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English
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Lily Owens is a young girl who lives on the peach farm that her abusive father owns. Rosaleen is a black woman hired by Lily's father to be a stand in mother for Lilly. Rosaleen insults some of the biggest racists in their town. Lily and Rosaleen run away to a town Lily believes that her mother once lived in. They go to live with the three Boatwright sisters on their honey farm. She finds solace in their mesmerizing world of beekeeping.
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on the infamous Leo Frank case. A southern town is rocked by scandal when teenager Mary Clay is murdered. Andrew Griffin, a small-time lawyer with political ambitions, sees the crime as his ticket to the Senate if he can find the right victim to finger for the crime. He sets out to convict Robert Hale, a transplanted northerner who was Mary's teacher at the business school where she was killed. Despite the fact that all the evidence against...
5) Mandingo
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on the hugely successful novel by Kyle Onstott, MANDINGO takes the audience beyond the sentimentalized South of other films with uncompromising honesty and realism to show the true brutalizing nature of slavery, which made victims of both owner and slave. Heavyweight boxer Ken Norton makes his screen debut in the title role, with Perry King (Possession of Joel Delaney) as his white owner, friend, and eventual nemesis.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Hushpuppy is a six-year-old living in an isolated bayou community. When her father Wink becomes ill, she sets off for the outside world in an attempt to help him. The journey to save her father is delayed by a "busted" universe that reverses weather patterns and brings about long-extinct animals. Can Hushpuppy save the day?
Author
Publisher
Dramatic Pub. Co
Pub. Date
©1970
Physical Desc
85 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
"To Kill a Mockingbird" is about the crisis of human behavior and conscience arising from the racism and prejudice that exist in the small Southern town during the Depression. Scout Finch, age 8, who lives with her brother, Jem, and their lawyer father, Atticus, in Maycomb, Alabama, tells the story of her father's defense of Tom Robinson, a young black man who is being tried for the rape of a white woman. Harper Lee's only novel, first published in...
8) Paper Moon
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ryan O’Neal teams up with his daughter Tatum in this bright, warm, and funny period film for which Tatum won an **Oscar** for her first film role, making her the youngest actress to ever receive this honor. O’Neal plays the smooth-talking con man Moses Pray, driving through depression-era Kansas with a carload of deluxe bibles, a gold tooth behind a convincing smile, and a list of newly widowed prospects for his line. Addie (Tatum O’Neal)...
9) Roots
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Formats
Description
Follows several generations in the lives of a slave family. The saga begins with Kunta Kinte, a West African youth captured by slave raiders and shipped to America in the 1700s. The family is depicted up until the Civil War, when Kunte Kinte's grandson gains his emancipation.
10) The green mile
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (188 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Death Row guards at a penitentiary, in the 1930's, have a moral dilemma with their job when they discover one of their prisoners, a convicted murderer, has a special gift.
Publisher
Distributed by Genius Products
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Lucy is a 30-something Southern woman who lives in a small town. She keeps waking up with a hangover and a stranger in her bed. The more she searches for love, the further she gets from it. When Cal moves to town, Lucy is finally able to break free of her old ways and finds the love that she has been looking for.
12) Black snake moan
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Lazarus is an extremely religious man who is broken hearted after his wife leaves him for his own brother. Rae is the town slut, apparently afflicted with the "disease" of uncontrollable nymphomania. After a night of hard partying and sleeping around, Rae, is beaten up and left by the roadside near Lazarus' house. Lazarus takes her in and chains her to his radiator while trying to "cure" her insatiability. Eventually, the two become friends and help...
Publisher
New Light Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A single mother and lingerie model in a Bible belt 1960's Southern town struggles to keep her life afloat amongst judging small-town eyes that both resent and love her beauty. Her son, eight-year-old Tommy, is a frail boy, full of dreams and fantasies caught in a town of misfits and bullies, with only his mother to protect him.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1963
Edition
[1st ed.].
Physical Desc
150 pages, [4] pages pf plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Plain-faced and unhappy, the eccentric Miss Amelia marries and publicly humiliates Marvin, Macy, a charming con man who has fallen in love with her, causing him to battle to break her spirit and her heart as an act of revenge.
Series
Criterion collection volume 470
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Widescreen special ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Language
English
Description
U.S. Army war veteran Hazel Motes may not be a believing Christian, but he somehow makes observations about the state of a run-down country church and understands that there are ridiculous frauds on the streets. Memories inspire him to take on, after initially refusing, the part of a traveling preacher when a cab driver insists he looks like one in his new hat. He starts his own new Church of Truth, without the crucified Jesus. His first disciple...
Author
Series
Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
[1955]
Physical Desc
xiv, 197 pages, [1] leaf of plates : 1 illustration ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Members of a neurotic Southern family gather to face the impending death of their patriarch, Big Daddy, and battle over the inheritance of his vast estate.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (123 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When deaf-mute John Singer moves to a sleepy Southern town to be near his hospitalized friend, a brain-damaged man-child, Singer's silent kindness draws to him others broken in body and spirit.
"John Singer, who is deaf . . . moves from a small town in order to be close to his institutionalized friend Antonapoulos, who is deaf and mentally impaired. Singer rents a room with a family whose father, Mr. Kelly, is unable to earn a living due to a serious...
20) Sailor's song
Author
Publisher
Dramatists Play Service
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
43 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
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