Anne Bancroft
Author
Language
English
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Formats
Description
This charming classic, first published in 1970, brings together twenty years of correspondence between Helene Hanff, a freelance writer living in New York City, and a used-book dealer in London. Through the years, though never meeting and separated both geographically and culturally, they share a winsome, sentimental friendship based on their common love for books. Their relationship, captured so acutely in these letters, is one that will grab your...
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
True story of a New York writer with a passion for literature who writes to a London bookstore in search of rare classics. A good-natured, reserved Englishman answers her request, beginning a relationship that spans two continents and two decades.
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
What would you do if someone you loved sat down with you one night and calmly told you that they were going to end their life before morning? This is Thelma Cates' dilemma. Her daughter, Jessie, has had it. A middle-aged epileptic unable to hold a job, with a failed marriage and a drug-addicted runaway son on the wrong side of the law, Jessie can find no reason to go on living. Adapted from the play by Marsha Norman, "'night, Mother" is the story...
6) Agnes of God
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
When, at an isolated convent, the infant of a young nun is found strangled, a court-appointed psychiatrist must decide if the devout but troubled girl is fit to stand trial.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
The mad emperor Caligula is obsessed with obtaining the robe of Christ which has been entrusted to Demetrius, a devout Christian who turns his back on God, enters the arena and becomes the most famous gladiator in Rome.
10) The graduate
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
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Description
A young man graduates with honors, meets and has an affair with one of his parents' friends, and is urged to date her daughter.
13) Homecoming
Series
Publisher
Platinum Disc
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
Abandoned by their mentally ill mother, the Tillerman children set off in search of a place to stay. Alone, scared and with nowhere to turn, they travel cross country to find the reclusive grandmother they've never known.
14) G.I. Jane
Publisher
Hollywood Pictures Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
The courage and determination of the first woman to join the Navy SEALs is put to the test once it becomes clear that no one wants her to succeed.
15) Haven
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
Ruth Gruber, an American journalist helps escort nearly 1,000 Jews from a Nazi concentration camp.
17) The elephant man
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
Film based on a true story, the film examines the complex emotional experiences faced by John Merrick, the "Elephant Man" when he is discovered by a dedicated surgeon. Rescued from his degrading life as a circus freak, Merrick is given a chance to live his last years with comfort, respect and dignity.
18) Nightfall
Series
Columbia Pictures film noir classics volume 2
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A commercial artist is pursued by the police for a crime he didn't commit, and chased by criminals for money he didn't steal.
19) The graduate
Publisher
MGM/Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
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Description
Directionless and living with his parents, recent college graduate Benjamin Braddock begins an affair with a married neighbor and then falls in love with her daughter.
Series
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Appointed as an Indian agent in 1874 by the Department of the Interior at the age of 23, John Clum is sent to an Apache reservation in San Carlos, Arizona to take over the army's position. After trying to empower and teach self-governing principles to the Apaches, he is faced with opposition not only from some of the Native Americans but also from the leader in charge of the Army troops.