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New videos for November 2008

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Marked woman
LPOP videodisc feature film M34 2006

A young assistant District Attorney uses a prostitute to indict a gang of racketeers.

On the waterfront
LPOP videodisc feature film On1 2001

An ex-fighter gets a job working on the gang-ridden waterfront under a crooked gangster boss.

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Entourage. Season 3, part 1
LPOP videodisc feature film En84031 2007

With Vince's star expected to rise even higher in the Hollywood firmament as a result of his starring role in a potential blockbuster titled "Aquaman," Eric, Drama, Turtle and Ari must find a way to keep stroking their golden goose while making sound decisions for a long-lasting career in a world of fleeting fame.

Entourage. Season 3, part 2
LPOP videodisc feature film En84032 2007

For Vince, Eric, Drama and Turtle, life in Hollywood's fast lane isn't without its road bumps, as we learned when a botched deal cost Ari, Vince's longtime agent, his job. Will change at the top make the difference in getting Vince his dream picture, or will the boys regret giving Ari the ax?

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Skokie
LPOP videodisc feature film Sk52 2002

Based on actual events in the city of Skokie, Ill., the home of many Nazi death camp survivors. In 1977, the citizens of Skokie became embroiled in a bitter controversy while trying to prevent street demonstrations by neo-Nazis.

Hang 'em high
LPOP videodisc feature film H193 2006

Jed Cooper is mistaken for a criminal and is unjustly hung by the ruthless Captain Wilson and his nine-man gang, who leave him for dead. Cooper escapes the lynching and sets out on a deadly rampage of revenge against his persecutors.

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Grapes of wrath
LPOP videodisc feature film G767 2004

Tells the dramatic story of the Joad family and their migration to California from their dust-bowl farm in Oklahoma during the Great Depression.

Slow burn
LPOP videodisc feature film Sl59 2007

Ford Cole is a big-city district attorney with his eye on the mayor's office and a big problem on his hands. One of his deputies, the beautiful assistant district attorney, Nora Timmer, has just confessed to killing a man in what she claims was self-defense. A bad situation gets worse when a stranger named Luther turns up at the police station to contradict Nora's story and paints a very different picture of Ford's talented colleague. With his career and perhaps his life on the line, Ford has a mere handful of hours to sort the truth from the lies that involve Nora, a record store clerk, and a powerful gang lord.

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Peyton Place
LPOP videodisc feature film P468 2004

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 exterior lay any number of dark secrets.

Touched
LPOP videodisc feature film T642 2006

Scott's life was a fulfilling one. He loved his son and his job. When an accident takes the life of his son and puts Scott in a coma, the loss leaves him without the ability to feel. Only a nurse who has also felt pain can help him ... and herself.

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Conspiracy theory
LPOP videodisc feature film C7655 1997

A New York taxi driver and conspiracy buff (Gibson) teams up with a Justice Department attorney (Roberts) when one of the theories he published in his newsletter turns out to be true.

Serial mom
LPOP videodisc feature film Se67 2008

Beverly Sutphin is a seemingly perfect homemaker who will stop at nothing to rid the neighborhood of anyone failing to live up to her moral code.

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Nightwatch
LPOP videodisc feature film N5665 2000

A thriller in which a law student, Martin Bells, moonlights at the local morgue. Business in dead, but it's about to pick up as Martin is framed for a series of brutal murders.

Find me guilty
LPOP videodisc feature film F4944 2006

Mobster Jackie Dee DiNorscio tries to strike a bargain with police: a shorter prison term in exchange for ratting on his fellow mobsters. He takes matters into his own hands when he defends himself instead, turning the courtroom upside down.

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Cosi
LPOP videodisc feature film C825 2003

A professionally unfulfilled drifter with a stable law school girlfriend makes a desperate career move when he agrees to stage Mozart's Così Fan Tutte as part of a therapy session for Sydney mental inmates.

"Johnny Belinda"
LPOP videodisc feature film J618 2006

Life is hard on the MacDonald farm in stony, windswept Nova Scotia - and harder for young Belinda, a deaf mute whose affliction has been confused with mental deficiency. Then the town's new doctor takes an interest in helping her break out of her silent prison.

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An early frost
LPOP videodisc feature film Ea76 2006

When a gay lawyer is diagnosed with AIDS, he copes with coming out to his family and colleagues as they deal with their own prejudices.

Down in the delta
LPOP videodisc feature film D757 1998

A troubled single mother from a tough Chicago neighborhood is sent to spend a summer at her family's home in rural Mississippi.

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The money pit
LPOP videodisc feature film M746 2002

Evicted from their Manhattan apartment, Walter and Anna buy what looks like the home of their dreams, only to find themselves with a bank-account-draining nightmare.

Father of the bride
LPOP videodisc feature film F269 2003

An amusing satire of pre-marital social rituals involving a lawyer-father (Tracy) and his beautiful daughter (Taylor).

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Primary colors
LPOP videodisc feature film P9347 1998

Jack Stanton is a virtually unknown Southern governor on a quest for the White House with his strong, savvy and equally ambitious wife. Running against all odds, they need all the help they can get from their extremely colorful political team. Together, they take off on a hilarious, heart-wrenching and ultimately history-making roller coaster ride to the top.

Ghandi
LPOP videodisc feature film G151 2007

Traces the life of Mahatma Gandhi (Kingsley) from the prejudice he encountered as a young attorney in South Africa, to his role as spiritual leader to the people of India, to his use of passive resistance against the country's British rulers, and to his eventual assassination in 1948.

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Night and day
LPOP videodisc feature film N5625 2004

Cary Grant stars in the song-filled biography of legendary Cole Porter.

Family plot
LPOP videodisc feature film F21 2005

A cabbie and a crooked psychic join forces in looking for a dead man who's not really dead, with hopes for a $10,000 reward.

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The gay divorcee
LPOP videodisc feature film G25 2006

A musical comedy that has its share of bedroom confusions and misunderstandings when an American dancer (Astaire) pursues an Englishwoman (Rogers) trying to divorce her husband.

Casualties of war
LPOP videodisc feature film C279 2006

Based on a true story of a squad of soldiers who are caught in the moral quagmire of wartime Vietnam. Witness to a vile crime, Private Ericksson (Fox) is forced to stand alone against his fellow soldiers and commanding officer Sergeant Meserve (Penn), a powerful and charismatic man pushed over the edge of barbarism by the terror and brutality of combat.

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In old Chicago
LPOP videodisc feature film In105 2005

The story centers on the O'Leary family, whose eldest boys achieve notoriety and power in 19th century Chicago. After Dion helps Jack get elected mayor, they lock horns over Chicago's slums. The whole town takes sides and then old Chicago is wiped out by the fire of 1871.

"I confess"
LPOP videodisc feature film I1 2004

Father Logan, stolid, stalwart, to all appearances the embodiment of priestly piety, hears a murderer's confession. Almost immediately Logan is plunged into peril, for circumstantial evidence and eyewitness accounts point to a priest as the killer. The Sacrament of Penance forbids him to reveal what he knows. As calamity and coincidence conspire to paint Logan into a hopeless corner, it becomes the priest who must admit to himself, and confess his own human frailty.

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