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American Museum of Natural History Drama Divorced fathers New York (State) New York Drama Families Drama Feature films Friendship Drama Man-woman relationships Drama Man-woman relationships United States Drama Museum exhibits New York (State) New York Drama New York (N.Y.) Drama Police, Private New York (State) New York DramaSummary: Aura is a recent college graduate who returns to New York and moves back in with her mother and sister. As painfully confessional as it is endlessly amusing, Tiny Furniture is an authentic, incisive portrait of a young woman at a crossroads.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TINSummary: A successful Hollywood director disguises himself as a bum and sets off to see America from the bottom up. In the midst of the brutality and despair, he makes a valuable discovery-- that what the downtrodden need most is laughter.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2001
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SULSummary: The very timid Elliot (Larry the Cucumber), lazy Sedgewick (Mr. Lunt) and George (Pa Grape), who lacks self-confidence, are three lazy misfits who dream of putting on a show about pirates. With their own problems, this dream might not come true. But, they soon find themselves traveling back in time into the 17th century. They begin a quest to rescue a royal family from an evil tyrant. Along the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Children's videos, Call number: JE DVD VeggieSummary: When John Winger loses his apartment, girlfriend and job all in one day, he does what any red-blooded American would do: he joins the army and nearly starts WWIII.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY STRSummary: Nicknamed by their grandmother, "Smiling Fish" Tony is an actor with a freewheeling spirit, while "Goat on Fire" Chris is a starchy buttoned-down accountant. Both are in seemingly perfect relationships, that is until they fall in love with women who are wildly different than themselves.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Studio Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SMISummary: Watch John 'Four Leaf' Tayback as he fights a gruesome battle during the Vietnam War. But, this is actually a scene from 'Tropic Thunder, ' a big-budget adaptation of Tayback's wartime memoir. Starring as the central platoon are Speedman, Lazarus, Chino and Portnoy, as well as young character actor Kevin Sandusky. To play the character of African American Sgt. Osiris, Lazarus dyes his skin dark...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks/Paramount Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY TROCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TROSummary: Bruce Nolan is a discontented TV reporter who believes the entire universe is stacked against him. After a bad day, Bruce flies into a rage and blames God for making his life so miserable. God responds by endowing Bruce with all of His divine powers and challenges him to take on "The Big Job" to see if he can do it any better.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2003
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD BRU1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: J DVD FRE
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BRUCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Bruce 2003Summary: For Marnie, high school was a horror movie, and her brother's wedding is the sequel when her archrival comes back to haunt her as his bride. It's nice girl versus mean girl in this hysterical reunion with the one person Marnie would really like to forget. And if that weren't enough, Marnie's mom reunites with her own high school nemesis.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Video 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE YOUCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD YSummary: Pampered African Prince Akeem is a rebel who is against an arranged marriage and heads to Queens, New York to find a new bride. His regal father agrees to allow the prince 40 days to roam the U.S., sending the prince's faithful retainer Semmi along to make sure nothing untoward happens. To avoid fortune hunters, Prince Akeem conceals his true identity and gets a "regular" guy job at a fast-food...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY COMSummary: Frank Falenczyk loves his job. He is a hit-man for his Polish mob family in Buffalo, New York. But Frank has a drinking problem and when he messes up a critical assignment that puts the family business in peril, his uncle sends him to San Francisco to clean up his act. Frank is not the touchy-feely kind of guy, but he starts going to AA meetings, gets a sponsor and a job at a mortuary where he...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Genius Products 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY YOUSummary: Alan's desire for success in music and love is hampered by one thing -- himself. He decides to leave his band and heads for New York City for a new musical adventure. There, he is only half-heartedly romancing radio DJ Sara and promoting his fledgling band, Mutual Appreciation. Alan tries to stay focused and manages to fend off some of his distractions.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MUTSummary: They are five high school students with nothing in common, faced with spending a Saturday morning detention together in their school library. At 7 a.m. they had nothing to say to each other, but by 4 p.m., they had bared their souls and become good friends.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2003
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD BRESummary: Three grown prodigies, all with a unique genius of some kind, and their mother are staying at the family household. Their father, Royal, had left them long ago, but now returns to make things right with his family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Video 2002
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3 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ROYCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ROYSummary: Larry Daley is a divorced father who can't seem to keep a job for more than a week. As a last resort, Larry applies for a job as a night shift security guard at the American Museum of Natural History. However, a seemingly easy job turns out to be an adventure when he finds that an ancient curse causes the "inhabitants" of the museum to come to life at night.
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 MOVIE NIGSummary: Happily divorced for 14 years, Lilly and Dan still hate each other. But after a fight at their daughter's wedding, their hostility suddenly turns to unbridled passion.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Home Video 1998
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ThatSummary: A dead showman looks down upon the Earth and dreams of his perfect show.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2006
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS ZIECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ZIESummary: Emmet, an ordinary, rules-following, perfectly average LEGO minifigure is mistakenly identified as the most extraordinary person and the key to saving the world. He is drafted into a fellowship of strangers on an epic quest to stop an evil tyrant, a journey for which Emmet is hopelessly and hilariously underprepared.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV LEGSummary: Once upon a time in the far away kingdom of Dor lived a brave and virtuous mouse with comically oversized ears who dreamt of becoming a knight. Banished from his home for having such lofty ambitions, Despereaux sets off on an amazing adventure with his good-hearted rat friend Roscuro. The two go on a very noble quest to rescue an endangered princess and save an entire kingdom from darkness.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DESCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY TAL1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV TAL
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV TALCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile DVD, Call number: J DVDTaleSummary: After the sudden death of her fianc,̌ Gray finds comfort in the company of his friends: lighthearted and comic Sam, hyper-responsible Dennis, and Dennis' old childhood buddy Fritz, an irresponsible playboy whom Gray had previously pegged as one of the least reliable people in the world. As secrets about her supposedly perfect fianc ěmerge, Gray comes to see new sides of the man she thought she...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD C&R ColumCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CATCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Catch 2007Summary: Agent 86 is the bungling secret agent Maxwell Smart. He works for CONTROL. They are on a mission to battle the forces of their evil crime nemesis known as KAOS. Smart has along side with him the competent and beautiful Agent 99. The headquarters of the U.S. spy agency CONTROL is attacked and the identities of its agents are compromised, the Chief has no choice but to promote his analyst Maxwell...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2008
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY GETCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MovieSummary: Rick Riker is a high school student who is bitten by a genetically altered dragonfly while on a field trip to the local laboratory. Rick soon realizes that he's developing super powers, including the ability to break-dance vertically on a building wall and the development of lightening fast reflexes. Disguised in a green and black suit and going by the name Dragonfly, Rick uses his abilities to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Weinstein Company 2008
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SUPBell, Kristen
Summary: When a reporter quits her job and moves home, she discovers that everything isn't as she left it.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Screen Media Films 2013