Summary: It explores the friendship between two struggling single mothers: one a working-class white woman who ascends to the top of the business world, and the other her Black housekeeper, whose life is shattered by the rejection of her rebellious, white-passing daughter. It is this latter relationship attuned to America's bitter racial realities and heartbreakingly enacted by trailblazing Black...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA IMISummary: Nervous spinster Charlotte Vale is stunted from growing up under the heel of her puritanical Boston Brahmin mother and remains convinced of her own unworthiness until a kindly psychiatrist gives her the confidence to venture out into the world on a South American cruise. Onboard, she finds her footing with the help of an unhappily married man. Their thwarted love affair may help Charlotte break...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA NOWSummary: Character study of a talented pianist who has given up a promising career and now works on oil rigs. After 20 years he returns home to his father's deathbed, perhaps to reconcile himself with his fear of failure and desire for greatness.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Tristar Home Video 1998
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FIVCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Five 1998Summary: "The story of a Manhattan teenager whose life is profoundly altered after witnessing a terrible accident. Experience an emotional teen's extraordinary journey to set things right as her innocent ideals come crashing against the harsh realities of the adult world"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY DRAMA MAR1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY TCFF MAR
Summary: "While traveling across [Alabama in the 1930s], Grace discovers the isolated plantation of Manderlay, a place where no one knows that slavery has been long abolished. With a good heart and pure intentions, Grace tries to emancipate the slaves and open the residents' eyes to the truth, with shocking results"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MANSummary: In an alternate universe where twinned worlds have opposite gravities, a young man battles interplanetary prejudice and the laws of physics in his quest to reunite with the long-lost girl of his dreams in this visually stunning romantic adventure that poses the question: what if love was stronger than gravity?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Millennium Entertainment 2013
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Jane Campion returns to the kind of mythic frontier landscape--pulsating with both freedom and menace--that she previously traversed in The Piano in order to plumb the masculine psyche in The Power of the Dog, set against the desolate plains of 1920s Montana and adapted by the filmmaker from Thomas Savage's novel. After a sensitive widow and her enigmatic, fiercely loving son move in with her...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA POW1 available in Staff Picks, Call number: DVD DRAMA POW
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie PowerCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD POWSummary: After nearly forty years of marriage, Joan and Joe Castleman are complements. Where Joe is casual, Joan is elegant. Where Joe is vain, Joan is self-effacing. And where Joe enjoys his very public role as Great American Novelist, Joan pours her considerable intellect, grace, charm, and diplomacy into the private role of Great Man's Wife. Joe is about to be awarded the Nobel Prize for his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2019
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WIFCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Wife 2019Copies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WIFSummary: A truly inspiring story of one ordinary family's extraordinary journey. An orphaned boy named Tomas is adopted by Maire O'Donnell to live on a whimsical Irish isle filled with new friends, secret caves and a lost baby pup seal stranded on the coast. But when Maire's reluctant husband Alec refuses to accept Tomas as his own son, the boy drifts down a fateful path of adventure and self-discovery,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox 2011