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William Shakespeare's A Midsummer night's dream [DVD]

William Shakespeare's A Midsummer night's dream1999

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Good Will Hunting1997

Summary: A young working-class genius is hauled back from the brink of self-destruction by a gifted counselor.

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Call #: DVD DRAMA GOOD

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Anne Frank2001

Summary: Dramatization of the life and death of Anne Frank.

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Call #: DVD DRAMA ANNE

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Summary: Jake Hoyt, a fresh-faced rookie in the Los Angeles Police Department, gets a chance to join the elite narcotics squad headed up by 13-year veteran Detective Sergeant Alonzo Harris. Jake is to prove... more »

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Call #: DVD DRAMA TRAINING

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Emma1999

Summary: "Emma is the story of a rich, clever and beautiful young woman who can't resist orchestrating other people's love lives. As her romantic plans go ridiculously wrong, however, it's Emma herself who risks missing out on her perfect match!"--Container.

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Call #: DVD DRAMA EMMA

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Saving Private Ryan1999

Summary: Captain John Miller must take his men behind enemy lines to find Private Ryan, whose three brothers have been killed in combat. Faced with impossible odds, the men question their orders. Why are... more »

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Call #: DVD DRAMA SAVING

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American beauty2000

Summary: An emotionally & spiritually comatose suburban man decides "to hell with it all" and reverts to living as he did when he was happiest--as a carefree teenager. His desperately uptight wife and sullen... more »

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Call #: DVD DRAMA AMERICAN

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Psycho1998

Summary: Horror melodrama in which a woman disappears after spending the night in an isolated motel which adjoins an eerie Victorian mansion, inhabited by a disturbed young man and his mother.

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Call #: DVD DRAMA PSYCHO

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The bridges of Madison County1997

Summary: World-traveling National Geographic photographer Robert Kincaid and Iowa housewife Francesca Johnson aren't looking to turn their lives upside down. Each is at a point in life where expectations are... more »

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Call #: DVD DRAMA BRIDGES

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A walk to remember2002

Summary: Love brings together what peer pressure and lifestyles seek to keep apart. Jamie is a straight-laced preacher's daughter and Landon is an unmotivated delinquent. When events thrust him into her... more »

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Call #: DVD DRAMA WALK

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Romeo and Juliet2000

Summary: Presents the Franco Zefferelli production of Shakespeare's tragedy about two teenagers who fall in love, encounter opposition from their families, and take their lives.

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Call #: DVD DRAMA ROMEO

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In the bedroom2002

Summary: The Fowlers are a normal family in Maine. Matt is the town doctor and loves to fish, his wife, Ruth, is the school's choir leader, and their son, Frank, is home from his first year of college. Frank... more »

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Call #: DVD DRAMA IN

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Gosford Park2002

Summary: Drama set at the country estate of Sir William McCordle in 1932, showing the lives of upstairs guests and downstairs servants at a hunting party weekend when one of the group is murdered.

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Call #: DVD DRAMA GOSFORD

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We were soldiers2002

Summary: Lt. Col. Hal Moore is the commander of the First Battalion, Seventh Cavalry. As part of the Pleiku Campaign of late 1965, Moore is assigned to action at Landing Zone X-Ray in the Ia Drang Valley, an... more »

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Call #: DVD DRAMA WE

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Save the last dance2001

Summary: When her mother suddenly dies, Sara must abandon her plans to become a ballerina and join her estranged father on Chicago's gritty South side. She feels out of place until she is befriended by a... more »

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Call #: DVD DRAMA SAVE

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Anna and the King2000

Summary: English schoolteacher Anna Leonowens has traveled to Siam to educate the 58 children of King Mongkut. Each has preconceived ideas about the other's world. Amid the danger of political unrest, their respect for each other turns into something more.

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Call #: DVD DRAMA ANNA

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Pulp fiction2002

Summary: Clever, dark film that tells 4 separate stories that are gradually brought together. Involved are two low-rent hit men, their boss and his sexy wife, a prizefighter and a pair of desperate robbers.

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Call #: DVD DRAMA PULP

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The horse whisperer1998

Summary: Fourteen-year-old Grace MacLean and her friend Judith go horseback riding in upstate New York on a winter morning, but their horses lose their footing on ice and slide onto a road, where Judith and... more »

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Call #: DVD DRAMA HORSE

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Phenomenon1998

Summary: A simple, small town garage mechanic who suddenly develops amazing mental abilities must face governmental investigation, scientific scrutiny, and ostracism by even his closest friends. But with the... more »

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Call #: DVD DRAMA PHENOMENON

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Antwone Fisher2003

Summary: Guided by a determined Navy psychiatrist, a troubled sailor embarks on a personal, emotionally inspiring journey to confront his past and connect with the family he never knew. Inspired by the true life experiences of Antwone Fisher.

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Call #: DVD DRAMA ANTWONE

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About Schmidt2003

Summary: Warren Schmidt is about to taste a not-so-sweet slice of life. When he retired, he and his wife, Helen, had big plans - but an unexpected twist changes everything. Now, all of Schmidt's attention is... more »

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Call #: DVD DRAMA ABOUT

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The pianist2002

Summary: Based on the memoirs of Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Polish Jew, who was a brilliant pianist. He watched as his family was shipped off to Nazi labor camps. He managed to escape and lived for years in the ruins of Warsaw, hiding from the Nazis.

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Call #: DVD DRAMA PIANIST

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Gangs of New York2003

Summary: In 1846, waves of Irish immigrants poured into the New York neighborhood of Five Points. "Billy the Butcher" bands his fellow "Native Americans" into a gang to take on the Irish gang "The Dead... more »

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Call #: DVD DRAMA GANGS

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Gods and generals2003

Summary: Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain left behind a quiet life and a career as a college professor to fight for the Union. Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson was a man of great religious faith who served in... more »

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Call #: DVD DRAMA GODS

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The hours2003

Summary: In 1929, Virginia Woolf is starting to write her novel, 'Mrs. Dalloway, ' under the care of doctors and family. In 1951, Laura Brown is planning for her husband's birthday, but is preoccupied with... more »

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Call #: DVD DRAMA HOURS

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Seven samurai1998

Summary: This epic masterpiece is about a group of 16th century samurai who are hired to defend a small Japanese village that finds itself annually raided by an army of bandits who steal the meager crops... more »

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Call #: DVD DRAMA SEVEN

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Mona Lisa smile2004

Summary: Set in 1953, Katherine Watson is a free-spirited graduate of UCLA who accepts a teaching post at Wellesley College, a women-only school where the students are torn between the repressive mores of the time and their longing for intellectual freedom.

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Call #: DVD DRAMA MONA

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Under the Tuscan sun2004

Summary: While on vacation, a just-divorced writer buys a villa in Tuscany on a whim, hoping it will be the start of a change for the better in her life. Along the way she finds that sometimes what seems like a mistake is really a blessing.

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Call #: DVD DRAMA UNDER

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Possession2003

Summary: Roland is an academic researcher who discovers some important letters written by a famous Victorian poet, Randolph Henry Ash. Ash was presumed to have been totally devoted to his wife, but Roland... more »

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Call #: DVD DRAMA POSSESSION

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House of sand and fog2004

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Call #: DVD DRAMA HOUSE

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21 grams2004

Summary: Fate brought them together, now vengence will tear them apart. A violent car accident unexpectedly throws together the lives of a college professor, an ex-con and a young mother with a reckless past.... more »

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Call #: DVD DRAMA TWENTY

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Big fish2004

Summary: William Bloom, is a young man who never really knew his now dying father, Edward - outside of the tall tales his dad told him about growing up. During Edward's last days William and his wife... more »

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Call #: DVD DRAMA BIG

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Girl with a pearl earring2004

Summary: 17-year-old Griet must work to support her family, so she becomes a maid in the house of Johannes Vermeer, where she attracts the master painter's attention. He is commissioned to paint Griet, and... more »

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Call #: DVD DRAMA GIRL

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Absolute power1997

Summary: He was where he shouldn't have been and saw what he shouldn't have seen. Now, who will believe the word of a career thief and ex-con? Who will trust Luther Whitney when he says he saw a woman killed... more »

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Call #: DVD DRAMA ABSOLUTE

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Mystic River2004

Summary: Boston childhood friends Jimmy, Sean and Dave are reunited after a brutal murder. Reformed convict Jimmy and his devoted wife Annabeth find out that their teenage daughter Katie has been beaten and... more »

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Call #: DVD DRAMA MYSTIC

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Cold Mountain2004

Summary: Inman, a young Confederate soldier, who is injured during the explosive 1864 battle of Petersburg, Virginia, is struggling to make his way home to Cold Mountain, NC, where his beloved Ada awaits him.... more »

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Call #: DVD DRAMA COLD

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The lion in winter2004

Summary: In the winter of 1183, a royal family prepares for a joyous Christmas holiday reunion of scheming, conniving and deceit. King Henry II summons his cunning prison-bound wife to his side as he prepares... more »

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Call #: DVD DRAMA LION

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The passion of the Christ2004

Summary: Concerns the last twelve hours in the life of Jesus of Nazareth. In the Garden of Gethsemane near the Mount of Olives, Jesus is betrayed by Judas Iscariot. Jesus is condemned to death for blasphemy... more »

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Call #: DVD DRAMA PASSION

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Tuesdays with Morrie2000

Summary: This made-for-TV movie tells the story of an old man, professor of sociology, Morrie Schwartz, who is dying from ALS. He tells a former student, Mitch Albom, about dying, living and what's important in life.

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Call #: DVD DRAMA TUESDAYS

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