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1) Greenlights
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"Drawing on the Academy Award-winning actor's journals and diaries from the last 40 years, this book presents a uniquely McConaughey approach to achieving success and satisfaction"--
"I've been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last thirty-five." McConaughey sat down with those diaries. He found lessons he learned and forgot, poems, prayers, prescriptions,...
2) Sing
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2 videodiscs (1 hr., 48 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A koala hopes to restore his theater to its former glory by producing a singing competition.
3) Just because
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1 volume (unpaged): color illustrations; 28 cm
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English
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From worrying when excited to forgiving while still hurting, children experience everyday paradoxes as they embrace their full potential.
4) Interstellar
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1 videodisc (168 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A group of space travelers journey through a wormhole in search of a new habitable planet.
5) Sing 2
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1 Blu-ray videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Buster Moon and his friends must persuade a reclusive rock star to join their band for the opening of a new show.
7) U-571
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1 videodisc (approximately 117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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During World War II, a group of Navy men are sent to steal Enigma (the nazis' top-secret decoding device). When their own ship is destroyed, they must secretly make their way through hostile waters in a severely damaged Nazi U-boat to safety with the device.
8) Killer Joe
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1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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'Killer' Joe Cooper is a Dallas detective who doubles as a hit man with the charm of a Southern gentleman. Chris hires Joe to kill his mother in order to collect her life insurance and pay off his debts. When Chris is unable to pay for the service up front, Joe takes Chris's sister Dottie as a retainer until he can be paid.
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3 videodiscs (458 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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In 2012, Louisiana State Police Detectives Rust Cohle and Martin Hart are brought in to revisit a homicide case they worked in 1995. As the inquiry unfolds in present day through separate interrogations, the two former detectives narrate the story of their investigation, reopening unhealed wounds, and drawing into question their supposed solving of a bizarre ritualistic murder in 1995.
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1 videodisc (approximately 123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Brandon's talent makes him a prime candidate for recruitment by Walter Abrams, the head of one of the biggest sports consulting operations in the country. Walter hires the small town ex-athlete and grooms him into a shrewd front man. Brandon soon begins to enjoy his status as a Manhattan golden boy and finds himself growing comfortable with Walter's high-rolling lifestyle. The surrogate father/surrogate son relationship fattens Walter's business and...
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1 videodisc (approximately 96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Tripp is a thirtysomething slacker, but that doesn't mean that he is ready to give up the many benefits of living at home with his mom and dad. His desperate parents have had enough though, and after years of gentle nudging they soon realize that it is going to take a concerted effort to get Tripp out so they can enjoy their twilight years in peace. Realizing that their only hope for riding themselves of their reluctant-to-leave son, Al and Sue hope...
12) Contact
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1 videodisc (150 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Astronomer Dr. Ellie Arroway receives an encrypted message, apparently from a solar system many light-years away.
13) The sea of trees
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1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Powerful story of love and redemption of an American professor, Arthur, who travels to Japan. He embarks on a spiritual and life-changing journey with Takumi, whom he found lost near the base of Mount Fuji. Takumi had gotten lost after attempting to commit suicide; now they fight for their survival while they are on their journey of reflection. Arthur's will to live reconnects him to his love for his wife.
A suicidal man befriends a Japanese man...
14) Serenity
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1 videodisc (approximately 107 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Fishing boat captain Baker Dill leads a quiet life as he provides tours in the beautiful waters near Plymouth Island. Despite trying to live in solitude and peace, Dill is soon wrapped up in a much more complex situation. His ex-wife Karen shows up seeking help for her and her son. She asks Dill to get rid of her new violent husband in the ocean waters for good. Now Baker must contemplate the weight of his decisions while he also questions the reality...
15) Amistad
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1 videodisc (155 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Chronicles the 1839 revolt on board the slave ship Amistad bound for America. Much of the story involves the court-room drama about the slave who led the revolt.
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1 videodisc (approximately 119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Michael 'Mick' Haller is a slick, charismatic Los Angeles criminal defense attorney who operates out of the back of his Lincoln Town Car. Having spent most of his career defending petty, gutter-variety criminals, Mick unexpectedly lands the case of a lifetime. However, what initially appears to be a straightforward case with a big money payoff swiftly develops into a deadly match between two masters of manipulation and a crisis of conscience for Haller....
18) Surfer, dude
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1 videodisc (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A surfing icon comes home to find Malibu has changed. Gone are the times when surfers lived just to catch a wave; now it's all about sponsorships, virtual reality, and money. When the waves go flat, Steve's backed into a corner and he's got to endure.
Surfing icon Steve Addington returns home, out of money and must decide whether or not to give in to his new sponsor's demands that he expand into video games and reality television.
19) Lone star
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Criterion collection volume 1202
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English
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A keen observer of America's social fabric, writer-director John Sayles uncovers the haunted past buried beneath a small Texas border town in this sprawling neo-western mystery. When a skeleton is discovered in the desert, lawman Sam Deeds, son of a legendary local sheriff, begins an investigation that will have profound implications both for him personally and for all of Rio County, a place still reckoning with its history of racial violence. Sayles's...
20) Gold
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1 videodisc (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Kenny Wells, a prospector desperate for a lucky break, teams up with a similarly eager geologist and sets off on an amazing journey to find gold in the uncharted jungle of Indonesia. Getting the gold was hard but keeping it is even more difficult, sparking an adventure through the most powerful boardrooms of Wall Street.
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