Sissy Spacek
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A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel--a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with rich humor and unswerving honesty the irrationality of adult attitudes toward race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s. The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence, and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina and quiet...
3) Carrie
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • 50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY MARGARET ATWOOD • Stephen King's legendary debut, the bestselling smash hit that put him on the map as one of America's favorite writers • In a world where bullies rule, one girl holds a secret power. Unpopular and tormented, Carrie White's life takes a terrifying turn when her hidden abilities become a weapon...
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1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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"F. Scott Fitzgerald spent a lifetime battling demons - alcohol and a schizophrenic wife - yet, he wrote some of the greatest novels in American literature. Despite a tumultouous relationship with his mistress, an ailing wife, declining health, and daily drinking binges, Fitzgerald secretly wrote a scathing novel about the film industry which some call his best work. It was his final triumph."--Insert.
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1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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An epileptic with a failed marriage and a delinquent son decides to take control the only way she can, by taking her own life. Bancroft, the widowed mother with whom she lives, is oblivious to her daughter's depression until she becomes frightfully aware of her plans.
8) Deadfall
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1 videodisc (approximately 95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Siblings Addison and Liza are on the run from a casino heist gone wrong. They split up and make a run for the Canadian border in blizzard conditions, vowing to reunite in Canada. Addison heads cross-country, creating mayhem, Liza is picked up by ex-boxer Jay en-route for a Thanksgiving homecoming with his parents, and retired sheriff. It's there the siblings are reunited in a tense and thrilling showdown.
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1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Based on a true story about 73-year-old Alvin Straight who embarks on a dangerous and emotional journey to make amends with his 75-year-old brother Lyle before his brother dies. Alvin can no longer drive a car because of his eyesight and has to walk with 2 canes, but he climbs aboard his 1966 John Deere lawnmower and drives the 260-mile course from Laurens, Iowa to Mt. Zion, Wis.
10) Badlands
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1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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In Fort Dupre, South Dakota, in 1959, twenty-five-year-old garbageman Kit Carruthers and his fifteen-year-old girlfriend Holly Sargis go on the run after killing Holly's father. On their way towards the Badlands of Montana they leave a trail of murders.
11) Carrie
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1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Based on the best-selling Stephen King novel, Carrie catches the mind, shakes it and refuses to let it go. Starring Sissy Spacek and Piper Laurie, John Travolta and Amy Irving, this ultimate revenge fantasy is one of the all-time great horror classics! At the center of the terror is Carrie, a tortured high-school misfit with no confidence, no friends...and no idea about the extent of her secret powers of telekinesis. But when her psychotic mother...
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2 audio discs (approximately 120 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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A tiny baby girl is snatched from her adopted family by an ugly toad but escapes to find happiness with the king of the flower angels. (1st tale) The story of Ruby Rouge, her mysterious friend Conjure Woman and the two baskets of talking eggs with very different yolks. (2nd tale) A simple fisherman catches a magical fish who promises to grant his wishes... but when the man's wife start making outlandish demands the flounder fulfills a wish of his...
13) North country
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1 videodisc (126 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Josey Aimes needs a job and goes to work at a Minnesota steel mine after splitting with her violent husband. But the job proves to be almost as harrowing as her marriage. The male miners are resentful of women taking their jobs, so the men verbally abuse and play humiliating pranks on the female miners. After being physically assaulted by a coworker, Josey tries to fight against the harassment, but none of the other women will join her case, fearing...
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1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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At age 70, Forrest Tucker infamously made his escape from the tough San Quentin prison. Once he had gained his freedom, he embarked on a new set of heists that left investigators scratching their heads and the public fascinated by the story. This true story details Tucker's life which includes a detective wrapped up in the case, and a female who takes a liking to Tucker despite the criminal path he's on.
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3 videodiscs (500 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A psychological horror series set in the Stephen King multiverse, it is an original story that combines the mythological scale and intimate character storytelling of King's best-loved works, weaving an epic saga of darkness and light, played out on a few square miles of Maine woodland. The fictional Maine town of Castle Rock has figured prominently in King's literary career: Cujo, The Dark Half, IT and Needful Things, as well as novella The Body and...
16) 3 women
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Criterion collection volume 230
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1 videodisc (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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In a dusty, under-populated California resort town, Pinky Rose, a naive and impressionable Southern waif, begins her life as a nursing home attendent. There, Pinky finds her role model in fellow nurse Millie, a misguided would-be sophisticate and hopeless devotee of sophisticated ladies magazines. But Pinky's hero-worship evolves into something far stranger and more sinister than could be imagined.
17) In the bedroom
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1 videodisc (131 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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The Fowlers are a normal family in Maine. Matt is the town doctor and loves to fish, his wife, Ruth, is the school's choir leader, and their son, Frank, is home from his first year of college. Frank is in love with Natalie, a young mother who isn't quite divorced yet from her ex-husband, Richard Strout, whose family runs the local cannery. It makes Richard's blood run cold to see his wife running around with another man. And soon, an unthinkable tragedy...
18) Tuck everlasting
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1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Young Winnie Foster, stifled by the formality of her proper life and her domineering mother, escapes into the woods only to get lost. Her magical summer begins when she meets Jesse Tuck. Jesse is full of life and adventure and Winnie falls in love. The Tuck family has a powerful secret -- a spring that holds the magic of everlasting life. Now Winnie must choose whether she wants to live life as she knows it or drink from the spring.
19) The help
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1 videodisc (approximately 146 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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In 1960s Mississippi, Skeeter, a southern society girl, returns from college determined to become a writer but turns her friends' lives and a small Mississippi town upside down when she decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent southern families. Aibileen, Skeeter's best friend's housekeeper, is the first to open up, to the dismay of her friends in the tight-knit black community.
20) Four Christmases
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1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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When happily unmarried San Francisco couple Kate and Brad find themselves socked in by fog on Christmas morning, their exotic vacation plans morph into the family-centric holiday they had, until now, gleefully avoided. Out of obligation, and unable to escape, they trudge to not one, not two, but four relative-choked festivities.