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2) The graduate
Series
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 106) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A recent college graduate from an affluent family comes of age and finds himself by being led into an affair with the wife and the daughter of his father's business partner.
3) The Alamo
Series
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of the historic battle by 185 men against a 7,000-man Mexican army--a battle that ended in the smaller forces' defeat, but lasted long enough to insure the eventual independence of Texas.
4) Annie Hall
Series
Pub. Date
2000.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (93 min.) : sound, color, double-sided ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Woody Allen's semiautobiographical portrait of his amorous, but ultimately mismatched, relationship with co-star Diane Keaton. Allen uses satire and comedy to portray this "nervous romance" for modern times.
5) Manhattan
Series
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (96 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Allen portrays Isaac Davis, a successful comedy writer whose wife, having left him for another woman, is now embarking on a book about their failed marriage. Isaac happily consoles himself in the arms of an adoring 17 year-old schoolgirl until he meets someone closer to his own age, who happens to be his best friend's mistress.
6) Sleeper
Series
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Miles Monroe enters the hospital in 1973 for a minor ulcer operation only to wake up 200 years later after being defrosted. As Miles tries to adjust to his new environment, he is re-programmed, de-programmed, chased by Big Brother-like police, and falls for Luna, an underground poet.
7) Spaceballs
Series
Pub. Date
2000.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A spoof of the Star Wars series, with Mel Brooks playing the dastardly president of an alien race out to steal the air supply of a neighboring planet. Fearless - and clueless - space heroes Lone Starr and his half/man half dog sidekick Barf wage interstellar warfare to free Princess Vespa from the evil Dark Helmet. Along the way they encounter the wise little creature Yogurt who teaches them the mystical power of "The Schwartz."
8) Benny & Joon
Series
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A mentally ill young woman who lives with her older brother finds her love in an eccentric young man who models himself after Buster Keaton.
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When the evil De Nomolos dispatches robots to kill Bill & Ted, not only is the future of the universe at stake, but there's no way they can win the battle of the bands. Luckily, when they knock on death's door, he answers, becoming their faithful servant in a whacked-out journey through Heaven, Hell and San Dimas, California. Bill & Ted meet Martians, marry their historical girlfriends, & even learn how to play the guitar.
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Screwball comedy about two high school students who face a difficult history exam. With the help of a time-traveling messenger they round up some historical heavyweights for their class project!
Series
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two con men, one a suave and sophisticated Englishman and the other a bumbling but appealing American, compete to see who can extract $50,000 from a naive soap heiress first. The winner can keep the Riviera and its unsuspecting tourists to himself.
14) Marty
Series
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (90 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Marty is the story of a 34-year-old Bronx butcher who fears that he will never find love, but at a Saturday night dance he meets a lonely schoolteacher with similar fears.
Series
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (82 min.) : sound, color with black and white segments ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Cecilia is a poor waitress in a dumpy New Jersey diner who goes to the movies to escape the realities of Depression Era life. Her favorite is "The Purple Rose of Cairo." When the leading man, Tom Baxter, decides to be with Cecilia, confusion abounds.
16) Radio days
Series
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Presents a look back at radio from the late 1930s to the mid-1940s, focusing on an extended Jewish family, all avid radio listeners, and on a young woman who eventually succeeds as a radio gossip columnist.
17) The Terminator
Series
Pub. Date
[2001], c1984
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 2029, giant super-computers dominate the planet and to destroy man's future by changing the past, they send an indestructible cyborg, a Terminator, back in time to kill a woman whose unborn son will become mankind's only hope. Can Sarah Connor protect herself from this unstoppable menace?
19) Exodus
Series
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (208 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This film dramatizes part of the Israeli independence moment, dealing with various factions involved in the internecine struggle between the moderate Haganah and the radical terrorist Irgun Zvai Leumi. Interspersed throughout are segments showing the migration of European Jews to the new land, paying special attention to the ragged survivors of Nazi death camps on board the vessel Exodus, blockaded in a Cyprus harbor by British warships. The film...
20) I want to live!
Series
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 2 hr., 1 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Arrested for fatally beating an elderly widow, Barbara Graham at first goads the police, refusing to answer their questions. But when an alleged accomplice turns state's evidence, Graham insists that she is innocent. Condemned by the press and the public, Graham is found guilty of murder and sentenced to die in the gas chamber. With her execution date getting near, Graham desperately attempts to expose the truth and save her life against all odds....
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