Nicole Kidman
1) The hours
Author
Language
English
Description
The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel becomes a motion picture starring Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, and Nicole Kidman, directed by Stephen Daldry from a screenplay by David Hare.
The Hours tells the story of three women: Virginia Woolf, beginning to write Mrs. Dalloway as she recuperates in a London suburb with her husband in 1923; Clarissa Vaughan, beloved friend of an acclaimed poet dying from AIDS, who in modern-day New York is
2) Far and away
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (140 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
A poor but proud Irish tenant farmer accompanies the spoiled and headstrong daughter of a wealthy landlord to America in a quest for land
3) The beguiled
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a wounded Union soldier is taken in by the headmistress of an all-girls school in Virginia, he romances each of the women one by one with shocking consequences.
4) Malice
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (1 hr., 47 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
When a serial killer begins murdering female students in a New England town, the college dean becomes involved in the investigation while wondering about the surgeon who has taken a room in his house
5) Australia
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (165 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
In northern Australia at the beginning of World War II, an English aristocrat inherits a cattle station the size of Maryland. When English cattle barons plot to take her land, she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn stock-man to drive 2,000 head of cattle across hundreds of miles of the country's most unforgiving land, only to still face the bombing of Darwin, Australia, by the Japanese forces that had attacked Pearl Harbor only months earlier...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
The wry, comic romantic tale follows the Owens sisters as they struggle to use their hereditary gift for practical magic to overcome the obstacles in discovering true love
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After an accident leaves her with a serious head injury, a woman wakes up remembering nothing of her past. As secrets are revealed she starts to question the people closest to her.
8) The paperboy
Publisher
Millennium
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
It takes audiences deep into the backwaters of steamy 1960s South Florida, as investigative reporter Ward Jansen and his partner Yardley Acheman chase a sensational, career-making story. With the help of Ward's younger brother Jack and sultry death-row groupie Charlotte Bless, the pair tries to prove violent swamp-dweller Hillary Van Wetter was framed for the murder of a corrupt local sheriff
9) Aquaman
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
An action-packed adventure that reveals the origin story of half-human, half- Atlantean Arthur Curry and takes him on the journey of his lifetime--one that will not only force him to face who he really is, but also to discover if he is worthy of who he was born to be: a king.
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
In a wondrous parallel world where witches soar the skies and Ice Bears rule the frozen North, one special girl is destined to hold the fate of the universe in her hands. When Lyra Belacqua becomes the keeper of the Golden Compass, she discovers that her world and all those beyond are threatened by the secret plans of Ms. Coulter. With the help of Lord Asriel and a group of unlikely allies ready to stand at her side, Lyra embarks on an extraordinary...
11) The Interpreter
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc, PG-13 (129 min.) : sd., col., [closed] captioned ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
U.S. Secret Service agent Tobin Keller is assigned to investigate a translator working at the United Nations who claims to have overheard an assassination plot
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
After moving with her husband and children to the well-manicured community of Stepford, Connecticut, former New York television executive Joanna Eberhart is beginning to realize that Stepford is more than just the "perfect" place to live ... it's a little to perfect. All the wives in town are models who cater to their husband's every desire. What is going on behind the closed doors of the Stepford Men's Association and the Stepford Day Spa? Can Joanna...
13) Paddington
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015?]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young Peruvian bear travels to London in search of a home. Finding himself lost and alone at Paddington Station, he meets the kindly Brown family, who offer him a temporary haven.
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[2013?]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (154 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of the passionate love affair and tumultuous marriage between Martha Gellhorn and Ernest Hemingway, following the adventurous writers through all the great conflicts of their time
15) Cold Mountain
Language
English
Formats
Description
Inman, a young Confederate soldier, who is injured during the explosive 1864 battle of Petersburg, Virginia, is struggling to make his way home to Cold Mountain, NC, where his beloved Ada awaits him. In Inman's absence, Ada befriends Ruby, who helps her keep up her late father's farm. Meanwhile, in his travels, Inman encounters a menagerie of interesting and colorful characters
16) In the cut
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
A lonely young woman in New York City gets tangled up in a murder investigation when a severed head is found in her garden. When she becomes involved with the homicide detective on the case, she realizes that the prime suspect may be closer than she likes to think
17) Moulin Rouge!
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Christian (McGregor), an idealistic and impoverished young writer who, newly arrived in Montmartre, is haphazardly inducted into a circle of young bohemians led by Toulouse-Lautrec. A comedy of mistaken identities ensues, quickly enmeshing the young poet in a love triangle involving the unobtainable and consumptive Satine (Kidman), queen courtesan of the Moulin Rouge, and the foppish Duke of Roxbury, his villainous rival for her affections
18) The hours
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
In 1929, Virginia Woolf is starting to write her novel, 'Mrs. Dalloway, ' under the care of doctors and family. In 1951, Laura Brown is planning for her husband's birthday, but is preoccupied with reading Woolf's novel. In 2001, Clarrisa Vaughn is planning an award party for her friend, an author dying of AIDS. Taking place over one day, all three stories are interconnected with the novel: one is writing it, one is reading it, and one is living it...
19) Happy feet
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
Emperor Penguins from Antarctica each express their true love with a special heartsong of their own that expresses their very being. However, the misfit Mumble cannot sing. Instead he has an extraordinary talent to tap dance with almost magical energy and expression. Nevertheless, the leadership of the colony fearfully blames the young penguin's unorthodox ways for the lean fishing that threatens them all. Defiant in the face of unjust rejection,...
20) Nine
Publisher
Distributed by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (119 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
Arrogant, self-centered movie director Guido Contini finds himself struggling to find meaning, purpose, and a script for his latest film endeavor. Ten days away from the start of principal filming of his latest movie--ambitiously titled "Italia"--he has no idea for the movie at all. Escaping all the pressure at a seaside resort, he thinks about the women who have shaped his life: Mamma, judgmental but affectionate; Luisa, cherished yet under appreciated...