Hable con ella

Hable con ella [videorecording] / Sony Pictures Classics; una producción el Deseo, S.A. con la participación de Vía Digital y Antena 3 Televisión; el Deseo S.A. presenta; un film de Almodóvar; guión y dirección, Pedro Almodóvar.

In a private clinic Barco and Benigno strike up a friendship while caring for comatose women.

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Slums of Beverly Hills

Slums of Beverly Hills [videorecording] / produced by Michael Nozik, Stan Wlodkowski; written and directed by Tamara Jenkins.

"On the road to womanhood in the '70's, Vivian ... is encountering two big bumps: her strangely nomadic family--always on the move, yet desperate to stay in the Beverly Hills school district--and her blossoming sexuality. Add Viv's vivacious cousin ... to the mix, and you've got an explosive coming-of-age story that proves you don't have to be rich to have first-class fun"--Verso of container.

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Kiss me Kate

Kiss me Kate [videorecording] / Metro Goldwyn Mayer; producer, Jack Cummings; screenplay writer, Dorothy Kingsley; director, George Sidney.

Two squabbling, 20th-century ex-marrieds are cast as squabbling Renaissance romantics in a musical version of The taming of the shrew. On stage they fight it out and backstage they continue to clash.

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Y tu mamá también

Y tu mamá también [videorecording] / Jorge Vergara Producciones, Producciones Anhelo presentan; [distributed by] IFC Films and Good Machine; producité por Jorge Vergara; escrita, producité y dirigida por Alfonso Cuarón; escrita, Carlos Cuarón.

Two teens set off on a wild cross-country trip with seductive, 28-year-old Luisa. Luisa schools them in the finer points of passion, but will their mutual desire for her destroy their friendship forever?

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Secretary

Secretary [videorecording] / a Lions Gate Films release; the Slough Pond Company presents; a Double A Films production; in association with Twopoundbag Productions; screenplay by Erin Cressida Wilson; produced by Steven Shainberg, Andrew Fierberg, Amy Hobby; directed by Steven Shainberg.

"Lee Holloway has a few strikes against her when she applies for a secretarial position at the law office of E. Edward Grey. At first the work seems quite normal but soon, in between typing, filing and coffee making, Lee and Mr. Grey embark on a more personal relationship together, crossing the lines of conduct that would give any human resource director the vapors!"--Container.

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Laurel Canyon

Laurel Canyon [videorecording] / Sony Pictures Classics presents in association with Good Machine International an Antidote Films production, a film by Lisa Cholodenko; producers, Susan A. Stover, Jeffrey Levy-Hinte; written & directed by Lisa Cholodenko.

Harvard graduate Sam and his fiancée, Alex, move into Sam's mother's house in upscale Laurel Canyon, thinking that she would not be there. Only problem is that she is still there, supposedly finishing up a record that she's producing for her boy toy, Ian's band. Sam's mom seems more interested in smoking pot and drinking than actually working, though. Alex doesn't mind, but Sam is quite upset. Alex starts off focused as she works on finishing a dissertation on genomics, but is soon distracted. Meanwhile, Sam is equally distracted by the beautiful intern Sara.

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Thirteen conversations about one thing

Thirteen conversations about one thing [videorecording] / a Sony Pictures Classics release; presented by Stonelock Pictures and Echo Lake Productions in association with Single Cell Pictues; a Gina Resnick/Beni Atoori production with Double A Films and Entitled Entertainment; directed by Jill Sprecher; produced by Beni Atoori, Gina Resnick; written by Karen Sprecher, Jill Sprecher.

13 conversations about one thing takes four characters (a lawyer who hits a housecleaner with his car, then flees the scene; the housecleaner herself; a science professor who leaves his wife; and an insurance claims adjuster who's deeply envious of a coworker who seems irrepressibly happy) and blends their stories into a delicate but potent mix.

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Power and terror

Noam Chomsky in our times

Power and terror [videorecording]: Noam Chomsky in our times / a film by John Junkerman; a Siglo production, Tokyo, Japan; producer, Yamagami Tetsujiro; editing, John Junkerman; directed by John Junkerman.

"Chomsky places the terroist attacks of 9/11 in the context of American foreign intervention throughout the postwar decades--in Vietnam, Central America, the Middle East and elsewhere." - Container.

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The good girl

The good girl [videorecording] / Fox Searchlight Pictures and Myriad Pictures present in association with In-Motion AG, WMF V, and Hungry Eye Lowland Pictures, a Flan de Coco film; producer, Matthew Greenfield; writer, Mike White; director, Miguel Arteta.

Thirty-year old Justine longs for a life more fulfilling than the one she leads with her boring husband and the dead-end job she has. But when a passionate young co-worker catches her eye and steals her heart, Justine's good girl existence takes a turn for the worse.

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Brokedown palace

Brokedown palace [videorecording] / Fox 2000 Pictures presents an Adam Fields production.

On vacation in a foreign land, best friends Alice and Darlene fall for the same mysterious man in this riveting thriller.

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