Summary: Thanksgiving 1973. The climate is changing, both politically and physically. As the Watergate scandal unfolds in the background, the inhabitants of a small Connecticut town begin to slip into an existentialist void. Social taboos are shattered on whims and the line between adult authority and juvenile irresponsibility is practically nonexistant. Focuses on the Hood and Carver families....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2013
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA ICESummary: Aaron, a young misfit in a remote Scottish community, is the lone survivor of a strange fishing accident that claimed the lives of five men including his older brother. Spurred on by sea-going folklore and local superstition, the village blames Aaron for this tragedy, making him an outcast amongst his own people. Steadfastly refusing to believe that his brother is dead, and possessed by grief,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Winfried doesn't see much of his working daughter Ines. He pays her a surprise visit in Bucharest, where she's busy as a corporate strategist. The geographical change doesn't help them to see more eye to eye. Practical joker Winfried annoys his daughter with corny pranks and jabs at her routine lifestyle of meetings and paperwork. Father and daughter reach an impasse, and Winfried agrees to go...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TONSummary: Erik Blake has gathered three generations of his Pennsylvania family to celebrate Thanksgiving at his daughter's apartment in lower Manhattan. As darkness falls outside and eerie things start to go bump in the night, the group's deepest fears are laid bare. The piercingly funny and haunting debut film from writer-director Stephen Karam, adapted from his Tony Awardʼ-winning play, THE HUMANS...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2022
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HUMCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HUMSummary: A family drama following the lives of three generations of women Kat Landry, her 15-year-old daughter Alice, and Kat's mother Del. As the three generations of women slowly work on finding their footing as a family, they embark on an enlightening and surprising journey none of them could have imagined as they learn how to find their way back to each other.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WAY1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVD
Summary: The groundbreaking series offers unprecedented access to the U.S. military's mission to combat violent extremism in hot spots like Iraq, Afghanistan, West Africa and Latin America. From top commanders to the boots on the ground, the series paints an intimate portrait of how men and women handle authority and responsibility, and the sacrifices they make in their personal lives.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2018