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Cindy and Dave Knight got married too young. Several years later, they're trying to make the best of it. He's a salesman on the fast track with a prestigious corporation. She's the indispensable assistant to a prominent Broadway producer. They own an apartment in Manhattan and enjoy knocking around the city together. However, Dave's erratic behavior and career obsession strain the relationship. Can it be saved?
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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...
3) Iris
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1 videodisc (90 min., 40 sec.) : sound, colour ; 4 3/4 in.
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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.
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Believed to have been written in 1603, Shakespeare's Othello is a tragedy that puts the playwright's prodigious creative gifts on full display. Based loosely on a Renaissance-era Italian tale, Othello follows the stormy relationship of the Moorish general Othello and his lovely wife Desdemona. Addressing timeless themes of love and betrayal, as well as surprisingly contemporary concepts such as race-based stereotypes, Othello
...7) Twin cities
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1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Salvaging a marriage takes time and trust, two things that John and Emily no longer have. Emily is a writer with a career threatening case of writer's block and deadlines approaching. The pressure to finish her novel grows when John sinks into depression and quits his job, right before their first baby is due. As they head toward a mutual meltdown, John is given a terminal diagnosis that forces him to reassess his life and attempt to save his marriage...
8) Green card
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1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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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.
9) Ashgrove
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1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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When a troubled couple escapes to their rural farmhouse for a weekend of reconnection, they realize that their ability to save their marriage will determine the fate of humankind itself.
10) Marnie
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1 videodisc (131 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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A woman robs her employers and changes her identity. When her next boss catches her, he forces her to marry him.
11) Anna Karenina
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3 videodiscs (approximately 539 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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In Tolstoy's powerful tale of family passions set in Russia in the 1870s, Anna, the young and beautiful wife of a powerful older man, risks more than she can imagine when she runs away with the dashing Count Vronsky.
12) Close my eyes
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1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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A brother and sister find themselves irresistibly drawn to each other in this powerful story of forbidden passions, a tangled marriage, and one long, very hot summer.
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1 videodisc (81 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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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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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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1 videodisc (approximately 100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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"As Julia (Lisa Owen) and Moisés (Jesus Ochoa), a couple in its 30s, realize they have departed from the dreams of their youth, they engage in a quest to recover the passion they had for each other. The result is a love triangle with unpredictable consequences"--Http://www.premiereweekend.org.
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Folger Shakespeare Library is the world's leading center for Shakespeare studies. Each edition includes: freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play; full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play; scene-by-scene plot summaries; a key to famous lines and phrases; an introduction to reading Shakespeare's language; an essay by an outstanding scholar providing a modern perspective on the play;...
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1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Biographical film about the rock 'n' roll singer called "Killer", Jerry Lee Lewis. The film covers the period when he moved to Memphis to further his career. His barrelhouse rhythm and blues piano playing and raucous singing led to a string of hits, but his marriage to his 13-year-old cousin all but killed his career.
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