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1. Monster [videorecording] [2005]
- Special ed. - Culver City, CA : Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, c2005.
- Description
- Video — 2 videodiscs (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
- Summary
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- disc 1.Theatrical presentation
- disc 2.Special features.
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2. Donnie Darko [videorecording] [2005]
- Director's cut, widescreen ed. - Beverly Hills, Calif. : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2005]
- Description
- Video — 2 videodiscs (133 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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During the U.S. presidential election of 1988, a teen named Donnie sleepwalks out of his house one night and sees a giant, demonic-looking rabbit named Frank who tells him the world will end in 28 days, 6 hous, 42 minutes and 12 seconds. He returns home the next morning to find that a jet engine has crashed through his bedroom. As he tries to figure out why he survived and tries to deal with people in his town, Frank continues to turn up in Donnie's mind, causing him to commit acts of vandalism and worse.
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3. The nines [videorecording] [2008]
- Widescreen - [Culver City, Calif.] : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, c2008.
- Description
- Video — 1 videodisc (ca. 99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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The lives of an actor, a television game show personality, and a videogame designer are intertwined, and the lines between fantasy and reality become blurred.
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4. Real women have curves [videorecording] [2002]
- [United States] : HBO Video, [2003], c2002.
- Description
- Video — 1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Should she leave home, go to college and experience life? Or stay home, get married, and keep working in her sister's struggling garment factory? It may seem an easy decision, but for 18-year-old Ana, every choice she makes this summer will change her life.
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ZDVD 4749 | Unknown |
- Mexico : Videomax, 2004.
- Description
- Video — 1 videodisc (86 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Should she leave home, go to college and experience life? Or stay home, get married, and keep working in her sister's struggling garment factory? It may seem an easy decision, but for 18-year-old Ana, every choice she makes this summer will change her life.
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ZDVD 25414 | Unknown |
6. The prestige [videorecording] [2007]
- Burbank, CA : Touchstone Home Entertainment : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, 2007.
- Description
- Video — 1 videodisc (ca. 130 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Set against the backdrop of turn-of-the-century London. Two magicians share an intense rivalry with each other that leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy. The rivalry is so intense that it will be full of obsession, deceit and jealousy, with both dangerous and deadly consequences. From the time that Robert angier and Alfred Bordon first met, the two were competitors. However, their once friendly competition evolves into battle for each others trade secrets.
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7. God grew tired of us [videorecording] [2007]
- Widescreen - Culver City, Calif. : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, 2007.
- Description
- Video — 1 videodisc (ca. 90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Explores the indomitable spirit of three "Lost Boys" from the Sudan who are forced to leave their homeland due to a tumultuous civil war. Chronicles their triumph over seemingly insurmountable adversities and a relocation to the United States, where the Lost Boys build active and fulfilling new lives but remain deeply committee to helping friends and family they have left behind.
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8. The way back [videorecording] [2010]
- Way back (Motion picture : 2010)
- Chatsworth, CA : Image Entertainment, [2011]
- Description
- Video — 1 videodisc (133 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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"Inspired by an incredible true story... begins in 1940 when seven prisoners attempt the impossible: escape from a brutal Siberian gulag. Thus begins a treacherous 4,500-mile trek to freedom across the world's most merciless landscapes. They have little food and few supplies. They don't know or trust each other. But together, they must withstand nature at its most extreme. Their humanity is further tested when they meet a teenage runaway who begs to join them on their quest"--Container.
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9. Agora [videorecording] [2009]
- Santa Monica, Calif. : Lions Gate Films, [2010]
- Description
- Video — 1 videodisc (ca. 126 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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A young slave in ancient Egypt must choose between joining the Christianity movement, which will give him freedom, and the woman he loves, who is his master and an atheist.
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ZDVD 24177 | Unknown |
- Cock and bull story.
- New York : HBO Video, c2006.
- Description
- Video — 1 videodisc (ca. 94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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A rollicking, inventive adaptation of the notoriously unfilmable British comic novel The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy, Gentleman, written by Laurence Sterne. Shandy's warped tales reveal far more than any conventional autobiography.
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ZDVD 13484 | Unknown |
11. The passion of the Christ [videorecording] [2004]
- Definitive edition - Beverly Hill, Calif. : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment : Icon Distribution, Inc., [2006]
- Description
- Video — 2 videodiscs (126 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Concerns the last twelve hours in the life of Jesus of Nazareth. In the Garden of Gethsemane near the Mount of Olives, Jesus is betrayed by Judas Iscariot. Jesus is condemned to death for blasphemy and brought before Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor of Judea, for sentencing. The roaring crowd demands his death, so Pilate orders his crucifixion. Jesus is severely beaten and made to carry his cross up to Golgotha, the hill outside Jerusalem, where he is nailed to the cross. With his mother looking on, he dies.
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ZDVD 13700 2 DISCS | Unknown |
12. Monster [videorecording] [2004]
- [Culver City, Calif.] : Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, c2004.
- Description
- Video — 1 videodisc (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Based on the true story of Aileen Wuornos, a prostitute who was executed in 2002 for the brutal murders of at least 6 men in Florida. Homeless most of her life, Wuornos subsisted by working as a prostitute. In Florida, down to her last five dollars and pondering suicide, she stopped into a bar for a beer where she meets Selby. One night, after a john attacks her, Aileen pulls a gun and kills the man. Aileen's loathing for the men who pay her for sex becomes so extreme that she begins killing her customers regardless of their behavior.
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13. Topsy-turvy [videorecording] [2011]
- Blu-ray ed. - [United States] : The Criterion Collection, 2011.
- Description
- Video — 1 videodisc (160 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.+ 1 booklet (18 p. : col. ill. ; 19 cm.)
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A world famous Victorian librettist and composer, along with their troupe of temperamental actors, must battle personal and professional demons while mounting a major production.
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ZDVD 25228 BLU-RAY BOOKLET | Unknown |
14. Topsy-Turvy [1998]
- New York, NY : USA Home Entertainment, c1999.
- Description
- Video — 1 videodisc (ca. 161 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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After the less than stellar reception of "Princess Ida", the team of Gilbert and Sullivan is on the verge of breaking up, until a visit to an exhibition of Japanese art plants the seed for "The Mikado."
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15. Topsy-turvy [videorecording] [2011]
- Topsy-turvy (Motion picture)
- DVD ed. ; director-approved two-DVD special ed. - Irvington, NY : Criterion Collection, [2011]
- Description
- Video — 2 videodiscs (160 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (18 p. : col. ill. ; 19 cm.)
- Summary
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- Disc
- 1. The film
- Disc
- 2. The supplements.
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- Mrs. Dalloway (Motion picture)
- New York : Fox Lorber Films : WinStar TV & Video, c1999.
- Description
- Video — 1 videodisc (97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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As Clarissa Dalloway prepares for an elaborate party, she remembers another summer in the past, when she was a beautiful young woman. Her preparations are interrupted by the unexpected arrival of a former suitor from that long-ago summer. As the day of the party unfolds, Mrs. Dalloway's life also becomes strangely intertwined with a young man she never meets, but whose tragic fate strikes a chord of truth, deep in her soul, that she cannot deny.
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17. Cruel intentions [2007]
- Culver City Calif. : Columbia Pictures, 2007.
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- Video — 1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Kathryn poses the challenge to her step-brother of deflowering the headmasters beautiful, virgin daughter. If he fails, Kathryn gets his prized possession, but if he succeeds, he gets to possess and bed Kathryn.
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ZDVD 40499 BLU-RAY | Unknown |
- Importance of being Earnest (Motion picture : 2002)
- Widescreen version (2.35:1) - [United States] : Miramax Home Entertainment ; Burbank, Calif. : distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, c2002.
- Description
- Video — 1 videodisc (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Algernon is a gentlemen from a wealthy family. Algernon's close friend Jack, has a ward, Cecily. Both Algernon and Jack have created alter egos to make life more interesting. Algernon arrives for a weekend visit in the country posing as Earnest. Having heard of Earnest's misadventures, Cicely has developed an infatuation with the rogue, and Algernon's impersonation of him works famously on Cicely. Meanwhile, Algernon's cousin, Gwendolyn, arrives for the weekend, and is startled to discover Jack is also there -- except that she knows him as bad-boy Earnest. So just who really is who?
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19. Donnie Darko [videorecording] [2001]
- Widescreen version (2.35:1) - [United States] : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2002], c2001.
- Description
- Video — 1 videodisc (113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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An edgy, psychological thriller about a suburban teen coming face-to-face with his dark destiny. Donnie Darko is a delusional high-school student visited by a demonic rabbit with eerie visions of the past, and deadly predictions for the future.
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20. Cruel intentions [videorecording] [1999]
- Collector's ed. - Culver City, Calif. : Columbia Pictures : [Distributed by] Columbia Tristar Home Video, 1999.
- Description
- Video — 1 videodisc (97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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An unscrupulous student gets more than he anticipated when he attempts to deflower the Headmaster's beautiful, virgin daughter.
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ZDVD 9108 | Unavailable Missing |
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ZDVD 9108 | Unknown |
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