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A & PA & P [videorecording] / Harcourt Brace & Company; adapted for the screen, produced and directed by Bruce R. Schwartz. "When Queenie and her friends, dressed only in bathing suits, enter Lengel's A & P to buy kipper snacks, the life of Sammy the cashier is changed forever. This program presents a dramatization of John Updikes' frequently anthologized story of irony and innocence. Updike himself comments on the story in an interview with Donald M. Murray, columnist for The Boston Globe and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer"--Container. IMDb | Rotten Tomatoes | Check availability: DVD-3380 VIDEODISC |
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a casa de AliceAlice's houseAlice's house [videorecording] = a casa de Alice / FiGa Films; Superfilmes; produced by Zita Carvalhosa, Patrick Leblanc; written by Chico Teixeira; directed by Chico Teixeira. Alice is a São Paulo manicurist, wife and mother of three sons who has a chance meeting with an old boyfriend. She is forced to re-examine her life and address her romantic dreams. In her quest for happiness, she must overcome the obstacles set by the male dominated world in which she feels herself trapped in. Now, she must navigate the dangerous terrain of her heart. IMDb | Rotten Tomatoes | Check availability: DVD-6381 VIDEODISC |
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A.B.C AfricaA.B.C Africa [videorecording] / MK2 Productions; [a film by Abbas Kiarostami; ... New Yorker Films presents with Abbas Kiarostami and Marin Karmitz]. Over the course of a 10-day visit to Uganda, Abbas Kiarostami uses his camera to capture and caress the faces of a thousand orphans, many whose parents died of AIDS. Alternately heartbreaking and optimistic. IMDb | Rotten Tomatoes | Check availability: DVD-1480 |
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The AAI 2007 Convention. Discs 1-2The AAI 2007 Convention. Discs 1-2 [videorecording] / [held by Atheist Alliance International Sept. 27-30, 2007, Washington DC]. Hear from some of the world's leading rationalists on a variety of subjects including suicide terrorism, the Intelligent Design movement, Islam, church and state separation, the OUT campaign and the labeling of children, atheism, religion, and more. Q&A sessions follow most of the talks. Check availability: DVD-4675 VIDEODISC |
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The abandonedThe abandoned [videorecording] / Filmax Entertainment presents a Julio Fernández production for Castelao Productions S.A. in co-production with Future Films, in co-production with Radiovision Plus Ltd.; a Nacho Cerdà film; screenplay by Karim Hussain, Nacho Cerdà, Richard Stanley; produced by Julio Fernández; directed by Nacho Cerdà. An American woman searching for her birth parents learns she has inherited a house in the middle of a forest in a remote area of Russia. It is the house where she was born. Abandoned and uninhabited for 40 years, it stands in total disrepair and neglect. What she finds is more than an old house. She meets a mysterious man claiming to be her twin brother and together they find the house holds dangerous secrets to a past they don't even remember. They are forced to relive a series of horrifying events and shocking murders that occurred just after they were born, and in the place where they are supposed to die. IMDb | Rotten Tomatoes | Check availability: DVD-4986 VIDEODISC |
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The Abbott and Costello show. Volume 13The Abbott and Costello show. Volume 13 [videorecording] / TCA Television Corp. Contains all the classic routines from the Abbott and Costello TV Show that were captured during 1952-1953. Check availability: DVD-3995 VIDEODISC |
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ABC News Nightline. Hooked: America on methABC News Nightline. Hooked: America on meth [videorecording] / ABC News. "This ABC news program reports on the Montana meth Project, an organization undertaking an aggressive plan to "unsell" meth--with an ad campaign designed to frighten Montana's youth into avoiding the drug. Highlighting the campaign's gritty imagery and language involving prison, rape and prostitution, the report includes information on the project's financing, how the ads play out in Montana's teen demographic, and the need for long-term antidrug programs." -- Container. Check availability: DVD-3018 |
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ABC News special. Fat like me [DVD videorecording] : how to win the weight war / ABC news and Rodale.how to win the weight warABC News special. Fat like me [DVD videorecording]: how to win the weight war / ABC news and Rodale. Over the past twenty years the percent of overweight children has doubled, and among teens, tripled. More importantly, their lives are in jeopardy. We are raising a generation of Americans whose life expectancy may actually be shorter than that of their parents. In this special, we will talk about how we got there and what you can do to protect your children from the physical and psychological effects of obesity. Also, look at the world of an overweight teen through the eyes of a slender teen who until now has never felt the pain, isolation, and alienation they may experience every day at school and at home. Check availability: DVD-5788 VIDEODISC |
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ABCDABCD (Motion picture: 1999) This is the story of an Indian family living in the suburbs of New Jersey. Anju is a widow who believes in tradition and is reluctant to accept the mores of American society. Her main goal is to see that her two children get married to respectable Indian partners. Raj is the "good son", engaged to a devoted and traditional Indian girl. While Nina is the wild child, rebelling against her mother and all Indian customs. Both of the childrens' lives are changes dramatically when they find themselves attracted to a person that they least expected. IMDb | Rotten Tomatoes | Check availability: DVD-827 |
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AberdeenAberdeen [videorecording] / Norsk Film AS presents with the support of The Scottish Arts Council, National Lottery Fund, a Norsk Film production in association with Freeway films in co-production with Filmfabriken AB, Canal+ Television AB, Nordic Screen Production AS, a film by Hans Petter Molland; producers, Tom Remlov, Petter J. Bergli; screenplay writers, Hans Petter Moland, Kristin Amundsen; director, Hans Petter Moland. Kaisa, a beautiful and feisty Scottish woman, finally has her life together ... at least until her mother asks an enormous favor of her: to bring back her estranged, larger-than-life father. The two of them, father and daughter together, set out on a wild and brutally funny, yet heartbreaking journey which takes them through their emotional past before reaching their ultimate destination. IMDb | Rotten Tomatoes | Check availability: DVD-2997 |
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