Summary: In Justine's family everyone is a veterinarian and vegetarian. Sixteen-years-old, and an exceptional student, she is about to start studies at a veterinarian school where her older sister is also a student. But, she has barely arrived when the hazing starts. Justine is forced to eat raw meat. It is the first time in her life she has eaten meat of any kind. The consequences quickly make...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF RAWSummary: Colin, a young rebel and promising distance runner, is chosen to represent his reform school in a track race. However, the opposition for Colin isn't another runner, it's the Establishment.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LONSummary: The very laws of science are called into question when William Foster, a neuroscientist, seeks to bring back his dead family members. A car accident takes everyone he loves from him, but the synthetic biologist decides to put all of his scientific knowledge to the test when his grief overwhelms him. If Foster wants to be successful though, he'll have to take on not only scientific...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ReSummary: Whatever became of the "American Dream"? Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel and Yaphet Kotto star in the powerful, critically acclaimed drama Blue Collar. Three auto assembly line workers, fed up with union brass and tired of scraping by, hatch a plan to rob a safe at union headquarters. Disappointed with their measly bounty, they realize they've made off with something much more valuable than cash....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BLUSummary: An amusing portrait of a working-class family in a suburb just north of London, an irrepressible mum and dad and their night-and-day twins, a bookish good girl and a sneering layabout. A vivid, lived-in story of ordinary existence, in which even modest dreams (such as the father's desire to open a food truck) carry enormous weight. Perched on the line between humor and melancholy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2013
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY LIFSummary: Details the gritty rural lives and loves of Tommo and Charlie -- two young brothers -- and their poor Devonshire family from 1909 until 1916, when the outbreak of war destroys their country idyll. Both join up (one under age) leaving behind the beautiful Molly who is the love of both their lives. The young men survive gas attacks, shelling, German troops and the appalling deaths of their close...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC 2015
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV PRISummary: In a crowded South London apartment building, Penny, a working mom, struggles to keep her wayward daughter, her lazy son and her disillusioned partner on the right path.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2003
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Orna is the mother of three children whose husband is struggling to open a restaurant. To help support her family, Orna lands a job with a former army superior who is now a successful real estate developer. While Orna tries to balance work and her home life, she experiences escalating sexual harassment from her boss. A pattern of predatory behavior ultimately brings her career and marital...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WORSummary: Upon receiving a terminal diagnosis, Sarah opts for a cloning procedure to ease her loss to her friends and family. When she makes a sudden and miraculous recovery, her attempts to have her clone decommissioned fail and lead to a court-mandated duel to the death.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: RLJE Films 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DUCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE DUASummary: Judy's been described as many things: a free spirit, a daydreamer, a boy-crazy hot mess. But this is going to be the summer it all comes together for this ambitious, 30-something drag queen/cater-waiter and his best friend, Chrissy. That is, until Chrissy's priorities suddenly shift, forcing a disillusioned Judy to examine his life and priorities as a queer artist, and rediscover himself in the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY CHRSummary: Eleven-year-old tomboy Toni is bewitched by the tight-knit dance team she sees practicing in the same Cincinnati gymnasium where she boxes with her brother. Enamored by the power and confidence of the strong community of girls, Toni neglects her boxing, and instead eagerly absorbs the dance routines and drills. But when a mysterious outbreak of fainting spells plagues the team, Toni's desire...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FITSummary: An aimless teenager on the outer edges of Brooklyn struggles to escape his bleak home life and navigate questions of self-identity, as he balances his time between his delinquent friends, a potential new girlfriend, and older men he meets online.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BEASummary: "Celebrate one of the biggest movie franchises of all time with the Jurassic World 5-movie collection! From Academy Award winning director Steven Spielberg (Jurassic Park, The Lost World: Jurassic Park), Joe Johnston (Jurassic Park III), Colin Trevorrow (Jurassic World), and J.A. Bayona (Jurassic World: Fallen kingdom), dinosaurs once again roam the Earth in an amazing theme park on a remote...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Universal Pictures (Australasia) Pty Ltd 2018
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3 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE JURSummary: Four years after the destruction of Isla Nublar, dinosaurs now live and hunt alongside humans all over the world. This fragile balance will reshape the future and determine, once and for all, whether human beings are to remain the apex predators on a planet they now share with history's most fearsome creatures in a new era.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JURCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE JURCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movei JurassicSummary: Afghan refugee Donya lives in Fremont but works at a fortune cookie factory in San Francisco. Seeking connection, she decides to send a message out to the world one sentence at a time by recording her story on the fortunes.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FRECopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVDSummary: Dory, a computer programmer experiencing a crisis of faith, is laid off from his job and must resort to cleaning toilets with a brown-collar band of janitorial misfits. Unbeknownst to him, he is made the subject of a bizarre experiment involving addictive cookies that simulate oven freshness by warming in your mouth. The cookies cause spectacular visions, wild mood swings, and quasi-pregnancies...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Marketed and ditributed in the U.S. by New Video Group 2010
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY IMMSummary: Twelve-year-old Abe is an aspiring chef who wants his cooking to bring people together, but his half-Israeli, half-Palestinian family has never had a meal that didn't end in a fight. Ditching his traditional summer camp, Abe begins working with Chico, an adventurous street chef who encourages him to think outside his old cuisines. However, when Abe's deceit is uncovered, he must grapple with...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Breaking Glass Pictures 2020
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ABESummary: At once a rousing paean to artistic creation, a delicate evocation of divine grace, and the ultimate film about food, the Oscar-winning Babette's Feast is a layered tale of a French housekeeper with a mysterious past who brings quiet revolution in the form of one exquisite meal to a circle of starkly pious villagers in late nineteenth-century Denmark.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BABSummary: Henry and Maggie find themselves in a murder mystery where secrets hidden within a treasured recipe book have dire consequences for all who own it.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY ROUSummary: At an institute devoted to culinary and alimentary performances, a dysfunctional sonic collective faces power struggles, vendettas, and gastrointestinal disorders.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FLUSummary: Jeanne Dielman is a young widow who goes through her daily domestic routine including making the bed, cooking for her grown son, and turning the occasional trick.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN JEACall number: DVD FOREIGN JEA
Summary: Abandoned by her boyfriend in Tokyo, a young woman finds a job working for a tyrannical chef in a local ramen house and learns how to put excitement and enthusiasm back into her life as well as her cooking.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY RAMSummary: When a western-clad stranger passing through town finds the widow Tampopo's restaurant food intolerable, he stays just long enough to teach her to prepare the perfect noodle.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017