Summary: A carpenter recovering from a heart attack befriends a single mother and her two kids as together they battle the national health care system.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2018
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF ISummary: There's precious little sweetness in Liam's life in the weeks before his 16th birthday: his mother is in prison, and his stepfather Stan is a bullying small-time drug dealer. Liam wants a normal life with mom, his older sister and her baby boy, in a caravan he picked out himself. Naïve, driven Liam comes to the attention of a local crime lord, who offers him employment--but with conditions that...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sixteen Films 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SWESummary: The Old Oak is the last pub standing in a once thriving mining village in northern England and a gathering space for a community that has fallen through hard times. There is growing anger, resentment, and a lack of hope among the residents, but the pub and its proprietor TJ are a fond presence to their customers. When a group of Syrian refugees move into the floundering village, a decisive rift...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA OLDSummary: Escaping a prison sentence by the skin of his teeth, the wayward and disillusioned Robbie is given one last chance to turn his life around. Together four friends discover that turning to drink might just change their lives--not cheap fortified wine, but the best malt whiskies in the world.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013