Summary: A senator, forced to vote for a law with which he profoundly disagrees, is torn between his conscience and his loyalty towards the leaders of his party. His daughter, a right-to- life activist, falls in love with an advocate for assisted suicide. A famous actress turns towards faith and miracle cures in the hope of bringing her daughter out of an irreversible coma. And the beautiful Rossa is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DORSummary: Inglewood, a Los Angeles suburb, is called the Wood. It is largely home to Black middle class families. Mike, Slim, and Roland have been best friends since junior high. It's three hours before Roland's wedding and he has a bad case of cold feet. Mike and Slim must sober him up and help him decide if he wants to go through with the wedding. In flashbacks, they recall key moments of their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY WOOSummary: In this affectionate story of small town life in upstate New York, Sully, a fitfully employed 60-year-old construction worker, is a cheerful curmudgeon who has made a lifetime of bad decisions. He unexpectedly has a chance to make right some of them when his estranged son and grandson drop back into his life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA NOBSummary: Centers around eight boisterous-yet-talented schoolboys hoping to gain admittance to England's most prestigious universities. They are aided on their quest by two teachers, a shrewd young upstart and an inspiring old eccentric, whose opposing philosophies challenge the boys to confront the true meaning of education and the relative values of happiness and success.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY HISSummary: Reinventing himself as Sweeney Todd, a man unjustly sent to prison returns to exact revenge on those who ruined his life, especially the evil Judge Turpin who sent the man to prison. Not only does he seek revenge for the cruel punishment he suffered in prison, but also for what happened to his wife and daughter. When he returns to his home town, he reopens his barber shop, where Mr. Todd...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Dreamworks Home Entertainment 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Plagued by both a reckless ego and nagging self-doubt, Hollywood legend Alfred Hitchcock ... becomes obsessed with a grisly murder story that the studios won't back. Determined, he risks his reputation, his home and even the love of his wife Alma ... as he sets out to make the film"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY DRAMA HITSummary: To the amusement of their adult children and friends, long divorced couple Don and Ellie Griffin are once again forced to play the happy couple for the sake of their adopted son's wedding after his ultra conservative biological mother unexpectedly decides to fly halfway across the world to attend. With all of the wedding guests looking on, the Griffins are hilariously forced to confront their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BIGRosendahl, Saskia
Summary: After her parents are arrested for war crimes after World War II, a fourteen-year-old girl leads her four siblings across war-torn Germany and encounters a Jewish man willing to help them complete their journey.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Music Box Films 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LORSummary: Inspired by the true story of Ken Carter, this inspirational account of a high school basketball coach who received high praise, and staunch criticism, for benching his entire undefeated team due to their poor academic performances.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2005
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD COACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD COA RATED PG-13Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Coach 2005Summary: Set primarily in two hospitals, the film tells two similar stories from two different periods, mirroring their respective eras' mores. At a small-town hospital, Toa is courting charming Dr. Tei. Director Apichatpong Weerasethakul tells the story of his parents who were both doctors, and his memories about growing up in the hospital environment.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Strand Releasing Home Video [distributor] 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SYNSummary: At a time when crimes of passion result in celebrity headlines, nightclub sensation Velma Kelly and spotlight-seeking Roxie Hart both find themselves on Chicago's famed Murderess Row. They also share Billy Flynn, the town's slickest lawyer with a talent for turning notorious defendants into local legends.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD MOVIE CHICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOvie Chicago 2002Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS CHISummary: Mike - a sensitive narcoleptic who dreams of the mother who abandoned him - and Scott - the rebellious son of a prominent family and the object of Mike's desire - embark on a quest from the grungy streets of Portland to the open highways of the Pacific Northwest, in search of an elusive place called home.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MYGere, Richard
Summary: In the early 20th century, a fugitive from the slums of Chicago becomes pitted against a shy, rich Texan for the love of Abby in the wheatfields of Texas.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DAYSummary: On January 20, 1942, 15 German officials attended a conference at Wannsee - on the outskirts of Berlin. The meeting comprised of mid-ranking SS commanders and a variety of government ministers. The meeting was organized by SS Major Adolf Eichmann under the direction of Chief of Security Reinhard Heydrich. It was a polite conference, but under this thin veneer of manners lay an evil intent. By...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CONSummary: Harry and his friends form "The Harmonists", a singing group in pre-war Germany. Changes in the nation's political tide force them to make decisions that will test their loyalty. When three of the six are disclosed as Jews, the group faces banning.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Intertainment 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN HARSummary: A family must use a magical box of animal crackers to save a run-down circus from bing taken over by their evil uncle Horatio P. Huntington.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In sixteenth century Japan a village potter and his brother-in-law set out for the city to seek their fortunes in the spoils of war. Their neglected wives suffer the bitter consequences of their husbands' ambition as one is murdered by soldiers and the other is raped and becomes a prostitute.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Janus Films 2005
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN UGE1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC FOREIGN UGE
Summary: Set against the romantic desolation of Detroit and Tangier, an underground musician, deeply depressed by the direction of human activities, reunites with his resilient and enigmatic lover. Their love story has already endured several centuries at least, but their debauched idyll is soon disrupted by her wild and uncontrollable younger sister. Can these wise but fragile outsiders continue to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A wagon train of three families has hired mountain man Stephen Meek to guide them over the Cascade Mountains. Claiming to know a shortcut, Meek leads the group on an unmarked path across the high plain desert, only to become lost in the dry rock and sage. Over the coming days, the emigrants face the scourges of hunger, thirst, and their own lack of faith in each other's instincts for survival....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Oscilloscope Pictures 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Wendy is a down-on-her-luck girl who's hoping to turn things around for herself with a summer job in Alaska, but finds herself stranded with no money in a small Oregon town.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Oscilloscope Pictures 2008
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WENSummary: Friends, Kurt and Mark, reunite for a weekend camping trip in the Cascade mountain range east of Portland, Oregon. For Mark, the weekend outing offers a respite from the pressure of his imminent fatherhood; for Kurt, a long series of carefree adventures.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2007