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Show me a hero

Call Number

  • DVD DRAMA (CEN, EAS)

Languages

In English, French or Latin Spanish, with optional English, French, Latin Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese or Thai subtitles; closed-captioned.

Performers

Oscar Isaac, Bob Balaban, Jim Belushi, Jon Bernthal, Latanya Richardson Jackson, Catherine Keener, Alfred Molina, Winona Ryder.

Publication Information

[Hollywood, CA] : HBO Home Entertainment, [2016]

Physical Description

2 videodiscs (approximately 358 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Audience

TV-MA.

Summary

In an America generations removed from the greatest civil rights struggles of the 1960s, the young mayor of a mid-sized American city is faced with a federal court order to build a small number of low-income housing units in the white neighborhoods of his town. His attempt to do so tears the entire city apart, paralyzes the municipal government and, ultimately, destroys the mayor and his political future.

Notes

Title from container.

Based on the book by Lisa Belkin.

Originally broadcast as a six-part miniseries on HBO in 2015.

Bonus features: "Making Show me a hero."

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