Summary: Maurice and Ian are successful, but aging actors. The two are close friends whose conversation generally revolves around theatrical shop talk and the infirmities of other aging actors. Ian is fearful that death is right around the corner, so he agrees to let his niece's daughter, Jessie, move in to his flat to care for him. Jessie is a modern woman in her early twenties. She turns out to be a...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2007

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY VEN

Summary: Following the banning of his earlier novel, The Rainbow, D.H. Lawrence shocked his audience yet again with Women in Love. Combining elements of both novels, this adaptation focuses on the lives of two sisters, Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen, as they struggle with their own loves, desires, passions, and relationships with two friends, Rupert Birkin and Gerald Crich. As Ursula and Birkin's friendship...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: BBC 2013

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WOM RATED R

Summary: An exquisite, richly layered adaptation of Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles. A strong-willed peasant girl is sent by her father to the estate of some local aristocrats to capitalize on a rumor that their families are from the same line. This fateful visit commences an epic narrative of sex, class, betrayal, and revenge. With its earthy visual textures it is a work of great pastoral...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TES

Summary: The story of lively and rebellious Elizabeth, one of five unmarried daughters living in the countryside of 19th century England, in a world where an advantageous marriage is a woman's sole occupation.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: British Broadcasting Corp. 2001

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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV PRI

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD PRI NOT RATED

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Pride 2001

Summary: Emma brings to life Jane Austen's novel about a woman who makes it her goal to 'fix' the lives of all her friends while ignoring her own problems.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Lionsgate 2011

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY EMM