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Publisher
E1 Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (432 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Marooned in suburbia, four adolescent boys navigate the minefields of life with their hormones at full blast. Though the young lads try to convince the world they are sophisticated, sexy human beings, their obsession with girls and cheap booze is actually a cringe-inducing look at the humiliations of teenage life.
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
The story of Paul Dedalus, an anthropologist preparing to leave Tajikistan. Reflecting on his life, he has a series of flashbacks starting from his childhood in Roubaix; his mother's attacks of madness, his father's alienating depression. He remembers a student trip to the USSR, where a clandestine mission led him to offer up his own identity for a young Russian, whom he considered a phantom twin for the remainder of his life.
3) Somersault
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After making a misjudged advance towards her mother's boyfriend, 16-year-old Heidi flees her home for the small Australian ski town of Jindabyne. Her self destructive tendancies surface, and her fragile new world threatens to come tumbling down.
Publisher
Discovery Education
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 28 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Often funny, sometimes touching, always honest, this video helps your students understand what soon will be happening to their bodies as well as their feelings and thoughts.
5) Elephant
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (80 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Depicts students at a Portland, Oregon, high school before and during a tragic school shooting. Follows a young boy who takes over the wheel from his drunken dad while returning from lunch. Then follows another student who crosses paths with the first, then the other of the two boys in camouflage gear, carrying heavy bags, who arrive inside the school and begin shooting. No explanation for the shooting is given, it simply places the audience in the...
6) Los Reyes
Publisher
Grasshopper Film
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (75 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
The oldest skate park in Santiago, Los Reyes, brings together teenagers from very different social and cultural backgrounds. Chola is young and vigorous and spends her days playing with balls that she throws to the pools in which skaters ride. Football is an old dog, but beautiful and energetic, that obsessively accompanies Chola in this game. As Football grows old and Chola is left alone, the juvenile stories confront viewers with the rawness of...
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In spite of his stuttering problem, the high school debate team star invites Hal to join the team. Stumbling his way to the championship, Hal falls in love, gains confidence, and ultimately realizes that love and life should not be rocket science.
8) Storytelling
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A story that makes light of the dark side of human behavior. Discover the truth about sex, lies and race relations in suburban America. Includes a mixture of an emotionally needy college student, a slacker named Scooby and a very dysfunctional family man.
9) Eighth grade
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Kayla endures the tidal wave of contemporary suburban adolescence as she makes her way through the last week of middle school (the end of her thus far disastrous eighth grade year) before she begins high school.
10) Only yesterday
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
DVD and Blu-ray.
Physical Desc
1 DVD + 1 Blu-ray (2 hr.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
While visiting family in the Japanese countryside, 27-year-old Taeko remembers her childhood spent solely in the city and wonders if her life has followed her childhood dreams.
12) Sweet thing
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 91 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Billie is a 15-year-old girl who fantasizes Billie Holiday as a sort of fairy godmother. Billie has to navigate the evolving challenges of her life while she plays mother to her 11-year-old brother, Nico. They meet up with another adolescent, run away from home, and together roam the area free from their parents' watchful eye. They discover freedom and enchantment among the boats and railway tracks of New Bedford, Massachusetts. They fantasize about...
Series
Publisher
Disney
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 DVD + 1 Blu-ray (approximately 105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Kiki is an enterprising young girl who must follow tradition to become a full-fledged witch. Venturing out with only her black cat, Jiji, Kiki flies off for the adventure of a lifetime. Landing in a far-off city, she sets up a high-flying delivery service and begins a wonderful experience of independence and responsibility as she finds her place in the world.
14) Cocoon =: Kokon
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Nora, a shy 14-year-old Berlin girl, will never forget this way too hot summer. Surrounded by people with disrupted biographies, from different cultures and backgrounds, she makes her way into adulthood. Nora gets her first period, falls in love with another girl, learns to stand up for herself and gets her heart broken for the first time. When summer ends, things will never be the same again.
15) Juniper
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ruth is a worldly former war correspondent now bored in retirement with a drinking problem and a newly fractured leg. Sam is her unruly grandson, recently kicked out of boarding school and grieving the death of his mother. When the two are brought together under the same roof, they form an unexpected bond.
Series
Publisher
Blue Moon Production Company
Pub. Date
[2000]
Edition
DVD + Blu-ray.
Physical Desc
1 DVD + 1 Blu-ray (90 minutes) : sound, color ; 12 cm + 1 folded-out insert.
Language
English
Description
Over the course of one hot summer, a group of children in the decaying rural South must confront a tangle of difficult choices.
17) BandSlam
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ultra-popular Charlotte is determined to face-off against her ex at the country's biggest music competition. She just needs a band. Newcomer Will knows more about musicians than anyone. He just needs a friend. And rebel guitar player Sa5m has a wicked voice but needs someone to believe in her. Together, this unlikely trio will take on Bandslam in a way no one thought possible.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 240 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A two-part, four-hour documentary that explores America's youth mental health crisis through the eyes of more than twenty young people, who speak about their lived experience with mental health challenges, from depression to addiction to suicide ideation.
19) Love, Simon
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Everyone deserves a great love story, but for seventeen year old Simon Spier, it's a little more complicated. He hasn't told his family or friends that he's gay, and he doesn't know the identity of the anonymous classmate that he's fallen for online. Resolving both issues proves hilarious, terrifying and life changing.
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (1 hr., 37 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A black teenage girl living in Brooklyn dreams of medical school, a family, and an escape from the generational poverty of the inner city. Her dreams are put on hold when she becomes pregnant by her boyfriend.
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