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Ben Shenkman
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Elizabeth is a dedicated, workaholic doctor who is much to busy to have a life. One night, she gets into a terrible car accident and dies. She becomes a spirit stuck between heaven and earth. She doesn't realize that she is dead and thinks nothing has happened. That is until she meets David, a lonely architect, who has rented her old apartment. David thinks he is going crazy when he sees Elizabeth's spirit and tries everyway he can think of to get...
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Desperate to start a family, New York schoolteacher, April Epner hits a midlife crisis when, in quick succession, her husband unexpectedly abandones her and her adoptive mother dies. She gets another shock when she meets her biological mother, an eccentric, self-centered talk show host, whom at first she rejects. Then the divorced dad of one of her students begins courting April. As her life is turned upside-down, April finds herself opening up in...
Author
Language
English
Description
David Foster Wallace made an art of taking readers into places no other writer even gets near. In his exuberantly acclaimed collection, BRIEF INTERVIEWS WITH HIDEOUS MEN, he combined hilarity and an escalating disquiet in stories that astonish, entertain, and expand our ideas of the pleasures that fiction can afford.
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 352 min.) : sd., col. w/b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
God has abandoned Heaven. It's 1985 and the Reagans are in the White House. Death is swinging the scythe of AIDS. In Manhattan, Prior tells Lou, his lover, he's ill and Lou decides to bolt. As disease and loneliness ravage Prior, guilt invades Lou. Joe is an attorney, who is Mormon and Republican, is pushed by right-winger Roy toward a job at the Justice Dept. Both Joe and Roy are in the closet: Joe out of shame and religious turmoil; Roy to preserve...
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (560 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"After spending the winter recuperating from neurosurgery, Dr. Hank Lawson is ready to return to work on the first weekend of summer - or so he thinks. With his CFO brother, Evan, submerged in a political battle with a well-connected socialite, Hank finds himself relying on Dr. Jeremiah Sacani in a very surprising way. It wouldn't be life in the Hamptons if shocking revelations didn't shake things up, including Divya's life-changing news and unexpected...
7) [Pi]
Publisher
Artisan Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1998
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (85 min) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A brilliant mathematician teeters on the brink of insanity as he searches for an elusive numerical code that will allow him to predict patterns in the stock market.
8) Ride
Publisher
Screen Media
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When her son drops out of school in New York, a mother drops everything to follow him to California, where she will find herself, her son, and a fresh stars of her own with help from her limo driver and an expert surfer.
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 352 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in 1985. Revolves around two very different men with AIDS, one fictional, one fictionalized. Roy Cohn personifies all the hypocrisy, delusion and callousness of the official response to the plague. Nothing shakes Roy's lack of empathy: even on his death bed, he's fighting with his gay nurse and taunting the woman he helped put to death, Ethel Rosenberg. The other patient is Prior Walter, who is visited by an angel and deserted by his self-pitying...
Publisher
E1 Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009], c2007
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A sports lawyer and his partner, an ex-hockey player, find their lives turned completely upside down when a young boy comes to live with them, which will have them questioning everything they thought they knew about themselves, each other, and love.
11) Forty Winks
Author
Language
English
Description
A struggling hypnotist in New York city is blackmailed into being the world's first hypnotist hit Man after a mysterious woman finds out his degree is fake.
