Edward Norton
Author
Language
English
Description
Five immigrant street vendors bring fresh fruits and vegetables to the inner cities of New York, where finding a fresh red ripe apple can be a serious challenge. These pushcart vendors are part of a New York City experiment to help solve the food crisis and the inner city's skyrocketing obesity rates. Narrated by Academy Award nominee Edward Norton, The Apple Pushers is an inspirational story of hard work and dedication to good health.
3) Salinger
Author
Language
English
Description
An unprecedented look inside the private world of J.D. Salinger, the reclusive author of The Catcher in the Rye.
5) 25th Hour
Author
Language
English
Description
Cornered by the DEA, convicted New York drug dealer Montgomery Brogan (Norton) reevaluates his life in the 24 remaining hours before facing a seven-year jail term.
6) 25th hour
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 134 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Monty Brogan is facing a seven-year prison sentence for dealing drugs. On the night before he has to go to jail, he decides to go out with his friends one last time, and re-examines his life in the process.
7) Isle of dogs
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When all the canine pets of Megasaki City are exiled to vast Trash Island, 12-year-old Atari sets off in search of his bodyguard dog, Spots. With the assistance of his newfound mongrel friends, he begins an epic journey that will decide the fate and future of the entire Prefecture.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Retreating from life after a tragedy, a man questions the universe by writing to Love, Time and Death. Receiving unexpected answers, he begins to see how these things interlock and how even loss can reveal moments of meaning and beauty.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 135 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Aaron Cross is an agent groomed by the government program that also unleashed Jason Bourne, but with a few new wrinkles. Cross is busy training in Alaska when he's caught in a tsunami of hurt, thus beginning a frantic search for answers that leads to a mad motorcycle chase through the streets of Manila. He picks up a partner in government doctor Marta Shearing, who is confused herself after nearly being caught in a madman's bloody rampage.
10) The Italian job
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4in.
Language
English
Description
When a gang of life-long criminals is double-crossed, they plan a scheme to get their gold back by creating a massive traffic jam in Los Angeles and rob the armored car that has the gold.
11) Salinger
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (129 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
SALINGER features interviews with 150 subjects - including Salinger's friends and colleagues who have never spoken on the record - as well as film footage, photographs, and other material never before seen.
12) Moonrise kingdom
Publisher
Focus Features
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, tells the story of two twelve-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. As various authorities try to hunt them down, a violent storm is brewing off-shore, and the peaceful island community is turned upside down in more ways than anyone can handle.
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (117 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Tobe is about 16, living with her dad and younger brother in LA's San Fernando Valley. She invites a gas station attendant named Harlan to come to the beach with her and her friends. He's from South Dakota, wears a cowboy hat, talks country, and has been a ranch hand. They have a great time, his simple expressions seem like wisdom, he's attentive and polite, and even though he's more than twice her age, she wants to spend time with him. When her father...
14) Red dragon
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 digital videodisc (125 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Series
Criterion collection volume 1025
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (35 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm), 1 folded poster.
Language
English
Description
Wes Anderson brings his dry wit and visual inventiveness to this exquisite caper set amid the old-world splendor of Europe between the World Wars. A poignant ode to friendship, this breathless picaresque is performed with panache by an all-star cast.
16) Fight club
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
2 digital videodiscs (139 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a soap salesman channel their aggresion into therapeutic fight clubs, an eccentric woman gets in the way and ignites an out-of-control spiral toward oblivion.
17) Women's history
Publisher
Binge Box
Language
English
Description
Titles included: Mary Shelley ; Suffragette ; A League of Their Own ; Frida ; Betty & Coretta.
18) The painted veil
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 125 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4in.
Language
English
Description
After he learns his wife is having an affair, a young doctor accepts a job in a remote Chinese village where the people are suffering from a deadly disease.
***1/2...very satisfying. Highly recommended.--Video Librarian
Two thumbs up!--Roeper & A.O. Scott
19) Asteroid City
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The production of a play is frought with drama and romance in and of itself, from its writing and casting to rehearsals and staging. Onstage, the itinerary of a Junior Stargazer/Space Cadet convention is spectacularly disrupted by world-changing events while each attendee and their family members deal with their own interpersonal issues.
Publisher
Searchlight Pictures
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 108 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A love letter to journalists set in an outpost of an American newspaper in a fictional 20th-century French city that brings to life a collection of stories published in "'The French Dispatch." Includes animated sequences.