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Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Closed-captioned ; English audio track with English and French subtitles.
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 her horse are killed by a jackknifing truck. Grace has her right leg amputated, and the frightening incident leaves a lasting trauma not only on Grace but also on her horse, Pilgrim....
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
The setting is a dusty Southern town during the Depression. A white woman accuses a black man of rape. Though he is obviously innocent, the outcome of his trial is such a foregone conclusion that no lawyer will step forward to defend him--except the town's most distinguished citizen. His compassionate defense costs him many friendships but earns him the respect and admiration of his two motherless children.
Publisher
Trimark Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Hank and Leticia inhabit stark, queasy realities of the contemporary South, he as a death row corrections officer and she as the soon-to-be widow of an inmate whose execution Hank helps conduct. In the aftermath of the execution, both lose their children to tragic deaths and they form an unlikely bond.
6) Stepmom
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Closed captioned for the hearing impaired ; English subtitles.
Anna and Ben, the two children of Jackie and Luke, have to cope with the fact that their parents divorced and that there is a new woman in their father's life: Isabel, a successful photographer. She does her best to treat the kids in a way that makes them still feel at home when being with their dad, but also loves her work and does not plan to give it up. But Jackie, a full-time-mother,...
Publisher
Sterling Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
The story of one man's struggle with his responsibilities as a lawyer and with the appetite of his ego. Prominent New Orleans attorney Lawson Russell (Cuba Gooding, Jr.) puts his name on a best seller he didn't write. However, the novel he stole was a factual account of a series of murders.
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Based in part on his autobiography, director Franco Zeffirelli's Tea with Mussolini is a story about a group of British and American travelers on an indefinite visit to Italy in 1935. Luca is a boy living in Florence whose family situation is precarious at best; his mother has run off and his father has little time for him. Fortunately, he's a welcome guest with Mary, a English woman visiting Italy to soak up European culture. Mary and her friends...
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Tom Ripley is a calculating young man who believes its better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. He's hired to go to Italy to bring back he playboy son of a millionaire and soon is plunged into a daring scheme of duplicity, lies and murder.
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
The story of an extraordinary man who lives a remarkable life without setting foot on land. Dubbed 1900 for the year he was born, he was abandoned atop a piano and raised by a lowly crew member in the bowels of a luxurious cruise ship. As he grows up, he is drawn to the piano and discovers he has an amazing gift for creating music. His reputation spreads, but he refuses to leave the ship. Only when he spots a beautiful girl on-board does he try to...
13) Chariots of fire
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
The true story of Harold Abrahams, Eric Liddell, and the team of athletic competitors who brought victory to Britain in the 1924 Olympics.
14) Gattaca
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Story about an all-too-human man who dares to defy a system obsessed with genetic perfection. Vincent is an "In-Valid, " who assumes the identity of a member of the genetic elite to pursue his goal of traveling into space with the Gattaca Aerospace Corporation. However, a week before his mission, a murder marks Vincent as a suspect. With a relentless investigator in pursuit and the colleague he has fallen in love with beginning to suspect his deception,...
15) Steel magnolias
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
A young diabetic's decision to have a baby may cost her life. This choice leaves her own mother torn between love and anger, while her loyal friends support her and try to deal with their own feelings.
17) Varsity blues
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
A backup quarterback for the high school football team must confront the pressures and temptations of being a sports star, including conflicts with his coach and his girlfriend, when the starting quarterback is injured.
19) The deer hunter
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
Closed captioned for the hearing impaired.
Tracks a group of steelworker pals from a Pennsylvania blast furnace to the coal hunting grounds of the Alleghenies to the lethal cauldron of Vietnam. It is a drama of friendship and courage and of what happens to these qualities under stress.
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