Summary: Max Bialystock was once the king of Broadway, but now he only seems to be able to produce flops. Things turn around for Max when he's visited by the neurotic accountant Leo Bloom, who proposes a scheme tailor-made for producers who can only make flops: raise far more money than you need, then make sure the show is despised. No one will be interested in it, so you can pocket the surplus. With...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2006

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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS PRO

Cruise, Tom

Summary: In 1987, a small town girl travels to Los Angeles with dreams of becoming a famous singer and finds herself working at "the Bourbon Room," a popular nightclub on the Sunset Strip.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2012

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

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

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

Summary: Olive Oyl, Wimpy, Bluto and others join Popeye in his adventures in the harbor town of Sweethaven.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2003

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY POP

Summary: The story of a butler's daughter who must overcome her butler father's eccentricities to find a husband.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2004

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

Corden, James

Summary: When a young female singer moves to New York City in hopes of breaking into show business, she falls for an executive at a record company who helps her in her endeavors.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay 2014

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD BEG

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BEG

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Begin 2013

Summary: After a much-publicized departure from hosting NBC's Tonight Show, O'Brien hit the road with a 32-city music and comedy show to exercise his performing chops and exorcise a few demons. An intimate portrait of an artist trained in improvisation, captured at the most improvisational time of his career. It offers a window into the private writers' room and rehearsal halls.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2011

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CON
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF CON

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: A musical comedy film about an aspiring songwriter, four single actresses, and the staging of a new musical play on Broadway. Includes dances choreographed by Busby Berkeley.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2006

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

Summary: When his Tucson, AZ school's theater department is threatened to be cut, failed-actor-turned-high-school-drama-teacher Dana Marschz writes a play that he hopes will solve everything. He decides to write a sequel to Shakespeare's Hamlet. Now, the drama department will stage one of the most politically incorrect musical extravaganzas ever seen. Dana and his class will put it all on the line for a...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008

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

Summary: The small town of Pacashau, Georgia, has fallen on hard times, but the people are counting on the Divinity Church Choir to lift their spirits by winning the National Joyful Noise Competition. The discord between its two leading ladies threatens to tear them apart. Their newly appointed director, Vi Rose Hill, stubbornly wants to stick with their tried-and-true traditional style, G.G. Sparrow...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2012

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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS JOY

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

Summary: As if the result of some strange mass-media fluke, the popular radio program "A Prairie Home Companion" somehow managed to survive the television age to entertain its audience every Saturday night from the stage of the historic Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, Minn. Week after week, hangdog host G.K. serves as unflappable emcee to an amiable hodgepodge of radio-friendly acts that include the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2006

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

Summary: Comedy set in a high school where the students have the lowest academic average in Southern California, the athletes haven't won a game in years, and three principals have gone insane. Features scenes of a concert by the Ramones.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2005

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

Summary: When Kitty discovers Nick is having an affair with the sultry seductress Tula, their rocky relationship gets a whole lot rockier. Nick finds himself facing a full-scale revolt from his daughters at home, and Kitty enlists her oddball cousin Bo to track down Tula. Deals with love and hate, life and death, and romance and cigarettes.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008

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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS ROM

Summary: When his band votes him out due to his embarrasing musical antics, Dewey has to make the rent somehow. After intercepting a call for his substitute-teacher roomie Ned, Dewey finds himself in front of a class of elite elementary school students. Dewey decides to take on the music program and makes it his goal to teach them the gospel of rock and roll. His ulterior motive is to get them to...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2004

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie School 2004

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

Summary: In 1969, Elliot Tiber, an interior designer living in Greenwich Village, New York, has to move back upstate to help his parents run their dilapidated Catskills motel, The El Monaco. Upon hearing that a planned music and arts festival has lost its permit from the neighboring town of Wallkill, NY, Elliot calls producer Michael Lang at Woodstock Ventures to offer his family's motel to the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2009

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

Summary: The up-and-down and then up-again story of musician Dewey Cox. Dewey's songs would change a nation. On his rock 'n roll spiral, Dewey sleeps with 411 women, marries three times, has 22 kids and 14 step-kids, stars in his own 70s TV show, collects friends ranging from Elvis to the Beatles to a chimp. He becomes addicted to and then kicks about every drug known to man. Despite it all, Cox grows...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008

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

Summary: Chipmunk singing sensations Alvin, Simon, and Theodore are back for an encore in this hilarious 'squeakquel' packed with more action and more nutty fun for the whole family. When a concert mishap lands Dave in the hospital, the Chipmunks take a break from superstardom and enroll in school to fit in with kids their age. But they soon face some stiff competition when they meet the Chipettes, a...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2010

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

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

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

Summary: A conniving slave attempts to help his master's son win the love of the girl-next-door.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2000

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

Summary: In this musical, business booms at Mushnik's Flower Shop when an exotic potted plant called Audrey II arrives. People are rushing in to see it--and disappearing.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2000

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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS LIT

Summary: Arriving at her new college, Beca finds herself not right for any clique but somehow is muscled into one that she never would have picked on her own: alongside mean girls, sweet girls and weird girls whose only thing in common is how good they sound when they sing together. When Beca leads this a cappella singing group out of their traditional arrangements and perfect harmonies into all-new...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Home Entertainment 2012

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Pitch 2012

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

Summary: FDR appoints a Secretary of Amusement in order to cheer up the American public. But when greedy industrialists who are profiting from the Depression thwart his every move, the Secretary begins to lose hope. That is, until he learns that some of the performances he has organized, including one by little Shirley Dugan, are lifting the nation out of its misery.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Sh 15

Summary: An Israeli man falls in love with a Palestinian woman. Their potential relationship is greatly complicated by their families' competing falafel stands on the West Bank, however.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Ari Sandel 2005

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