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Abastecimiento de agua Bolivia Teatro California Los Angeles California Los Angeles Hollywood Green movement Bolivia Drama Man-woman relationships Motion pictures Production and direction Bolivia Drama New York (State) New York Películas cinematográficas Producción y dirección Boliva Teatro United States Water-supply Bolivia DramaSummary: Frustrated by her dyslexic daughter's struggles at a failing inner-city school, Jamie Fitzpatrick tries to enroll her somewhere else. When this fails, Jamie recruits a disillusioned but caring teacher to try to fix the broken school.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2013
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WON RATED PGSummary: In early 19th century France the paroled prisoner Jean Valjean seeks redemption, regains his social standing, and rises to the rank of mayor. He encounters a beautiful but desperately ill woman named Fantine and cares for her daughter, Cosette, after her death. All the while he is obsessively pursued by the policeman Javert, who vows to make him pay for the crimes of his past.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS MISSummary: Growing up poor in Madras, India, Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar earns admittance to Cambridge University during WWI, where he becomes a pioneer in mathematical theories with the guidance of his professor, G.H. Hardy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MANCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MAN RATED PG-13Summary: Otsuya is the daughter of a rich merchant who is tempted by her lover, Shinsuke, a lowly employee of her father's, to elope. During their flight, Otsuya's beauty attracts the gaze of Seikichi, a mysterious master tattooist who sees her pristine white skin as the perfect canvas for his art. The image of the large demonic spider that he emblazons across Otsuya's back marks her as the property of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN IRESummary: When the husband of a high-society woman is killed in an accident, she realizes she has nothing left except a house in rural Georgia that is being used as a foster home. Moving in with the intentions of selling it, she finds a new meaning and purpose to her life when she ends up helping to care for the rebellious teenagers who live there that have issues of their own.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY LOSCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD LOSSummary: The story of a young man coming face to face with his hero an exploring the tangled relationship between the dreams of youth and the wisdom of age.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GUE1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF GUE
Summary: In the 1930s, a cynical Catholic priest is sent to Mexico to preach in post-revolution Mexico: a cleric who risks his life by continuing to conduct the Catholic Mass in secret after the totalitarian government has outlawed the Catholic Church. In order to confer the Christian sacraments, the priest must have wine but his attempts to obtain wine will call attention to his clandestine activities.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV POWSummary: Three girls come to New York City and later, Hollywood, to chase their dreams of stardom: there's Anne, the innocent secretary type who becomes an assistant to a large theatrical agent; Neely, an aspiring chorus girl with pluck who dreams of being a singer; and the beautiful blonde Jennifer, who longs to be a real actress, but is destined to be regarded as a sex object. Life has a lot to give...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA VALSummary: "Idealistic filmmaker Sebastian ... and his cynical producer Costa ... arrive in Bolivia to make a revisionist film about Christopher Columbus' conquest of the Americas. But as filming commences, the local citizens begin to riot in protest against a multi-national corporation that is taking control of their water supply. With the film shoot in jeopardy, both men find their convictions shaken....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2012