This year's Academy Awards will air on Sunday, March 10th. If you want to check out the nominees, including the ten Best Picture nominees, MHL may be able to help! Some of the films are already out on DVD, while others may be available to stream online via one of the library's Roku devices.
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DVD release date TBD but you can get on the hold list now A novelist who's fed up with the establishment profiting from Black entertainment uses a pen name to write a book that propels him into the heart of the hypocrisy and madness he claims to disdain. |
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DVD release date TBD, will stream on Hulu beginning 3/22/24 A woman is suspected of murder after her husband's death; their half-blind son faces a moral dilemma as the main witness. |
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To live in Barbie Land is to be a perfect being in a perfect place. Unless you have a full-on existential crisis. Or you're a Ken. |
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Follows a curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school who is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually he forms an unlikely bond with one of them--a damaged, brainy troublemaker--and with the school's head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam. |
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DVD release date TBD but you can get on the hold list now When oil is discovered in 1920s Oklahoma under Osage Nation land, the Osage people are murdered one by one - until the FBI steps in to unravel the mystery. |
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DVD release date TBD but now streaming on Netflix This love story chronicles the lifelong relationship of conductor-composer Leonard Bernstein and actress Felicia Montealegre Cohn Bernstein. |
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Oppenheimer thrusts audiences into the mind of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, whose landmark work on the Manhattan Project created the first atomic bomb. |
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Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrest apart after Nora's family emigrates from South Korea. Two decades later, they are reunited in New York for one fateful week as they confront notions of destiny, love, and the choices that make a life. |
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The incredible tale about the fantastical evolution of Bella Baxter, a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter. |
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Currently theatrical only, with DVD and streaming TBD. (You can read the book it's based on while you wait.) Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss and his wife Hedwig strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden beside the camp. |