Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Desert hearts [videorecording] / the Samuel Goldwyn Company ; screenplay by Natalie Cooper ; produced and directed by Donna Deitch.

Edition:

Widescreen format.

Publisher, Date:

New Almaden, CA : Wolfe Video, [2007], c1986.

Description:

2 videodiscs (91 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

Vivian is a repressed English professor who goes to Reno for a quickie divorce in 1959. She spends the weeks waiting for final divorce papers at a dumpy dude ranch. There she mets Cay, a beautiful young casino worker. The two develop a friendship that stirs desires in Vivian she cannot deny. Slowly their attraction deepens into bold sensuality as they develop a bond that renews their hearts--and breaks all the rules.

Target Audience Note:

MPAA rating: R.

Subjects:

Lesbians -- Nevada -- Drama.

English -- Nevada -- Drama.

Divorced women -- Nevada -- Drama.

Single women -- Nevada -- Drama.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Reno (Nev.) -- Drama.

United States -- Social life and customs -- 1945-1970 -- Drama.

Other Author:

Shaver, Helen. (Helen Jane), 1951-

Charbonneau, Patricia.

Lindley, Audra.

Cooper, Natalie.

Deitch, Donna, 1945-

Rule, Jane. Desert of the heart.

Samuel Goldwyn Co.

Other Title:

Sundance Film Festival award winners

Notes:

Based on the novel: Desert of the heart / by Jane Rule.

Special features included.

Director of photography, Robert Elswit ; editor, Robert Estrin.

Helen Shaver, Patricia Charbonneau, Audra Lindley, Andra Akers, Gwen Welles, Dean Butler, Katie Labourdette, James Staley, Alex McArthur, Tyler Tyhurst, Denise Crosby, Antony Ponzini.

DVD, letterbox (16:9) presentation; Dolby Digital 2.0.

Soundtrack in English.

Closed-captioned.

ISBN:

1932134891

9781932134896

Publisher Number:

WOL4436D

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

208282

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD MOVIE Desert h

Medium:

[videorecording]