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Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a college professor in the remote mountains of the American West confronts two hunters she catches trespassing on her property, she's drawn into an escalating battle of wills with catastrophic consequences.
3) Still Alice
Publisher
Sony Pictures Classics
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 minutes) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Alice Howland, a happily married linguistics professor, suddenly starts to forget the words that have long served her well, she fights to maintain her fraying family connections in the face of Early-Onset Alzheimer's Disease.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 dvd (49 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Join Benjamin, Todd, Kathy, and their friends in a world where sometimes the students are smarter than their teachers, the sub has a third ear on the top of her head, and the classrooms are built one on top of another in a school thirty stories high!
5) Whiplash
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
1 digital videodisc (107 minutes.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Andrew Neyman is an ambitious young jazz drummer, single-minded in his pursuit to rise to the top of his elite East coast music conservatory. Plagued by the failed writing career of his father, Andrew hungers day and night to become one of the greats. Terence Fletcher, an instructor equally known for his teaching talents as for his terrifying methods, leads the top jazz ensemble in the school. Fletcher discovers Andrew and transfers the aspiring drummer...
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An extraordinary true tale of madness, genius, and obsession about two remarkable men who created history with the writing of the Oxford English Dictionary. The compilation of the Oxford English Dictionary began in 1857 and was one of the most ambitious and revolutionary projects ever undertaken. Professor James Murray took on the challenge of creating the most comprehensive dictionary ever compiled but knew that it would take him and his team over...
8) Enemy
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Wide screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A man seeks out his exact lookalike after spotting him in a movie. When they finally meet, their lives become bizarrely and irrevocably intertwined.
9) Soul
Language
English
Formats
Description
Joe Gardner is a middle-school band teacher who gets the chance of a lifetime to play at the best jazz club in town. A misstep takes him from New York City to The Great Before, a fantastical place where new souls get their personalities before going to Earth. Determined to return to his life, Joe teams up with a precocious soul, 22, who has never understood the appeal of the human life. As Joe tries to show 22 what's great about life, he may discover...
10) Anne of Avonlea
Publisher
Koch Vision
Pub. Date
[2006], c1975
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 312 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Anne's life at Green Gables takes unexpected turns with the arrival of two new orphans and the realization of her dream to go to college. Through marriage proposals from suitors and the sale of her first story, Anne holds on to her memories of Avonlea and discovers life and love on her own terms.
11) The holdovers
Language
English
Description
A curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually, he forms an unlikely bond with one of them a damaged, brainy troublemaker, and with the school's head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam.
Series
When calls the heart volume Season 3, movie 1
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Schoolteacher Elizabeth gets a fresh start with the handsome Mountie Jack after she reassures him that she declined the proposal from her childhood friend, and instead would like to try to make things work with Jack. Meanwhile, Elizabeth's close friend Abigail encounters a young orphan who has been stealing food. Abigail decides to show the boy kindness by taking care of him and his ill sister.
Publisher
New Video
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approx. 91 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Linda is an English teacher with a small apartment full of a rich collection of great literature. Her only close personal relationships are those she has with her favorite authors. Her life is far less complicated than the dramas she reads, and she likes it that way. All that changes when former star pupil Jason returns to town after failing as a playwright in New York. To help him avoid law school, Linda mounts his play at school, and puts her own...
14) Bad moms
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When three overworked and underappreciated moms are pushed beyond their limits, they ditch their conventional responsibilities for a jolt of long-overdue freedom, fun, and comedic self indulgence.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
4 digital videodiscs (ca. 613 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Even though his cancer's in remission, chemistry teacher turned meth maker Walter White still can't catch a break. His wife has filed for divorce, his DEA agent brother-in-law is out to bust him, and a Mexican cartel just wants him dead. But with his family's future still at stake, Walt cooks up a deal that will make him a fortune, a scheme with a terrible price.
Publisher
Millennium Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 89 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Young teacher Elizabeth Thatcher trades high society life for a classroom on the prairie, determined to prove she is brave enough to live on her own. She learns through her aunt's secret diary that she had been a pioneer woman herself, and uses it as a guide to embark on her own adventures.
Publisher
Warner Brothers
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (282 min.) ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In this workplace comedy from writer/executive producer/star Quinta Brunson and executive producers Justin Halpern & Patrick Schumacker, a group of teachers is brought together in a Philadelphia public school, because they love teaching. Though outnumbered and underfunded, they love what they do even if they don't love the school district's less-than-stellar attitude toward educating children.
18) Olive Kitteridge
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
2 digital videodiscs (240 minutes) : sd, col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The four-part drama that tells the story of a seemingly placid New England town that is actually wrought with illicit affairs, crime and tragedy, all told through the lens of Olive, whose wicked wit and harsh demeanor mask a warm but troubled heart and staunch moral center. The story spans 25 years and focuses on Olive's relationships with her husband, Henry, the good-hearted and kindly town pharmacist; their son, Christopher, who resents his mother's...
19) The holdovers
Publisher
Focus Features
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
Collector's edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (134 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It follows a curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school who is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually, he forms an unlikely bond with one of them a damaged, brainy troublemaker, and with the school's head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam.
20) Bad moms
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2016
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 digital videodisc (ca. 101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When three overworked and underappreciated moms are pushed beyond their limits, they ditch their conventional responsibilities for a jolt of long-overdue freedom, fun, and comedic self indulgence.