James McAvoy
1) Neverwhere
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English
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National Bestseller
Selected as one of NPR's Top 100 Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of All Time
The #1 New York Times bestselling author's wildly successful first novel featuring his new Neverwhere tale, "How the Marquis Got His Coat Back."
Richard Mayhew is a young man with a good heart and an ordinary life,
...2) Trance
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1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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After a blow to the head during his attempted robbery of a $27 million Goya painting, Simon, an art auctioneer, awakens to find that the painting, and his memory, are missing. Forced by his ruthless crime partner Frank to undergo hypnosis, Simon enters into a deadly love triangle with his seductive hypnotist.
3) Split
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English
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Even though Kevin has evidenced 23 personalities to his trusted psychiatrist, Dr. Fletcher, there remains one still submerged who is set to materialize and dominate all the others. Compelled to abduct three teenage girls led by the willful, observant Casey, Kevin reaches a war for survival among all of those contained within him, as well as everyone around him, as the walls between his compartments shatter apart.--
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1 videodisc (approximately 105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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During the 1930's, the world of the British uppercrust society is one of nightclubs, dancing, jazz and speed. Their lives revolve around an endless series of parties and pleasure seeking - including motorcars, jazz bands, gossip journalism, drugs, gramophones ... Inevitably, however, the frantic pace of living begins to take its toll and one by one they begin to crash and burn in the search for newer and faster sensations.
5) Glass
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1 videodisc (approximately 129 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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For one special security guard, tracking people down is a paranormal sort of hobby. Able to use his rare abilities to find people, David Dunn is suddenly given a job that seems more daunting than all the others before it. He'll need to find Kevin Wendell Crumb, and time is of the essence. But part of the problem is that Crumb is an extremely disturbed man and with 24 personalities, he's a lot more complicated than the others Dunn has found.
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1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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The year is 1795 and the feisty 20-year-old Jane Austen is an emerging writer who already sees a world beyond class and commerce, beyond pride and prejudice, and dreams of doing what was nearly unthinkable - marrying for love. Naturally, her parents are searching for a wealthy, well-appointed husband to assure their daughter's future social standing. As a prospective match for Jane, her parents are eyeing Mr. Wisley. He is the nephew to the very formidable,...
7) Wanted
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1 videodisc (1 hr., 50 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Wes is 25 years old and is a disaffected, clock-punching drone. His boss chews him out hourly, his girlfriend ignores him routinely, and his life plods on in interminable boredom and routine. Everyone knows Wes will amount to nothing - that is until he meets the sexy woman named Fox, and then everything changes. Wes' estranged father is murdered, and the deadly Fox recruits him into The Fraternity, a secret society that trains him to avenge his father's...
8) Submergence
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1 videodisc (approximately 112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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In a room with no windows on the eastern coast of Africa, a Scotsman, James More, is held captive by jihadist fighters. Thousands of miles away in the Greenland Sea, Danielle Flinders prepares to dive in a submersible to the ocean floor. In their confines they are drawn back to the Christmas of the previous year, where a chance encounter on a beach in France led to an intense and enduring romance.
Two people meet and fall in love but have to separate...
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2 videodiscs (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Once happily married, Connor and Eleanor suddenly find themselves as strangers longing to understand each other in the wake of tragedy. The film explores the couple's story as they try to reclaim the life and love they once knew and pick up the pieces of a past that may be too far gone. Originally produced as two discrete films, Him, and Her, on being acquired by the Weinstein Company, the directer re-edited the films into one version, Them, which...
10) The last station
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1 videodisc (approximately 113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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In honor of his newly created religion, Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy renounces his title, property, and family in favor of poverty and celibacy. For the Countess Sofya, his wife of nearly fifty years, this is the last straw! After she discovers his plans to leave the rights to his iconic novels to the Russian people rather than his own family, she decides to use every trick of seduction in her considerable arsenal, to fight for what she believes is...
11) Sherlock Gnomes
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1 videodisc (86 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Garden gnomes, Gnomeo and Juliet, recruit renowned detective Sherlock Gnomes to investigate the mysterious disappearance of other garden ornaments.
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1 videodisc (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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It is the 1970s, and newly minted Scottish doctor Nick Garrigan, driven by an anywhere-but-here restlessness, hightails it out to Uganda looking for adventure and the opportunity to do some real good. In a trice, new-minted dictator Idi Amin -- a bit of a nut for all things Scottish -- shanghais Nick into being his personal physician. Unfortunately, behind Amin's charmingly charismatic glow, things are going wrong. What began as comedy ends up...
13) Gnomeo & Juliet
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1 videodisc (approximately 84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Caught up in a feud between neighbors, Gnomeo and Juliet must overcome as many obstacles as their namesakes. But with flamboyant pink flamingoes and epic lawnmower races, can this young couple find lasting happiness?
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1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Told from Igor's perspective, we see the troubled young assistant's dark origins, his redemptive friendship with the young medical student Viktor Von Frankenstein, and become eyewitnesses to the emergence of how Frankenstein became the man, and the legend, we know today.
15) Atomic Blonde
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1 videodisc (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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The crown jewel of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service, Agent Lorraine Broughton is equal parts spycraft, sensuality and savagery, willing to deploy any of her skills to stay alive on her impossible mission. Sent alone into Berlin to deliver a priceless dossier out of the destabilized city, she partners with embedded station chief David Percival to navigate her way through the deadliest game of spies.
16) Arthur Christmas
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1 videodisc (approximately 97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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On Christmas at the North Pole, Santa's youngest son looks to use his father's high-tech operation for an urgent mission.
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3 videodiscs (471 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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The third and final season of Philip Pullman's His Dark Material trilogy returns with an adaptation of the final book in the best-loved book series, The Amber Spyglass. Season Three opens with Lyra unconscious, having been given a sleeping draught by her mother, as Will, still carrying the Subtle Knife, continues his quest to find her in this epic story of love and truth.
18) It: Chapter two
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2 videodiscs (169 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Twenty-seven years after they defeated Pennywise, he has returned to terrorize the town of Derry once more. When kids start disappearing again, Mike, the only one who stayed in Derry, calls the others to come home. Each damaged by the experiences of the past, they must conquer their fears to destroy Pennywise once and for all.
19) Atonement
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1 videodisc (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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In 1935, 13-year-old fledgling writer Briony Tallis and her family live a life of wealth and privilege in their enormous mansion. Her adolescent emotions and vivid imagination lead her to accuse a family friend of a crime he did not commit, leading to tragedy and the disruption of several lives. As Briony grows older, she continues to seek forgiveness for her childhood misdeed.