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New DVDs December 9, 2021
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Beans
In 1990, two Mohawk communities enter into a 78-day armed standoff with government forces to protect a burial ground from developers.
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Candyman
In present day, gentrified Chicago, an artist explores the legend of the hook handed killer known as Candyman, unaware that his curiosity opens the door to a complex past which causes him to lose his sanity.
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Card Counter
Redemption is the long game in Paul Schrader's THE CARD COUNTER. Told with Schrader's trademark cinematic intensity, the revenge thriller tells the story of an ex-military interrogator turned gambler haunted by the ghosts of his past.
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Happiest Season
A holiday romantic comedy that captures the range of emotions tied to wanting your family's acceptance, being true to yourself, and trying not to ruin Christmas.
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Maria Chapdelaine
Maria Chapdelaine, a young woman of 16, lives with her family on land they are clearing near the Péribonka River in rural Québec in early 1900. True pioneers, the Chapdelaine family struggles to push back the forest. In a home where even physical exhaustion cannot diminish the warmth of family life, Maria finds herself faced with a deep dilemma. François Paradis, a free-spirited fur trapper and logger, promises Maria to return in spring to marry her, while Lorenzo Surprenant arrives at the farm offering a comfortable existence in an American city, and Eutrope Gagnon, a quiet and determined young farmer has staked a claim on the land next to the Chapdelaine's. Thrust into the adult world, and juggling with thoughts of land, family and love, Maria will suddenly be forced to choose her future as a woman.
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Nine days
When a vacancy for new life opens up on Earth, a man who watches live Point of View on TVs is challenged by a free-spirited woman who is among the candidates of unborn souls who are being tested for their fitness.
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No man of God
Before Ted Bundy, a notorious serial murderer, was executed, he agreed to disclose the details of his crimes to FBI analyst Bill Hagmaier.
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Pig
A truffle hunter returns home to Portland, Oregon to find his beloved foraging pig who has been kidnapped.
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The Sky is Pink
The incredible love story of a couple spanning 25 years, told through the lens of their teenage daughter. She is sassy, sardonic, spunky. and dead. A fact she nonchalantly mentions at the very outset. "Get over it. It's quite cool actually. You'll see when you get here (which you do know you will right?!)" Unexpectedly humorous, warm, and heart-wrenching all at once as the magic of life and the beauty of death manifests in one family's unusual, courageous journey in this film. It's 100% a true story.
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Stillwater
An American oil-rig worker goes to Marseilles, France, to save his daughter, who is imprisoned for a murder she claims she did not commit.
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Suicide Squad
Federal agent Amanda Waller recruits a group of incarcerated supervillains for a dangerous mission of finding and destroying the Nazi-era laboratory Jötunheim on the remote island of Corto Maltese.
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Wife of a spy
Set in 1940 in Kobe, Japan, a woman finds her loyalties tested when she receives a visit from a military policeman after her husband returns home from Manchuria determined to reveal what he witnessed.
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Movies for Children and Families
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Cruella
The story of how a young London grifter named Estella became the revenge-bent villain Cruella De Vil.
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Honey Girls
Three television music show contestants discover that they are better together and form a secret band, Honey Girls, that becomes an immediate media hit, but they have to keep their identities secret in order to continue participating in the show.
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Crown: Season 4
The story of Queen Elizabeth II's reign of the United Kingdom, and how it helped to shaped the latter part of the twentieth century.
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My life is murder: Season 1
Follows retired detective, Alexa Crowe, as she helps her former colleague solve crimes with the help of a young police data analyst.
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Bee Gees: How can you mend a broken heart
Profiles the popular music group, the Bee Gees, featuring footage from concerts, recording sessions, home videos, television appearances, and contributions from other musicians.
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Hidden life of trees
German forest scientist Peter Wohlleben explores how trees communicate with each other.
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Mysteries of mental illness
Explores the evolution in understanding of mental illness, the changing societal attitudes towards the mentally ill, the causes of mental illness, diagnosing, and treatment.
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Wild Kratts:
The Kratt brothers observe wild cats and dogs, comparing them to domestic cats and dogs.
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