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Every year in the ruins of what was once North America, the Capitol of the nation of Panem forces each of its twelve districts to send a teenage boy and girl to compete in the Hunger Games. Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen volunteers in her younger sister's place and must rely upon her sharp instincts when she's pitted against highly trained Tributes who have prepared their entire lives. She must make impossible choices in the arena that weigh survival...
3) Divergent
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1 videodisc (139 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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In a world where people are divided into distinct factions based on human virtues, Tris Prior is warned she is Divergent and will never fit into any one group. When she discovers a conspiracy by a faction leader to destroy all Divergents, Tris must learn to trust in the mysterious Four and together they must find out what makes being Divergent so dangerous before it's too late.
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[2018]
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1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Becky, Adam and their five-year-old daughter Acie are a perfect family until a tragic accident during a fourth of July celebration kills Adam. Struggling with the grieving process Becky decides she needs to step away from the family farm and all its reminders of the life she once had. She leaves Acie with her grandfather Ben and visits with her old friend from school.
5) Arrival
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When mysterious spacecraft touch down around the world, a team ,including linguist Louise Banks, is brought together to investigate. As mankind teeters on the verge of global war, Banks and the team race against time for answers, and to find them, she will take a chance that could threaten her life, and quite possibly humanity.
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Go behind the scenes with Jeff Kinney and the making of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid movie! If you've ever wondered how a movie gets made, you're not alone. Author and illustrator Jeff Kinney didn't know either, but when his bestselling series, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, was turned into a live-action movie by 20th Century Fox, he learned how a book gets adapted into a major motion picture. Complete with photographs, script pages, storyboard sketches, costume...
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[2015]
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1 videodisc (1 hr., 52 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Webb stumbles onto a story which leads to the shady origins of the men who started the crack epidemic on the nation's streets, and further alleges that the CIA was aware of major dealers who were smuggling cocaine into the U.S., and using the profits to arm rebels fighting in Nicaragua. Despite warnings from drug kingpins and CIA operatives to stop his investigation, Webb keeps digging to uncover a conspiracy with explosive implications.
8) Dune
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[2022]
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English
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A mythic and emotionally charged hero's journey that tells the story of Paul Atreides, a brilliant and gifted young man born into a great destiny beyond his understanding, must travel to the most dangerous planet in the universe to ensure the future of his family and his people. As malevolent forces explode into conflict over the planet's exclusive supply of the most precious resource in existence, a commodity capable of unlocking humanity's greatest...
9) The Firm
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[2000]
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1 videodisc (154 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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A brilliant and ambitious Harvard Law grad joins a small, prosperous law firm in Memphis, and is soon confronted by FBI agents with evidence of corruption and murder within the firm.
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[2006]
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1 videodisc (approximately 102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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After moving to an idyllic home in the countryside, life seems perfect for the Creed family ... but not for long. Louis and Rachel Creed and their two young children settle into a house that sits next door to a pet cemetery--built on an ancient Indian burial ground. Their mysterious new neighbor, Jud Crandall, hides the cemetery's darkest secret ... until a family tragedy brings the secret to life. Now, an unthinkable evil is about to be resurrected....
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[2014]
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2 videodiscs (845 min.) : DVD video, sound, color, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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Jekyll & Hyde : Michael Caine battles forbidden love as Dr. Jekyll and its violent consequences as Mr. Hyde.
The leading man : In a London theatre, a hollywood heartthrob and a beautiful actress engage in a twisted love plot orchestrated by a cheating husband.
Love & Rage : Daniel Craig stars as a manipulative revolutionary whose charming ways turn vicious while courting the female owner of a large estate.
The serpent's kiss : When Thomas Smithers...
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[2020]
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English
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Adapted from the beloved literary classic, this film is the story of Buck, a big-hearted dog whose blissful domestic life is turned upside down when he is suddenly uprooted from his California home and transplanted to the exotic wilds of the Alaskan Yukon during the Gold Rush of the 1890s. As the newest rookie on a mail delivery dog sled team, and later its leader, Buck experiences the adventure of a lifetime, ultimately finding his true place in...
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[2011]
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1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Wendy and Rip Porter are a working-class couple fighting to regain custody of Joey, the young son Wendy gave up for adoption when Rip went to prison seven years earlier. But Joey's adoptive parents will stop at nothing to ensure that the small boy stays in the only home he's ever known.
15) Little women
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[2020]
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English
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Writer-director Greta Gerwig has crafted a film that draws on both the classic novel and the writings of Louisa May Alcott and unfolds as the author's alter ego, Jo March reflects back and forth on her fictional life. In Gerwig's take, the beloved story of the March sisters, four young women each determined to live life on her own terms, is both timeless and timely.
16) Mortal engines
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[2019]
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English
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Hundreds of years after our civilization was destroyed, a new world has emerged. A mysterious young woman named Hester Shaw leads a band of outcasts in the fight to stop London, now a giant predator city on wheels, from devouring everything in its path.
17) Being Flynn
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[2012]
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1 videodisc (1 hr., 42 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A "compelling exploration of the unbreakable yet fragile bonds between parent and child... Nick Flynn ... is a young writer seeking to define himself. His father Jonathan..., however, scrapes through life on his own terms and has not seen his son in 18 years. Taking a job at a homeless shelter, Nick finds purpose in his own life and work until one night Jonathan arrives seeking a bed. To give the two of them a shot at a real future, Nick wrestles...
18) It
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A group of bullied kids band together when a monster, taking the appearance of a clown, begins hunting children.
Violence/horror, bloody images, and for language.
19) Peter Rabbit
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[2018]
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1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Feature adaptation of Beatrix Potter's classic tale of a rebellious rabbit trying to sneak into a farmer's vegetable garden.
20) Angry neighbors
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[2023]
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1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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When his ultra-wealthy neighbor in the Hamptons builds an obnoxious mega-mansion next door, grumpy retired novelist Harry March concocts an elaborate scheme for revenge that is destined to go hilariously awry.
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