Summary: Rose Lorkowski is a single mother attempting to support her son Oscar and her unreliable sister Norah. She works a mundane job as a maid. Once the head cheerleader in school with plenty of prospects, Rose now has little to show for her life. She still sees the former head football player, but it is little more than a despondent affair. When Oscar is expelled from public school, Rose takes a job...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SUNCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Sunshine 2009Summary: An inventor's sudden death leaves his greatest creation unfinished with sharp shears of metal for hands.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD EDWCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY EDWSummary: JB Bernstein is a once-successful sports agent who may have to close his business. To save it, he comes up with an idea so radical it just might work. Setting off for Mumbai, JB stages a televised nationwide competition called "Million dollar arm" where two young finalists emerge as winners. JB brings them back to the US with a goal: get them signed as pitchers to a major league team. While the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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3 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY MILCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MIL RATED PGCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MiSummary: A photographer unwittingly smuggles a doll stuffed with heroin into New York City. His recently blinded wife, alone in their apartment, is first terrorized by hired crooks, and then by the psychopathic Roat, in search of the doll.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER WAISummary: Vince Rizzo is a lifelong resident of the tiny, tradition-steeped Bronx enclave of City Island. A family man who makes his living as a corrections officer, Vince longs to become an actor. Vince would rather let his wife believe his weekly poker games are a cover for an affair than admit he is secretly taking acting classes in Manhattan. When Vince is asked to reveal his biggest secret in class,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CIT RATED PG13Summary: After having doubts about becoming a Jesuit priest, one man gives his faith another chance when he works in a mission, only to become attracted to a volunteer who is attracted to him as well.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MTI Home Video 2008
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD CROCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie CrossroadsSummary: Times are tough at the real estate firm of Premiere Properties. Shelley "the machine" Levene (Lemmon) and Dave Moss (Harris) are veteran salesmen, but only Ricky Roma (Pacino) is on a hot streak. The new Glengarry sales leads could turn everything around, but the front office is holding them back until these "losers" prove themselves. Then someone decides to take matters into his own hands,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GLESummary: Lifelong buddies Willie, Joe, and Al decide to buck retirement and step off the straight and narrow for the first time in their lives when their pension fund becomes a corporate casualty. To pay the bills and come through for their loved ones, the three risk it all by embarking on a daring bid to knock off the very bank that absconded with their money.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Going 2017Summary: An aging actor, who long ago enjoyed a brush with fame, makes his living as an acting coach.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Kominsky 2019Summary: On November 4, 1979, Iranian militants stormed the American embassy in Tehran and captured dozens of American hostages, sparking a 444-day ordeal. There's a little-known footnote to the crisis: six Americans escaped and a mid level agent named Antonio Mendez devised an ingenious yet incredibly risky plan to rescue them.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ARGCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ARG RATED RCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER ARGSummary: Circus owner Max Medici enlists former star Holt Farrier and his children to care for a newborn elephant whose oversized ears make him a laughingstock in an already struggling circus. But when they discover that Dumbo can fly, the circus makes an incredible comeback, attracting entrepreneur V.A. Vandevere, who recruits the Dumbo for his newest entertainment venture, Dreamland. Dumbo soars to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Juvenile DVD, Call number: DVD DumboCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DUMCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DUMCopies Available at Kingsley
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY DUMSummary: An American playwright living in pre-World War II Berlin becomes an allied spy within the Nazi Party. After the war, when he goes back to America, he is confronted by both Nazi haters and sympathizers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Video 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MOTSummary: The policy of "extraordinary rendition" began under the Clinton administration and accelerated after September 11, 2001. The policy allows for the handing over of suspected terrorists to countries that use torture as an interrogation tool. Anwar El-Ibrahimi is an Egyptian-born man who disappears on a flight from Africa to Washington, DC. He is sent to a North African country where torture is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Lifelong buddies Willie, Joe, and Al decide to buck retirement and step off the straight and narrow for the first time in their lives when their pension fund becomes a corporate casualty. To pay the bills and come through for their loved ones, the three risk it all by embarking on a daring bid to knock off the very bank that absconded with their money.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GOI RATED PG-13Summary: Olive is a little girl who dreams of winning the Little Miss Sunshine contest. Her family wants her dream to come true, but they are so dysfunctional that they can barely make it through a day without some disaster befalling them. Olive's father, Richard, is unsuccessful as a motivational speaker. He is barely on speaking terms with Olive's mother. Her uncle Frank has attempted suicide...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY LIT1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF LIT
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LIT RATED RSummary: It follows the Cooper clan as four generations of extended family come together for their annual Christmas Eve celebration. As the evening unfolds, a series of unexpected visitors and unlikely events turn the night upside down, leading them all toward a surprising rediscovery of family bonds and the spirit of the holiday.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LOVSummary: 13 conversations about one thing takes four characters (a lawyer who hits a housecleaner with his car, then flees the scene; the housecleaner herself; a science professor who leaves his wife; and an insurance claims adjuster who's deeply envious of a coworker who seems irrepressibly happy) and blends their stories into a delicate but potent mix.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Tristar Home Video 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA THISummary: In the heart of the 1970s, amid a flurry of feathered hair and flared jeans, Gru (Oscar nominee Steve Carell) is growing up in the suburbs. A fanboy of a supervillain supergroup known as the Vicious 6, Gru hatches a plan to become evil enough to join them. Luckily, he gets some mayhem-making backup from his loyal followers, the Minions. Together, Kevin, Stuart, Bob, and Otto, a new Minion...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY MINCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV MINCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MINCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MINSummary: Adapted from Nicholas Meyer's work, this film imagines what might have happened had Dr. Watson convinced Sherlock Holmes to seek a cure for his cocaine addiction from Dr. Sigmund Freud. The adventure begins when Holmes and Freud team up to solve a kidnapping mystery.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SEVVaës, Alain.
Summary: In this adaptation of "The Princess and the Pea," the prince is ready for marriage but the Queen is more concerned with her jewelry collection.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2001
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Place a hold to request this item.Mabanckou, Alain
Summary: "A rollicking new novel described as "Oliver Twist in 1970s Africa" (Les Inrockuptibles) by the finalist for the Man International Booker Prize It's not easy being Tokumisa Nzambe po Mose yamoyindo abotami namboka ya Bakoko. There's that long name of his for a start, which means, "Let us thank God, the black Moses is born on the lands of the ancestors." Most people just call him Moses. Then...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2017