumbles into hilarious hijinks, dodging a wanna-be mobster, a relentless local policewoman, her half-sister a local news reporter desperate for a story, and her husband's dead-beat brother, who all set out to uncover the truth behind the disappearance.
Pub. Date
1997.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (106 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Joe and Mary have been living together in Manhattan for six years. Joe is an actor, who has no agent and no thesping credits, but whose ambitions are very high. He works as a waiter at a cafe. Mary works as a make-up stylist for hot fashion photographer Blair, and she pays most of the pair's bills. Joe finally lowers his standards and accepts a degrading bit in a Madonna video, while his friend and co-waiter Bob gets a high-paying job on a soap opera...
9) Hard Miles
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (109 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
The uplifting true story of the bicycling team at a medium-security correctional school in Colorado. HARD MILES follows beleaguered coach Greg Townsend (Matthew Modine) as he rounds up an unlikely crew of incarcerated students for a seemingly impossible bike ride from Denver to the Grand Canyon.
10) Pacific Heights
Pub. Date
1990.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (102 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
A couple work hard to renovate their dream house and become landlords to pay for it. Unfortunately, one of their tenants has plans of his own.
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Mafia princess Angela DeMarco wants out. With her husband Frank dead, Angela decides it's time to divorce "the mob" and start a new life. But what she doesn't realize is once you're married to the mob, it's death do you part ... usually yours.
Pub. Date
1994.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (97 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Albert Finney plays a brilliant but stern classics instructor at a posh prep school who is forced out of his job and into the realization that he is despised in the classroom...and at home. Nominated for Best Screenplay at the **BAFTA Awards.** Nominated for the Palme d'Or at the **Cannes Film Festival.** *"Finney is a master of letting us glimpse the bruised heart of a man like Andrew Crocker-Harris, who has used his devotion to the classics to bury...
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (397 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Appears on list
Description
1983, Indiana. A young boy vanishes into thin air. As friends, family, and local police search for answers, they are drawn into an extraordinary mystery involving top-secret government experiments, terrifying supernatural forces, and one very strange little girl.
15) Birdy
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD-video (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Birdy, a Vietnam veteran, sits in an almost catatonic state in an Army hospital, where he has come to believe he is one of the feathered creatures of his boyhood dreams. In an effort to break Birdy's silence, his psychiatrist brings in Al Columbato, Birdy's best friend of his youth. Al tries to reach the disturbed Birdy and bring him back to reality. The answer may lie in their youth, where Birdy first donned wings and Al helped him to fly.
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (96 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Based on short stories from Robert Boswell's collection, seven vignettes explore the difference between fantasy and reality, memory and history, and the joy and agony of the human condition.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 458 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a young boy vanishes, a small town uncovers a mystery involving secret experiments, terrifying supernatural forces and one strange little girl. It's 1984 and the citizens of Hawkins, Indiana are still reeling from the horrors of the demagorgon and the secrets of Hawkins Lab. Will Byers has been rescued from the Upside Down but a bigger, sinister entity still threatens those who survived.