Summary: A fiercely independent woman is gang raped, then battles the legal system twice, going after both her attackers and the onlookers whose cheering fueled and encouraged the assault.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ACCSummary: A small-town Michigan lawyer takes on a difficult case: that of a young Army lieutenant accused of murdering the local tavern owner who he believes raped his wife. A gripping, envelope-pushing courtroom drama, Anatomy of a murder was groundbreaking for the frankness of its discussion of sex. More than anything else, it is a striking depiction of the power of words. With its outstanding...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ANAWilliams, Tennessee
Summary: While visiting, Blanche DuBois, a beautiful alcoholic who embodies the virtues of the Old South, clashes with her brother-in-law Stanley Kowalski, a rising industrialist. As Blanche reveals the true nature of her visit to Stanley's residence, both Blanche and Stanley must face the saddening state of Southern values.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Caedmon 2008
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN WILSummary: Laura Nielson, a smart and capable teacher in the middle of a breakup, is set up on a date with recently widowed surgeon Andrew Earlham. However, the day after it is apparent that something has gone wrong, and the subsequent fallout rapidly spirals out of control, exposing the power of truth, deception, and trust.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV LIASummary: The movie follows an interracial couple whose relationship is put to the test after a black woman is sexually assaulted and her white boyfriend drives her from hospital to hospital in search of a rape kit. Their story reveals the systemic injustices and social conditioning women face when navigating sex and consent within the American patriarchy. Winner of top prizes at the BlackStar and New...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TESSummary: Do nothing. Stay and fight. Or leave. In 2010, the women of an isolated religious community grapple with reconciling a brutal reality with their faith.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WOMCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE WOMCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WOMCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WOMCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WOMSummary: Michèle seems indestructible. Head of a successful video game company, she brings the same ruthless attitude to her love life as to business. Being attacked in her home by an unknown assailant changes Michèle's life forever. When she resolutely tracks the man down, they are both drawn into a curious and thrilling game--a game that may, at any moment, spiral out of control.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ELL RATED RCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ELL1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF ELL
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ELLSummary: A small-town Michigan lawyer takes on a difficult case: that of a young Army lieutenant accused of murdering the local tavern owner who he believes raped his wife. A gripping, envelope-pushing courtroom potboiler, Anatomy of a Murder was groundbreaking for the frankness of its discussion of sex. More than anything else, it is a striking depiction of the power of words. With its outstanding...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA ANASummary: A peasant girl is raped and murdered in 14th century Sweden. When her killers seek shelter in her father's house, he kills them to avenge her death. Soon a spring appears from where the girl was killed and her father sees this as a sign from above.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor break one of the most important stories in a generation, a story that helped launch the #MeToo movement and shattered decades of silence around the subject of sexual assault in Hollywood.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2023
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SHECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SHECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SHESummary: A young mathematician, David Summer, and his English wife, Amy, move to a Cornish village, seeking the quiet life. But beneath the seemingly peaceful isolation of the village lies a savagery and violence that could destroy the couple.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2003
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE STRCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER STRSummary: "Suspended between carefree youth and the harsh realities of the adult world, a teenage girl experiences an unsettling awakening in this haunting vision of innocence lost. Based on Joyce Carol Oates' celebrated short story 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?," the narrative debut from Joyce Chopra features a revelatory breakout performance by Laura Dern as Connie, the fifteen-year-old...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In a small seaside town, two schoolgirls are assaulted by a middle-aged man in a motel. Mia, a teenager who was working on reception that night, is the only witness. For fear of losing her job, she says nothing. Meanwhile, twelve-year-old Wen, one of the victims, finds that her troubles have only just begun. Trapped in a world that offers them no safety, Mia and Wen will have to find their own...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Icarus Films 2018
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ANGWilliams, Tennessee
Summary: Tennessee Williams' classic drama studies the emotional disintegration of a Southern woman whose last chance for happiness is destroyed by her vindictive brother-in-law.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions 2004
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 812.54 WILCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Play WilliamsSummary: A charming, eloquent, and vicious drifter on the lam in London rejects those who would care for him and hurls himself into a nocturnal odyssey through the city, colliding with a succession of desperate and dispossessed people and scorching everyone in his path.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY NAKSummary: Johnny is a charming and eloquent, but relentlessly vicious drifter. Rejecting anyone who might care for him, the volcanic Johnny hurls himself through a nocturnal odyssey around London, colliding with a succession of other desperate and dispossessed people, and scorching everyone in his path. With a virtuoso script and raw performances, Mike Leigh's picture of England's underbelly is an...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2011
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY NAKSummary: "A young, voluptuous New York City woman is intensely shy and physically unable to speak. Her naive beauty provokes the aggressive attention of all men. One evening while walking home, she is assaulted at gunpoint and brutally raped by two thugs. Her enormous fears, which had driven her inward before, now push her to an outward course of action. After killing one of her assailants, she cuts his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY MSSummary: Based on Harper Lee's novel about a lawyer defending a black man accused of raping a white woman.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Based on the 18th century novel by Samuel Richardson, this is the original tale of fatal attraction and dangerous liasons. A wealthy young heiress, famed for her virtue, is sought by a man wishing to seduce her and destroy her reputation. For the first time in his life he becomes genuinely infatuated with his prey, and sows the seeds of his own fate.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2005
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV CLASummary: In a small, remote village in the Outer Scottish Hebrides, Kirsty yearns for adventure and another life across the ocean. Though she finds comfort in time spent with her mother and younger sister, she sees hope and a future with Murdo, an intelligent, curious poet. The two fall in love as World War I looms, and Murdo is soon conscripted to join the other men of the village to fight. As a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVDSummary: Based on the 18th century novel by Samuel Richardson, this is the original tale of fatal attraction and dangerous liasons. A wealthy young heiress, famed for her virtue, is sought by a man wishing to seduce her and destroy her reputation. For the first time in his life he becomes genuinely infatuated with his prey, and sows the seeds of his own fate.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2005
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV CLASummary: Set in the Middle Ages, the nature of truth and subjective reality are probed in a series of flashbacks from four viewpoints to present the case history of a man's murder and the rape of his wife by a bandit.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2002