Popular DVDs for Adults
Hundreds of DVDs are added to the Library's collection each month. Here are the most popular DVDs for adults.
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THANKSGIVING (DVD)
After a Black Friday riot ends in tragedy, a mysterious Thanksgiving-inspired killer terrorizes Plymouth, Massachusetts, the birthplace of the infamous holiday.
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Fremont
"Donya is a former Afghan translator for the U.S. government, who now lives alone in Fremont, California, traveling across the Bay each morning for her job at a family-run fortune cookie factory in San Francisco. Struggling to connect with the culture and people in her new country, Donya falls into regular sessions with a therapist to process her complicated feelings about her past in Afghanistan. When Donya is promoted at work, she finds an opportunity to write her own story through a concise medium: the fortune messages inside each cookie. As Donya's world expands far beyond Fremont, she finds a connection with a quiet auto mechanic who is longing to expand his world as well. Tenderly crafted and lyrically shot in black-and-white, Babak Jalali's Fremont is a wryly funny, moving, deadpan vision of the universal longing for home."--Container.
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Scrapper
Georgie is a resourceful twelve-year-old girl who secretly lives alone in her flat in a working-class suburb of London following the death of her mother. She makes money stealing bikes with her best friend Ali and keeps the social workers off her back by pretending to live with an uncle. Out of nowhere, her estranged father Jason arrives and forces her to confront reality. Uninterested in this sudden new parental figure, Georgie is stubbornly resistant to his efforts. As they adjust to their new circumstances, Georgie and Jason find that they both still have a lot of growing up to do.
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The Unknown Country
"After a personal loss, Tana hits the open road in her grandmother's Cadillac, driving from her home in Minnesota to attend her cousin's wedding in South Dakota and reconnect with her Oglala Lakota family. Inspired by an old photograph, Tana sets off to retrace her grandmother's journey from decades before, embarking on a cross-country road trip through the Midwest to Texas, and finding renewed connection with the world through the everyday people who've settled far from the main roads. An intimate and beguiling fusion of fact and fiction that features a captivating performance from Gladstone, who "brings a graceful authenticity to every frame" (Collider), The Unknown Country is an arresting debut from filmmaker Morrisa Maltz and a profound, sensual journey through the American heartland."--Container.
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Joy Ride
The hilarious and unapologetically explicit story of identity and self-discovery centers on four unlikely friends who embark on a once-in-a-lifetime international adventure. When Audrey's business trip to Asia goes sideways, she enlists the aid of Lolo, her irreverent, childhood best friend who also happens to be a hot mess; Kat, her college friend turned Chinese soap star; and Deadeye, Lolo's eccentric cousin. Their no-holds-barred, epic experience becomes a journey of bonding, friendship, belonging, and wild debauchery that reveals the universal truth of what it means to know and love who you are.
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I.S.S. (DVD)
Tensions flare in the near future aboard the International Space Station as a worldwide conflict breaks out on Earth. Reeling from this, the astronauts receive orders from the ground: take control of the station by any means necessary.
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NEXT GOAL WINS (DVD)
Follows the infamously terrible American Samoa soccer team, known for a brutal 2001 FIFA match they lost 31-0. With the 2014 World Cup Qualifiers approaching, the team hires down-on-his-luck, maverick coach Thomas Rongen, hoping he will turn the world's worst soccer team around in this humorous and heartfelt underdog story.
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1923: A Yellowstone Origin Story. Season One
The Duttons face a new set of challenges in the early 20th century, including the rise of Western expansion, Prohibition, and the Great Depression.
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Retribution
In this ticking-clock thriller of redemption and revenge, Matt Turner begins a high-speed chase across Berlin to complete a specific series of tasks after a mysterious caller puts a bomb under his car seat. With Matt's kids trapped in the back seat and a bomb that will explode if they get out of the car, a normal commute becomes a twisted game of life or death as Matt follows the stranger's increasingly dangerous instructions in a race against time to save his family.
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Neither Confirm Nor Deny
During the Cold War, the CIA secretly raised a sunken Soviet nuclear submarine from the depths of the Pacific Ocean. The six-year operation included an intricate cover story by billionaire Howard Hughes. Drawing on declassified documents and never-before-seen interviews, NEITHER CONFIRM NOR DENY tells one of the highest-stakes, yet least-known stories of the Cold War.
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