Real women have curves

Real women have curves [videorecording] / [presented by] HBO Films in association with Newmarket Films; produced by George LaVoo, Effie T. Brown; screenplay by George LaVoo and Josefina Lopez; directed by Patricia Cardozo.

Should she leave home, go to college and experience life? Or stay home, get married, and keep working in her sister's struggling garment factory? It may seem an easy decision, but for 18-year-old Ana, every choice she makes this summer will change her life.

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Snow day

Snow day [videorecording] / Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies; produced by Albie Hecht, Julia Pistor; directed by Chris Koch; written by Will McRobb Viscardi.

An unexpected snowfall means a no-school, no-rules day.

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The Best of jazz & blues

The Best of jazz & blues [videorecording] / Kino International; produced for video by Bret Wood.

Musicals shorts, originally produced to merely fill out the film program, have in many cases acquired more value than the features they once supported. Filmed at the Paramount Studios in Astoria, Queens, these twelve shorts offer unparalleled opportunities to see and hear early great jazz and blues artists in action.

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The pianist

The pianist [videorecording] / a Roman Polanski film; a France-Poland-Germany-United Kingdom coproduction; R.P. Productions, Heritage Films, Studio Babelsberg, Runteam Ltd. with the participation of Canal+ ... [et al.]; produced by Roman Polanski, Robert Benmussa, Alain Sarde; screenplay by Ronald Harwood.

Based on the memoirs of Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Polish Jew, who was a brilliant pianist. He watched as his family was shipped off to Nazi labor camps. He managed to escape and lived for years in the ruins of Warsaw, hiding from the Nazis.

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Xanadu

Xanadu [videorecording] / Universal presents a Lawrence Gordon Production; directed by Robert Greenwald.

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Rabbit-proof fence

Rabbit-proof fence [videorecording] / Miramax Films, HanWay and Australian Film Finance Corporation present a Rumbalara Films, Olsen Levy Production in association with Showtime Australia; producers, Phillip Noyce, Christine Olsen, John Winter; screenplay writer, Christine Olsen; director, Phillip Noyce.

In 1931, Molly and her younger cousins, Gracie and Daisy, were three half-caste children from Western Australia who were taken from their parents under government edict and sent to an institution, were taught to forget their families, their culture, and re-invent themselves as members of "white" Australian society. The three girls begin an epic journey back to Western Australia, travelling 1,500 miles on foot with no food or water, and navigating by following the fence that has been built across the nation to stem an over-population of rabbits.

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Shrek

Shrek [videorecording] / DreamWorks Pictures presents a PDI/DreamWorks production; written by Ted Elliott & Terry Rossio, and Joe Stillman and Roger S.H. Schulman; co-producers, Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio; produced by Aron Warner, John H. Williams, Jeffrey Katzenberg; directed by Andrew Adamson, Vicky Jenson.

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Inside the Pentagon

Inside the Pentagon [videorecording] / produced by Roundabout Productions Inc., and National Geographic.

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Frida

Frida [videorecording] / Miramax Films presents in association with Margaret Rose Perenchio a Ventanarosa production in association with Lions Gate Films, a film by Julie Taymor; produced by Sarah Green, Salma Hayek, Jay Polstein ... [et al.]; screenplay by Clancy Sigal ... [et al.]; directed by Julie Taymor.

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Waking life

Waking life [videorecording] / Fox Searchlight Pictures presents The Independent Film Channel and Thousand Words presents a Flat Black Films/Detour Filmproduction; producers, Anne Walker-McBay, Tommy Pallotta, Palmer West, Jonah Smith; written & directed by Richard Linklater.

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