Summary: Dr. Malcolm Sayer (Robin Williams) is a shy research physician who uses an experimental drug to "awaken" the catatonic victims of a rare disease. The awakening of the first patient proves a rebirth for the doctor, too, as the patient reveals life's simple but sweet pleasures to the introverted doctor. Encouraged by Leonard's stunning recovery, Sayer administers the drug to other patients.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 1997
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD AWACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA AWASummary: Join Wiley Wiggins as he searches for answers to the question of whether we are sleepwalking through our waking state or wake-walking through our dreams.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Avant-Garde DVDs, Call number: DVD AVANT-GARDE WAKSummary: Film noir semi-documentary style treatment based on an actual Los Angeles Police Department case. A cop killer manages to elude detection by intercepting police radio calls and by altering his appearance. Evidence points to an alienated electronics expert.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER HESummary: Based on the true story of three armies in the bloody trenches of World War I and the miraculous Christmas Eve truce they unexpectedly forge.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JOY RATED PG-13Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF JOYSummary: A young American man meets a beautiful French student on a train bound for Paris, falls in love and asks her to share his last night in Vienna.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1999
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The life stories of the five Marines and one Naval officer that were forever immortalized as a symbol of WWII by raising the American flag at the battle of Iwo Jima.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Pictures 2007
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FLACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DVD MOVIECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FLA RATED RSummary: The story of a middle-class British family and their struggle to survive during WWII. Mrs. Miniver nobly tends her rose garden while her stalwart husband participates in the evacuation at Dunkirk. She personifies grace under pressure as the Miniver family huddles in their bomb shelter during a Luftwaffe attack, while she is forced to confront a downed Nazi paratrooper in her kitchen, and while...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MRSCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Family Mrs.2004Summary: While researching his book "In cold blood", writer Truman Capote develops a relationship with convicted murderers Dick Hickock and, in particular Perry Smith, while both men waited for their date of execution on death row.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA INFSummary: "A man whose mind and body are controlled by the government ... makes a harrowing attempt to escape from a world where thoughts are controlled, freedom is an impossibility and love is the ultimate crime"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2004
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Avery's sister has been kidnapped and ransomed for $2,000,000. Desperate, he and his buddies abduct a retired mob boss to try to force him to use his contacts to find the girl.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Home Entertainment 1998
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY SUICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD SUISummary: A domestic drama which reveals the corrosive effects of alcoholism on a hardened young advertising executive and his attractive young wife, both of whom drink heavily to compensate for their insecurity.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD DAYCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DAYSSummary: Senate investigation into the President's newly nominated Secretary of State, gives light to a secret from the past, which may not only ruin the candidate, but the President's character as well.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ADVSummary: A computer malfunction causes nuclear-equipped American bombers to destroy Moscow and the president of the United States has to take terrible measures to appease the Soviets and prevent all-out nuclear war.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2000
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER FAISummary: Based on the life of actor/director Richard E. Grant's life during the 1960s, when Swaziland was becoming independent of Great Britain. Told through the eyes of a 12-year-old child.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY WAHSummary: It's about an indie movie called "Home for Purim," a somewhat inane drama about a dysfunctional Jewish family living in the South during World War II. But while the film is still in production, a reporter for an online entertainment site drops the word -- based on a brief visit to the set -- that one of the ensemble cast performers may be an Oscar contender. It goes on to chronicle how the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FORSummary: A look at the life of the 43rd president of the United States. Rising from a privileged alcoholic to a born-again Christian whose belief in religious destiny helped move him to the top ranks of political power. How he used Christianity to turn his life around, met and married his wife, and the days before his decision to declare war on Iraq.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WSummary: The true tale of a Jewish family who flee the Nazi regime in 1938 and learns to cope with their new life, and each other, on a remote farm in Kenya.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2003
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3 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN NOWSummary: An original musical portrait of American composer Cole Porter, filled with his unforgettable songs. Porter looks back on his life as if it were one of his spectacular stage shows, with the people and events of his life becoming the actors and actions onstage. Through elaborate production numbers and popular hits, Porter's elegant, excessive past comes to light - including his deeply complicated...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD DELCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS DELSummary: Eleven-year-old miner's son Billy Elliot is on his way to boxing lessons when he stumbles upon a ballet class. Billy secretly joins the class, knowing that his blue-collar family would never understand.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2001
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BILCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD MOVIE BILLCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie BillySummary: When Eric O'Neill is promoted from a low-level surveillance job into the headquarters of the FBI, his dream of becoming a full-fledged agent is on the verge of reality. He is hand picked to work for the renowned operative Robert Hanssen within "information assurance," a new division created to protect all classified FBI intelligence. Eric quickly discovers the true reason for his hire: Hanssen...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BRESummary: 10-year-old baseball fan Yankee Irving is always the last one picked for sandlot baseball games. But when Babe Ruth's prized bat is stolen during the 1932 World Series, Yankee steps up to the plate to help retrieve it for his beloved idol. He embarks on a wild cross-country journey that teaches him the stuff of real heroes, and along the way, Yankee learns that importance of perseverance and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile DVD, Call number: J DVD Everyone'sSummary: 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