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(0)Meryl Streep
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This beautiful documentary takes viewers on a breathtaking tour of one of the most vibrant places in America: the Louisiana bayou and the city of New Orleans. Here, in the region's bountiful coastal wetlands, alligators, humans and other wildlife have lived in harmony for centuries. Experience a place overflowing with life, love, music, natural beauty-and hurricanes. Narrated by Meryl Streep, Hurricane on the Bayou offers a sweeping portrayal of...
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Dr. Carolyn Reiser's family practice is interrupted when she's called to the emergency room to help with a local teenage girl who's been bludgeoned to death. That night she and her husband, Ben, are shocked when the local sheriff comes by to see if their son, Jacob is home. Jacob was the victim's boyfriend and is suspected in her murder. When Jacob does not return home for days, Carolyn and Ben suspect the worst. Finally, he returns home and confesses...
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Shout Gladi Gladi chronicles the maternal health care crisis in Africa, and the heroic efforts to rescue African women from a medical condition during childbirth that can turn them into reviled outcasts -- if they survive. About 2 million women and girls in Africa and parts of Asia are living with obstetric fistula, and many die from it every year. Those that survive are incontinent and shunned in their villages. Filmed in Kenya, Malawi and Sierra...
4) She-Devil
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The author of 32 best-selling romance books takes her accountant away from his frumpy wife. And when this overweight suburban wife discovers what's been going on, she wreaks malicious and delicious revenge...
6) Doubt
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Sister Aloysius, the rigid and feared principal of the Saint Nicholas Church School, has an intense dislike for the progressive and popular parish priest Father Flynn. She believes she's uncovered the ultimate sin when she hears he has taken a special interest in a troubled boy. But without proof, the only thing certain is doubt. Based on the Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning play.
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Based on the incredible true story, Meryl Streep delivers a hilarious and touching performance as a New York socialite who dreams of becoming a great opera singer. While the voice she hears in her head is beautiful, to everyone else it is hilariously awful. Her husband and biggest fan, St. Clair Bayfield (Hugh Grant) is determined to protect his beloved Florence from the truth. But when Florence stages a huge concert at Carnegie Hall, he faces his...
8) The Hours
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Three women in different times, related by a parallel in their personal lives. One throwing a party for a friend suffering from AIDS. Another in 1949, suffering as a young wife. The last, Virginia Woolf, writing "Mrs. Dalloway".
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[2013]
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1 videodisc (ca. 80 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Narrated by Meryl Streep, this intimate and unprecedented look at butterflies, hummingbirds, bees, bats and flowers is a celebration of life, as a third of the world's food supply depends on these incredible and increasingly threatened creatures. Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Louie Schwartzberg, WINGS OF LIFE utilizes riveting high-speed, closer-than-close filmmaking techniques to showcase in spectacular detail these unsung heroes of our planet....
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2020.
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2 videodiscs (circa 338 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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On the surface, everything seems the same in the seaside town of Monterey, CA: mothers continue to dote, husbands support, children are adorable, houses are beautiful. But the night of the school fundraiser changed all that. Meanwhile, Perry's grieving mother Mary Louise Wright comes to town in search of answers after the son's death.
11) Suffragette
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[2016]
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1 videodisc (1 hr., 47 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Inspired by true events, a moving drama exploring the passion and heartbreak of the women who risked everything in their fight for equality in early 20th century Britain. The story centers on Maud, a working wife and mother whose life is forever changed when she is secretly recruited to join the U.K.'s growing suffragette movement. Galvanized by the outlaw fugitive Emmeline Pankhurst, Maud becomes an activist for the cause alongside women from all...
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[2016]
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1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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A New York socialite who dreams of becoming a great opera singer. While the voice she hears in her head is beautiful, to everyone else it is hilariously awful. Her husband and biggest fan, St. Clair Bayfield is determined to protect his beloved Florence from the truth. But when Florence stages a huge concert at Carnegie Hall, he faces his greatest challenge to make sure her performance is a rousing success.
14) The Post
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2018
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1 videodisc (ca. 116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Determined to uphold the nation's civil liberties, Katharine Graham, publisher of the Washington Post, and hard-nosed editor Ben Bradlee join forces to expose a decades-long cover-up. However, the two must risk their careers and their freedom to bring truth to light.
"Steven Spielberg's tense, terrific new drama, with Streep and Hanks at their finest, celebrates the passionate bond between a free press and every thinking human being, however diminished...
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c2000
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1 videodisc (102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Based on the novel by Carrie Fisher about her life in the Hollywood fast lane. Suzanne Vale is a wise-cracking, vulnerable actress determined to jump start her failing career. Her mother, an aging movie star is the definitive portrait of Hollywood's gutsy glamour queens and, of course, offers her daughter only razor sharp humor and searing honesty.
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK
In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again proves herself one of America's finest writers.
"Patchett leads us to a truth that feels like life rather than literature." —The Guardian
In the spring of 2020, Lara's three daughters return to the family's orchard in
...19) The Giver
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2014
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1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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The story centers on Jonas, young man who lives in a supposedly ideal world of conformity and contentment. Yet as he begins to spend time with the elder, who is the sole keeper of all the community's memories, Jonas quickly begins to discover the dark and deadly truths of his community's secret past. At extreme odds, Jonas knows that he must escape their world to protect them all; a challenge that no one has ever succeeded at before.
20) Little Women
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2020.
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1 videodisc (circa 135 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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"[T]his is a film in love with its characters' passions, a rich and effortlessly vibrant examination of the four March "little women" and the ways... they're practically bursting with the innocent it's-happening-right-now joy of being young and alive."--Los Angeles Times
"A tremendously resonant, sometimes heartbreaking and always entertaining hoot."--USA Today
"Gerwig has taken a treasured perennial of popular American literature and reshaped it...