Summary: Filmed over three years, The farmer's wife presents the travails of a Nebraska farmer and his wife as they struggle to preserve both their farm and their marriage.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2005

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV FAR

Summary: Eleven-year-old miner's son Billy Elliot is on his way to boxing lessons when he stumbles upon a ballet class. Billy secretly joins the class, knowing that his blue-collar family would never understand.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2001

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

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

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

Summary: "Eight-year-old Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin) has become the man of the house, overnight! Accidentally left behind when his family rushes off on a Christmas vacation, Kevin gets busy decorating the house for the holidays. But he's not decking the halls with tinsel and holly. Two bumbling burglars are trying to break in, and Kevin's rigging a bewildering battery of booby traps to welcome...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc. 1999

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1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: DVD Holiday H

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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY HOM

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1 available in Seasonal Juvenile Collection, Call number: DVD MOVIE HOM

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

Summary: Three couples representing different generations come together in unexpected and surprising ways.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertainment 1999

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PLA

Summary: Allen portrays Isaac Davis, a successful comedy writer whose wife, having left him for another woman, is now embarking on a book about their failed marriage. Isaac happily consoles himself in the arms of an adoring 17 year-old schoolgirl until he meets someone closer to his own age, who happens to be his best friend's mistress.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment Inc. 2000

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

Summary: 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

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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN THE

Summary: When renowned director Werner Herzog and fellow filmmaker Zak Penn set off to explore the legend of Scotland's Loch Ness monster, they uncover much more than they bargained for. Unexplained sightings of the creature and chaos among the crew create an uneasy feeling that things aren't what they seem. But what really happened on the infamous lake remains a mystery. Poses the provocative question...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005

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

Summary: In 1962 Baltimore there are changes in the air. Plus-sized teen Tracy Turnblad, with big hair and even bigger heart, has only one passion, to dance. She wins a spot on the local TV dance program, "The Corney Collins Show" and is transformed overnight from outsider to irrepressible teen celebrity. The trendsetting Tracy aims to win the heart of teen-dream Link Larkin and stand up for what she...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2007

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HAI RATED PG

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

Summary: A romantic story about a divorced woman in her late 30's who gets to live her fairy tale when she is reunited with a high school sweetheart who died but is reincarnated in the body of a charming and handsome young man in his mid 20's.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2005

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie p.s. 2005

Summary: Ruby is a neurotic with an unhappy track record concerning men and Sam is an oddball who is afraid of small dogs and has a barcode tattooed to his arm. Slowly, Sam begins to reveal his "past." He tells her that he is from the Dubuque of the future and that he hails from a family who believe that reproduction should occur the old-fashioned, fun way as opposed to the cloning method. Ruby is...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2002

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

Summary: After seeing a less-than-conventional psychiatrist for her problems at home who gives her too many prescriptions and bad advice, a mother ends her marriage and sends her young son to live with the doctor and his odd family.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007

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

Summary: Scott is distressed to learn that his ex-wife and her husband have informed his son, Charlie, that there is no Santa Claus. While a sullen Charlie visits his dad on Christmas Eve, a noise on the roof brings them outside. It turns out that there is a Santa after all, and Scott has just accidentally killed him. Because of "the Santa clause," Scott inherits the job of Santa. As the next year...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2002

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1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: DVD Holiday S

Summary: With another Christmas season fast approaching, Santa Claus/Scott Calvin is feeling even more pressure. Mrs. Claus is expecting a little Claus. She is also longing for the company of some "tall people." So Scott agrees to let her parents visit as long as they believe that they're really in Canada rather than at the North Pole. Further complicating matters is a visit by Scott's ex-wife, her...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2007

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1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: DVD Holiday S

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

Summary: In this spoof of disaster movies, Ted Striker, an ex-Navy pilot, just got dumped by his long-time girlfriend Elaine Dickinson, who works as a stewardess. In his wish to get her back, he follows her aboard a plane, although he has had a deep aversion against anything winged since he lost several men in the war. During flight, he tries to make up with her again and again, but a crisis looms as...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2005

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD AIR

Summary: Lisa convinces the locals to clean up the polluted Lake Springfield after a crowd of fans sink the Green Day concert stage. Meanwhile, Homer saves a pig from being killed in Krusty Burger and adopts it, calling the animal Spider Pig. After two days, Spider Pig fills up a silo with its excrement and not knowing what else to do, Homer dumps the silo in the lake, polluting it. The angry population...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007

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

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

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

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 MY

Summary: When Shrek married Fiona the last thing he had in mind was becoming the next King of Far Far Away. But when Shrek's father-in-law, King Harold, suddenly croaks, that is exactly what he faces. Recruiting Donkey and Puss in Boots for a new quest, Shrek sets out to bring back the rightful heir to the throne. Meanwhile back in the kingdom, Fiona's jilted Prince Charming storms the city with an army...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2007

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

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

Summary: Maurice and Ian are successful, but aging actors. The two are close friends whose conversation generally revolves around theatrical shop talk and the infirmities of other aging actors. Ian is fearful that death is right around the corner, so he agrees to let his niece's daughter, Jessie, move in to his flat to care for him. Jessie is a modern woman in her early twenties. She turns out to be a...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2007

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

Summary: When Chris' best friend Annie loses her husband, Chris derives a scheme to memorialize him. The two women, along with some of their friends - all fiftysomething women - will make a nude calendar to raise money for the hospital where he died. The calendar becomes hugely popular. Based on actual events, this story carefully balances the stories of several women as it follows the media explosion....

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Entertainment 2004

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD CAL

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Calendar 2003

Summary: A group of six friends, in Sacramento, gather to distract themselves from loss - a newly dumped Sylvia, Prudie's repressed disappointment, or Jocelyn, who has a life of unrealized dreams. All are devoted Jane Austen fans, except the lone man, Grigg, who has an ulterior motive for joining the chick-lit gang. There's plenty of pride (Prudie), prejudice (Jocelyn), sense (Sylvia), and sensibility...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008

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

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD JAN

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

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

Summary: Bob Wiley, a troubled but lovable therapy patient, seeks help from noted psychiatrist Dr. Leo Marvin. When the doctor leaves town to go on a quiet family vacation, Bob, afraid of being alone, follows--showing up unexpectedly at the therapist's lakeside retreat. Bob becomes the houseguest that just won't leave.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Video 2000

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Family What 2000

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TCFF W

Summary: David Howard has put in eight long years at a big-time ad agency. When he hoped to land a Senior VP slot, all he got was a pat on the back and a transfer to New York. David talks his wife into quitting her job, sells the house, liquidates the stocks and bonds, and buys the largest Winnebago and they set out to live the ramblin' laid back life of the world's easiest Easy Riders.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2001

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

Summary: An irrepressible nanny soars out of the London skies, bringing a carpetbag of magical adventures into the lives of the Banks family on Cherry Tree Lane. Blends live-action and animation.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2000

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