Summary: Julian Noble is an unshaven, unnerved and unpredictable freelance assassin, who happens to encounter desperate businessman Danny Wright in the bar of a modern Mexico City hotel. Danny is intrigued when Julian reveals that he's a "facilitator of fatalities," and his wife becomes equally fascinated when Julian shows up unexpectedly, six months later, at Danny's home in Denver. Having lost his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Weinstein Company 2006
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MATSummary: At a time when crimes of passion result in celebrity headlines, nightclub sensation Velma Kelly and spotlight-seeking Roxie Hart both find themselves on Chicago's famed Murderess Row. They also share Billy Flynn, the town's slickest lawyer with a talent for turning notorious defendants into local legends.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOvie Chicago 2002Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS CHISummary: Fed up with answering to higher-ups, Nick, Dale, and Kurt decide to become their own bosses by launching their own business. But a slick investor soon pulls the rug out from under them. Outplayed and desperate, and with no legal recourse, the three would-be entrepreneurs hatch a misguided plan to kidnap the investor₂s adult son and ransom him to regain control of their company.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE HORSummary: Vulnerable in the face of a reality that shifts and suddenly turns unpredictable, the characters cross the thin line that divides civilization and barbarism. A lover's betrayal, a return to the repressed past and the violence woven into everyday encounters drive the characters to madness as they cede to the undeniable pleasure of losing control.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2015
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WIL1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF WIL
Summary: 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
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SONSummary: George Newman is a daydreamer whose hyperactive imagination keeps him from holding a steady job, that is, until he becomes the general manager of Channel 62, a local television station that his uncle wins in a poker game.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY UHFSummary: "Michael Dorsey is a talented actor, but his demanding nature and stubborn temperament have antagonized every producer in New York. Now his agent insists no one will hire him. But Michael needs money - eight thousand dollars to be exact - and to earn it, he's willing to play the role of a lifetime"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY TOOSummary: Kate is a successful and single businesswoman who has long put her career ahead of a personal life. At 37, she's finally determined to have a child on her own. Unable to get pregnant, a driven Kate allows South Philly working girl Angie Ostrowiski to become her unlikely surrogate. After learning that Angie is pregnant, Kate goes into precision nesting mode. She reads childcare books,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD BABCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Baby 2008Summary: Step into the English country home of the good doctor as he performs remarkable treatments on a variety of four-legged and fine-feathered patients. See his secret cures and watch as ordinary and exotic animals talk, dance, and sing.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV DOCCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV DOCSummary: A nice guy with a questionable past, Charlie Bronson, risks everything when he busts out of a witness protection program to drive his girlfriend to Los Angeles for the job opportunity of a lifetime. Their road trip grows awkwardly complicated, however, when they're chased by an inept fed and Charlie's ex-pal, a vengeance-crazed criminal he helped put behind bars.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF HITSummary: "Six divas of the silver screen - Sally Field, Dolly Parton, Shirley MacLaine, Daryl Hannah, Olympia Dukakis and Julia Roberts - come together as bosom buddies in this hilarious and heartwarming story of life, love and loss in a small Louisiana Parish. At the center of the group is Shelby Eatenton (Roberts), newly married and joyfully pregnant, despite the fact that her diabetes could make...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Tristar Home Video 2000
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Steel 2000Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD STESummary: A hit man goes against his family ways when he falls in love with another hired killer.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment 2003
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: 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: The story of two Vietnam-vets-turned-cops who have just one thing in common: both hate to work with partners. But their partnership becomes the key to survival when a murder investigation leads to war with a heroin ring.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2000
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The irrepressible Eric Idle (Monty Python's Flying Circus) teams up with the English National Opera in this hilarious performance of Gilbert and Sullivan's beloved comic opera, THE MIKADO. This rollicking version of Gilbert and Sullivan's most popular tale relocates the action from ancient Japan to a 1920s English seaside resort. Here the rule of the Mikado is absolute--and often prone to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: A&E Home Video 2005
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS MIKSummary: When Moist von Lipwig is caught for his trickery, he is given the option of becoming the next postmaster or falling down a deep pit.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media 2011
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Summary: With Great Britain facing war with Germany, President Franklin D. Roosevelt invites the King and Queen of England to his home in upstate New York, while engaging in an affair with a distant cousin.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HYDCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD HYDCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HYD RATED RSummary: Chance is a secluded gardener who has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television. After a run in with a limousine, he ends up a guest of Eve and her husband Ben. Ben is an influential, but sickly businessman. Now called Chauncey Gardner, Chance becomes...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BEISummary: 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
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA NOBSummary: Morris Buttermaker an alcoholic pest removal worker and for a very short period of time a former professional baseball player, is recruited to coach and train a failing baseball team. All of these twelve-year-olds have been thrown out of the league. After losing every game they have played in so far, the kids force the coach to straighten up and teach them how to win before the season is over.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2005
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BSummary: After Barbara and Adam Maitland are killed in a car crash, they find themselves trapped as ghosts in their beautiful New England farmhouse. Their peaceful 'existence' is disrupted when a yuppie family, the Deetz's, buy their house. The Maitlands are too nice and harmless as ghosts and all their efforts to scare the Deetz away are unsuccessful. They decide to call to Beetlejuice, a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Beetlejuice 2008Summary: Vowing to move to Canada if John Kerry loses the 2004 election, fervent liberal John Logue suddenly finds himself with no job, no girlfriend and no country. Making good on his "campaign promise," Logue finds a traveling companion--a sexy, mysterious woman named Chloe--and heads north. But Chloe is not all that she seems, and their journey takes more twists and turns than either could have...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM DVD 2008
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF BLUSummary: 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