Meryl Streep
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
As if the result of some strange mass-media fluke, the popular radio program "A Prairie Home Companion" somehow managed to survive the television age to entertain its audience every Saturday night from the stage of the historic Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, Minn. Week after week, hangdog host G.K. serves as unflappable emcee to an amiable hodgepodge of radio-friendly acts that include the likes of popular country duo Yolanda and Rhonda Johnson and...
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
[English/Spanish version].
Language
English
Description
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.
83) Out of Africa
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
The fascinating true story of Karen Blixen, a strong-willed woman who, with her philandering husband, runs a coffee plantation in Kenya, circa 1914. To her astonishment, she soon discovers herself falling in love with the land, its people and a mysterious white hunter.
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Miranda is the editor of "Runway" magazine, and a terror to anyone around her. She hires Andy, a young woman who knows nothing of the fashion industry, as her assistant, and proceeds to place impossible demands upon her. But after Andy gets a complete makeover and new self-assurance, she faces a life of glamor that could be hers... if she truly wants it.
85) Silkwood
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Language
English
Description
The Oklahoma nuclear plant worker who blew the whistle on dangerous practices at the Kerr-McGee plant and who died under circumstances which are still under debate.
Author
Language
English
Description
Famed documentary producer Sheila Nevins is the one person who always tells it like it is, and who will say, "Learn from my mistakes and my successes. Because you don't get smarter as you get older, you get braver." An astonishingly frank, funny, poignant book about the real-life challenges of being a woman in a man's world; what it means to be a working mother; what it's like to be an older woman in a youth-obsessed culture; the sometimes changing,...
Series
Pub. Date
[1985]
Language
English
Description
By the time the velveteen rabbit is dirty, worn out, and about to be burned, he has almost given up hope of ever finding the magic called Real. When he turns to the skin horse for help, he begins to understand that one becomes a real person through human relationships that are loving, positive experiences. Animated.
91) The deer hunter
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Special edition legacy series.
Language
English
Description
Tracks a group of steelworker pals from a Pennsylvania blast furnace to the cool hunting grounds of the Alleghenies to the lethal cauldron of Vietnam. Shows what happens to friendship and courage under stress.
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
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.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
[English/Spanish version].
Language
English
Description
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.
96) Heartburn
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A bitter romance based on Nora Ephron's autobiographical novel about her relationship with Carl Bernstein.
97) Silkwood
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Karen Silkwood becomes contaminated with plutonium at her job, voices her protest at the indifference and denial of her company, and becomes a threat to the entire nuclear industry and the government agencies that monitor it. Based on a true story.
98) The Giver: DVD
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
In a seemingly perfect world, a young man, Jonas is chosen to be the community's Receiver of Memories, learning from an old man known as The Giver.
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