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Series
Criterion collection volume 178
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Swedish
Description
Ingemar is a working-class 12-year old boy who is sent to live with his uncle after his mother falls ill. There, he takes refuge from his troubles with the help of the town's warmhearted eccentrics. A bittersweet evocation of the struggles and joys of childhood and the pains of coming-of-age.
2) Empire Falls
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 195 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A powerful portrait of blue-collar America, a timeless tribute to the inherent decency and good humor that sustains working-class people in everyday life.
3) Overboard
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 1 hr., 52 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A super-rich and pretentious socialite winds up in the world of a struggling carpenter with four kids.
4) Meantime
Series
Criterion collection volume 890
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert (12 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
English
Description
A incisive portrait of the tensions that exist within a working class family.
A slow-burning depiction of economic degradation in Thatcher's England. In this film, unemployment is rampant in London's working-class East End, where a middle-aged couple and their two sons languish in a claustrophobic public-housing flat. As the brothers (Phil Daniels and Tim Roth) grow increasingly disaffected, the grinding boredom of their daily existence is punctuated...
5) Scrapper
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Georgie is a resourceful twelve-year-old girl who secretly lives alone in her flat in a working-class suburb of London following the death of her mother. She makes money stealing bikes with her best friend Ali and keeps the social workers off her back by pretending to live with an uncle. Out of nowhere, her estranged father Jason arrives and forces her to confront reality. Uninterested in this sudden new parental figure, Georgie is stubbornly resistant...
6) Overboard
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 112 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Leonardo, a wealthy businessman, has a yachting accident and develops amnesia, an ill-treated employee exacts some revenge. Kate is a single mom who manages to convince Leonardo that she is his wife. Hilarity ensues as Leonardo must take on the task of helping Kate raise her three daughters. Will Kate's plan succeed to perfection, or will she discover that Leonardo isn't such a bad guy after all? It's classic role reversal in this remake of an...
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