Summary: James is a struggling actor, living with his widowed mother in Chicago, who wants three things in life: someone to love, a great part, and to lose weight. Unfortunately, he is 0 for 3. His girlfriend dumps him, he loses a title acting role, and he sneaks out of an Overeaters Anonymous meeting only to wind up at an ice cream parlor. There, he meets Beth who quickly wins his heart, but will this...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: The Weinstein Company Home Entertainment 2008

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY I
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF I

Summary: On Christmas Eve, psychologist Marcia Fieldstone asks her radio audience to share their dreams for the holiday season. Eight-year-old Jonah calls in from Seattle, with a wish for his dad to find a new wife. Mom died a year-and-a-half ago. Baltimore Sun reporter Annie Reed also hears the broadcast, when Jonah's architect father Sam gets on the air. Sam talks about the magical moment he met his...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Tri-Star Pictures 2003

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

Summary: Choosing a college and striking out on one's own is an exciting time that requires a big adjustment by both child and parent, but few parents will have as much difficulty relinquishing control over their daughter's life as Chicago police chief James Porter. A loving, but overprotective father, James wants his daughter Melanie to attend nearby Northwestern College. When she's waitlisted and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2008

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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY COL

Summary: Inspired by a true story, it's 1968, and four young, talented Australian Aboriginal girls learn about love, friendship and war when their all girl group The Sapphires entertain the US troops in Vietnam.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2013

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2 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS SAP

Summary: Two teenagers from New York City are falsely accused of murder while driving through rural Alabama. To defend them in court, one of them hires his cousin Vinny, a flamboyant personal injury lawyer with no trial experience whatsoever.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2000

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

Summary: Back to do battle with the hideous "Deadites", Bruce Campbell reprises his role from the Evil Dead series. Demonic forces time-warp him into England's Dark Ages, where he romances a beauty and faces legions of undead beasts.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Home Video 1998

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

Summary: An ex-nobleman of the Czarist regime and the local priest find that family jewels were hidden in a chair, one in a set of twelve. They return separately to Moscow to find the rest of the fortune.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006

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

Summary: Kate has a lot on her mind. There's the ethics problem of buying furniture at estate sales and marking it up at her Manhattan store. There's the materialism problem of not wanting her teenage daughter to want the expensive things that she wants. There's the marriage problem of sharing a partnership in parenting, business, and life with husband Alex but sensing doubt nibbling at the foundations....

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2010

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

Summary: Story of a large family who live in the shadow of the Grand Teton mountain that bears their name.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003

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

Summary: Kate has a lot on her mind. There's the ethics problem of buying furniture at estate sales and marking it up at her Manhattan store. There's the materialism problem of not wanting her teenage daughter to want the expensive things that she wants. There's the marriage problem of sharing a partnership in parenting, business, and life with husband Alex but sensing doubt nibbling at the foundations....

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2010

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

Summary: Pathological liar Clifford Irving stages a complex hoax. In the 1970's Irving managed to fool a major publisher and LIFE magazine into thinking he was writing an authorized biography of Howard Hughes. Irving and his best friend and partner, Dick Susskind, go to extreme lengths to pull off the hair-brained scheme. The more outrageous the lies they concoct, the more believable they become and the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2007

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

Summary: After being dumped by his girlfriend, Peter knows that he is a man stuck in a dead end life. He decides to audition for a small role in a local community theatre's production of Cyrano de Bergerac. Despite having no experience as an actor, he lands the lead role, which then proceeds to wreak havoc upon his life.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2005

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

Summary: While fleeing from the cops, small time hood Harry Lockhart stumbles into an acting audition. He does so well he gets to go to Hollywood. While there, Harry pursues a girl he loved in high school and ends up getting caught up in twisted murder mystery. His only chance of getting out alive is a private detective named Gay Perry, who also works as a consultant for movies.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2006

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD KISS

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

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: A spoof of every western film cliche in which a black man is appointed sheriff of a frontier town.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Blazing 2004

Summary: A small-town, naive Midwestern insurance agent must represent his company at a regional insurance convention in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where his mind is blown by the big city experience.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2011

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

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

Summary: Hit men Ray and Ken have been ordered to cool their heels in the storybook city of Bruges (it's in Belgium) after finishing a big job. But since hit men make the worst tourists, they soon find themselves in a life-and-death struggle of comic proportions against one very angry crime boss.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008

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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY IN

Summary: Desperate to buy a hot-selling toy, a father endures a frantic last-minute shopping spree on Christmas Eve.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007

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1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: DVD Holiday I

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

Summary: An ace fishing equipment salesman and renowned author on the subject can't stand the outdoors or fishing. A public relations representative for a major fishing tournament wants Rock to be the competition's star attraction. When he confesses he doesn't know the first thing about the sport, Prentiss and a con man attempt to give the expert a crash course on being a great outdoorsman.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2002

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Man's 2002

Summary: Arriving at her new college, Beca finds herself not right for any clique but somehow is muscled into one that she never would have picked on her own: alongside mean girls, sweet girls and weird girls whose only thing in common is how good they sound when they sing together. When Beca leads this a cappella singing group out of their traditional arrangements and perfect harmonies into all-new...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Home Entertainment 2012

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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY PIT

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Pitch 2012

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

Summary: On Christmas at the North Pole, Santa's youngest son looks to use his father's high-tech operation for an urgent mission.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2012

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1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: DVD Holiday A

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1 available in Seasonal Juvenile Collection, Call number: DVD MOVIE ART

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

Summary: An aspiring artist and the aspiring singer he loves join the most berserk brood of sun-and-funners on Nantucket Island in New England.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003

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

Summary: They're all here. Spanky, Alfalfa, Buckwheat, Darla, Stymie, Porky, Pete the dog and all rascals star in this hilarious motion picture hit. The Little Rascals, Directed by Penelope Spheeris, brings a whole new generation of Rascals to today's audiences. Recapturing the sense of innocent fun and unabashed pandemonium that has made the original series a classic and favorite for decades, their...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Home Video 1999

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY LIT

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Little

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

Summary: Comedy about a handsome gambler, a charming lady scam artist and a lawman, all headed for a poker tournament held on a river boat with a $500,000 pot for the winner.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1997

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

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