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When it was first produced in 1959, A Raisin in the Sun was awarded the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for that season and hailed as a watershed in American drama. A pioneering work by an African-American playwright, the play was a radically new representation of black life. "A play that changed American theater forever."
Publisher
All Channel Films
Pub. Date
1981.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (80 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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How do you kill something that's already dead? That's the question Billy Chong faces when he goes up against the "Kung Fu Zombie". Billy's father crosses the wrong exorcist, and there's hell to pay. The evil priest unleashes an army of the undead against Chong's family, led by the Mad Korean, Kwan Young Moon.
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Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2003.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (114 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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A Critically-Acclaimed Romance set in 1930's England featuring Rose Byrne, Henry Cavill and Bill Nighy. The film follows 17-year-old Cassandra Mortmain, and the fortunes of her eccentric family, struggling to survive in a decaying English castle. Salvation comes in the form of their American landlord Simon Cotton and his brother Neil. Although initially repelled by Simon, Rose is determined to make him fall in love with her and succeeds. A wedding...
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
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1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 69 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
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Deutsch
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This playlist includes the following special features from Kuhle wampe or Who owns the world, How the Berlin worker lives (dir. Slatan Dudow, 1930) Slatan Dudow: a film about a marxist artist (dir. Volker Koepp, 1974) original prologue, with Herbert Jhering, 1958.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
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1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 132 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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An invasion of friends and family pushes the repressed problems of a complacent marriage to the fore in this exceptional adapatation of Edward Albee's Pulitzer Prize-winning play.
6) Ben is back
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Lionsgate
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English
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Academy Award® winner Julia Roberts and Academy Award® nominee Lucas Hedges deliver powerful performances in this edge-of-your-seat thriller. A mother (Julia Roberts) is swept into a race against time after her troubled 19-year-old son (Lucas Hedges) returns home for Christmas--and suddenly disappears. Over a turbulent 24 hours, new truths are revealed--and a mother's love is tested--in this unforgettably powerful film.
Publisher
GoDigital
Pub. Date
2015.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (104 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Français
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In this tense thriller from acclaimed director Xavier Dolan (The Death and Life of John F. Donovan), a young man travels to an isolated farm for his lover Guillaume's funeral. Upon arrival, he is quickly drawn into a twisted, sexually-charged game by Guillaume's aggressive brother, Francis.
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Monterey Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (79 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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This dark, dysfunctional family comedy carries the dry wit and playful whimsy of a Wes Anderson film along with the brash authenticity and fresh perspective of its then-20 year old director, Clara Mamet. Featuring Academy Award nominee and Emmy winner, William H. Macy.In the wonderfully dysfunctional tradition of The Royal Tenenbaums, teenage years are always messy... but for Maude, things couldn't seem more tragic. Within one week just prior to her...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
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1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 75 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
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Keaton stars as youthful dreamer Willie McKay, who travels westward on a rickety locomotive to claim his birthright, only to find that his inheritance is a shack. And he learns that the object of his affection (Keaton's real-life wife, Natalie Talmadge) is the daughter of a man with whom his family has been engaged in a long, violent feud. McKay's personal struggles are punctuated by brilliant slapstick setpieces that involve an exploding dam, raging...
10) The whale
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English
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A reclusive English teacher, living alone in the wake of a tragedy, attempts to reconnect with his teenage daughter for one last chance at redemption in filmmaker Darren Aronofsky's transcendent, emotional epic. Nominated for three Academy Awards and featuring a career-defining performance from Brendan Fraser, THE WHALE is a deeply moving story of heartache, empathy, and grace.
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"[This drama] is a portrait of the dysfunctional American family at its finest--and absolute worst. When the patriarch of the Weston clan disappears one hot summer night, the family reunites at the Oklahoma homestead, where long-held secrets are unflinchingly and uproariously revealed."--http://www.booksinprint.com.
12) L'attesa
Publisher
Oscilloscope Pictures
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (100 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
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When the seductive Jeanne arrives at her boyfriend's childhood home, she is greeted by his brooding mother Anna (Oscar-winner Juliette Binoche). As the two women await him, a mysterious secret looms over the household, ready to boil over.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
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1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 93 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
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Mongolian
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A nomadic Mongolian family find themselves in disagreement when the oldest daughter, Nansaa, finds a small dog and brings it home. Believing that it is responsible for attacking his sheep, her father won't allow her to keep it. When the family to move on, Nansaa must decide whether to defy her father and take her new friend with them.
14) Home
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 97 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
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A family enjoys an idyllic existence in their isolated, ramshackle home, which edges onto an abandoned highway. Almost entirely cut off from society at large, they forge their own Utopia, but everything changes when city trucks roll in to complete the road's construction, allowing rush hour traffic to start rumbling by. Stars Isabelle Huppert (The piano teacher).
15) In celebration
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
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1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 130 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
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Taught adaptation of David Storey's emotionally-charged family drama.
16) Girl most likely
Publisher
Lionsgate
Language
English
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Comedy starring Kristen Wiig. Imogene is a hapless writer living in New York who is forced to move back to her mother's house in New Jersey when her career takes a serious downturn. Greeted by an old male lodger sleeping in her room, and her mother's new toy-boy, she soon feels trapped and frustrated. However, she eventually begins to realize the importance of family and embraces her roots - whilst looking for her ticket out of there.
17) Tortilla soup
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English
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Three grown sisters, Maribel, Leticia and Carmen try to cope and live with the fact that their father Martin, a veteran chef, is slowly losing his sense of taste. Martin has one simple rule: be at home for Sunday dinner and attendance is both mandatory and non-negotiable. A rift in the family develops when the sisters develop relationships and an obnoxious woman sets her sights on Martin's affections.. Winner of Best Supporting Actress in a Motion...
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Series
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English
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"Shay Benson adored her younger brother, Caden, and that got her into trouble. When he owed money, Shay realized she would do anything to help him avoid the men who were threatening him, and she crossed lines she never should have crossed. Now, determined to start fresh, she finds herself in search of a place to stay and wanders into a church to escape from the cold. Pastor Drew Douglas adored his wife. But when he lost her, it was all he could do...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
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1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 104 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Vietnamese
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An Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film and winner of the Camera D'Or at the Cannes Films Festival, The scent of green papaya is set in 1951 Saigon, where 10 year old Mui (Lu Man San) enters household service for an affluent but troubled Vietnamese family. Despite her servile role, Mui discovers beauty and epiphany in the lush physical details that envelope her.
20) Abe
Publisher
Breaking Glass Pictures
Language
English
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Twelve-year-old ABE is an aspiring chef, but his family—half-Israeli, half-Palestinian—have never eaten together without a fight. But when ABE ditches camp to spend time with street chef Chico, his mentor’s fusion cuisine inspires him to unite his family through food. ABE wants to cook a meal that will bring everyone to the table, but he’s about to learn that the kitchen can’t heal some divides.
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