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Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The film tells an inspiring and spirited true story that follows young lawyer Ruth Bader Ginsburg as she teams with her husband Marty to bring a groundbreaking case before the US Court of Appeals and overturn a century of gender discrimination. The feature will premiere in 2018 in line with Justice Ginsburg's 25th anniversary on the Supreme Court.
2) Caddyshack
Language
English
Description
Greenskeeper Carl Spackler is about to start World War III, against a gopher. Pompous Judge Smalls plays to win but his nubile niece Lacey Underall wants to score her own way. Playboy Ty Webb shoots perfect golf by becoming the ball. And country club loudmouth Al Czervik just doubled a $20,000 bet on a 10-foot putt. Insanity? No. Caddyshack.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (81 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Russ Millings has just been released from prison after serving 21 years for a third strike conviction for possessing an ounce of marijuana. As he tries to adapt to a world he doesn't recognize, including trying to learn how to use the internet, he finds an abandoned baby in a dumpster behind the fast-food restaurant where he works as a dishwasher. Unsure of what to do, and caught between impulses of kindness and panic, Russ soon realizes this could...
Language
English
Description
Set in downtown New York in 1900, the Knickerbocker Hospital faces a major upheaval due to poor finances and an exodus of wealthy patients. The one remaining star is Dr. Thackeray, who along with the hospital staff of surgeons, nurses and other personnel must struggle to keep both themselves and the hospital going.
5) Obsessed
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Derek Charles is a successful asset manager who works for a small company. He has a beautiful wife, a wonderful marriage, and because of his hard work has just received a huge promotion. When an attractive temporary worker, who is both sexy and smart, gets hired, he finds himself physically drawn to her and everything he has worked so hard for is placed in jeopardy. She is desperate to get close to Derek and begins stalking him.
6) Ex machina
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Caleb, a 24-year-old coder at the world's largest Internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a retreat belonging to the company's reclusive CEO, Nathan. But when Caleb arrives he finds that he will have to participate in a fascinating experiment with the world's first true artificial intelligence, housed in the body of a beautiful robot woman, Ava. Truths, emotions, and motives are blurred as the relationship between Caleb, Ava, and Nathan...
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs in 2 separate volumes (DVD) (477 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Documents the exploits of a paper supply company in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Made up of head chief Michael Scott, a harmlessly deluded boss who cares about the welfare of his employees while trying to put his own spin on company policy. Meanwhile, the employees at Dunder-Mifflin are there to get the job done...or not.
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (451 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A 21st-century romantic thriller centered around a relationship that gets taken too far. What would you do for love? When a brilliant bookstore manager crosses paths with an aspiring writer, his answer becomes clear: anything. As he uses the internet and social media to gather the most intimate of details to get close to her, a charming and awkward crush quickly becomes obsession when he quietly and strategically begins to remove every obstacle, and...
10) Monster's ball
Series
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Hank and Leticia inhabit stark, queasy realities of the contemporary South, he as a death row corrections officer and she as the soon-to-be widow of an inmate whose execution Hank helps conduct. In the aftermath of the execution, both lose their children to tragic deaths and they form an unlikely bond.
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (ca. 135 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Four women who worked as codebreakers at Bletchley Park have taken up civilian lives. Susan has collated data about a series of murders. She tries to convince the police she knows where another body is, but they are unable to locate it and dismiss her. She turns to her three friends and they work out where the next victim will be taken, find the body, and then decide they are the only ones who can track down the killer.
12) The Circle
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Mae is hired to work for the world's largest and most powerful tech and social media company, she sees it as an opportunity. As she rises through the ranks, she is encouraged by the company's founder, Eamon Bailey, to engage in a groundbreaking experiment that pushes the boundaries of privacy, ethics and ultimately her personal freedom. Her participation in the experiment, and every decision she makes begin to affect the lives and future of her...
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray disc (114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 videodisc (4 3/4 in.)
Language
English
Description
The intern of a record company finds himself with both his dream job and biggest nightmare, when he is assigned to retrieve a British rock star and get him to his concert in time.
14) The Last Templar
Author
Language
English
Description
When a medieval decoding device points the way to the long-lost treasure of the Knights Templar, an archaeologist and FBI agent join forces to find it, never realizing the Vatican will stop at nothing to prevent its discovery.
15) Renfield
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Renfield is the tortured aide to history's most narcissistic boss, Dracula. Renfield is forced to procure his master's prey and do his every bidding, no matter how debased. But now, after centuries of servitude, Renfield is ready to see if there's a life outside the shadow of The Prince of Darkness. If only he can figure out how to end his codependency.
16) The help
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 146 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Mississippi during the 1960s: Skeeter, a southern society girl, returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends' lives, and a small Mississippi town, upside down when she decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent southern families. Aibileen, Skeeter's best friend's housekeeper, is the first to open up, to the dismay of her friends in the tight-knit black community.
17) The longest yard
Author
Language
English
Description
Albert plays a sadistic warden who would make any sacrifice to push his prison guards' semi-pro football team to a national championship. Reynolds plays a one time pro quarterback behind bars for "borrrowing" a car.
18) Java heat
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Following a terrorist attack in Indonesia that killed the country's beloved Sultana, headstrong American Jake Travers suddenly finds himself in the center of the already tense conflict between the West and Islam. Teaming up with Muslim detective Hashim, the unlikely duo embark on a treacherous manhunt for the attacks real perpetrator, a new breed of klepto-terrorist, who is even more twisted and terrifying than the Jihadist terrorists he hides behind....
19) The help
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (Blu-ray) (approximately 146 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Mississippi during the 1960s: Skeeter, a southern society girl, returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends' lives, and a small Mississippi town, upside down when she decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent southern families. Aibileen, Skeeter's best friend's housekeeper, is the first to open up, to the dismay of her friends in the tight-knit black community.
20) Silk road
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ross Ulbricht launches the website Silk Road, a completely anonymous drug market, catching the focus of disgraced DEA agent Rick Bowden. As their private lives erode, they are trapped in an elaborate game of cat-and-mouse.
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