Summary: "Winner of top prizes at the Venice and Mumbai film festivals, Chaitanya Tamhane's Court is a quietly devastating, absurdist portrait of injustice, caste prejudice, and venal politics in contemporary India. An elderly folk singer and grassroots organizer, dubbed the 'people's poet,' is arrested on a trumped-up charge of inciting a sewage worker to commit suicide. His trial is a ridiculous and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN COUSummary: When she's fired from her job at an upscale law firm for voicing her stance against the testing of cosmetics on animals, Elle heads to Capitol Hill to fight for her cause before Congress. Once there, she runs into plenty of adversity and red-tape and can't seem to find anyone who will listen to her proposals. She meets and befriends an elderly bellman who's been around long enough to know the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2003
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY LEGSummary: Fiona Maye is a High Court judge in London ruling with wisdom and kindness over ethically complicated cases of family law. Fiona is tasked with ruling on the case of Adam, an exceptional boy who is refusing a life-saving blood transfusion. He is three months from his eighteenth birthday and legally still a child. Fiona visits Adam in the hospital and it has an extreme emotional impact on them...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CHICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Children 2018Summary: Ethically-challenged attorney Alan Shore settles in at a wealthy and powerful legal firm that focuses primarily on civil cases. With some help from veteran attorney Denny Crane, Shore quickly makes his mark winning cases no one would take. In doing so, he develops a rival in his colleague Brad Chase, who has been assigned to the office partly to keep an eye on the increasingly eccentric (and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Respected country solicitor Peter Kingdom, with the assistance of his apprentice Lyle and secretary Gloria, runs a small legal practice in Market Shipborough for the eccentric people of Norfolk. Peter lives with his slightly crazy sister Beatrice, and recently lost his half-brother Simon under mysterious circumstances.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by BFS Entertainment & Multimedia Ltd. 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Lawyer Peter Kingdom represents the oddball people in the town of Market Shipborough, England. While trying to seek answers to the problems of everyone else, he continues to be overshadowed by the disappearance of his brother, who may or may not still be alive. Contains six episodes.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by BFS Entertainment & Multimedia Ltd. 2009