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Publisher
Saturn
Pub. Date
1999.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (110 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Fraternal twins Murphy (Norman Reedus, THE WALKING DEAD) and Connor (Sean Patrick Flanery, POWDER) become vigilantes after killing two members of the Russian Mafia in self-defense. After both experience an epiphany, the brothers set out to rid Boston of evil while being tracked down by FBI agent Paul Smecker (Willem Dafoe, SPIDERMAN, PLATOON, SHADOW OF THE VAMPIRE) in this stylish and violent crowd-pleaser.
2) Good people
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Margie Walsh, let go from yet another job and facing eviction, decides to appeal to an old flame who has made good and left his Southie past behind.
3) Spotlight
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (129 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The riveting true story of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe investigation that would rock the city and cause a crisis in one of the world's oldest and most trusted institutions. When the newspaper's tenacious 'Spotlight' team of reporters delve into allegations of abuse in the Catholic Church, their year-long investigation uncovers a decades-long cover-up at the highest levels of Boston's religious, legal, and government establishment.
4) Patriots Day
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Language
English
Description
The story of Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis's actions in the events leading up to the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing and the aftermath.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
Blu-ray edition.
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray disc (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Monk is a frustrated novelist who's fed up with the establishment that profits from Black entertainment that relies on tired and offensive tropes. To prove his point, he uses a pen name to write an outlandish Black book of his own, a book that propels him to the heart of hypocrisy and the madness he claims to disdain.
Publisher
ABC Studios
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 726 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
They say friendship isn't one big thing, it's a million little things, and that's true for a group of friends from Boston who bonded under unexpected circumstances. Some have achieved success, others are struggling in their careers and relationships, but all of them feel stuck in life. After one of them dies from suicide unexpectedly, it's just the wake-up call the others need to finally start living. Each friend realizes that they need to finally...
7) The departed
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (152 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In South Boston, the state police force are waging a war on Irish-American organized crime. Undercover cop Billy Costigan is assigned to infiltrate the mob syndicate, which is run by gangland chief Frank Costello. Billy quickly gains Costello's confidence. Colin Sullivan is a hardened young criminal who has infiltrated the police department as an informer for the syndicate. Colin is rising to a position of power within the Special Investigation Unit....
8) Eileen
Publisher
Neon
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1960s Boston, Eileen shuffles between her emotionally haunted home and the prison where she works. When an intoxicating woman joins the prison staff, Eileen is taken but her newfound confidant entangles her in a shocking crime.
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Amanda McCready is a 4-year-old who has disappeared from her Boston home. The police make little headway in solving the case, so the girl's aunt hires Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro, private detectives. They freely admit that they have little experience with this type of case, but the family wants them for two reasons: they're not cops and they know the tough neighborhood in which they all live. As the case progresses, Patrick and Angie must face...
10) Black Irish
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Although a good kid and gifted pitcher, sixteen-year-old Cole McKay's imploding South Boston Irish Catholic family threatens to drag him down until, while at a crossroads, a life and death situation makes him choose his path.
11) The Bostonians
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
Enhanced for widescreen TVs.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (122 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Olive, a militant 19th century suffragette, takes on the education of a young girl with the gift of oratory. Olive hopes to use her gift for the feminist cause, but finds her student involved in a love triangle with Basil Ransom, a young lawyer from Mississippi, who is strongly opposed to the feminists in Boston.
Publisher
Showtime
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (456 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Having left the FBI, Jackie Rohr lands a new gig running security for a wealthy family in Boston's high society Beacon Hill. Life is good until secrets begin to unravel. ADA Decourcy Ward sees an opportunity to rip out the machinery perpetuating a broken criminal justice system. Siobhan Quays encounters the city's corruption firsthand, all while coping with the traumatic events of her past year. As Jenny Rohr can attest, some experiences will haunt...
13) Southie
Publisher
Sterling Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Danny Quinn returns to his tough Irish Catholic working class neighborhood in South Boston, he finds his brothers out of work, his sister out of control and his mother running out of time. While he may have changed, everything else is still the same -- torn between loyalty and the law, between family and the streets and caught between two mob families at war. Danny must decide whether to walk away from his roots or make a stand.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Sam returns from his aborted around-the-world boat trip to find the old gang gone. Carla and Woody are the same, but wearing uniforms more fit for a barbershop quartet. There is a tough new boss who reportedly "eats live sharks for breakfast." The new boss, Rebecca, grudgingly hires back Sam. But Rebecca is not as tough as she seems, however, getting weak in the knees at the thought or sight of her corporate boss, Evan Drake.
15) The departed
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Language
English
Formats
Description
In South Boston, the Massachusetts State Police are waging a war on Irish-American organized crime. Undercover cop Billy Costigan is assigned to infiltrate the mob syndicate, which is run by gangland chief Frank Costello. Billy quickly gains Costello's confidence. Colin Sullivan is a hardened young criminal who has infiltrated the police department as an informer for the syndicate. Colin is rising to a position of power within the Special Investigation...
16) The town
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Blu-ray & DVD combo ultimate collector's ed.
Physical Desc
2 blu-ray discs + 1 videodisc : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book + 1 map + 1 envelope
Language
English
Description
Doug MacRay is leader of a Boston bank robber gang but not cut from the same cloth as his fellow thieves. When Doug falls into a passionate romance with the bank manager briefly taken hostage in their last heist, he wants out of this life and out of the town. As the Feds close in and the crew questions his loyalty, he has one of two choices: betray his friends or lose the woman he loves.
17) Cell
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An apocalyptic thriller about a mysterious signal that reprograms the minds of cellphone users around the globe.
18) Criminal law
Publisher
MGM DVD
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Boston attorney Ben Chase's career gets an upward surge when he successfully defends blueblood Martin Thiel during a well-publicized murder trial. But when he realizes that Thiel is the exacting, vicious serial killer he was accused of being, Chase is torn between professional responsibility and his own conscience. Hoping to snare the egotistical killer in a misstep, Chase engages in a tense game of cat-and-mouse with Thiel, blurring the lines between...
19) Love, Rosie
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 102 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A heart-warming, modern and romantic comedy-of-errors. Since the age five, Rosie and Alex have been best friends, facing the highs and lows of growing up side by side. A fleeting shared moment, one missed opportunity, and the decisions that follow send their lives in completely different directions. As each navigates the complexities of life, love, and everything in between, they always find their way back to each other, but is it just friendship,...
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (547 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The seventh and final season of the show, which is as thrilling and dangerous as the show has ever been, opens in the aftermath of a shooting that took place in the prior season's finale episode. The team must use every tool at their disposal to find the elusive Alice Sands they've been hunting for, and bring her to justice before she succeeds in destroying Jane's life.
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