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March is Women's History month. Our display features women who have impacted our society. Both the real life heroines and our favorite empowered female characters.
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The Oprah Winfrey Show: 20th Anniversary Collection
Oprah Winfrey · Paramount
Format: DVD
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Twenty years have wrought many changes in Oprah's connection with her audience. She started as an effervescent reporter struggling to prove there was room on the talk-show circuit for a black Everywoman (incidentally, it was Roger Ebert who, during a dinner date, suggested she go for syndication)... |
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The Hours
Meryl Streep · Paramount
Format: DVD
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Delicate and hypnotic, The Hours interweaves three stories with remarkable skill: in the 1920s Virginia Woolf (Nicole Kidman) grapples with her inner demons and slowly works on her novel Mrs. Dalloway; in 1949 housewife Laura Brown (Julianne Moore) feels her own destructive... |
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Frida
Sarah Green · Miramax Home Entertainment
Format: DVD
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The first disc starts with a 38-minute interview with Salma Hayek that, with her recollections of the film, works the same as a commentary track. Director Julie Taymor takes center stage for the rest of the 2-disc set. Besides an engaging commentary track, there are two interviews with... |
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The Iron Lady
Meryl Streep · The Weinstein Company
Format: DVD
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Phyllida Lloyd, who directed Meryl Streep in Mamma Mia!, takes a less exuberant tack in this unexpectedly poignant biopic. In the script, written by Shame's Abi Morgan, Lloyd depicts the elderly Dame Thatcher (Streep in a thoroughly convincing performance) as a frail... |
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Homeland: Season 1
Claire Danes · Showtime
Format: DVD
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So what is Brody's real agenda, if he even has one? There are plenty of indications early on that Mathison's suspicions about him are correct. But are his visions memories, or simply hallucinations? Does even the fact that Brody kneels on a prayer rug in his garage, chanting in Arabic,... |
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Practical Magic Snap Case
Alice Hoffman · Warner Home Video
Format: DVD
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Actor Griffin Dunne improves a bit on his first film as a director, Addicted to Love, with this drama-comedy about a family of witches. Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock play spell-casting sisters of different temperaments: the former is a high-living, free-spirited sort, while... |
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Rosemary & Thyme - Series One
Felicity Kendal · Acorn Media ;
Format: DVD video
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This three-disc set contains every episode from the first season of Rosemary & Thyme, a mystery series about a former police investigator and a botanist who start a gardening business. Their work seems to regularly bring them into contact with mysteries that could not be solved without... |
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Veep: The Complete First Season (2013)
Various · HBO Studios
Format: DVD
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Julia Louis-Dreyfus won an Emmy for her leading role in the droll series Veep--and it's well deserved. It's as if every role Louis-Dreyfus had was helping to hone her for this role--Elaine in Seinfeld, Christine in The New Adventures of Old Christine. Veep... |
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Alias - The Complete Fourth Season
Jennifer Garner · Buena Vista
Format: DVD
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Alias was definitely all over the map during its fourth season, and a few off-screen factors managed to take their toll onscreen as well. The end of a real-life relationship between Garner and Vartan gave Sydney and Vaughn's scenes a lack of romantic spark, but at the same time... |
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Rizzoli & Isles:
Angie Harmon · WarnerBrothers
Format: DVD
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Angie Harmon and Sasha Alexander are back in this chart-busting, suspenseful series as Jane Rizzoli, a tough-as-nails Boston police detective, and Maura Isles, a smart, impeccably dressed medical examiner from a privileged background. As Rizzoli & Isles continues for a fourth explosive... |
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The Witches of Eastwick
Jack Nicholson · WarnerBrothers
Format: DVD
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Need someone with demonic dash to portray the Devil? There are only two choices. Old Ned himself. And Jack Nicholson. The Witches of Eastwick to the better actor-and came up with the sleekest, sexiest supernatural comedy/thriller to emerge from this or any other world, earning Nicholson... |
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Heroes of Freedom: Stories of Harriet Tubman and Rosa Parks
Wonderscape Entertainment
Format: DVD
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Written and developed for young viewers, the life and times of Harriet Tubman and Rosa Parks will come alive for children in these live-action programs about two of America's most enduring heroes of freedom. Stirring dramatizations and historically accurate reenactments, photographs and colorful... |
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