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Language
English
Description
It's 1963, a time in the United States when life was simple, straightforward and the lines between the sexes and sex roles were crisply drawn and severely delineated. Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist find themselves thrown together when they are hired to tend sheep in the remote area of Brokeback Mountain, Wyoming. Because of the job, the two are forced to spend many hours together alone in the wild. Ennis and Jack are inexorably drawn to each other through...
2) Atonement
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (2 hr., 3 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1935, thirteen-year-old fledgling writer Briony Tallis and her family live a life of wealth and privilege in their enormous mansion. On the warmest day of the year, the country estate takes on an unsettling hothouse atmosphere, stoking Briony's vivid imagination. Robbie Turner, the educated son of the family's housekeeper, carries a torch for Briony's headstrong older sister Cecilia. He hopes that Cecilia has comparable feelings. All it will take...
3) Away we go
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Burt and Verona are a loving couple. Burt has always wanted to marry Verona, but Verona resists, not seeing the point of the institution. Regardless, they are having a baby together and question their potential parenting abilities. They decide to move closer to Burt's parents so they can share the experience with the baby's grandparents. In Verona's sixth month, she and Burt learn that his parents are moving to Belgium the month before the baby is...
4) Milk
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (129 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
His life changed history. His courage changed lives. Harvey Milk is a middle-aged New Yorker who, after moving to San Francisco, became a Gay Rights activist and city politician. On his third attempt, he was elected to San Francisco's Board of Supervisors in 1977. His election makes him the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in the United States. The following year, both he and the city's mayor, George Moscone, were shot to death...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Sayra is a beautiful young Honduran woman who joins her father and uncle on an odyssey to cross the gauntlet of the Latin American countryside en route to the United States. Along the way she crosses paths with El Casper, a teenage Mexican gang member, who is maneuvering to outrun his violent past and elude his unforgiving former associates.
6) Jane Eyre
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2010, 2011
Edition
widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When orphaned governess Jane Eyre arrives at imposing Thornfield Hall, she's intrigued by her brooding, wealthy employer, Rochester. His dark moods and the strange occurrences in the house lead her to discover a terrible secret that he had hoped to hide from her forever.
7) Beginners
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young man is rocked by two announcements from his elderly father: that he has terminal cancer, and that he has a young male lover.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
Blu-ray + DVD combo edition.
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray disc + 1 dvd (128 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
At the height of the Cold War, a precarious operation goes deadly wrong, and the head of British Intelligence wonders if a double agent is leaking vital secrets. Brought out of retirement to expose the potential mole, master spy George Smiley is the only one who can be trusted to expose one of their own. Or can he? As the emotional and physical tolls mount on the high-ranking suspects, Smiley will be forced into the ultimate international spy game...
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