Summary: A ping pong ball, found floating in a stream, becomes the source of wonderment for three young boys who live in the remote grasslands of Mongolia, a magnificent landscape little changed since the time of Genghis Khan.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2006
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MONSummary: Cary Grant stars as an angel who materializes in answer to the prayers of a harried young bishop, David Niven. Niven's efforts to raise money for a new cathedral have endangered his marriage to beautiful Loretta Young. Grant enters the bishop's household hoping to end the problems plaguing the family, but instead the bishop's negelected wife becomes infatuated with him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment Inc. 2001
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1 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY BisCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Bishop's 1947Williams, Robin
Summary: A divorced man takes a job in disguise as his ex-wife's housekeeper to be near his children.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 1999
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MRSSummary: After her father leaves to find work during the Great Depression, Kit's mother takes in boarders, and when the lockbox with the family money disappears, Kit sets out to solve the mystery.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2008
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD AME RATED GCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV AMESummary: A Spanish coming of age story focusing on the antics of two 17 year olds, who have a posh beach house almost all to themselves one summer. This is also a summer of sexual awakenings.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN NICSummary: Based on the life of King George III, this is the story of royal intrigue, sexual indiscretions, backstairs plotting and a battle for power between Parliament and the throne, all occuring while the King is being treated for an unknown mental illness.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Video 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MADSummary: Comedy film about a woman who has been jilted by the love of her life, her friend who discovers her lover is a a Shiite terrorist, and her ex-lover's crazed wife.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment Inc. 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WOMSummary: Episodic story, divided into five chapters, each bearing the name of a character; main characters appear in most chapters. Most of the characters are connected by the fact that they hang out or work at the Brooklyn Cigar Store, where they tell stories and smoke a lot. Chapters explore the interpersonal relationships between this large and diverse group of characters.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SMOSummary: During World War II, a group of American POWs are imprisoned the German POW camp: Stalag 17. When two prisoners are killed during an escape attempt, they realize that there is a spy among them.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 1999
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA STASummary: Novelist Joe and his actress wife Sally throw a party to celebrate the sixth anniversary of their turbulent marriage. At the party both guests and hosts start telling each other the truth-- something rarely heard in Hollywood.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ANNSummary: The 80's were a time when everybody was making the big bucks. When F. Ross Johnson, CEO of RJR Nabisco, decides to buy out the Nabisco shareholders and take over his company, no one is prepared for what hits the fan. What follows is a down-to-the-wire battle to see who is really king of the Wall Street jungle.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 2001
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BARSummary: Emma Woodhouse is a young woman who, having engineered the marriage of her companion, turns her attention toward making a match for the local vicar and her new protegGee, Harriet Smith. Her one voice of reason and restraint is Mr. Knightley, who has known her since she was a child and who watches her behaviour with wry amusement and sometimes with real anger. Emma presides over the small...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 1997
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD EMMCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE EMMSummary: A highly competitive financial executive finds his career is quickly rolling downhill after he loses confidence in his abilities. When his 7-year-old daughter invites him into her fantasy world, he may find the solutions to all of his problems waiting for him. As father and daughter embark on a whirlwind journey of comic proportions, they are about to discover that sometimes all you need is a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY IMASummary: Jack Campbell, a workaholic Wall Street exec, gets to see what his life might have been like if he'd stayed with his former sweetheart, Kate. Thirteen years after they split up, Jack falls asleep in his posh New York apartment, then awakens to find himself a family man, with his now-wife Kate, daughter Annie and new baby.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2001
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FAM RATED PG-13Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FAMCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FAMSummary: Joe is searching for the family that left him behind at the Grand Canyon when he was a boy. Along the way he meets up with a shock jock DJ, who targets Joe as the butt of his show. But his plucky spirit and ability to keep it real, has the listeners cheering him on and helps him find a better family than the one he thought he wanted.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2001
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Believing his career is over, Senator Jay Bulworth takes out an enormous insurance policy and a contract on his own life. His impending death fills him with an outrageous desire to break the rules and tell it like it is.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 1999
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BULSummary: A satire in which the U.S. president and his military advisors struggle ineptly to avert a holocaust after a psychotic Air Force general launches a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union because he fears that the Russians are poisoning the water supply in the United States.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2001
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRSSummary: A Holocaust survivor finds himself simultaneously involved with three women: the peasant who hid him from the Nazis during the war, a beautiful concentration camp survivor, and his first wife (who he was certain was dead).
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2002
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A young man offends an entire town by declaring their mountain--a prized local landmark--to be a "hill." The eccentric and funny townspeople rally around their "mountain" and a fiery young woman charms the puzzled out-of-town cartographer into seeing things their way.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 1995
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ENGSummary: Painfully shy "little voice" can only express herself by singing in the voices of others, but once her mother's sleazy boyfriend (Caine) overhears her incredible voice he'll do anything to drag the recluse into the spotlight and make her a star.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 1998
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY LITSummary: Three young women, waitresses at a pizza parlor in Mystic, Connecticut, spend a special summer discovering romance.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2000
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: When a shoulder injury ended his minor league pitching career twelve years ago, Jim Morris resorted to the next best thing: coaching. But Jim's team, knowing their coach is a great ball player, makes a deal with him: if they win the district championship, they want Jim to try out for a major-league organization. Going from worst to first, the team makes it to state, and Jim is forced to live up...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2002