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Columbia Pictures presents in association with Relativity Media, a Trigger Street/Michael De Luca production ; produced by Dana Brunetti, Kevin Spacey, Michael De Luca ; screenplay by Peter Steinfeld and Allan Loeb ; directed by Robert Luketic
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Ben Campbell is a young, highly intelligent student at M.I.T. Wanting to transfer to the Harvard School of Medicine, he learns that he cannot afford the $300,000 for the tuition. Then Ben is introduced into a small but secretive club by his math professor, Micky Rosa. The club has four other students: Jill, Choi, Kianna, and Jimmy; and they are ...
2008; 1 videodisc (123 min.) : sd., col. ; isbn:1435924398 More Information

image not found The bank job
Lionsgate presents a Mosaic Media Group production in association with Relativity Media & Omnilab Media, a Roger Donaldson film ; produced by Steve Chasman, Charles Roven ; written by Dick Clement & Ian La Frenais ; directed by Roger Donaldson
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A small-time crook takes on a bank heist when an old friend offers him an inside track to the vault. Along with his hastily assembled team of low-rung criminals, Terry finds himself deep. Quiet suddenly the group become the target of ruthless mobsters, the police, government officials at the highest level, and even the royal family. Based on the true ...
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sd., col. ; isbn:6312121437

image not found College road trip
Walt Disney Pictures presents a Gunnfilms production, a film by Roger Kumble ; produced by Andrew Gunn ; written by Emi Mochizuki & Carrie Evans and Cinco Paul & Ken Daurio ; directed by Roger Kumble
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Choosing a college and striking out on one's own is an exciting time that requires a big adjustment by both child and parent, but few parents will have as much difficulty relinquishing control over their daughter's life as Chicago police chief James Porter. A loving, but overprotective father, James wants his daughter Melanie to attend nearby Northwestern ...
2008; 1 videodisc (83 min.) : sd., col. ; isbn:0788888250

image not found Earth, the biography : the story of our world
a BBC/National Geographic Channel US/ZDF co-production ; series producer, Jonathan Renouf
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Earth is an incredible, exceptional planet with an amazing life story full of cataclysmic disasters, eleventh-hour coincidences that save it from extinction, and an astonishing power to continually regenerate. Uses breathtaking footage and special imaging to tell the story of the great forces that shape the planet - volcanoes, the ocean, the atmosphere ...
2 videodiscs (ca. 230 min.) : sd., col. ; isbn:6312103153

image not found The great debaters
produced by Todd Black ... [et al.] ; written by Robert Eisele, Jeffrey Porro ; directed by Denzel Washington.
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Wiley College professor Melvin Tolson encourages his African American students to push aside the prejudices of 1930's Texas to become a winning debate team.
2008; 1 videodisc (124 min.) : sd., col. ; isbn:6311909200

image not found The last winter
written by Larry Fessenden and Robert Leaver ; produced and directed by Larry Fessenden
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An unknown evil is stalking a group of oil scouts in northern Alaska, and they soon find that not everything under the ice and snow is buried for good
2008; 1 videodisc (101 min.) : sd., col. ; isbn:1594450307

image not found Penelope
Summit Entertainment and Stone Village Pictures present a Type A Films production, a Tatira Active Film production in association with Grosvenor Park Media ; produced by Reese Witherspoon, Scott Steindorff, Jennifer Simpson ; written by Leslie Caveny ; directed by Mark Palansky
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Penelope Wilhern is born to wealthy socialites. She is afflicted by the Wilhern spell that can only be broken when she finds love. Hidden away in her family's estate, the lonely girl meets a string of suitors in her parent's futile attempt to break the curse. Each eligible bachelor is enamored with Penelope and her sizable dowry, but only until her ...
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., col. ; isbn:6312113019

jacket/cover - click for larger view Persepolis
produced by Xavier Rigault, Marc-Antoine Robert ; written and directed by Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi.
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After the Islamic Revolution in Iran, a free-spirited teenager is sent to school in Austria and eventually makes the decision to return to Iran despite the tyrannical powers that rule her country.
2008; 1 videodisc (95 min.) : sd., b&w, col. ; isbn:1424883148 More Information

image not found The royal diaries

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A look at what life might have been like for royal teens of the past, mixing storytelling with historical facts. Includes Cleopatra VII: Daughter of the Nile; Isabel: Jewel of Castilla, Spain; and Elizabeth I: Red Rose of the House of Tudor, England
2008; 1 videodisc (80 min.) : sd., col. ; isbn:6312078485

image not found The ruins
produced by Chris Bender ... [et al.] ; screenplay by Scott Smith ; directed by Carter Smith.
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When a group of tourists visit an archaeological dig in Mexico, they discover something deadly among the ruins.
2008; 1 videodisc (93 min.) : sd., col. ; isbn:6312120902

image not found Shutter
produced by Doug Davison, Takashige Ichise, Roy Lee ; screenplay by Luke Dawson ; directed by Masayuki Ochiai.
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After a tragic car accident, a photographer and his wife discover ghostly images appearing in their developed photographs.
2008; 1 videodisc (86 min.) : sd., col. ; isbn:631214223X

image not found Stargate. Continuum
[presented by] Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ; produced by Brad Wright & Robert C. Cooper ; written by Brad Wright ; directed by Martin Wood
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An elite military unit (SG-1) must flee back to Earth when two members of their team inexplicably disappear into thin air. But they return to a world in which the Stargate--an ancient device which allows them to travel to hundreds of planets--was never discovered, and their own history has been erased. Now they must convince a dubious government and ...
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., col. ; isbn:6312059014

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