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(0)Kate Nelligan
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A magnificent storyteller with vast imaginative range, Anita Diamant gave voice to the silent women of the Old Testament in The Red Tent. Now, in her third novel, she brings to vivid life an early New England world that history has forgotten. Set on Cape Ann in the early 1800s, The Last Days of Dogtown is peopled by widows, orphans, spinsters, scoundrels, whores, free Africans, and "witches. " Among the inhabitants of Dogtown is Black Ruth, an African...
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Peyton is not ready to share her widowed father with anyone, let alone a barely remembered cousin who just rolled into town, a cousin who smokes cigarettes and drives a pink Thunderbird. However, her father seems to like Nora well enough, and she does make for good conversation at the Losers Club, and prim Aunt Augusta hates her, which raises Nora slightly in Peyton's esteem. Maybe she isn't so bad -- maybe Nora is just what quiet Lytton, Georgia,...
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2001
Description
From the acclaimed director, Gary Marshall, comes a story of unlikely romance. Michelle Pfeiffer plays Frankie, a waitress at an N.Y.C. coffee shop. After a series of hurtful relationships, the last thing Frankie’s looking for is a new man…until he comes looking for her.
5) The fugitive
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Warner Home Video
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Fugitive: A Chicago surgeon falsely convicted of killing his wife is determined to prove his innocence by leading his pursuers to the one-armed man who actually committed the crime. U.S. marshals: U.S. marshal Sam Gerard is accompanying a planeload of convicts from Chicago to New York. The plane crashes spectacularly, and Mark Sheridan escapes. But when the FBI's John Royce is assigned to help Gerard recapture Sheridan, it becomes clear that Sheridan...
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Tells the story of Homer, who has lived nearly his entire life within the walls of an orphanage in rural Maine and has been trained by its proprietor, Dr. Wilbur Larch to be Larch's successor. Wally Worthington brings his pregnant girlfriend, Candy Kendall, to the orphanage because Dr. Larch provides medically safe, albeit illegal, abortions. Homer leaves with them to work on Wally's family apple farm. When Wally leaves to fight in World War II, Homer...
7) Premonition
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
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A housewife's life is shattered when she finds out the her husband Jim is killed in a gruesome car accident, but when she awakes the next morning, he is still alive and well. As she keeps having dreams about his death, she must decide what to do.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
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U.S. Marshal Sam Gerard is accompanying a planeload of convicts from Chicago to New York. The plane crashes spectacularly, and Mark Sheridan escapes. But when the FBI's John Royce is assigned to help Gerard recapture Sheridan, it becomes clear that Sheridan is more than just another murderer.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1022
Pub. Date
[2020]
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A troubled man talks to his suicidal sister's psychologist about their family history and falls in love with her in the process.
12) Into the deep
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2002
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"Close encounters of the oceanic kind."--Container.
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
1996]
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When aspiring news reporter Tally Atwater tries to break into television, only veteran newsman Warren Justice will give her a shot. In time, he teaches her everything she knows about news and she teaches him how to love again. But with her rise from local TV weather girl to network anchor, Tally and Warren must balance the dream of success with their desire for each other.
14) Shadows and fog
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
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Recruited by an inept mob of vigilantes, Kleinman, a cowardly clerk, is forced to search for a notorious murderer -- only to stumble upon Irmy, a sword-swallower running away from the circus and her clownish boyfriend. Determined to help her and eager to escape the vigilantes Kleinman abandons his search for the killer ... or so he thinks.
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BBC TV Shakespeare volume 20
Complete dramatic works of William Shakespeare volume 20
Shakespeare collection volume 20
Complete dramatic works of William Shakespeare volume 20
Shakespeare collection volume 20
Publisher
BBC Worldwide
Pub. Date
2005
17) The regulators
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Penguin Audio
Pub. Date
p2009
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As the town of Wentworth, Ohio, begins to transform into the Wild West, the townspeople believe a young autistic boy named Seth has something to do with it.
Publisher
Hallmark Hall of Fame Productions
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Vicki Miller (Marcia Gay Harden) is a writer who has cut herself off from her dysfunctional family. Her life drastically changes when one night, her 16-year-old nephew Bobby (Taylor Handley) shows up unannounced on her doorstep. He looks tired and depressed, and when Vicki realizes that he's run away, she takes him in. From that point on, Vicki is bound to Bobby. This story tells the tale of two people trying to find themselves and make their way...
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Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
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Presents a made-for-television adaptation of Madeleine L'Engle's novel in which Meg Murry and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg's father, who disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government.
