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Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Original UK ed.
Language
English
Description
An orphan boy meets an escaped convict, a crazed rich woman, a bewitching girl, and grows up to have great expectations of wealth from a mysterious patron, in Great Expectations, Charles Dickens remarkable tale of rags to riches to self-knowledge.
3) Birdsong
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Set before and during the great war, Birdsong captures the drama of that era on both a national and a personal scale. It is the story of Stephen, a young Englishman, who arrives in Amiens in 1910. His life goes through a series of traumatic experiences, from the clandestine love affair that tears apart the family with whom he lives, to the unprecedented experiences of the war itself.
Publisher
[s.n.]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The story of Dawson and Amanda, two former high school sweethearts who find themselves reunited after twenty years apart, when they return to their small town for the funeral of a beloved friend. Their bittersweet reunion reignites the love they've never forgotten, but soon they discover the forces that drove them apart twenty years ago live on, posing even more serious threats today.
Publisher
Hallmark Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Noah McManus is a young politician who loses a high-powered job when his boss is entangled in a scandal during a Senate race. Adding to his grief, he loses his fiancee the same day. Feeling overwhelmed, Noah takes his dog and escapes to a small town in Massachusetts called Harpswell. There, he falls for a bookstore owner and the town itself, and he begins to find a sense of purpose and belonging that has been absent from his life.
9) Hook
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Peter Banning is a 40-year-old acquisitions attorney who has forgotten how to let the child within himself take flight. When his children are kidnapped by his old nemesis, Captain Hook, he is forced to fight his fears and make a fantastic return to Neverland to regain not only his children, but the child he once was.
11) Cupid
Publisher
Gaiam Americas
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
With Valentine's Day approaching, Eve Lovett, a workaholic TV talk show host with a string of failed relationships, is worried she will never find true love. But when a mysterious stranger named Vernon Gart shows up on the set claiming to work for Cupid, Inc., Eve has no idea her love life is about to get an arrow right through the heart.
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Single father Lance Clayton leads a disappointing life not following his dream of becoming a writer and putting himself after others, but in the wake of a freak accident, he has the sudden possibility of fame and fortune if he can live with the knowledge of how he attained it.
14) White oleander
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Astrid Magnussen's mother Ingrid is a beautiful gifted poet whose scattered life is governed by an enormous ego; deranged by the rejection of a lover, Ingrid murders the man and is sentenced to life in prison, while Astrid journeys through a series of foster homes.
15) The outsiders
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Edition
Widescreen and standard versions.
Language
English
Description
A story about teenage hopes, fears, bravery and violent rebellion and living on the right side of the tracks.
16) Camp Rock
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008.
Edition
Extended rock star ed.
Language
English
Description
Mitchie Torres is a teen with an amazing voice and a driving ambition to be a pop singer. All she wants is to spend her summer at a prestigious music camp. The camp is expensive, but her mom gets a job as one of Camp Rock's cooks so that Mitchie can attend as long as she helps out in the kitchen between classes. Befriended by fellow camp member Caitlyn, but intimidated by the immensely talented Tess Tyler and her friends, Peggy and Ella, Mitchie lives...
17) Blow
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2001
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
Dramatization of the life of George Jung, the man who established the cocaine market in the United States.
19) Rent
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006, c2005
Edition
2-disc widescreen special ed.
Language
English
Description
Focuses on the year in the life of a group of friends in New York's East Village. The "bohemians" live carefree lives of art, music, sex, and drugs. It is carefree until Mark, an aspiring filmmaker, and Roger, an aspiring songwriter, find out they owe a year's rent to Benny. Benny is a former friend who had promised them free rent when he married the landlord's daughter. Roger has also attracted the attention of his downstairs neighbor, Mimi. Mark's...
20) Psycho
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
English
Description
Perkins stars as the troubled Norman Bates, whose "old house" and adjoining motel are not the place to spend a quiet evening, especially if you are a woman.
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