Nick Nolte
1) Affliction
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English
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Wade Whitehouse is a small-town sheriff and heavy drinker, accused of achieving nothing by his ex-wife and daughter - although his girlfriend, Margie, accepts him the way he is. On the first day of the hunting season, Wade's friend Jack takes a wealthy businessman to hunt - and only Jack returns alive.
2) Afterglow
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English
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Producer Robert Altman and director Alan Rudolph team up for this stylish dramedy about couples on the verge of complete fallout.
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Physical Desc
vii, 256 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
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English
Description
"Legendary actor Nick Nolte delivers his most revealing performance yet. This intimate memoir is a tale of art, passion, commitment, addiction, and the quest for personal enlightenment as intense and hypnotic as the man himself. In a career spanning five decades and hundreds of roles, Nick Nolte has become a true Hollywood icon. Rising from a difficult childhood in the rural Midwest to leading roles and a trio of Oscar nominations in the golden West,...
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (77 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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The story of the life and death of author Hunter S. Thompson, an American master whose gonzo reportage defined an era, while his depraved appetites forged a legend. Features interviews with Thompson, his childhood friends, his wife and those who worked with him. Includes footage from the biographical films Where the buffalo roam and Fear and loathing in Las Vegas.
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3 videodiscs (300 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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President Richard Graves, a former two-term POTUS, embarks on a Don Quixote-like quest to right the wrongs of his administration and reclaim his legacy 25 years after leaving the White House. With topics ranging from immigration to gay rights, foreign policy to public funding for arts and sciences, Graves holds nothing sacred as he unspools some of his administration's proudest victories.
6) The padre
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1 videodisc (approximately 95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Hellbent on justice, retired US Judge Randall Nemes and his hired gun, Gaspar, track down a small-time con man posing as a priest in a small Colombian town, only to be thrown off course by a scrappy sixteen-year-old local girl intent on reuniting with her little sister in the US.
7) Nightwatch
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1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Martin, a cash-strapped law student, takes a job as night watchman at the city morgue. But his peaceful graveyard shift becomes a time of terror when a serial killer begins wreaking havoc and leaving clues that point to Martin's possible guilt.
8) Gracepoint
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3 videodiscs (approximately 465 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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When a young boy is found dead on an idyllic beach, a major police investigation gets underway in the small California seaside town where the tragedy occurred. Soon deemed a homicide, the case sparks a media frenzy, which throws the boys family into further turmoil and upends the lives of all of the towns residents.
9) Warrior
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1 videodisc (140 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
"An ex-Marine haunted by a tragic past, Tommy Riordan returns home and enlists his father, a recovering alcoholic and his former coach, to train him for an MMA tournament awarding the biggest purse in the history of the sport. Tommy's estranged brother Brendan, a former MMA fighter unable to provide for his family as a public shcool teacher, also enters the competition. Set on a collision course with each other, the two brothers must finally confront...
10) Neverwas
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1 videodisc (approximately 108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A young man finds out that his childhood fantasyland may really exist. Searching for insight into his father's life and the magical place he wrote about in the beloved children's book, Neverwas, psychiatrist Zach Riley takes a job at the institution where his father lived on and off. Once there, Zach meets Gabriel, a patient whose alternate reality is startlingly close to the world his father created.
11) Arthur
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1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Lovable billionaire Arthur Bach has always relied on his limitless fortune and nanny Hobson to keep him out of trouble. Now he faces his biggest challenge. He must choose between an arranged marriage that will ensure his lavish lifestyle or an uncertain future with the one thing money can't buy, Naomi, the only woman he has ever loved. With Naomi's inspiration and some unconventional help from Hobson, Arthur will finally learn what it means to become...
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1 videodisc (approximately 104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Bill Bryson, instead of retiring to enjoy his loving and beautiful wife and large and happy family, challenges himself to hike the Appalachian Trail: 2,200 miles of America's most unspoiled, spectacular, and rugged countryside from Georgia to Maine. The peace and tranquility he hopes to find, though, is anything but, when the only person he can find willing to join him on the trek is his long-lost former friend Katz, a down-on-his-luck serial philanderer....
13) Cannery row
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1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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In a rundown California town where the inhabitants struggle to survive and better themselves, a romance develops between a quiet marine biologist and a runaway supporting herself through prostitution.
14) 48 hrs
Series
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1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Nolte is a rough-edged cop after two vicious cop-killers. He can't do it without the help of smooth and dapper Murphy, who is serving time for a half-million dollar robbery. Both pursue their separate goals--Nolte wants the villains and Murphy wants his money and some much-needed female companionship.
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1 videodisc (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Jim Grant is a public interest lawyer and single father raising his daughter in the tranquil suburbs of Albany, New York. Grant's world is turned upside down when a brash young reporter exposes his true identity as a former 1970s antiwar radical fugitive wanted for murder.
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1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Johanna Parry, a quiet caregiver, starts a new job working for an elderly Mr. McCauley and his teenage granddaughter Sabitha. A cruel trick by Sabitha lands Johanna in an awkward one-way relationship with Ken, Sabitha's estranged father but her newfound ambition and desire gives her courage to transform her awkward doom into real contentment.
18) Over the hedge
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English
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A scheming raccoon named RJ tricks a family of forest creatures into helping him repay a debt of food by invading the new suburban sprawl that sprang up while the family was hibernating. Although the family's cautious leader, Verne the turtle, urges wary of potential danger, the rest of the family eagerly dives into the world of junk food.
19) Zookeeper
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1 videodisc (approximately 102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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The animals at the Franklin Park Zoo love their kindhearted caretaker, Griffin Keyes. Finding himself more comfortable with a lion than a lady, Griffin decides the only way to get a girl in his life is to leave the zoo and find a more glamorous job. The animals, in a panic, decide to break their time-honored code of silence and reveal their biggest secret: they can talk! To keep Griffin from leaving, they decide to teach him the rules of courtship,...
20) Hulk
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2 videodiscs (138 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A scientist performs regeneration experiments on himself, and passes on the genes to his son, Bruce. Now Bruce is performing experiments that expose him to radiation and nanomeds, which combined with his unique genes, unleashes the Hulk.