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Library Bookwatch, July, 2005
MPI Media Group
16101 S 108th Ave, Orland Park IL 60467
If it's true-life stories and high drama you seek, ala Lifetime Television or the popular miniseries movies taking place on TV lately, don't miss the new 'True Stories' DVDs from the MPI Media Group, leading the way in presenting dramatic events based on real life. These aren't just small-name actors, either: Brad Pitt stars with Juliette Lewis in Too Young To Die? (07-88606476, $9.98), about a teen girl who has endured cruelty and neglect and falls prey to a seductive hustler, only to find herself involved in a murder; Fifteen And Pregnant (0788606433, $9.98) features Kirsten Dunst and Park Overall in the story of a teen who must reach out to her mother to survive her pregnancy; Brian Dennehy and Barbara Hershey star in A Killing In A Small Town (0788606441, $9.98), telling of a small-town wife's passionate affair and a brutal murder; Cathy Lee Crosby's Untamed Love (0788606-492, $9.98) reveals a disturbed child who has been deemed psychotic and seems doomed to a mental hospital; And Then There Was One (0788606409, $9.98) tells of two people whose daughter becomes the center of their lives until she falls ill with AIDS, and Darkness Before Dawn: A True Story Of Drug Addiction (0788-606417, $9.98) tells of a methadone clinic nurse haunted by her past. All are simply gripping dramas; impossible to stop watching, solid entertainment.
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