Summary: Inglewood, a Los Angeles suburb, is called the Wood. It is largely home to Black middle class families. Mike, Slim, and Roland have been best friends since junior high. It's three hours before Roland's wedding and he has a bad case of cold feet. Mike and Slim must sober him up and help him decide if he wants to go through with the wedding. In flashbacks, they recall key moments of their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY WOOSummary: Axel Foley is a brash, street smart Detroit detective who follows the trail of a friend's murderer to the posh surroundings of Beverly Hills. And before Axel gets his man, he gets up to his neck in an international network of smugglers and drug peddlers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2001
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A prosperous dentist has his well-ordered existence thrown into turmoil when an alluring new patient draws him into the seedy underworld of sex, drugs and murder.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY NOVSummary: Baby photographer Ronnie Jackson (Bob Hope) is mistaken for a private eye and hired by a beautiful brunette to find her uncle. Soon he's mixed up with mobsters, accused of murder, and sentenced to die in the electric chair.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: [Distributed by] St. Clair Vision 2003
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MYSummary: An Israeli man falls in love with a Palestinian woman. Their potential relationship is greatly complicated by their families' competing falafel stands on the West Bank, however.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Ari Sandel 2005
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF WESSummary: Harold and Kumar take an ill-fated flight to Amsterdam, but Kumar's suspicious-looking bong is mistaken for a bomb. Their arrest prompts a racist Homeland Security official to send the boys to indefinite lockup at Guantanamo Bay. Once there, they watch as beefy guards sexually subjugate 'enemy combatants.' The guys manage to get away and make it back to the U.S., hoping the well-connected...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY HARSummary: Olive is a little girl who dreams of winning the Little Miss Sunshine contest. Her family wants her dream to come true, but they are so dysfunctional that they can barely make it through a day without some disaster befalling them. Olive's father, Richard, is unsuccessful as a motivational speaker. He is barely on speaking terms with Olive's mother. Her uncle Frank has attempted suicide...
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 LIT1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF LIT
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LIT RATED RCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Little 2006Summary: Teenage Rockhopper penguin Cody Maverick is an up-and-coming surfer who is about to enter his first pro competition. Followed by a documentary crew to film his experiences, Cody leaves Antarctica for the warmer climes in order to surf in the Big Z Memorial Surf Championship covered by the SPEN network. His hero, champion surfer Big Z, has been gone for ten years, and Cody wants to win the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SURSummary: Chance is a secluded gardener who has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television. After a run in with a limousine, he ends up a guest of Eve and her husband Ben. Ben is an influential, but sickly businessman. Now called Chauncey Gardner, Chance becomes...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BEISummary: A fifteen year old birding fanatic, thinks that he's made the discovery of a lifetime. On the eve of his father's remarriage, he escapes on an epic road trip with his best friends to solidify their place in birding history.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BIRSummary: Michael Keaton persuades a Japanese auto firm to reopen his home town's defunct auto factory, but when the Japanese hire him to enforce their policies among his American co-workers, he goes from hero to zero in seconds flat.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Video 2002
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GUNSummary: Allen Bauer is a successful New York businessman, knocked unconscious in a boating accident. His beautiful rescuer is the girl of his dreams. There's only on complication--Allen's fallen hook, line and sinker for a mermaid.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SPLSummary: Wealthy teenager Charlie Bartlett is failing miserably at fitting in at his new public high school. The school is run by the world-weary Principal Gardner. As he begins to better understand the social hierarchy, Charlie's honest charm and likability gives him the position as the resident 'psychiatrist.' Along with his partner and fellow student, Murphy Bivens, Charlie dishes out advice and the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment [distributor 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Charlie 2008Summary: An offbeat comedy about a young wannabe musician, Jon, who finds himself out of his depth when he joins an avant-garde pop band led by the mysterious and enigmatic Frank, a musical genius who hides himself inside a large fake head, and his terrifying band mate Clara.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FRASummary: When Pam and Greg get their parents together it turns into one disaster after another. The hippie Fockers are the direct opposite of the uptight Byrneses. With one pitfall after the next, the film takes awkward in-law experiences to new heights.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2005
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MEECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MEECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Meet 2005Summary: A young man on his way to his wedding is stranded several states away. When he hitches a ride with a free-spirited woman, opposites begin to attract.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Home Entertainment 1999
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Forces 1999Summary: In this screwball comedy, a cubicle slave tires of mind-numbing corporate life and actively tries to get fired. Instead, his "straight-shooting" attitude gets him promoted, where he can play out his grand embezzling scheme.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 1999
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "A middle-aged antique dealer is flabbergasted to learn that his closest acquaintances don't actually like him. Challenged to provide an actual friend in only ten days, or lose a valued vase, his search provides a witty and thoughtful look at the meaning of friendship"--http://www.seattlefilm.org.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2006
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF MYSummary: Four souls learn why they are earthbound and tied to a hard driving executive--through him, they each have one chance to resolve the unfinished business in their lives.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MCA Universal Home Video 1998
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY HEACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HEASummary: Doug Billings and Tracy Garner are about to get married. Two days before the wedding, Doug and his groomsmen hop into Tracy's father's Mercedes for a 24-hour stag party in Las Vegas. The morning after their arrival in Vegas, they awaken in their Caesars Palace hotel suite each with the worst hangover. No one remembers what happened in the past twelve or so hours. The suite is in shambles and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY HANCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HANCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Hangover 2009Summary: Join a brilliant young inventor named Lewis as he sets off on a time-traveling journey to find the family he never knew. In the world of 2037, hip-hoppin' frogs and dogs that wear glasses are as common as talking dinosaurs. In an amazing twist, Lewis discovers that the fate of the future rests in his hands, but he can't save it alone. He meets the wacky Robinson family, who help him learn to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MEE RATED GCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile DVD, Call number: J DVD MeetSummary: We find Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte, and Miranda four years after the series ended.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Video 2008
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SEXCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Sex 2008Summary: Two recent high school graduates wreak havoc on all who cross their path, until an oddball loner looking for Miss Right comes into their lives. These social misfits learn the hard way that life after high school gets even weirder than they thought it would.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY GHOSummary: Hip and hilarious look at a fun group of friends who spend their days looking for work and their nights hanging out in Hollywood's coolest after-hours spots.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 1999