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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 114 min.
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Plot: A lovelorn screenwriter turns to his less-talented twin brother for help when his efforts to adapt a non-fiction book go nowhere.
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Cast: Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper, Cara Seymour, Tilda Swinton. Directed by Spike Jonze.
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Categories: Entertainment ∙ Comedy ∙ Environmental |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 93 min.
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Plot: A six year old's journey to help her ill father is delayed by a busted universe.
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Cast: Quvenzhané Wallis, Dwight Henry, Levy Easterly, Lowell Landes, Pamela Harper. Directed by Benh Zeitlin.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Family ∙ Environmental |
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Rated: G Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 40 min.
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Plot: Documents orphaned orangutans and elephants and the extraordinary people who rescue and raise them-saving endangered species one life at a time.
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Cast: Narration by Morgan Freeman.. Directed by David Lickley.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Animal ∙ Environmental |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 75 min.
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Plot: A documentary made with multi-year, time-lapse cameras documenting evidence of Earth's changing glaciers.
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Cast: James Balog, Svavar Jonatansson, Adam LeWinter. Directed by Jeff Orlowski.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Environmental |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 112 min.
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Plot: True story of a personal injury lawyer who risks everything to represent the families of children that died of leukemia as a result of the toxic waste dumped by a nearby corporation.
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Cast: John Travolta, Robert Duvall, Tony Shalhoub, William H. Macy, Zeljko Ivanek, Bruce Norris, John Lithgow, Kathleen Quinlan. Directed by Steven Zaillian.
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Categories: Environmental ∙ Civil Procedure ∙ Advocacy |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 103 min.
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Plot: A hard-nosed Chicago journalist gets stuck in the Rocky Mountains with a radical ornithologist.
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Cast: John Belushi, Blair Brown, Allen Goorwitz. Directed by Michael Apted.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Environmental |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 101 min.
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Plot: The inhabitants of a small Iowa town are suddenly plagued by insanity and then death after a mysterious toxin contaminates their water supply.
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Cast: Radha Mitchell, Timothy Olyphant, Danielle Panabaker. Directed by Breck Eisner.
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Categories: Horror ∙ Environmental ∙ Health |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 105 min.
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Plot: The story of lawsuit by tens of thousands of Ecuadorans against Chevron over contamination of the Ecuadorean Amazon.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Joe Berlinger.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Environmental ∙ Trial |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 130 min.
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Plot: An unemployed single mother becomes a legal assistant and almost single-handedly brings down a California power company accused of polluting a city's water supply thereby causing cancer and other illness in the community.
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Cast: Julia Roberts, Albert Finney, Aaron Eckhart, Marg Helgenberger, Cherry Jones, Peter Coyote, Scotty Leavenworth. Directed by Steven Soderbergh.
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Categories: Torts ∙ Corporations ∙ Environmental |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 130 min.
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Plot: In the Canadian wilderness, an Artic prospector breaks through the snow to an underground cavern and becomes the world's richest man.
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Cast: Gene Hackman, Rutger hauer, Theresa Russell, Mickey Rourke, Joe Pesci. Directed by Nicolas Roeg.
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Categories: Environmental ∙ Natural Resources ∙ Jury |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 89 min.
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Plot: Explains how United States government policy has contributed to a gap between what scientists know about global warming and what the general public understands.
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Cast: Narration by Daniel B. Gold. Directed by Daniel Gold and Judith Helfand.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Environmental ∙ Government |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****1/2
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Format: DVD 100 min.
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Plot: Alex Honnold vies to become the first person to ever free solo climb Yosemite's El Capitan, without ropes or safety gear.
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Cast: Dierdre Wolownick, Tommy Caldwell, Jimmy Chin, Alex Honnold, Sanni McCandless. Directed by Jimmy Chin, and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Environmental ∙ Medical |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 107 min.
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Plot: Halliburton developed a way to get the gas out of the ground-a hydraulic drilling process called "fracking"-and suddenly America finds itself on the precipice of becoming an energy superpower.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Josh Fox.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Natural Resources ∙ Environmental |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 105 min.
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Plot: Three unemployed scientists are called upon to rid New York City of supernatural activity.
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Cast: Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis, Rick Moranis, Annie Potts, William Atherton, Ernie Hudson. Directed by Ivan Reitman.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Environmental ∙ Damages |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 117 min.
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Plot: Following a ghost invasion of Manhattan, paranormal enthusiasts band together to stop the otherworldly threat.
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Cast: Melissa McCarthy, Kriten Wiig, Kate McKinnon, Leslie Jones, Charles Dance, Michael Kenneth Williams, Chris Helmsworth. Directed by Paul Feig.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Environmental |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 105 min.
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Plot: A group of friends discover a plot to unleash a dangerous computer virus, and use their hacking skills to find the evidence while being pursued by the Secret Service and the virus' creator.
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Cast: Jonny Lee Miller, Angelina Jolie, Fisher Stevens, Lorraine Bracco. Directed by Iain Softley.
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Categories: Computer ∙ National Security ∙ Environmental |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 88 min.
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Plot: Five remarkable Native American activists in four communities who are fighting to protect Indian lands.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Roberta Grossman.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Environmental ∙ Energy |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 114 min.
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Plot: A tourist family in Thailand is caught in the chaotic aftermath of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.
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Cast: Naomi Watts, Ewan McGregor, Tom Holland, Samuel Joslin. Directed by Juan Antonio Bayona.
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Categories: Drama ∙ History ∙ Environmental |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 96 min.
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Plot: Al Gore's campaign to raise awareness for the crisis of global warming.
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Cast: Al Gore. Directed by Davis Guggenheim.
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Categories: Environmental ∙ Documentary ∙ Government |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 148 min.
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Plot: After graduating from college, a young man gives up his worldly possessions and takes to life on the road, in a journey that leads him to the Alaskan wilderness.
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Cast: Emile Hirsch, Marcia Gay Harden, William Hurt, Jena Malone, Catherine Keener, Vince Vaughn. Directed by Sean Penn.
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Categories: Biography ∙ Drama ∙ Environmental |
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Rated: NR Stars: *****
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Format: DVD 104 min. B&W
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Plot: A film crew stumbles upon a giant ape on a prehistoric island.
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Cast: Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, Bruce Cabot, Willis O'Brien. Directed by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack.
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Categories: Entertainment ∙ Environmental ∙ SciFi/Fantasy |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 95 min.
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Plot: A coal mining corporation and a tiny community vie for the last great mountain in Appalachia in a battle for the future of energy that affects us all.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Bill Haney.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Environmental ∙ Energy |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 124 min.
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Plot: Explores an ironic setting for a town where many hundreds of people are sick or have already died from asbestos exposure.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Drury Gum Carr and Dough Hawes-Davis.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Health ∙ Environmental |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***1/2
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Format: Blu-ray/DVD 94 min.
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Plot: A Sasquatch, with the help of famed human explorers, travels to the Himalayas to meet his Yeti cousins.
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Cast: Hugh Jackman, David Walliams, Stephen Fry, Matt Lucas, Zach Galifianakis, Timothy Olyphant, Zoe Saldana. Directed by Chris Butler.
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Categories: Animation ∙ Human Rights ∙ Environmental |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 83 min.
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Plot: A scheming raccoon fools a mismatched family of forest creatures into helping him repay a debt of food.
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Cast: Bruce Willis, Gary Shandling, Steve Carell, Wanda Sykes, William Shatner, Nick Nolte, Avril Lavigne. Directed by Tim Johnson and Karey Kirkpatrick.
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Categories: Animation ∙ Family ∙ Environmental |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 134 min.
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Plot: A young warrior finds himself in the middle of a war between the forest and a mining colony.
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Cast: Gillian Anderson, Billy Crudup, Claire Danes, Minnie Driver, Jada Pinkett Smith, Billy Bob Thornton. Directed by Hayao Miyazaki.
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Categories: Animation ∙ Foreign ∙ Environmental |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 106 min.
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Plot: Seeking revenge for the death of his lover, secret agent James Bond sets out to stop an environmentalist from taking control of a country's natural resources.
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Cast: Daniel Craig, Olga Kurylenko, Mathieu Amalric, Giancarlo Gianni. Directed by Marc Foster.
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Categories: Action ∙ Environmental ∙ Business |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 107 min.
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Plot: A fisheries expert is approached by a consultant to help realize a sheik's vision of bringing the sport of fly-fishing to the desert.
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Cast: Emily Blunt, Ewan McGregor, Kristin Scott Thomas, Amr Waked. Directed by Lasse Hallström.
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Categories: International ∙ Environmental ∙ Drama |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 126 min.
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Plot: Set in a future where a failed climate-change experiment kills all life on the planet except for a lucky few who boarded the Snowpiercer.
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Cast: Chris Evans, Song Kang Ho, Tilda Swinton, Jamie Bell, Octavia Spencer. Directed by Joon-ho Bong.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Environmental ∙ SciFi/Fantasy |
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Rated: G Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 40 min.
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Plot: An underwater look at the diverse coastal regions of Southern Australia, New Guinea and the Indo-Pacific areas and the impact of global warming on the oceans.
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Cast: Narration by Jim Carrey. Directed by Howard Hall.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Environmental ∙ Animal |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 85 min.
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Plot: Through the eyes of famous chefs, audiences will see how they make the most of every kind of food, transforming what most people consider scraps into incredible dishes that create a more secure food system.
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Cast: Dan Barber, Mario Bstali, Massimo Bottura, Anthony Bourdain. Directed by Anna Chai & Nari Kye.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Consumer ∙ Environmental |
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The Wolf Law Library welcomes your suggestions for additions to the Feature Film Collection! If there is a law-related movie you feel we might be missing, please submit your suggestion to the Circulation & Reserve Desk at lawcir@wm.edu.
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