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Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Doc Martin continues his misanthropic adventures in the idyllic seaside village of Portwenn. The fourth season of the hit dramedy sees two unexpected arrivals that complicate the good doctor's already messy life. Contains eight episodes.
Series
Film Movement volume 5, film 3
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Norwegian
Description
Forty-year-old Andreas arrives in a strange city with no memory of how he got there. He is presented with a job, an apartment - even a wife. But before long, Andreas notices that something is wrong. Andreas makes an attempt to escape the city, but he discovers there's no way out. Andreas meets Hugo, who has found a crack in a wall in his cellar. Beautiful music streams out from the crack. Maybe it leads to "the other side"? A new plan for escape is...
6) Peyton Place
Series
Studio classic volume 16
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Allison MacKenzie looks back on life in the New England town where she grew up around the time of Pearl Harbor. Beneath the town's placid god-fearing exterior lay any number of dark secrets.
Publisher
Playtone Productions ; As Is Productions
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The four-part drama that tells the story of a seemingly placid New England town that is actually wrought with illicit affairs, crime and tragedy, all told through the lens of Olive, whose wicked wit and harsh demeanor mask a warm but troubled heart and staunch moral center. The story spans 25 years and focuses on Olive's relationships with her husband, Henry, the good-hearted and kindly town pharmacist; their son, Christopher, who resents his mother's...
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
"Meet Martin Ellingham, an eminent physician with a nasty disposition. Forced to give up his career as a London surgeon after developing a fear of blood, he takes a job as GP in the sleepy Cornish village of Portwenn. His irascible manner and permanent scowl soon have the town in an uproar; he insults each patient he sees and offends nearly everyone else. The only person who's glad to see him is his aunt Joan."--sleeve.
11) Paddington
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The story of the comic misadventures of a young Peruvian bear that travels to the city in search of a home. Finding himself lost and alone, he begins to realize that city life is not all he had imagined; until he meets the kindly Brown family who read the label around his neck that says "Please look after this bear. Thank you," and offer him a temporary haven. It looks as though his luck has changed until this rarest of bears catches the eye of a...
12) Saltimbanco
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Created in 1994 as an antidote to the violence and despair typcial of the 20th century, this phantasmogorical show proposes a new vision of urbanity, overflowing with optimisim and happiness.
14) Our town
Series
Publisher
PBS Broadcasting Service
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Stage production of Wilder's play; a study of life, love, and death in a New England town at the turn of the 20th century.
Publisher
Family Values Collection
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Pride of Jesse Hallam: Story of Jesse Hallam (Johnny Cash), a proud coal miner who has been recently widowed. He is forced to confront his illiteracy when he and his family move from their Kentucky farm to the big city in Ohio. Five Minutes to live: Johnny Cash stars in this tale of a kidnapper who takes a housewife hostage and demands a ransom from her wealthy husband.
Series
Publisher
Platinum Disc Corp
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Four episodes of the Andy Griffith show featuring life in the rural town of Mayberry, North Carolina, with widower Sheriff Andy Taylor; his young son Opie; Andy's aunt, Bea Taylor; his cousin, the inept deputy sheriff Barney Fife, and a variety of colorful townspeople.
19) Falling down
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Follows a troubled man, Bill Foster, who has a mental breakdown and embarks upon an increasingly violent crime spree across Los Angeles. A police detective, Sgt. Prendergast, who is working his last day before retiring, is the only one who correctly pieces together the clues. Prendergast races to find and arrest Foster before the dangerous and unpredictable man reaches his destination: his ex-wife and young daughter.