(0)Sean Penn
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Physical Desc
160 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"From legendary actor and activist Sean Penn comes a scorching, darkly funny novella about Bob Honey -- a modern American man, entrepreneur, and part-time assassin. He's just a guy trying to make it through each day while grappling with loneliness, alienation, violence -- uncertain of his place in a culture that considers branding more important than being. Bob Honey has a hard time connecting with other people. He dreams he is sleeping with his ex-wife...
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (2 hrs., 6 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two brothers, one a cop with a wife and child, the other a Vietnam veteran who lives his life breaking the laws his brother has vowed to uphold, cope with brotherly love, conflict and the pursuit of dreams.
4) War made easy : how presidents & pundits keep spinning us to death: The bases are loaded ; Flight
Series
Ironweed film club volume no. 28
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1 videodisc (124 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Three films examine modern American war, especially the Iraq War, and the propaganda, political agendas, and deceptions that may underly it. War made easy, based on the bestselling book by Norman Solomon, examines the strategies used by administrations, both Democratic and Republican, to promote their agendas for war from Vietnam to Iraq, and how propaganda and the media are used to persuade the nation that military aggression has been the appropriate...
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1 videodisc (129 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"In one of the hidden corridors of power at United Nations headquarters, translator Silvia Broome (Kidman) overhears a potentially explosive secret about a planned assassination attempt. But when federal agent Tobin Keller (Penn) investigates her claim and digs deeper into Silvia's dangerous past, he begins to question whether she is a victim - or a suspect"--Container.
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1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A bored, retired rock star learns that his father is close to death, and travels to New York to reconcile with him, only to arrive too late. He embarks on a quest to find his father's nemesis and persecutor, an ex-Nazi war criminal taking refuge in the U.S.
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1 videodisc (approximately 122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Matthew Poncelet is the convicted killer of two teenage lovers, preparing to end his life on death row. In response to a letter, Sister Helen Prejean visits Matthew and finds herself face-to-face with a killer who still pleads his innocence. When the date is set for his execution death by lethal injection, Poncelet asks Sister Helen to be his spiritual advisor and she agrees, little knowing the outrage that will follow her decision.
9) 21 grams
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Physical Desc
1 videodisc (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Fate brought them together, now vengence will tear them apart. A violent car accident unexpectedly throws together the lives of a college professor, an ex-con and a young mother with a reckless past. The crossing of their paths takes them through the heights of love, the depths of revenge and the promise of redemption.
10) The game
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1 videodisc (128 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"In this thriller, Nicholas Van Orton, a shrewd and successful businessman who is always in control, has been enrolled by his brother in "The Game"--"a profound life experience" with no rules, which begins quietly but soon erupts in a confusing maze of devastating events. Terrorized by forces who seem intent on dismantling all that he has built, Van Orton has to win this deadly game or lose control of everything in his life."
11) Taps
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1 videodisc (126 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"When a fiercely devoted group of military school cadets learns that their school is being sold to real estate developers, they refuse to accept defeat-- instead choosing to rise up together to protect the academy and their honor. But the brave young soldiers soon learn that the most courageous decisions can sometimes have unexpected and even fatal consequences"--Container.
12) Milk
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1 videodisc (129 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequence ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
His life changed history, his courage changed lives. Harvey Milk is a middle-aged New Yorker who, after moving to San Francisco, becomes a Gay Rights activist and city politician. On his third attempt, he is elected to San Francisco's Board of Supervisors in 1977, the first openly-gay man to be elected to public office in the United States. The following year, both he and the city's mayor, George Moscone, are shot to death by former city supervisor,...
13) Carlito's way
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Physical Desc
1 videodisc (145 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Carlito is released from prison on a technicality, he feels that this is his chance to go straight. However, his cronies from the past and younger gangsters who are trying to make a name for themselves, make this impossible.
A drug kingpin gets out of prison and tries to go straight but the forces of his former life draw him back into it.
14) Into the wild
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1 videodisc (148 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Freshly graduated from college with a promising future ahead, Christopher McCandless walked out of his privileged life and into the wild in search of adventure. What happened to him on the way transformed this young wanderer into an enduring symbol for countless people, a fearless risk-taker who wrestled with the precarious balance between man and nature. Based on a true story.
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1 videodisc (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Professor James Murray begins work compiling words for the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary in the mid 19th century, and receives over 10,000 entries from a patient at Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, Dr. William Minor.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
On an island populated entirely -- or almost entirely -- by happy, flightless birds, Red, a bird with a temper problem, speedy Chuck, and the volatile Bomb have always been outsiders. But when the island is visited by mysterious green piggies, it's up to these unlikely outcasts to figure out what the pigs are up to.
17) Mystic River
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1 videodisc (approximately 138 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Boston childhood friends Jimmy, Sean, and Dave are reunited after a brutal murder. Reformed confict Jimmy and his devoted wife Annabeth find out that their teenage daughter Katie has been beaten and killed. Jimmy's old friend Sean is the homicide detective assigned to the case. Jimmy gets his relatives, the Savage brothers, to conduct their own investigation. Jimmy and Sean soon suspect their old pal Dave, who now lives a quite life, but harbors some...
18) Persepolis
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1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
In 1970s Iran, Marjane "Marji" Satrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family. Their long dream is realized when the hated Shah is defeated in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. Now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, Marji grows up to witness first hand how the new Iran has become a repressive tyranny on its own. With Marji dangerously refusing to remain silent at this injustice, her parents send her abroad to Vienna to study....
19) Licorice pizza
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1 videodisc (134 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of Alana Kane and Gary Valentine growing up, running around, and falling in love in the San Fernando Valley, 1973.
20) The pledge
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1 videodisc (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A veteran police detective, on the day of his retirement, handles the case of a seven-year-old girl who has been brutally murdered. When a mentally retarded man confesses to the murder and then kills himself, the detectives consider the case closed, but was he actually the murderer? Before long evidence is uncovered that suggests the girl was just one in a series of brutal killings involving young girls and a mysterious man.