Summary: A chilling tale of the American Dream unraveling that examines the choices people make when faced with tragedy. In a quiet suburban community where every driveway has a minivan, every backyard has a swing set and every neighbor feels safe, something no one is prepared for happens.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Gus Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA EVESummary: Queen Elizabeth I must learn to weigh her counsel carefully and ignore her private yearnings if she is to keep her crown--and her head. A thriller of intrigue in the court of one of history's greatest monarchs.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PolyGram Video 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ELICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ELISummary: 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: A retelling of one of the most notorious Tinseltown legends to circulate at the height of the studio era. In November 1924, a mysterious Hollywood death occurred aboard media mogul William Randolph Hearst's yacht. Included among the famous guests that weekend were Charlie Chaplin, starlet Marion Davies, the studio system creator and producer Thomas Ince, and feared gossip columnist, Louella...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Trimark Home Video 2002
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY CatSummary: After a two year stint in a state home, the shy and neurotic Elling and his sex-obsessed best friend, Kjell, are released and forced to enter the real world. They find themselves in a state funded apartment in the center of Oslo, told to behave responsibly and act like normal members of society. In time, the two adjust and find oddball ways of coping with society.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Look Home Entertainment 2002
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Bourgeois couple Hélène and Paul witness Malika, a young prostitute, being attacked by thugs and Paul immediately speeds off. Remorseful, Hélène tracks down Malika in the hospital. As she nurses Malika back to health, Malika tells Hélène a shocking story of how she was turned into a sex slave by a vicious criminal organization. Hélène and Malika join forces to double-cross her pimps and gets...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CHASummary: A young dreamer whose blind father runs the bathhouse has convinced his father that the bathhouse is filled with customers. His brother is a ruthless industrialist who wants to destroy the building and erect a futuristic city in its place. But that struggle is soon replaced by the movie's dominant storyline, Anton's falling in love with a beautiful 18-year-old girl. Aside from a few random...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2000
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TUVSummary: Chronicles Idi Amin's rise and fall. Amin's despotic reign of terror is viewed through the eyes of Nicholas Garrigan, a Scottish doctor who arrives in Uganda in the early 1970s to serve as Amin's personal physician. His perspective as an outsider causes him to be initially impressed by Amin's calculated rise to power and he grows increasingly monstrous. A pointed examination of how independent...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LASCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Last 2007Summary: Professor Challenger, the man of vision who persuades his skeptical colleagues to return with him to a remote South American plateau where he has discovered living dinosaurs. Resisting danger and death, Challenger's party return to London in triumph with a captive Brontosaurus. But the beast excapes, turning the city into a shambles and standing the 20th century on it's head.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE LosSummary: When a harried housewife is accidentally left behind while on vacation with her family, she decides to take a holiday of her own in Venice. She becomes charmed by the city and her newfound freedom. She decides to extend her stay, finding a job in a flower shop, renting a room from a wistful waiter, and rediscovers her love for playing the accordion. But her solo journey does not sit well with...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Home Entertainment 2001
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Ebenezer Scrooge, London's meanest old miser and hater of Christmas, is visited by, first, the ghost of his late associate Jacob Marley (who died just seven years ago that day), then by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Christmas Present and of Christmases Yet to Come, who all show him the error of his ways. All this takes place on Christmas Eve, and, the next morning (Christmas Day), Scrooge...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 1995
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Summary: November, 1999. A peaceful demonstration to stop the World Trade Oraganization talks quickly escalates into a full-scale riot, and soon a State of Emergency is declared by the Mayor of Seattle. The streets are mayhem, and the WTO is paralyzed. Caught in the crossfire of civil liberties and keeping the peace are Seattle residents, including its beleaguered mayor, a SWAT riot officer on the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BATSummary: Morgan Adams, the female captain of a pirate ship, is on a treasure hunt for millions of pounds of gold reportedly buried somewhere on Cutthroat Island. She and her uncles each hold sections of the map to the treasure. While Morgan is willing to make deals and agree to share the wealth in order to put the map together, her Uncle Dawg would rather kill everyone in his way, including his niece.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 1995
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Vincent Parry, a man unjustly accused of murdering his wife, escapes from San Quentin and sets out to clear his name; but, he needs the help of someone he can trust. He finds both help and love in Irene, a San Francisco artist who is convinced he's innocent.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: distribued by Warner Home Video 2005
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY DARSummary: Detective Sam Spade goes in search of a priceless statuette after the death of his partner.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Story about the March family of four daughters and a strong mother (Sarandon) who, because her husband is away serving in the Army during the Civil War, must raise her "little women" on her own. The daughters include: spirited Jo (Ryder) who longs for a career as a writer; beautiful and conservative older sister Meg (Alvarado); fragile Beth (Danes); and the romantic Amy (Dunst/Mathis). Through...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2000
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY LITCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Little 2000Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LITSummary: The world's most notorious slum is Rio de Janeiro's City of God, where combat photographers and police rarely go. Presents the true story of a young man who grew up on those streets and whose ambition as a photographer is our window in and his only way out.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD MOVIE CITSummary: A high school teacher with a drug habit finds a friendship in an unlikely source - one of his troubled students. Will their relationship help them or harm them?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HALSummary: Fourteen-year-old A.J. awakens suddenly to find herself transported back to the year 1929. Before she returns to 1992, she discovers the loving secret her grandfather has kept for so may years.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Feature Films for Families 2003
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Trapped in their New York brownstone's panic room, a hidden chamber built as a sanctuary in the event of break-ins, newly divorced Meg and her daughter Sarah play a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with three intruders during a brutal home invasion. But the room itself is the focal point because what the intruders really want is inside it.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PANSummary: Private detective Philip Marlowe is hired by a rich family. Before the complex case is over, he's seen murder, blackmail, and what might be love.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BIGCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD BIGCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BIGSummary: East meets West in this hip-hop infused samurai-gangster story in which a professional killer goes by the name of Ghost Dog and who lives by the age-old code of the samurai. When Ghost Dog's code is dangerously betrayed by the dysfunctional mafia family that occasionally employs him, he must find a way to defend himself without breaking the code of the Samurai.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Home Entertainment 2000