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True storiesTrue stories [videorecording] / Warner Bros. A look at Virgil, Texas, and its eccentric inhabitants which include the bachelor who posts a "wife wanted" sign on his lawn, the world's laziest woman. and a precision lawn-mower marching team. Check availability: DVD-20 VIDEODISC |
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Romancing the stoneRomancing the stone [videorecording] / Twentieth Century Fox; written by Diane Thomas; produced by Michael Douglas; directed by Robert Zemeckis. A romance writer, seeking her kidnapped sister in South America, experiences the adventures of a story-book heroine when aided by a rugged jungle hunter. Check availability: DVD-19 VIDEODISC |
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Mad MaxMad Max [videorecording] / Metro Goldwyn Mayer; American International; Kennedy, Miller present; screenplay, James McCausland, George Miller; producer, Byron Kennedy; director, George Miller. In the desolate near future, road cop Mad Max tires of chasing after vicious roving gangs and quits. When his wife and child are murdered by a motorcycle gang he returns to seek revenge. Check availability: DVD-18 VIDEODISC |
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The Lost boysThe Lost boys [videorecording] / [Warner Bros. presents a Richard Donner production; a Joel Schumacher film]. When Sam, Michael, and their mother move to Santa Clara, California, strange things begin to happen. A new twist on the familiar vampire story. Check availability: DVD-17 VIDEODISC |
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The Thomas Crown affairThe Thomas Crown affair [videorecording] / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures presents an Irish Dreamtime production; produced by Pierce Brosnan and Beau St. Claire; story by Alan R. Trustman; screenplay by Leslie Dixon & Kurt Wimmer; directed by John McTiernan. Billionaire Thomas Crown loves courting disaster and winning! But when he meets his match in an intelligent, cunning, lady insurance investigator, a game of cat and mouse ensues. Check availability: DVD-16 VIDEODISC |
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Pump up the volumePump up the volume [videorecording] / New Line Cinema in association with SC Entertainment. By day, Mark Hunter is a painfully shy kid in a small Arizona town. But by night, he's Hard Harry, the cynical, uncensored DJ of a pirate radio station. Idolized by his high school classmates (who are unaware of his real identity), Harry becomes a hero with his fiercely funny monologues on sex, love and rock and roll. But when he exposes the corrupt school principal, she calls in the FCC to shut Harry down. Check availability: DVD-15 VIDEODISC |
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BegottenBegotten [videorecording] / Theatreofmaterial; a film by E. Elias Merhige. "In this nightmare classic by Edmund Elias Merhige, a godlike thing dies giving birth to a quivering messiah thing; then the local villager things ravage and bury them, and the earth renews itself on their corpses. It is as if a druidical cult had re-enacted, for real, three Bible stories-creation, the Nativity and Jesus' torture and death on Golgotha- and some demented genius were there to film it."--Container. Check availability: DVD-14 VIDEODISC |
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NotoriousNotorious [videorecording] / RKO Pictures; produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock; screenplay by Ben Hecht. Working undercover for the U.S. government in Rio, the daughter of a convicted Nazi traitor marries a ruthless Nazi spy, but then begins a love affair with her American contact. Torn between passion and patriotism, they must sacrifice their feelings or risk destruction. Check availability: DVD-13 VIDEODISC |
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SnatchSnatch [videorecording] / Screen Gems presents in association with SKA Films a Matthew Vaughn production; a film by Guy Ritchie; producer, Matthew Vaughn; written and directed by Guy Ritchie. "A diamond heist gone haywire launches gangster, bookies and a dog on a rollicking ride through the rugged world of bare-knuckle boxing in search of the missing stone"--Container. Check availability: DVD-12 VIDEODISC |
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Training dayTraining day [videorecording] / Warner Bros. Pictures presents in association with Village Roadshow Pictures and NPV Entertainment an Outlaw Productions; producers, Jeffrey Silver, Bobby Newmyer; writer, David Ayer; director, Antoine Fuqua. Jake Hoyt, a fresh-faced rookie in the Los Angeles Police Department, gets a chance to join the elite narcotics squad headed up by 13-year veteran Detective Sergeant Alonzo Harris. Jake is to prove himself during a one-day ride-along. As the day wears on, it becomes increasingly clear that Detective Harris has blurred the line between right and wrong to an alarming degree, enforcing his own code of ethics and street justice. Eventually, Hoyt begins to suspect that he is, rather than having the opportunity to join the squad, being set up to take the fall. Check availability: DVD-11 VIDEODISC |
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