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Criterion collection ; 48Summary: A fun and tender story about friendship and the complications of young love. Leo is a blind teenager who's fed up with his overprotective mother and the bullies at school. Looking to assert his independence, he decides to study abroad to the dismay of his best friend, Giovana. When Gabriel, the new kid in town, teams with Leo on a school project, new feelings blossom in him that make him...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Strand Releasing Home Video 2015
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WAYSummary: Tells the stories of several people in Rio with love problems. There's Mary Ann, a widowed American schoolteacher who has given up on ever finding love again; Pedro, an attorney separated from his wife; and Tania, (the wife) who may want him back. Then there's Roberto, Pedro's shy brother; AcGacio, a soccer champ; Sharon, a law intern; and Nadine, a young bohemian who thinks she's found the man...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2000
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BOSSummary: Story based on the legend of Orpheus and Eurydice set against the colorful background of the carnival in Rio de Janiero. With its magnificent color photography and lively soundtrack, this film brought the infectious bossa nova beat to the United States.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 1999