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Planning a school or amateur Shakespeare production? The best way to experience the plays is to perform them, but getting started can be a challenge: The complete plays are too long and complex, while scene selections or simplified language are too limited. "The 30-Minute Shakespeare" is a new series of abridgements that tell the "story" of each play from start to finish while keeping the beauty of Shakespeare's language intact. Specific stage directions...
2) Iris
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1 videodisc (90 min., 40 sec.) : sound, colour ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Adapted from the memoirs of literary critic John Bayley, the film recounts his courtship of and long marriage to British novelist Iris Murdoch. The scenario tacks back and forth from the young Iris -- ready to seduce one and all with her coy command of words and sex appeal -- to the elder Iris -- slowly giving way to the cruel erasure of Alzheimer's.
3) Green card
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1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Two strangers agree to a marriage of convenience, thinking it's going to be hassle-free. She'll get to live in the apartment of her dreams; he'll get to live in the U.S. But before they know it, the two opposites encounter far more difficulties than most married couples could ever imagine, and worse yet, this mismatched twosome just might be falling in love.
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1 videodisc (81 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Wes is a young husband locked in co-dependent discontent with his beautiful and needy wife Karen. Their future prospects are as barren as the sun-bleached dunes that are the surreal setting for their one-room existence.
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1 videodisc (110 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Marriage equality comes to small town Texas. A serial killer, drag queens, and a dysfunctional family collide driving toward an explosive night as a memorial service at the bar and an Anti-Equality rally at the church both go off the rails.
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2 videodiscs (approximately 300 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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This program follows the lives of three friends and co-workers who are bonded together in the institution of long-term marriage, but who each have very different philosophies on how to make a marriage work.
11) Band aid
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1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Anna and Ben, who can't stop fighting. Advised by their therapist to try and work through their grief unconventionally, they are reminded of their shared love of music. In a last-ditch effort to save their marriage, they decide to turn all their fights into song, and with the help of their neighbor Dave, they start a band.
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1 videodisc (78 min.) : sound, color tinted ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A story about a wild and independent Kentucky mountain girl who saves her mother's land from land sharks, rides with a group of night riders, avenges the murder of her father, and eventually marries her mountaineer sweetheart.
15) Never forever
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1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A Caucasian housewife with a seemingly perfect marriage to a successful Asian American lawyer begins an affair with a Korean immigrant worker in order to get pregnant, after finding that her husband is unable to father children.
16) Jump tomorrow
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1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A young Nigerian man, about to enter into an arranged marriage, starts to question his situation after he meets a stunning Latin woman.
17) Boulevard
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1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A subtle and moving drama following a devoted husband and dutiful bank employee who begins to confront his own secrets. What starts as an aimless drive down an unfamiliar street turns into a life-altering decision for the curious Nolan Mack. For many years, Nolan and his wife Joy have embraced their marriage as a convenient distraction from facing reality. When he meets a troubled young man named Leo on his drive home, Nolan finds himself breaking...
18) Brief encounter
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English
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Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson star as middle-class suburbanites whose casual friendship evolves into a passionate yearning for each other. But as their affections grow stronger, they must face a difficult decision that will affect both of their lives forever.
19) Two for the road
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1 videodisc (approximately 111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Joanna is in a touring girl's choir and Mark is a struggling architect when they first meet on the road in Europe. The film follows their life together - through courtship and marriage, infidelity and parenthood - all on the road.
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1 videodisc (approximately 126 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Rose, a literature professor who lives with her mother, is in search of passion. Gregory, a mathematics professor who has been hurt in the past, is afraid to start a new relationship. Fate brings the two together and they soon agree to a marriage of convenience, built on intellectual passion instead of sexual heat. Then they fall in love.
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