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Adultery Drama Automobile racing drivers Nevada Las Vegas Drama Comedy Feature Grand Prix racing Drama Las Vegas (Nev.) Drama Man-woman relationship Nevada Las Vegas Drama Man-woman relationships Drama Mothers and sons Drama Motion pictures, French Sullivan, Arthur 1842-1900 DramaSummary: A song and dance man leaves showbiz to run an inn that is open only on holidays. A former partner joins him and the two find themselves competing for the affections of the same lovely lady.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2006
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HOLCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS HOLSummary: A bicyclist is kidnapped from the Tour de France by mysterious gangsters; his grandmother travels to the city of Belleville (which has a sardonic version of the Statue of Liberty in its harbor), where she tracks him down with the help of a musical trio gone to seed, the Belleville Triplets.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Classics 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY TRISummary: Arizona Territorial Prison inmate Paris Pittman is a schemer, a charmer and quite popular among his fellow convicts. Especially with $500,000 in stolen loot hidden away and a plan to escape and recover it. New warden Woodward Lopeman has other ideas about Pittman. Each man will have the tables turned on him in a twisting, turning Wild West tale of brawls, chases, shootouts and wry wit.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2006
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN THESummary: JCVD is an out of luck actor. He's out of money, his agent can't find him a decent production, and a judge is inclined to give his ex-wife custody of his daughter. He returns to his childhood home of Brussels. When he goes into a post office to receive a wire transfer, he finds himself in the middle of a hostage situation. Due to an unfortunate mistake, the police believe JCVD is responsible...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Peace Arch Home Entertainment 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN JCVSummary: Jessica is a beautiful young woman from the provinces who has come to Paris and lands a job waiting tables at a chic bistro on fabled Avenue Montaigne. Jessica's customers include a popular TV actress who is courting a major Hollywood director for her first serious film role; a wealthy art collector who is about to liquidate a lifetime's worth of treasures at auction; and an illustrious...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Thinkfilm 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN AVESummary: Frank Flannegan, an American playboy infamous for his scandalous affairs is smitten by Arlane, the beautiful, innocent daughter of the worldly detective, hired by a man who believes that Frank is carrying on with his wife. Frank turns out to be no match for Arlane and they stumble through one of the funniest seductions.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2001
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE LOVSummary: Joanna is in a touring girl's choir and Mark is a struggling architect when they first meet on the road in Europe. The film follows their life together - through courtship and marriage, infidelity and parenthood - all on the road.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY TWOSummary: In this affectionate story of small town life in upstate New York, Sully, a fitfully employed 60-year-old construction worker, is a cheerful curmudgeon who has made a lifetime of bad decisions. He unexpectedly has a chance to make right some of them when his estranged son and grandson drop back into his life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2003
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA NOBSummary: 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
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS TOPSummary: Moliere is a down-and-out actor and playwright who is up to his ears in debt. The wealthy Jourdain offers to cover that debt so that Molière's theatrical talents might help Jourdain win the heart of a certain widowed marquise. Disguised as a priest, Molière becomes a guest in Jourdain's palace on the subtext of teaching Jourdain the craft of the stage, all this to the annoyance of Jourdain's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF MOLSummary: Ever since he was a boy, Antoine has wanted to be the hairdresser's husband, and when he marries a beautiful coiffeuse, the salon becomes their idyllic paradise. But how long can a perfect love last?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Severin 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN HAISummary: A candid portrait of one boy's journey from childhood to adulthood. A precocious fifteen-year-old boy's sexual maturation and unorthodox relationship with his free-spirited mother is both shocking and deeply poignant.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2006
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MURSummary: "Rudy Veloz, a Barrio singing star determened to jump the salsa circuit and aim for big-time success in the mainstream. The rise-and-fall-and-rise storyling takes Rudy on a bumy ride through life in the fast lane: drugs, compromises, easy credit, easy women, broken promises, and shattered dreams." -- container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY CROSummary: Single mom Martha Evans is praying for a miracle to help her family this Christmas. Little does she know that her neighbors have been working behind the scenes to make her season bright.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Entertainment One U.S. LP 2011
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CHRSummary: Rafael is a 42-year-old divorced father and restaurant owner who is overwhelmed with life. He feels guilty that he doesn't visit his mother, who is stricken with Alzheimer's disease; he lives in his father's shadow; he doesn't spend enough time with his daughter and he can't commit to his girlfriend. When a series of unexpected events happen, Rafael re-evaluates his life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Classics 2002
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SONSummary: Lucky Jackson arrives in town with his car literally in tow ready for the first Las Vegas Grand Prix. At least, he will be ready to race once he has the money to buy an engine. He gets the cash easily enough, but loses it when a pretty swimming pool manager takes his mind off things. It seems he will lose both the race and the girl. His problems don't get any easier when rival Elmo Mancini, a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007