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Josh Hamilton
2) Eighth Grade
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1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Thirteen-year-old Kayla (Elsie Fisher) endures the tidal wave of contemporary suburban adolescence as she makes her way through the last week of middle school—the end of her thus far disastrous eighth grade year—before she begins high school. Nominated for Best Performance by an Actress in a Comedy at the **Golden Globes.** Winner of the Best First Screenplay Award at the **Film Independent Spirit Awards.** Winner of a **WGA Award** for Best Original...
3) Dark skies
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1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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"Dark Skies [is] A supernatural thriller that follows a young family living in the suburbs. As husband and wife Daniel ... and Lacy Barrett ... witness an escalating series of disturbing events involving their family, their safe and peaceful home quickly unravels. When it becomes clear that the Barrett family is being targeted by an unimaginably terrifying and deadly force, Daniel and Lacy take matters in their own hands to solve the mystery of what...
4) 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.
5) Diggers
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1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Four Long Island friends follow in their respective families' footsteps and become clam diggers in this touching comedy.
6) Alive
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1 videodisc (approximately 126 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A team of rugby players survive a plane crash deep in the desolate, snow-covered Andes Mountains. Stranded there, they must overcome incredible odds to stay alive.
7) Blaze
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1 videodisc (129 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A reimagining of the life and times of Blaze Foley, the unsung songwriting legend of the Texas Outlaw Music movement.
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1 videodisc (approximately 160 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Examine the origin, history and impact of the 1882 law that made it illegal for Chinese workers to come to America and for Chinese nationals already here ever to become U.S. citizens. The first in a long line of acts targeting the Chinese for exclusion, it remained in force for more than 60 years.
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1 videodisc (114 min.) : sound, color w/ black and white seq. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The history of the American whaling industry, from its 17th-century origins in drift and shore whaling off the coast of New England and Cape Cod, through the golden age of deep ocean whaling, and on to its demise in the decades following the American Civil War.
10) With honors
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1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Monty, a Harvard student, drops the only copy of his 100-page thesis into the hands of Simon, a homeless man who lives under the college library. Insulted by the way in which Monty dismisses him, he offers to return one page of the thesis for each good turn from Monty, who in desperation, brings Simon home with him.
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1 videodisc (approximately 240 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A portrait of Andy Warhol, the most famous and controversial artist of the second half of the twentieth century. Explores the complete spectrum of Warhol's artistic output, from the late 1940s to his death in 1987.
12) J. Edgar
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (137 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"J. Edgar Hoover [was] head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation for nearly 50 years. Hoover was feared, admired, reviled and revered, a man who could distort the truth as easily as he upheld it. His methods were at once ruthless and heroic, with the admiration of the world his most coveted prize. But behind closed doors, he held secrets that would have destroyed his image, his career, and his life"--Container.
13) Frances Ha
Series
Criterion collection volume 681
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([16] pages : illustrations ; 16 cm).
Language
English
Description
Greta Gerwig is radiant as a woman in her late twenties in contemporary New York, trying to sort out her ambitions, her finances, and, above all, her tight but changing bond with her best friend, Sophie (Mickey Sumner). Meticulously directed by Noah Baumbach (Kicking and Screaming) with a free-and-easy vibe reminiscent of the French New Wave's most spirited films, and written by Baumbach and Gerwig with an effortless combination of sweetness and wit,...
Series
Criterion collection volume 349
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert (1 folded sheet ([4] pages) : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
English
Description
After college graduation, Grover's girlfriend Jane tells him she's moving to Prague to study writing. Grover declines to accompany her. Paralyzed by postgraduation ennui, Grover, Otis, Max and Skippy remain on campus, denying the real-world futures awaiting them. Nobody wants to radically alter his life, yet none of them wants to end up like Chet, who tends bar and is in his tenth year. The four friends typify a generation of adults-to-be unable to...
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English
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Dennis-with a famous painter father and social activist mother-is a small-time drug dealer and total mess. His hero-worshipping friend Warren has just impulsively stolen $15,000 from his father, an abusive lingerie tycoon. When Jessica, a mixed-up prep school girl, shows up for a date, Warren pulls out a wad of bills and takes her off, awkwardly, for a night of seduction. A wildly funny, bittersweet, and moving story, This Is Our Youth is as trenchant...
17) Ten Stories Tall
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English
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Two close-knit New York families struggle with the death of a family matriarch and the ailing health of a beloved son, forcing all to reconcile their relationships before it's too late.