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Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 179 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4in.
Description
The rise and fall of a crooked casino owner, his family and hoodlums due to drugs, sex, and betrayal. Includes featurettes, the making of Casino, deleted scenes, and much more. 10th anniversary release of the 1995 film.
62) DCI Banks
Description
Stephen Tompkinson returns as the tenacious and stubborn Detective Alan Banks in three more chilling crime stories. As this series opens, Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks must learn to work with dramatic changes to his team. Detective Annie Cabbot is off on maternity leave soon to be replaced by the impossible-to-read Helen Morton.
Pub. Date
2002, c1966
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (126 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story focuses on the riotous confusion created when a Russian submarine gets stuck on a New England sandbar and the landing crew goes ashore for help-only to be mistaken for an invasion force by the over-imaginative townspeople.
64) Great gatsby
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 143 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4in.
Description
Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the mysterious past and lavish lifestyle of his landlord, the nouveau riche Jay Gatsby.
65) Man On Fire
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 146 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4in.
Description
Hard-drinking, burnt-out ex-CIA operative John Creasy has given up on life - until his friend Rayburn gets him a job as a bodyguard to nine-year-old Pita Ramos. When Pita is kidnapped, he unleashes a firestorm of vengeance against everyone responsible.
"Washington's charisma and Fanning's old-soul charm hoist this revenge film above the rest."--E! Online.
"A compelling, top-notch film that delivers all the thrills, twists and drama it promises."--Jam!...
67) Whitechapel
Description
The streets of Whitechapel are awash with blood in this compelling crime drama. A murderer stalks the night, picking off vulnerable women and leaving them brutally butchered. The locals live in fear and the police remain clueless. But this is not the 19th Century and the time of Jack the Ripper. This is now. Assigned to the case is fast-tracked DI Chandler - a novice in the business of murder, but an expert in the politics of policing. Can Chandler...
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 205 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Description
An unprecedented collaboration of Kino International and the Museum of Modern Art, together with the Library of Congress. Edison: the invention of the movies is a four-disc box set featuring 140 complete Edison Co. films from 1891 to 1918, all restored and newly remastered. This deluxe set also includes 200+ scans of artifacts from MoMA's Edison collection, film-by-film program notes, and two hours of interviews with early film experts.
69) Long weekend
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, 92 min.) : digital, stereo., sound, color.
Description
Attempting to resurrect their failing marriage, Peter (John Hargreaves) and Marcia (Briony Behets) set out on a camping trip to a deserted stretch of the Australian coastline in the hope that a long weekend in the sunshine will help them patch up their differences. They trample through the countryside, destroying everything in their tracks, carelessly scattering their rubbish and shooting anything that moves. Their callous disregard for the environment...
70) Tommy boy
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
2 videodisc : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Party animal Tommy Callahan is definitely a few cans short of a six-pack. But after seven years, Tommy's finally earned his diploma-- and a cushy job at Callahan Auto Parts. Returning home, Tommy gets some more great news: his dad is marrying a real "10," and Tommy will get the stepbrother he always wanted. But as fast as you can say "Who killed the keg?," the family business starts tanking. Now Tommy's got to hit the road with his dad's right-hand...
Pub. Date
1994.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (108 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Set during the 1954 American-led military coup to overthrow Guatemalan president Jacobo Arbenz, this coming-of-age tale follows a young boy, Neto (Oscar Javier Almengor), who dreams of one day flying in a hot air balloon. After the U.S. military arrives in the country, he watches as his family and friends are negatively affected. First, his father loses his job, and then the whole family is forced to leave the city, which culminates in the death of...
72) The Thick of It
Description
Award-winning comedian Armando Iannucci directs this dark political satire, set in the corridors of British government. An ensemble of the best British comic actors improvise around scripts based on inside knowledge and leaked revelations of the workings of Westminster. The team at the Department of Social Affairs and Citizenship find themselves in a world dominated by internal politics, power and the media, where they have no choice but to do as...
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (139 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Tom Ripley is a calculating young man who believes it's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. He's hired to go to Italy to bring back the playboy son of a millionaire and soon is plunged into a daring scheme of duplicity, lies and murder.
74) Ruthless people
Pub. Date
[200-?]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When loathesome millionaire Sam Stone's wife is kidnapped by inept kidnappers, Sam cries tears of joy and refuses to pay the ransom. And when the abductors threaten to kill the abrasive heiress, Sam celebrates.
75) American beauty
Pub. Date
2000, c1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (122 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When midlife crisis hits, Lester Burnham's fascination with a young girl spurs him to make some major changes in his life.
78) A time to kill
Pub. Date
1997
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (150 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A murder trial brings a small Mississippi town's racial tension to the flashpoint. Amid a frenzy of activist marches, Klan terror, media clamor and brutal riots, an unseasoned but idealistic young attorney mounts a stirring courtroom battle for justice.
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 123 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4in.
Description
A scientist who specializes in weather tries to reach his son in New York after the world's weather goes out of control. The polar ice caps have melted, covering the earth in water, and then a freeze hits creating an ice age.
"If it's spectacle you crave at the movies, this is the place."--Boston Herald.
"...it's one superior disaster movie."--San Francisco Chronicle.
"It's the Weather Channel on steroids."--Washington Post.
Pub. Date
c1984
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (LaserVision) (107 min.) : sd. (stereo.), col. ; 12 in.
Description
Circus saxophonist Vladimir Ivanoff suddenly defects from his touring troupe in that temple of "Western decadence"--Bloomingdale's. Fleeing the K.G.B., Vladimir wins asylum and moves into the crowded Harlem flat of Black security guard Lionel Witherspoon. Though Vladimir learns that life in America can be cold and even painful, he grows to love this strange and wondrous new land.
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