Matt Dillon
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Tour the most formative period for religion and philosophy in world history. Join award-winning classics professor Matthew Dillon and explore the myriad developments of the Axial Age.
Axial Age refers to the era (800—200 BCE) when five Eurasian civilizations experienced an unprecedented period of development in philosophy, religion, and art. In this compelling audio course, Professor Matthew Dillon argues that the schools of thought that emerged...
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An orphan boy of mixed race finds family with the newly arrived white village doctor in Hawaii. The boy can run like the wind, and begins bringing Doc's medicine to coffee pickers throughout the mountainous region. On an errand, the medicine runner meets the daughter of the plantation owner and a forbidden, young love blossoms like the white "Kona Snow" of the surrounding coffee trees.
4) In & out
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1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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When a former student tells the world that a high school teacher is gay, the man tries hard to assert his manliness.
5) Factotum
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1 videodisc (approximately 94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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This drama centers on Hank Chinaski, the fictional alter-ego of author Charles Bukowski, who wanders around Los Angeles, trying to live off jobs which don't interfere with his primary interest, which is writing.
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1 videodisc (approximately 110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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For newlyweds Carl and Molly Peterson, life is sweet. With a nice house and established careers, nothing seems to get in the newlyweds way. However, Carl's best friend, Dupree, has just been displaced from his home and fired from his job because of attending their wedding. Taking his friend in for what should just be a few days, turns into a lot more than they bargained for. Especially when Dupree overstays his welcome and in causes one hilarious...
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1 videodisc (approximately 102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Maggie Peyton wants to join her family's dynasty of race car drivers, but her father worries that she'll get hurt. As a college graduation gift, he buys Maggie a junked-out Volkswagen Beetle, which turns out to be Herbie, a car with a mind of its own. Soon Maggie and Herbie are racing against an arrogant racing champion and duking it out with monster trucks.
The daughter of a NASCAR driver is given the used car as a graduation present and the two...
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1 videodisc (105 minutes) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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The production of a play is frought with drama and romance in and of itself, from its writing and casting to rehearsals and staging. Onstage, the itinerary of a Junior Stargazer/Space Cadet convention is spectacularly disrupted by world-changing events while each attendee and their family members deal with their own interpersonal issues.
9) Old dogs
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1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Dan and Charlie are two best friends who, together, have built a successful marketing empire, but have somehow managed to avoid ever really grown up. Their lives have been turned upside down when they are charged with the care of seven-year-old twins while on the verge of a big business deal. The clueless bachelors stumble in their efforts, leading to one debacle after another, with a gorilla and some pecking penguins. Dan and Charlie learn as much...
10) Singles
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1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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This tale of Seattle twentysomethings searching for and running from love, centers around a romantically aloof rocker and his lovestruck neighbor who hopes to get him to change his tune.
11) Girl most likely
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1 videodisc (approximately 104 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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After both her career and relationship hit the skids, Imogene is forced to make the humiliating move back home to New Jersey with her eccentric mother and younger brother. Adding further insult to injury, there's a strange man sleeping in her old bedroom, and an even stranger man sleeping in her mother's bed.
12) Rumble fish
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1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A street punk worships his older brother, who is a neighborhood leader.
13) To die for
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1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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In a small town in New Hampshire, a media sensation erupts over a murder case against Suzanne Stone, in which she is accused of persuading teenagers to kill her husband, Larry Maretto. Obsessed with becoming a TV personality, she viewed her husband's desire for children as an impediment to her career.
14) Crash
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2 videodiscs (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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"This...urban thriller tracks the volatile intersection of a multiethnic cast of characters struggling to overcome their fears as they careen in and out of one another's lives. In the gray area between black and white, victim and aggressor, during the next 36 hours, they will all collide." -- Container.
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1 videodisc (approximately 107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A volatile story about a Washington, D.C. political reporter who writes an explosive story about a government scandal in which she reveals the name of a covert CIA agent. Unexpectedly finding herself behind bars, she struggles to maintain her principles and relationship with her family when she refuses to divulge her source. Inspired by true events.
16) Drugstore cowboy
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1 videodisc (approximately 104 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A band of drug addicts, led by a husband and wife team, resort to robbing drugstores to stay high. They are successful in avoiding capture until their luck begins to run out, and the husband has to accept the fact that he must give up drugs to survive.
18) The outsiders
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1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Based on S.E. Hinton's book about teenage gangs in 1966 Tulsa, OK. The "Soc's" [Socials] and the "Greasers," and the struggle of growing up as an outsider.
19) Going in style
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1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Lifelong buddies Willie, Joe, and Al decide to buck retirement and step off the straight and narrow for the first time in their lives when their pension fund becomes a corporate casualty. To pay the bills and come through for their loved ones, the three risk it all by embarking on a daring bid to knock off the very bank that absconded with their money.
20) Proxima
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Sarah is an astronaut and lives alone with her daughter. When she is chosen to be part of a space mission, it creates chaos in their relationship.
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