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Spotlight on... Road trip movies

High gas prices keeping you home this summer?

Enjoy an armchair vacation with a film from our Road Trips collection!

 
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A painted house (2003)
A boy, his family, and migrant workers struggle to work a cotton farm.

      
A place for Annie (1994)
A nurse is a loving foster mother to an HIV-positive baby but may lose custody when the child’s mother resurfaces.

      
A stranger's heart (2008)
A woman suffering from a debilitating illness finds love and a connection to a special little girl.

      
An American story (1992)
Three men return from WW II to confront a corrupt administration in their small Texas town.

      
Animal farm (1999)
Adapted from George Orwell’s novel about Stalinist USSR; the animals of a farm overthrow their human owner, only to slide into a more brutal tyranny among themselves.

      
Arabian nights (2000)
To cure a sultan’s murderous madness, Scheherezade tells him a series of wondrous stories.

      
Brush with fate (2003)
Based on the best-seller "Girl in hyacinth blue;" the creation and ownership of an imagined Vermeer masterpiece are traced over 300 years.

      
Buffalo girls (1995)
In the last days of the Wild West, Calamity Jane searches for her long-lost daughter.

      
Cupid & Cate (2000)
Cate’s life seems to be stuck in neutral until her sister introduces her to a handsome and endearing man.

      
Decoration day (1990)
A reclusive retired judge is forced to rejoin the community when his estranged friend refuses to accept a Congressional Medal of Honor belatedly awarded for service in WW II.

      
Durango (1999)
In 1939 Ireland, a young man decides to drive his cattle 40 miles rather than sell them to a cheat.

      
Follow the stars home (2001)
A man walks out on his wife when he learns that the baby she is expecting has severe genetic abnormalities.

      
Gideon’s trumpet (1980)
A destitute prisoner's handwritten plea for justice changes the course of American legal history.

      
Hidden places (2006)
A widowed mother of two fears she will lose her farm until a mysterious drifter offers his help.

      
In love and war (2001)
During WW II, a young English soldier falls in love with an Italian woman.

      
Larry McMurtry’s dead man’s walk (1996)
In the prequel to "Lonesome Dove," Gus and Cal are on a deadly trail to Santa Fe, facing outlaws, bandits, and a vicious warrior.

      
Larry McMurtry’s streets of Laredo (1995)
In the sequel to "Lonesome Dove," Woodrow Cal is now a bounty hunter, hired by an Eastern rail baron to track down a boy who is a killer.

      
Life on Liberty Street (2004)
A nurse whose husband left her finds help through the mildly brain-damaged patients she works with.

      
Little John (2002)
An unmarried woman gives her child up for adoption, unaware that her father takes the boy and raises him.

      
Lonesome Dove (1989)
Gus and Cal, two former Texas Rangers, leave the town of Lonesome Dove on a 2500 mile cattle drive to Montana.



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