Summary: Brings the world of Gilbert and Sullivan to life as a dramatization of the staging of the duo's legendary 1885 comic opera, The Mikado. The world-famous Victorian librettist and composer, along with their troupe of temperamental actors, must battle personal and professional demons while mounting this major production becomes an epic about the harsh realities of creative expression.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2011
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS TOPSummary: Neurotic con man Roy suffers from several emotional problems, including obsessive-compulsive disorder. He and his partner Frank swindle people out of money. Frank wants to pull a really big job, but Roy is too consumed with fear and panic attacks to join him. Only cigarettes and his trusty illegal prescription drugs seem to keep him going. When Roy finds himself in desperate need of more pills,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY MATCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MatchstickSummary: The story of the love affair between a beautiful retired courtesan Lea, and Chéri, the son of her old colleague and rival, Madame Peloux. After six years Madame Peloux has secretly arranged a marriage between Chéri and Edmee, the daughter of another rich courtesan. As the inevitable moment of parting approaches, Lea and Chéri begin to understand, too late, how much they mean to one another.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CHESummary: Brian is a working class student from Essex navigating his first year at Bristol University with a ragtag group of new friends. Brian's life-long dream is to join the team for the British quiz show University Challenge, and pull Alice, the cutest girl on the team.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Home Box Office 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY STASummary: A black comedy story of an actor famous for portraying an iconic superhero as he struggles to mount a Broadway play. In the days leading up to opening night, he battles his ego and attempts to recover his family, his career, and himself.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BIR RATED RCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BiCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BIRCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BIRSummary: Armed with ambition and a work ethic, coffee salesman hits the road and finds that desire alone can't bring wealth and status. Bonus features include commentary, new feature-length career profile, and vintage featurette.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY OSummary: A sixteen-year-old boy insinuates himself into the house of a fellow student from his literature class and writes about it in essays for his French teacher. Faced with this gifted and unusual pupil, the teacher rediscovers his enthusiasm for his work, but the boy's intrusion will unleash a series of uncontrollable events.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Cohen Media Group 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN INSummary: Balthazar Blake is a modern-day sorcerer with his hands full defending Manhattan against dark forces. When a seemingly average kid shows hidden potential, Balthazar takes his reluctant recruit on a crash course in the art and science of magic to become the ultimate sorcerer's apprentice.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Pictures 2010
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVDCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Sorcerer's 2010Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SSummary: In the early 1980s, Charlie Wilson is best known as a womanizing US congressional representative from Texas. He seemed to be in the minor leagues, except for the fact that he is a member of two major foreign policy and covert-ops committees. However, once Charlie is prodded by his major conservative supporter, Joanne Herring, Wilson learns about the plight of the people who are suffering from...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CHA RATED RCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY CHACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Charlie 2008Summary: Directionless and living with his parents, recent college graduate Benjamin Braddock begins an affair with a married neighbor and then falls in love with her daughter.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY GRASummary: Based on the novel by Carrie Fisher about her life in the Hollywood fast lane. Suzanne Vale is a wise-cracking, vulnerable actress determined to jump start her failing career. Her mother, an aging movie star is the definitive portrait of Hollywood's gutsy glamour queens and, of course, offers her daughter only razor sharp humor and searing honesty.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2000
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY POSCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD POSSummary: Join the four best friends as they finish their first year of college and dive into a summer of excitement. Bridget journeys to Turkey on an archeological dig. Carmen plunges into the hectic, creative world of summer theater in Vermont. Lena discovers new love and old heartbreak at the Rhode Island School of Design. Tibby takes a big step in her relationship with Brian in the Big Apple.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2008
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SISCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Sisterhood 2008Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SISSummary: A young secretary in New York named Tess McGill has the brains, looks and charm to make it big. All she needs is the right haircut, clothes and job. The opportunity arises when her classy, seductive and treacherous boss breaks a leg skiing. Tess steps into her job, her apartment and her clothes, and all sorts of witty and romantic things follow!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY WorSummary: Dave Spritz is a local weatherman in his home town of Chicago. His career is going well, but his personal life is spiraling downward. His relationship with his perfectionist writer father, his neurotic ex-wife, and his now-separated children have him feeling that his life is out of control. Despite being both loathed and loved by the local masses, Dave is a guy who just doesn't seem to have it...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2006
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY WEACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Weather 2006Summary: 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
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FAM RATED PG-13Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FAMCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FAMSummary: Master sorcerer Balthazar Blake recruits a seemingly everyday guy in his mission to defend New York City from his arch-nemesis, Maxim Horvath.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY SORSummary: A superstitious Brooklyn widow is ready to get married again. Only this time, she plans on doing it right - even if she has to say "yes" to a man she doesn't really love. When she unexpectedly falls in love with her fiancé's estranged brother Ronny, what happens next is a wonderful romantic complication.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2006
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MOOSummary: Peter has his heart broken by Sarah Marshall, his girlfriend of five years. Sarah is an actress on a television crime series. After breaking up with Peter, she moves on with her life and her new boyfriend, Aldous, a British rock star. Peter is devastated, and after trying unsuccessfully to put her out of his mind, he decides to take a vacation to Hawaii to unwind. Unfortunately for Peter,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008