Summary: A sinister thriller from the fractured 1960s that concerns a middle-aged businessman dissatisfied with his suburban existence, who is urged (and blackmailed) to undergo a strange and elaborate procedure that will grant him a new life as a reborn.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2013
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY SCI-FI SECSummary: Obsession and fate collide in one of the most controversial, provocative films ever made. The arrival of rugged American sailor Jim brings joy and sensual fulfillment to English widow Anne Osborne but her young son is disturbed by this new intruder and joins a perverse group of fellow students. With its disturbing ending and frank love scenes, this stylish adaptation of the novel by legendary...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SAISummary: Desperate to escape his dreary, dead-end life, an aging banker succumbs to a mysterious organization's offer of a new identity and a fresh start. Surgically transformed into a handsome, young man, he begins a jet-set existence among a shadowy community of similar "reborns." But his heady exhilaration spirals into a heart-stopping terror as he discovers that his newly purchased life carries a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2001
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Bill Meechum is one of nature's hard cases, an ace marine fighter pilot so adept at his lethal trade that they call him The Great Santini. But now it's peacetime, 1962. More at home playing 'top gun' in the cockpit than playing father in his own living room, he's become that most useless of all figures: a warrior without a war. Based on Pat Conroy's best-selling autobiographical novel,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013