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Publisher
MTI Home Video
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Builder Robert is visiting his ailing wife in a nursing home and is having problems getting a taxi home due to an intense snow storm. One of the doctors, Katherine offers him a lift home however their car gets stuck and they have to spend the night in an empty cabin nearby. They talk and bond, but afterward seem to have difficulty beginning a relationship.
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
What is the profession that has enabled Mrs. Warren to give her daughter all the benefits of good society? Vivie Warren discovers her mother's secrets and embraces her own power as a 'modern' woman.
43) Sweetie
Series
Criterion collection volume 356
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jane Campion, director of The Piano, will always be remembered for this stunning debut feature. The focus of this film is the hazardous relationship between button-down, superstitious Kay, and her rampaging sister, 'Sweetie.'
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Eleven year-old Akeelah Anderson's life is not easy: her father is dead, her mom ignores her, her brother runs with the local gangbangers. She is a smart girl, but her environment threatens to strangle her aspirations. Responding to a threat by her school's principal, Akeelah decides to participate in a spelling bee to avoid detention for her many absences. Much to her surprise and embarrassment, she wins. Her principal asks her to seek coaching from...
45) Petulia
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An unhappily married socialite woman is trying to get through to a recently divorced doctor, who in his own words just wants to feel something.
Series
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Arabic
Description
The story of two women. Emel is a Westerner whose husband, a journalist, is missing - perhaps kidnapped or even killed. Khadija is an older woman who has lived through the country's decades-long struggle. Together they search for Emel's husband.
Series
Publisher
Facets Video
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Hungarian
Description
A large, claustrophobic apartment is the setting for this intense chamber drama. In this dense setting, the inhabitants of the apartment reveal their darkest secrets, fears, obsessions and hostilities.
49) Land of plenty
Publisher
Weinstein Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Story about a woman who works with the homeless, and a paranoid Vietnam vet who both become interested in the death of a Pakistani man killed in a drive-by shooting, but for totally different reasons.
51) On a clear day
Publisher
Focus Features
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 99 minutes) : sound, color ; 12 cm
Language
English
Description
The inspirational and triumphant story of a man who defies great odds and takes on a monumental challenge. This heartwarming tale of determination is an uplifting and humorous film.
52) The last kiss
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Michael and Jenna have been a couple for three years. At dinner one night, Jenna's parents, Anna and Stephen, announce that they are having a baby. Jenna is overjoyed, but everyone else has mixed emotions. At a wedding the next day, Jenna and Michael meet up with friends Chris, who is tired of his wife telling him how bad he is as she deals with their whiny baby; Izzy who is taking the break-up of his most current relationship badly and does not react...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A high school football coach with a history of losing games faces not only the pressures from a group of fathers wanting him fired, but also the possibility that his wife can never have children. When he turns to God, will his prayers be answered?
55) 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.
56) Man push cart
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Every night while the city sleeps, Ahmad, a former rock star in his native Pakistan, drags his heavy cart along the streets of New York. Every morning, he sells coffee and donuts to a city he cannot call his own. One day the pattern of this harsh existence is broken by a glimmer of hope for a better life.
58) Pandora's box
Series
Criterion collection volume 358
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
[2-disc special ed.].
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (133 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (95 pages : ill. ; 19 cm).
Language
Deutsch
Description
Follows the downward spiral of the fiery, brash, yet innocent showgirl Lulu, whose sexual vivacity has a devastating effect on everyone with whom she comes in contact.
Publisher
Wellspring
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Louis lives an isolated existence on the French-Swiss border. When an ailing heart leads him to visit Geneva to pay for a replacement on the black market, he travels to his former home where he searches for his lost son.
60) Seven pounds
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tim Thomas was a gifted aerospace engineer with a beautiful wife. Then, while using his cell phone while driving, his car wandered across lanes and he became responsible for the deaths of 7 others, including his wife. Unable to forgive himself, Tim sets out to give 'pounds of flesh' that will give new life to seven deserving individuals to make up for the seven lives he destroyed. Tim intends to kill himself to atone for his sins. He decides to bestow...
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