Summary: Josh and Dinah Barkley are a successful (though argumentative) musical-comedy team, yet Dinah chafes as Galatea to her husband's Pygmalion. When serious playwright Jacques Barredout envisions her as a great dramatic actress, Dinah is not hard to persuade.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS BARSummary: Director Oliver Stone seamlessly blends archival film with acted sequences in his version of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, which alleges that there was a massive plot and cover-up surrounding JFK's death.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JFKCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie JFKCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER JFKCheung, Leslie
Summary: The story of doomed lovers on either side of warring clans.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Tai Seng Marketing 1998
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BRISummary: Shakespearian in its scope and themes; revenge, loyalty, hope and despair, draws us into the lives of two brothers fearing assassination; a young refugee working illegally to cover his mother's medical expenses; a cop obsessed with finding his missing brother. Through this dramatic collision of different worlds, we witness cultural and religious tensions simmering beneath the surface and the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino 2010
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN AJASummary: An epic adaptation of Bulwer-Lytton's novel about the final hours of residents of Pompeii before the cataclysmic eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 2000
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF LASSummary: Narcotics cops Mike Lowrey (Smith) and Marcus Bennett (Lawrence) head up a task force investigating the flow of ecstasy into Miami. Their search leads to a dangerous kingpin, whose plan to control the city's drug traffic has touched off an underground war.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BADSummary: Babe: A piglet destined for eventual butchering arrives at the farmyard, is adopted by an old sheep dog, and discovers a special secret to success.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: When a harsh winter threatens the majestic Scottish Highlands, Rob Roy MacGregor is forced to borrow money from the less-than-noble Marquis of Montrose to provide for his clan. When Montrose's evil henchmen conspire to take the wealth for themselves, they thrust Rob into the most challenging battle of his life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM/UA Home Video 1997
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE ROBSummary: Using an experimental technique, a therapist enters the mind of a serial killer to save a child's life. Her experience becomes a nightmare when she cannot find her way out.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Video 2000
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR CELCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CELCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Cell 2000Summary: A strange flower grants a young girl magical powers, which leads to the adventure of a lifetime.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: John Cassavetes' first film tells a gripping story of racism set against a New York background in the 1950s. Lelia, a light-skinned black woman living in New York with her two brothers, has an affair with a white man. But when her lover meets one of Lelia's brothers and discovers she is black, a painful and emotional eruption occurs.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Pioneer Artists 1998
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ShaSummary: The destitute, selfish Duke of Bristol persuades a lovely, unselfish American heiress to attempt a month-long trial marriage in a Scottish castle. Another mismatched couple-- his impoverished, timid bachelor pal and a shrewish, wealthy widow-- join them, and all discover their shortcomings in this comedy of manners.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 1999
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ONSummary: It's all fun and games when two brothers take off cross-country to bring home a pretty college friend. But the joeks end when a prank backfires and they find themselves stalked by a vengeful trucker who won't give up his relentless chase until somebody pays with their life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE JOYSummary: Christian, an idealistic and impoverished young writer who, newly arrived in Montmartre, is haphazardly inducted into a circle of young bohemians led by Toulouse-Lautrec. A comedy of mistaken identities ensues, quickly enmeshing the young poet in a love triangle involving the unobtainable and consumptive Satine, queen courtesan of the Moulin Rouge, and the foppish Duke of Roxbury, his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox 2001
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOUCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS MOUSummary: Dogs are an alien species sent to earth thousands of years ago to spy on humans. But when the spies stop reporting back to the home planet, Canid 3942 is sent to earth to investigate. Once there, Canid 3942 encounters Owen, a young boy who runs a dog-walking service. Owen befriends the space-dog, renaming him Hubble. When it becomes obvious that the dogs of earth have forgotten their mission,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2004
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY GOOSummary: Focuses on Bessie Smith's transformation from a struggling young singer into 'The Empress of the Blues', who became one of the most successful recording artists of the 1920s and is an enduring icon today.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Home Box Office 2015
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BESSummary: Professor Challenger, the man of vision who persuades his skeptical colleagues to return with him to a remote South American plateau where he has discovered living dinosaurs. Resisting danger and death, Challenger's party return to London in triumph with a captive Brontosaurus. But the beast excapes, turning the city into a shambles and standing the 20th century on it's head.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE LosSummary: Frankie is an African-American go-go dancer with dissociative identity disorder (DID). She struggles to retain her true self while fighting against two very different personalities: a seven-year-old girl named Genius, and a Southern white racist named Alice. Inspired by a remarkable true story.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FRASummary: They were crack troops skilled in the techniques of unconditional warfare, the soldiers of the Special Forces-- and the focus of Hollywood's first feature film about the Vietnam War.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GRESummary: Includes three patriotic classics: Hollywood Canteen (1944); Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943); and This Is the Army (1943). Bonus features include WB shorts and cartoons, as well as a brand new documentary narrated by Steven Spielberg.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2008
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS HOMSummary: A divorced man disguised as a woman takes a job as his ex-wife's housekeeper to be near his children.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006