Search Results: Returned 13 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 13
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2009., Miramax Films Call No: DVD Fic Adventureland Edition: Widescreen. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In 1987, James Brennan's dreams of a European summer vacation before studying at an Ivy League school in New York City are ruined after his parents have a severe career setback. As a result, James must get a summer job to cover his upcoming expenses. He goes to work at the decrepit local amusement park, Adventureland - a place where the games are rigged and the rides make you sick. There, he falls in love with witty co-worker, Emily Lewin. In that setting, the two have unforgettable and painful learning experiences about life, love and trust. A place where James discovers what he truly values.
![Adventureland [DVD] (2009). Directed by Greg Mottola](/Library/images/~imageCT81765.JPG "Adventureland [DVD] (2009). Directed by Greg Mottola")
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1999, c1974., General, Audiovision Canada Call No: DVD Fic Apprenticeship Edition: Descriptive version. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A young Jewish man in Montreal is driven by an insatiable desire to be a somebody, and stops at nothing to get there.
![The apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz [DVD] (1974). Directed by Ted Kotcheff.](/Library/images/~imageCT72880.JPG "The apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz [DVD] (1974). Directed by Ted Kotcheff.")
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[1999]., Buena Vista Home Video Call No: DVD Fic Cider Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Tells a compelling and heartwarming story about how far a young man must travel to find the place where he truly belongs. Homer has lived nearly his entire life within the walls of an Orphanage in rural Maine and has been groomed by its proprietor to be his successor. But Homer falls in love and strikes out on his own.
![The cider house rules [DVD] (1999). Directed by Lasse Hallstrom.](/Library/images/~imageCT85421.JPG "The cider house rules [DVD] (1999). Directed by Lasse Hallstrom.")
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(2002, p1999)., General, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Fight Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: When a ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a soap salesman channel their aggression into therapeutic "fight clubs", an eccentric woman gets in the way and ignites an out-of-control spiral toward oblivion.
![Fight club [DVD] (1999). Directed by David Fincher.](/Library/images/cover/noimage.png "Fight club [DVD] (1999). Directed by David Fincher.")
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[1949, c1945], New Directions Call No: 812 W727g Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: New classics series
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2019., 149, Warner Bros. Call No: DVD Fic Goldfinch Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Theodore Decker is thirteen years old when his mother is killed in a bombing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The tragedy changes the course of his life, sending him on a stirring odyssey of grief and guilt, reinvention and redemption, and even love. Through it all, he holds on to one tangible piece of hope from that terrible day -- a painting of a tiny bird chained to its perch.
![The goldfinch [DVD] (2019). Directed by John Crowley.](/Library/images/~imageCT100850.JPG "The goldfinch [DVD] (2019). Directed by John Crowley.")
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2016., Adult, Elevation Pictures Call No: DVD Fic Indignation Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Set against the backdrop of the Korean War in 1951, the storyline focuses on a bright and promising young man from a working-class Jewish family in Newark, New Jersey, who gets a scholarship to attend a small college in Ohio and thus avoids being drafted,but whose ethical principles and nonconformism set him to clash with the people around him and, most importantly, with the dean of the college.
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-- Bad education.(2004, p2007)., Sony Pictures Home Entertainment : Sony Pictures Classics Call No: DVD Fic BadE Edition: Widescreen. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Viva Pedro, the Almodóvar collection.Summary Note: Filmmaker Enrique gets a visit from an aspiring actor claiming to be his old school friend Ignacio, who has written a story about their traumatic childhood spent at Catholic school. In the story, a drag performer attempts to blackmail a predatory priest by exposing their scandalous past. When Enrique produces a film based on the story, the villainous priest from their school days arrives to tell his own version of the events.
![La mala educación [DVD] (2004). Directed by Pedro Almodóvar. : Bad education](/Library/images/~imageCT71815.JPG "La mala educación [DVD] (2004). Directed by Pedro Almodóvar. : Bad education")
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-- Avant toi2016., Adult, Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. Call No: DVD Fic Me before you Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Louisa Clark lives in a quaint town in the English countryside. With no clear direction in her life, the quirky and creative 26 year old goes from one job to the next in order to make ends meet. Taking a job at the local castle she becomes caregiver and companion to Will Traynor, a wealthy young banker who became wheelchair bound in an accident. Embarking together on a series of adventures, both Lou and Will get more than they bargained for.
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2006., Koch Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Nicholas (1979) Edition: Full screen. Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: After the death of his father, Nicholas is sent to work at an oppressive boarding school, where he witnesses injustices that shape the course of his life.
![Nicholas Nickleby [DVD] (1977) Directed by Christopher Barry](/Library/images/~imageCT82257.JPG "Nicholas Nickleby [DVD] (1977) Directed by Christopher Barry")
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-- Jane Austen's Persuasion.1995., Columbia Tristar Home Video : Sony Pictures Classics Call No: DVD Fic Persuasion Edition: Widescreen version. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Anne Elliot will do anything to get Captain Wentworth now that he is interested in Louisa Musgrove.
![Persuasion [DVD] (1995). Directed by Roger Michell.](/Library/images/~imageCT71478.JPG "Persuasion [DVD] (1995). Directed by Roger Michell.")
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2012., General, Shout Factory Call No: DVD Fic Portrait (1996) Edition: Special ed., widescreen. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Archer Isabel is a young woman of daring independence and equally fierce desires. Her head-strong innocence is no match, however, for the manipulations of her duplicitous friend Madame Merle and the devious Gilbert Osmond. Based off of the novel by Henry James.
![The portrait of a lady [DVD] (1996) Directed by Jane Campion](/Library/images/~imageCT75283.JPG "The portrait of a lady [DVD] (1996) Directed by Jane Campion")
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2011., General, A&E Television Networks Call No: DVD Fic Thomas Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A young girl's purity and innocence leads her into a tragic and treacherous love affair; an English farmer, now grown rich, has to live with the anguish of having sold his wife and child at auction when he was a drunk youth.