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1) Tenderness
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1 videodisc (101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Lori Cranston is a confused fifteen-year-old dreamer in search of an escape from her troubled home life. She discovers and becomes enthralled with Eric, a young man with a violent past. As they embark on a harrowing journey, a hardened local cop, who has been following Eric for years, is intent on exposing him as a serial killer before Lori's fate is determined.
2) Palindromes
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1 videodisc (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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The story of a 13-year-old girl who wants to be a mother, as told through different actors playing the same character and her journey in a variety of ways.
3) Bad company
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1 videodisc (92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A roguish group of runaways living by their wits in the rough West of the 1860s emerge older and wiser for their journey and friendship.
4) Crossroads
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1 videodisc (approximately 99 min.) : sound, color with black & white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A young classically trained guitarist learns the blues from an old bluesman who supposedly got his talent to play the blues from the devil.
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Author of more than a dozen novels, including Felicia's Journey, Irish author William Trevor is hailed as one of the most extraordinary writers of today. He has a special talent for examining the innermost regions of his characters' hearts. The Story of Lucy Gault traces the repercussions of a child's attempt to remain in her beloved home. Threatened with a move from Ireland to England, 9-year-old Lucy runs away, setting off a series of misunderstandings...
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1 videodisc (ca. 92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Boris Yellnikoff is a lifelong New York resident who attempts to impress his ideologies of religion, relationships, and the randomness of existence onto anyone who will listen. But when he begrudgingly allows Melodie St. Ann Celestine, a naïve Mississippi runaway, to live in his apartment, his reclusive rages give way to an unlikely friendship and Boris begins to mold the impressionable young girl's worldly views to match his own. When it comes to...
7) Mean Dreams
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1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Local farm boy Jonas and the new girl next door, Casey, embark on a journey that will change their lives forever. When Casey's abusive home life reaches a new level of danger, Jonas takes the lead in their escape by stealing a bag full of drug money from Casey's corrupt father, local cop Wayne Caraway. With the stolen cash as their only means to a better life, Casey flees with Jonas. Under relentless pursuit from her father, they learn the hard truth...
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Criterion collection volume 929
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2 videodiscs (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (20 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm.)
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English
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"Glamour has never been more grotesque than in Female Trouble, which injects the Hollywood melodrama with anarchic decadence. Divine, director John Waters' larger-than-life muse, engulfs the screen with charisma as Dawn Davenport, the living embodiment of the film's lurid mantra, 'Crime is beauty,' who progresses from a teenage nightmare hell-bent on getting cha-cha heels for Christmas to a fame monster whose egomaniacal impuses land her in the electric...
9) Little birds
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1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Lily and Alison face a life-changing event after they leave their Salton Sea home and follow the boys they meet back to Los Angeles. But in the big city, Lily and Alison quickly fall into the boys' world of scams and petty crime. Lily is determined to stay and make it work, while Alison is overwhelmed and eager to return home. When an idea is hatched to use Lily as bait for men with money to steal, things quickly escalate to a life-changing moment....
10) Galveston
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1 videodisc (approximately 93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Roy is a heavy-drinking criminal enforcer and mob hit man whose boss set him up in a double-cross scheme. After killing his would-be assassins before they could kill him, Roy discovers Rocky, a young woman being held captive, and reluctantly takes her with him on his escape. Determined to find safety and sanctuary in Galveston, Roy must find a way to stop his boss from pursuing them while trying to out-run the demons from his and Rocky's pasts.
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Avis Muir is a brilliant pastry chef, Brian Muir a corporate real estate attorney. Their son, Stanley, is the proprietor of a trendy food market. Their beautiful daughter, Felice, is missing. A runaway at 13, Felice has spent five years modeling tattoos, skateboarding, clubbing, and sleeping in a squat house or on the beach. She's about to turn 18. Soon all of the Muirs will be forced to confront their anguish, loss, and sense of betrayal. And Felice...
12) Mercury plains
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1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A troubled young man runs away to Mexico, where he is recruited to join a paramilitary group of teens fighting the drug cartels. Isolated in the desert, he proves himself by becoming The Captain's top soldier, but questions the group's true purpose. As the Mexican police close in, he realizes that his only way out is to escape back to America, but first he must outwit The Captain.
13) The way back
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1 videodisc (133 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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In 1941 three men walked out of the Himalayas into India. They has survived a 4,000 mile walk to freedom. While there is disagreement on whether or not this is a true story, this film is a textbook example of the "man vs. Nature-red-in-tooth-and-claw" survival film. Janusz, a Polish prisoner of war, is forced to sign a false confession and shipped off to Siberia to rot in the most brutal prison system in the world -- the Gulag. In prison, he meets...
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1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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"The summer of his high school freshman year, Hodaka runs away from his remote island home to Tokyo, and quickly finds himself pushed to his financial and personal limits. The weather is unusually gloomy and rainy every day, as if to suggest his future. He lives his days in isolation, but finally finds work as a writer for a mysterious occult magazine. Then one day, Hodaka meets Hina on a busy street corner. This bright and strong-willed girl possesses...
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"Set in the early 1970s amid the specter of the Manson girls, when the peace and love movement begins to turn ugly, this is the story of a runaway teenager's disappearance and her sister's quest to discover the truth"--
1969. Sixteen-year-old Lucy is about to run away with a much older man, to live off the grid in rural Pennsylvania. Her rash act will have vicious repercussions for both her and her older sister, Charlotte. Charlotte's youth has been...
16) Daredevils
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1974: Fifteen-year-old Loretta slips out of her bedroom window to meet her "Gentile" boyfriend. This time, however, her strict Mormon parents catch her returning at dawn and quickly arrange for her to marry the upstanding Dean Harder, a devout yet materialistic fundamentalist who already has a wife and a brood of kids, some not much younger than Loretta herself. Trapped in her role as a "sister wife," Loretta dreams of another, better future, of a...
17) Wildhood
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1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Two brothers reconnect with their indigenous Mi'kmaq heritage and find a new friend while on a search for their birth mother.
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