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[2001], p2000., Adult, Universal Call No: DVD Fic Billy Edition: Widescreen format. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: An 11 year-old miner's son discovers a talent and passion for ballet, much to his traditionalist family's consternation.
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(2011, p2010), Adult, 20th Century Fox Call No: DVD Fic Black Swan Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: '"You can't tear your eyes away' (Entertainment Weekly) from this 'wicked, psychosexual thriller' (Daily Variety) starring Academy Award winner Natalie Portman and directed by Darren Aronofsky (The Wrestler). Portman delivers 'the performance of her career' (Vanity Fair) as Nina, a stunningly talented but dangerously unstable ballerina on the verge of stardom. Pushed to the breaking point by her driven artistic director (Vincent Cassel) and the threat posed by a seductive rival dancer (Mila Kunis), Nina's tenuous grip on reality starts to slip away - plunging her into a waking nightmare."--Container.
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2020., General, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Cats Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: It's the night of the Jellicle Ball and all these tinier-than-usual cats present themselves to Old Deuteronomy in hopes of being chosen to make the journey to the Heaviside Layer where they will be reborn, to live a new -- and hopefully better -- life. But someone is trying to eliminate the competition.
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General, 105 Call No: DVD Fic DirtyD Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In the summer of 1963, innocent 17-year old Frances, known as "Baby," vacations with her parents at a Catskills resort. There she meets Johnny, the hotel dance instructor, who is as experienced as Baby is naive. Baby soon becomes Johnny's pupil in dance and love.
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[2007], p2006., Juvenile, Warner Home Video Call No: DVD Fic Happy Edition: [Widescreen ed.]. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Emperor Penguins from Antarctica each express their true love with a special heartsong of their own that expresses their very being. However, the misfit Mumble cannot sing. Instead he has an extraordinary talent to tap dance with almost magical energy and expression. Nevertheless, the leadership of the colony fearfully blames the young penguin's unorthodox ways for the lean fishing that threatens them all. Defiant in the face of unjust rejection, Mumble and his true friends set out to find the true cause of the famine. Through the friends trials and perils, Mumble learns many things about his frozen world, not the least of which being that his toe tapping talent may be what he needs to save his people.
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2012., Adult, Warner Bros. Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Magic M Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "'Channing Tatum is electrifying' (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly) as Magic Mike, an entrepreneur with many talents and loads of charm. Mike spends his days pursuing the American dream, from roofing houses to designing furniture. But at night...he's just magic. The hot headliner in an all-male revue, Magic Mike has been rocking the stage at Club Xquisite for years, with his original style and over-the-top dance moves. Just as another summer heats up, an intriguing new woman enters his life, causing Mike to think twice about his future as a dancer.'--Container.
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2004., Distributed by Home Vision Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Roseland Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Merchant Ivory collectionSummary Note: Three interlocking stories set in New York City's legendary Roseland dance palace make up this charming film, the third to be shot by Merchant Ivory Productions in America. In the first segment, The Waltz, Teresa Wright is a widow who comes to the Roseland in order to sustain the memory of her late husband, but meets Stan (Lou Jacobi), a man who offers her an opportunity for happiness in the present. In The Hustle, Christopher Walken stars as a gigolo with three women in his life, all of whom depend on him for different degrees of romance and companionship. In the final segment, The Peabody, an older Viennese woman (Lilia Skala) sets out to win a dance competition despite warnings that it could imperil her health.
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2002., General, Hollywood Pictures Home Video : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Video Call No: DVD Fic Swing Edition: Widescreen ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Two friends in Nazi Germany must choose between their individual freedom or loyalty to the murderous Third Reich.
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1999., General, Columbia TriStar Home Video Call No: DVD Fic Tango Edition: Widescreen version. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Sony Pictures classicsSummary Note: Set in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the film tells the story of director Mario Suarez's quest to make the ultimate tango film. Lonely after his wife (one of the film's stars) has left him, Mario must find the themes that will hold the film together, while simultaneously permitting his musicians and dancers the freedom of expression that is necessary to satisfy the tango-hungry Argentine audience. Things become complicated when Mario falls in love with Elena, a beautiful and talented young dancer who is the girlfriend of the powerful and dangerous Angelo Larroca, an investor in the picture. And Mario's creative vision is challenged by his investors when he plans a scene that recreates Argentina's dark years of political suppression and "disappearances.".