Summary: Carol White is an L.A. housewife in the late 1980s who comes down with a debilitating illness. After the doctors she sees can give her no clear diagnosis, she comes to believe that she has frighteningly extreme environmental allergies. A prescient commentary on self-help culture, as a metaphor for the AIDS crisis, as a drama about class and social estrangement, and as a horror film about what...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: On a secluded farm, a man is bedridden and fighting through his final breaths while his wife slowly succumbs to overwhelming grief. Siblings Louise and Michael return home to help, but it doesn't take long for them to see that something's wrong with mom too. Gradually, they begin to suffer a darkness similar to their mother's, marked by waking nightmares and a growing sense that an evil entity...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: RLJ Entertainment 2020
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2 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR DARSummary: Based on the seminal novel by John Edward Williams, Gabe Polsky's epic frontier adventure, Butcher's Crossing, is a riveting commentary on human nature, ambition, masculinity, and man's relationship to his natural environment. A gritty story about buffalo hunters in the Old West. Will Andrews has left Harvard to find adventure. He teams up with Miller, a mysterious frontiersman offering an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Butcher'sSummary: Set in the 1970s. Matt contemplates leaving his small Midwestern town with his high school buddy Schultz to follow his dreams, but every day he sees more reasons to stay.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rivercoast Films Distribution 2008
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD GARSummary: "A hallucinatory biopic that breaks all cinematic conventions, Walker, from British director Alex Cox, tells the story of nineteenth-century American adventurer William Walker (Ed Harris), who abandoned a series of careers in law, politics, journalism, and medicine to become a soldier of fortune and, for many months, the dictator of Nicaragua. Made with mad abandon and political acuity--and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022