Julie Christie
Author
Language
English
Description
When orphaned Mary Lennox comes to live at her uncle's great house on the Yorkshire Moors, she finds it full of secrets. The mansion has nearly one hundred rooms, and her uncle keeps himself locked up. And at night, she hears the sound of crying down one of the long corridors.
The gardens surrounding the large property are Mary's only escape. Then, Mary discovers a secret garden, surrounded by walls and locked with a missing key. With the help of...
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
Well-known playwright James M. Barrie finds his career at a crossroads when his latest play flops and doubters begin to question his future. Then by chance he meets a widow and her four adventurous boys. Together they form a friendship that ignites the imagination needed to produce Barrie's greatest work. Traverses both fantasy and everyday reality, melding the difficulties of adult life with the spellbinding allure and childlike innocence of the...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (171 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
Bathsheba Everdene is a willful, passionate girl who is never satisfied with anything less than a man's complete and helpless adoration. She captures the lives and loves of three very different men. Gabriel Oak is a sheep farmer who is captivated by her beauty and proposes marriage. William Boldwood is an older, prosperous man who had been a confirmed bachelor. Sergeant Frank Troy is a handsome, but reckless swordsman whose given to sudden fits of...
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
Beatrice works at a sleazy tabloid TV news show, run by a producer eager for something different. The producer sends her camera crew to Iceland in search of something new and unusual, but the show's crew doesn't survive their first encounter with the local monster, and Beatrice is sent to find out what happened to them. She ends up taking on the reclusive monster and takes him from the remote island and brings him into the media spotlight in New York...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
Hannah, who wears a hearing aid, is forced to go on holiday. On holiday she finds a job caring for Josef. Josef is a burn victim on an oil rig who temporarily lost his sight. Hannah's job is to care for Josef until he is stable enough to be transferred. There is almost no one on the rig, except a cook, an oceanographer and a few others out at sea. Hannah tends to Josef and he slowly breaks her shell of silence
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
Fiona and Grant are an Ontario couple who have been married for over 40 years. During the twilight of their years, Grant is forced to face the fact that Fiona's 'forgetfulness' actually is Alzheimer's. After Fiona wanders away and is found, the decision is made for her to go into a nursing home. For the first time in their relationship, they are forced to undergo a separation since this is the nursing home 'no-vistors,' first 30 days policy of a patient's...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
Valerie is a beautiful young woman torn between two men. She is in love with a brooding outsider, Peter, but her parents have arranged for her to marry the wealthy Henry. Unwilling to lose each other, Valerie and Peter are planning to run away together when they learn that Valerie's older sister has been killed by the werewolf that prowls the dark forest surrounding their village
Publisher
Vivendi Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
In the city that never sleeps, love is always on the mind. Those passions come together as they create a kaleidoscope of the spontaneous, surprising, electrifying human connections that pump the city's heartbeat. Sexy, funny, haunting and revealing encounters unfold beneath the Manhattan skyline. From Tribeca to Central Park to Brooklyn, the story weaves a tale of love as diverse as the very fabric of New York itself. A collection of 10 different...
10) Power
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
This film depicts the political candidates tactics as they try to get elected and the media consultants hired to sell them to the public
11) Petulia
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : color.
Language
English
Description
An unhappily married socialite woman is trying to get through to a recently divorced doctor, who in his own words just wants to feel something.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (122 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
Jim Grant is a public interest lawyer and single father raising his daughter in the tranquil suburbs of Albany, New York. Grant's world is turned upside down when a brash young reporter exposes his true identity as a former 1970s antiwar radical fugitive wanted for murder
13) Hamlet
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (242 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
Prince of Denmark, Hamlet, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother remarrying the murderer. Meanwhile, war is brewing
14) "Don't look now"
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Psychic terror in a Gothic setting in Venice provides the chilling backdrop in this tale of a couple's search for the ghost of their dead daughter.
15) Glorious 39
Publisher
E1 Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (133 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In this tense WWII-era thriller, Anne, a young woman from a political family, stumbles upon sinister evidence relating to a secret Nazi conspiracy plot and ends up caught in a deadly web of lies and betrayal.
16) Heaven can wait
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
p1999, c1979
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Joe Pendleton, a Los Angeles Rams quarterback, accidently goes to heaven after a car accident, and returns to earth in the body of another man who was a corporate giant. While practicing to resume his place with the Rams, Pendleton must also deal with the consequences of the former businessman's actions
18) Fahrenheit 451
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
Montag, a regimented fireman in charge of burning the forbidden volumes, meets a revolutionary school teacher who dares to read. Suddenly he finds himself a hunted fugitive, forced to choose not only between two women, but between personal safety and intellectual freedom
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (ca. 318 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice: Bob and his wife Carol are a sophisticated California couple who attend a secluded institute for group therapy. Their original intention is to merely observe, but they become so involved that they decide to test the strength of their marital trust and honesty by experimenting with mutually tolerated affairs. Ted and Alice are their closest friends who find themselves continually amused at the latest Bob & Carol sexual adventures...
Author
Publisher
Canongate Books
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
23 stories, all unabridged, from a diverse group of star writers and readers. A truly memorable collection with a wide appeal.
The stories in this superb collection are as follows:
Mothers and Fathers by Angela Huth, Read by Janet McTeer
Shared Credit by Frederic Raphael, Read by Martin Jarvis
The Year's Midnight by Helen Simpson, Read by Harriet Walter
A Place for Everything...