Summary: Aging rocker Danny Collins can't give up his hard-living ways. But when his manager uncovers a 40-year-old undelivered letter written to him by John Lennon, he decides to change course and embarks on a heartfelt journey to rediscover his family, find true love and begin a second act.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2015

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DAN

Andrews, Julie

Summary: A young novice, uncertain about becoming a nun, becomes governess to seven children of an autocratic ex-naval captain.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Home Entertainment 2015

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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV SOU

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD So

Summary: Annie is a young, happy foster kid who's also tough enough to make her way on the streets of New York. Originally left by her parents as a baby with the promise that they'd be back for her someday, it's been a hard knock life ever since with her mean foster mom Miss Hannigan. But everything's about to change when the hard-nosed tycoon and New York mayoral candidate Will Stacks, advised by his...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD An

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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV ANN

Summary: Drama and reality combine in a fictitious 24 hours in the life of musician and international cultural icon, Nick Cave. With startlingly frank insights and an intimate portrayal of the artistic process, the film examines what makes us who we are, and celebrates the transformative power of the creative spirit. Featuring appearances by longtime Cave collaborators Ray Winstone, Blixa Bargeld,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC TWE

Summary: The story of four young men from the wrong side of the tracks in New Jersey who came together to form the iconic 1960s rock group The Four Seasons.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: distributed by Warner Home Video 2014

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA JER

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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD JER

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JER RATED R

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Jersey 2014

Summary: Follows a week in the life of a young folk singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961. Llewyn Davis (Oscar Issac) is at a crossroads and struggling to make is as a musician against seemingly insurmountable obstacles- some of them of his own making. Living at the mercy of both friends and strangers, Llewyn's misadventures take him from the baskethouses of Greenwich Village...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA INS

Summary: Emily arrives in Miami with aspirations of becoming a professional dancer and soon falls in love with Sean, a young man who leads a dance crew called 'The Mob'. When a wealthy businessman threatens to develop The Mob's historic neighborhood and displace thousands of people, they all work together to turn their performance art into protest art, and risk losing their dreams to fight for a greater...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Summit Entertainment, LLC 2012

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA STE

Cruise, Tom

Summary: In 1987, a small town girl travels to Los Angeles with dreams of becoming a famous singer and finds herself working at "the Bourbon Room," a popular nightclub on the Sunset Strip.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2012

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ROC

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ROC

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ROC RATED PG-13

Wormald, Kenny

Summary: City boy Ren McCormick moves to a Southern town where dancing has been banned and encourages his friends to fight for the right to dance.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2012

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1 available in Equipment, Call number: DVD

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FOO

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FOO

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TCFF Fo

Summary: Brings the world of Gilbert and Sullivan to life as a dramatization of the staging of the duo's legendary 1885 comic opera, The Mikado. The world-famous Victorian librettist and composer, along with their troupe of temperamental actors, must battle personal and professional demons while mounting this major production becomes an epic about the harsh realities of creative expression.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2011

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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS TOP

Summary: For most of his life, Ignacio Carrillo traveled the villages of northern Colombia, playing traditional songs on his accordion, a legendary instrument said to have once belonged to the devil. He eventually married and settled in a small town, leaving the nomadic life behind. But after the traumatic death of his wife, he vows never to play again, and embarks on one last journey to return the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Film Movement 2010

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WIN

Phoenix, Joaquin

Summary: Follows Joaquin Phoenix as he transitions from a career in acting to attempting a career as a rapper.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2010

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY I'M

Summary: The powerful story of a country music star's rocky road to redemption. Bad Blake is a boozy, broken-down singer who reaches for salvation with the help of Jean, a journalist who discovers the real man behind the music. But will Bad's hard-livin' ways and crazy heart cost him his last chance at a comeback? Bonus features included.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox 2010

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CRA RATED R

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CRA

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1 available in Stacks, Call number: DVD Movie Crazy 2010

Summary: In 1969, Elliot Tiber, an interior designer living in Greenwich Village, New York, has to move back upstate to help his parents run their dilapidated Catskills motel, The El Monaco. Upon hearing that a planned music and arts festival has lost its permit from the neighboring town of Wallkill, NY, Elliot calls producer Michael Lang at Woodstock Ventures to offer his family's motel to the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2009

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY TAK

Summary: Jude is a young dockworker from Liverpool who travels to find his estranged father in America. He is swept up by the waves of change that are re-shaping the nation. Lucy is a rich and sheltered American girl who Jude falls in love with. Lucy joins the growing anti-war movement in New York's Greenwich Village. As the body count in Vietnam rises, political tensions at home spiral out of control...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ACR

Hepburn, Audrey

Summary: A Covent Garden flower girl becomes a lady, entering elite London society under the tutelage of an arrogant professor.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: CBS Warner 2009

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family My 2004

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MY

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MY

Summary: Two 1980s' feature films about Eddie Wilson, whose car took a dive off a Jersey bridge with the troubled rock idol at the wheel. His body was never found.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA EDD

Summary: Two men train to become record producers and recruit new talent, but they start to realize that they may be caught up in a scam.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2008

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GRE

Summary: 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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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS SWE

Summary: Melanie is a young woman whose ambitions as a concert pianist were dashed as a child by the thoughtless behavior of the jury chairwoman, the famous pianist Madame Fouchecourt, during her exam. Ten years later Melanie sets up an elaborate plan for revenge and soon begins to ingratiate herself into the family. Unrecognized by Madame, Melanie becomes her trusted "page turner" as both women...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Tartan Video USA 2007

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PAG

Summary: A poor Czech immigrant and a down-on-his-luck Irish musician meet by chance on the streets of Dublin and start writing music together.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF ONC