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1) Spotlight
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
It tells the riveting true story of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe investigation that would rock the city and cause a crisis in one of the world's oldest and most trusted institutions. When the newspaper's tenacious "Spotlight" teams of reporters delve into allegations of abuse in the Catholic Church, their year-long investigation uncovers a decades-long cover-up at the highest levels of Boston's religious, legal, and government establishment....
2) Love, Rosie
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 102 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A heart-warming, modern and romantic comedy-of-errors. Since the age five, Rosie and Alex have been best friends, facing the highs and lows of growing up side by side. A fleeting shared moment, one missed opportunity, and the decisions that follow send their lives in completely different directions. As each navigates the complexities of life, love, and everything in between, they always find their way back to each other, but is it just friendship,...
3) Proud Mary
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Mary is a hitwoman working for an organized crime family in Boston. Her life is completely turned around when she meets a young boy whose path she crosses when a professional hit goes awry.
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Alexis is the girl of Dustin's dreams. After only five weeks of dating, the love-struck Dustin is coming on so strong that Alexis is forced to slow things down to a dead stop. Devastated and desperate to get her back, Dustin turns to his best friend, Tank, the rebound specialist. A master at seducing and offending women, Tank gets hired by freshly dumped guys to take their ex-girlfriends out on the worst date of their lives. These women experience...
5) Black mass
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (122 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1970s South Boston, FBI Agent John Connolly (Joel Edgerton) persuades Irish mobster James "Whitey" Bulger (Johnny Depp) to collaborate with the FBI and eliminate a common enemy: the Italian mob. The drama tells the true story of this unholy alliance, which spiraled out of control, allowing Whitey to evade law enforcement, consolidate power, and become one of the most ruthless and powerful gangsters in Boston history.
7) The town
Language
English
Formats
Description
Doug MacRay is leader of a Boston bank robber gang but not cut from the same cloth as his fellow thieves. When Doug falls into a passionate romance with the bank manager briefly taken hostage in their last heist, he wants out of this life and out of the town. As the Feds close in and the crew questions his loyalty, he has one of two choices: betray his friends or lose the woman he loves. Includes both the theatrical and extended cut versions of the...
8) The departed
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Two men from opposite sides of the law are undercover within the Massachusetts State Police and the Irish mafia, but violence and bloodshed boil when discoveries are made, and the moles are dispatched to find out their enemy's identities.
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A 4-year-old girl has disappeared from her Boston home, and the police are making little headway in solving the case. The girl's aunt hires private detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro. They freely admit that they have little experience with this type of case, but the family wants them for two reasons: they're not cops and they know the tough neighborhood in which they all live.
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (742 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Enjoy six Academy Award winners. Titles included Argo, Birdman, Green Book, The Shape of Water, Slumdog Millionaire and Spotlight.
"Argo": Acting under the cover of a Hollywood producer scouting a location for a science fiction film, a CIA agent launches a dangerous operation to rescue six Americans in Tehran during the U.S. hostage crisis in Iran in 1979.
"Birdman": A washed-up superhero actor attempts to revive his fading career by writing, directing,...
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 290 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The professional and personal stories of a group of brilliant but often emotionally challenged attorneys. Confronts social and moral issues, while its characters continually stretch the boundaries of the law.
12) Cheers: Season 1
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (DVD) (approximately 539 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The regulars of the Boston bar Cheers share their experiences and lives with each other while drinking or working at the bar where everybody knows your name.
Pub. Date
[2025]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 271 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Frasier follows Frasier Crane in the next chapter of his life after he returns to Boston to face new challenges, forge new relationships and with hope finally fulfill an old dream or two. Frasier's sophomore season will see Dr. Frasier Crane return to his radio roots at KACL in a Seattle-themed episode. The series is filmed in front of a live studio audience at Paramount Studios in Los Angeles. The 2-disc collection includes every hilariously entertaining...
14) Edge of darkness
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The bullet that killed his daughter was meant for Boston cop Thomas Craven. That's what police brass and Craven himself think, but that's not what the investigation finds. Clue after clue and witness after witness, the search leads him into a shadowy realm where money and political intrigue intersect. If Craven wasn't a target before, he, and anyone linked to his inquiry, now is.
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jesse starts moonlighting for one of his friends after he is suspended. He investigates a series of murders in Boston that he believes are all connected to a notorious mob boss.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jesse Stone is shot while moonlighting on a Boston stakeout, leaving his friend fighting for his life and Stone out for justice. His rogue investigation to find the shooter leads him into Boston's shady underworld. This leads him right into the bed of a Boston PD investigator, who wants his head on a platter if he continues to pursue the case. Meanwhile, Stone is approached by a broken-hearted mother who is convnced her kidnapped son is still alive....
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Now that Jesse Stone has settled in as Paradise's police chief, he has to solve the grisly murder of a teenage girl. The investigation uncovers abuse and even leads him to a conflict with a Boston mob.
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
For the past eight years, the MacManus brothers have been living with their father on a remote sheep farm in Ireland, far removed from their past vigilante lifestyle. When their uncle informs them that their beloved priest has been killed by the mob, and they are being framed for the murder, the duo return back to Boston to, not only, bring justice to those who are responsible, but clear their names.
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (180 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After six acclaimed seasons, Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman delighted fans by returning with two feature length movies. In the first, Dr. Mike, Sully, and a posse of townsfolk must travel down to Mexico to rescue a kidnapped Katie. In the second, Mike and Sully travel to Boston to celebrate Colleen's graduation from Harvard Medical School--only to find Dr. Mike's mother terminally ill and Sully targeted for assassination by a corrupt government official....
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