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Blue collar workers -- Drama.
Working class families -- New England -- Drama.
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Blue collar workers -- Drama.
Working class families -- New England -- Drama.
MARC Display
Empire
Falls
[videorecording (DVD)].
HBO Video, [2005].
Call #:
DVD EMP TV
Subjects
Blue collar workers -- Drama.
Working class families -- New England -- Drama.
ISBN:
9780783134901
0783134908
Format:
[videorecording (DVD)].
Description:
2 videodiscs (195 min.) : 5.1 Dolby digital sd., col. ; 12 cm.
Notes:
Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by
Richard
Russo
.
Videodisc release of the 2005 HBO TV mini-series event.
Special features: Audio commentary with director Fred Schepsi and writer/author
Richard
Russo
; making of
Empire
Falls
.
Home use only.
Includes English (5.1 and 2.0) and Spanish (2.0) language tracks with optioanl English, French or Spanish subtitles.
Closed-captioned.
Production:
HBO Films ; producer, William Teitler ; teleplay,
Richard
Russo
; directed by Fred Schepisi.
Performers:
Ed Harris, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Helen Hunt, Paul Newman, Robin Wright Penn, Aidan Quinn and Joanne Woodward with Dennis Farina, William Fichtner and Estelle Parsons.
Summary:
"Adapted by author
Richard
Russo
from his 2001 Pulitzer Prize winning novel,
Empire
Falls
is a portrait of the gritty drama and human comedy that make up everyday life in blue-collar America. On a daily basis, goodhearted restaurant manager Miles Roby (Ed Harris) tries to keep his
Empire
Grill going, even as the wealthy and powerful Mrs. Whiting (Joanne Woodward), makes life difficult for him. If that wasn't enough, Miles has to keep tabs on his scoundrel of a dad, Max (Paul Newman) who is always looking for trouble. But, Miles has something much bigger than just restaurant receipts and a cantankerous father on his mind - he can't shake the ghosts of his past that keep his fate inevitably connected to
Empire
Falls
."--Container.
Genre:
Television mini-series.
Films for the hearing impaired.
DVDs.
Other authors:
Russo
,
Richard
,
1949-
Empire
Falls
.
Schepisi, Fred.
Harris, Ed, 1950-
Hoffman, Philip Seymour, 1967-2014.
Hunt, Helen, 1963-
Newman, Paul, 1925-2008.
Wright, Robin, 1966-
Quinn, Aidan.
Woodward, Joanne, 1930-
Farina, Dennis, 1944-2013.
Fichtner, William.
Parsons, Estelle.
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Halifax North Memorial Public Library
Adult Feature DVDs
DVD EMP TV
Adult Dvds-7 Days-Adult Accompaniment
Checked out
May 30, 2024
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Adult Feature DVDs
DVD EMP TV
Adult Dvds-7 Days-Adult Accompaniment
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