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Some New Videos for October 2009

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The Addams Family, Volume 1-3
LPOP videodisc Feature film Ad221 2006
LPOP videodisc Feature film Ad222 2006
LPOP videodisc Feature film Ad223 2007

Join Gomez, Morticia, Uncle Fester, Lurch, Cousin Itt and the rest of the gang for a fiendishly funny and altogether ooky experience.

Arrested Development, Season One
LPOP Videodisc Feature film Ar6901 2004

A comedy sitcom about the wealthy Bluth family that has lost all of its money and whose father has ended up in jail for shifty accounting practices.

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Boston Legal
LPOP videodisc Feature film B6564 2008

Amid torrid interoffice love affairs, and under the watchful eye of new senior partner Carl Sack, the law offices of Crane Poole & Schmidt have brilliant but volatile attorneys that take on burning social issues such as gays in the military, mortgage foreclosures, obesity and cockfighting.

The Burning Bed
LPOP videodiscFeature film B935 2004

Based on a true story. Francine Hughes (Fawcett), a battered wife and mother of three, murders her ex-husband Mickey (LeMat) and then confesses to the police

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Deception
LPOP videodisc Feature film D355 2008

Jonathan McQuarry is an accountant who meets Wyatt Bose, a charismatic corporate lawyer. Bose introduces Jonathan to a decadent playground called The List, which is a mysterious sex club for Manhattan's executives. It's a world of betrayal, treachery and murder; and, in this new world, Jonathan soon becomes the prime suspect in a woman's disappearance and a multi-million dollar heist.

Defending Your Life
LPOP videodisc Feature film D3614 2001

Daniel Miller (Brooks) dies in a car accident and finds himself in Judgement City, where Bob Diamond (Torn) is assigned to defend his life before a tribunal.

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Doctor Who: The Trial of a Time Lord
LPOP videodisc Feature film D6595 2008

The Doctor is on trial for his life. Plucked out of time and space by the Time Lords, he is charged with transgressing the First Law of Time. He must defend himself against the prosecution led by the sinister Valeyard.

King Corn
LPOP videodisc Documentary K58 2008

Fueled by curiosity and a dash of naiveté, college buddies Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis return to their ancestral home of Greene, Iowa, to find out how the modest corn kernel conquered America. With the help of real farmers, powerful fertilizer, government aid, and genetically modified seeds, the friends manage to grow one acre of corn. Along the way, they unlock the hidden truths about America's modern food system.--From publisher description.

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Perry Mason, Season 3, Volumes 1-2
LPOP videodisc Feature film P42903 2008
LPOP videodisc Feature Film P429032 2008

Defense attorney Perry Mason induces climactic witness-stand confessions that always clear his clients, usually with the help of confidential secretary Della Street and sidekick Paul Drake. As they work against DA Hamilton Burger and Lt. Arthur Tragg to clear a client, it is no surprise that they succeed every time.

Portrait in Black [and] Madame X
LPOP videodisc Feature film P838 2008

Lana Turner stars in this double feature.

Portrait in black: An adulterous couple conspire to kill the woman's tyrannical husband. However, an anonymous letter arrives advising them that someone knows their secret and hence, their new life together begins unraveling.

Madame X: A woman is blackmailed by her mother-in-law into leaving her politician husband and their baby. Twenty years later, she finds herself on trial for murder where she is defended by her own son.

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Smoke Signals
LPOP videodisc Feature Film Sm75 2000

Two Coeur d'Alene Indians travel from their Idaho reservation to Phoenix to retrieve the remains of one of their dead fathers and find they discover some truths about themselves along the way. This amusing, bittersweet road movie offers a refreshing Native American point of view.

Young Mr. Lincoln
LPOP videodisc Feature Film Y86 2006

Presents ten years in the life of Abraham Lincoln, before he became known to his nation and the world. He moves from a Kentucky cabin to Springfield, Illinois, to begin his law practice. He defends two men accused of murder in a political brawl, suffers the death of his girlfriend Ann, courts his future wife Mary Todd, and agrees to go into politics.

 

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