Summary: 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 YOU

Summary: 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 That

Summary: 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 COM

Summary: In this musical comedy, a society wedding is being arranged in Newport, Rhode Island. The beautiful Tracy Samantha Lord is to marry George Kittredge. However, Tracy's ex-husband, the songwriter C.K. Dexter-Haven, has never stopped loving her and has hopes of winning her back. A New York scandal sheet reporter and photographer arrive to cover the wedding and complicate the tangled romances.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2008

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie High 2008

Rudd, Paul

Summary: After losing his job in New York, George and his wife Linda decide to try living an alternative lifestyle at the Elysium commune where nudism and free love abound.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2012

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

Reynolds, Burt

Summary: Two truckers trying to transport 400 cases of beer from Texas to Atlanta get pursued by a sheriff after they pick up a hitch-hiking runaway bride-to-be who happens to have left the sheriff's son.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2012

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

Summary: A famed mystery playwright with a recent string of flops may be planning to murder a talented former student in order to steal his work.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1999

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

Summary: Zoe wants a baby, but has a problem letting anyone get close to her. The perfect solution is to become artificially inseminated. Shortly after she conceives twins, she finally meets the man of her dreams. Will he stick around when he finds out?

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2010

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

Summary: In this romantic comedy, Yoyita, a world-famous diva, returns to her home town of Guantanamo for an elegant reception and a surprise reunion with her once beloved, Candido. Overjoyed with the rekindled memories of her first love, Yoyita's elated heart fizzles while in Candido's embrace. Joining Yoyita's funeral procession back to Havana are her sexy niece Gina, a former professor blacklisted...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2000

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN GUA

Rouve, Jean-Paul

Summary: A crime novelist with writer's block investigates the apparent suicide of a small-town model who believed she was the reincarnation of Marilyn Monroe.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2012

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN NOB

Summary: Join Dave as he travels through the heartland and makes a special stop in his hometown to pass out invitations to attend the event of the decade. It's a front row seat for outrageous comedy with music from today's hottest artists.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Rogue Pictures 2006

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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC DAV

Summary: From the rural banana plantation where they play soccer for the village team to the big city stadiums, two brothers have become rivals and battle each other on opposing sides. When a talent scout gets stranded in their tiny town, brothers Beto and Tato are discovered. They are whisked away to Mexico City to play for the big leagues where they quickly achieve fame. Beto is nicknamed 'Rudo' for...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009

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

Summary: Pekar is a frustrated file clerk working at the local V.A. Hospital. He is also a comic book fan who befriends the young illustrator Robert Crumb and is soon inspired to create comic books based on his own life. Along his bumpy journey he meets, marries and falls in love with Joyce, an admiring comic book seller.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Video 2004

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

Summary: 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 BRE

Summary: 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 Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY MEE

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MEE RATED G

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1 available in Juvenile DVD, Call number: J DVD Meet

Summary: It's Samantha Baker's sweet sixteen birthday and no one in her family remembers the important occasion. But wait...the day isn't over yet!

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Home Video 2003

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

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

Summary: 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.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012

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

Summary: 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 SUL

Summary: Jack Campbell, a workaholic Wall Street exec, gets to see what his life might have been like if he'd stayed with his former sweetheart, Kate. Thirteen years after they split up, Jack falls asleep in his posh New York apartment, then awakens to find himself a family man, with his now-wife Kate, daughter Annie and new baby.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2001

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FAM RATED PG-13

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

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

Summary: This spoof of documentary films stars Woody Allen as Leonard Zelig, the famous "Chameleon Man" of the 1920's, whose personality was so vague he would assume the characteristics of whomever he came into contact with. Filmed in black-and-white, the movie simulates the look of a newsreel, complete with stentorian narration.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2001

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

Summary: The story of a group of fliers in the Mediterranean during World War II.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2001

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

Summary: 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 HAR

Fey, Tina

Summary: A Princeton college admission representative discovers that an applicant might be the son she gave up for adoption.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2013

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

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD MOVIE ADM