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American Museum of Natural History Drama Comedy films Divorced fathers New York (State) New York Drama Feature films Films for the hearing impaired Man-woman relationships Drama Museum exhibits New York (State) New York Drama New York (N.Y.) Drama Police, Private New York (State) New York Drama Video recordings for the hearing impairedSummary: Based on cartoonist David Low's parody of the old-fashioned British professional soldier, set in his ways and unable to adapt to the brutality of modern war. This story follows the career of Clive Candy, at first an idealistic, young Boer War hero, then a brigadier general, serving honorably in World War I. Finally, by World War II, he has become a bald, overweight, querulous old man, angry...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Janus Films 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LIFSummary: Professor Klump finds romance with a lovely fellow geneticist. When his alter ego Buddy Love breaks out and threatens trouble, its up to the rest of the hefty Klump family to save the day.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Video 2000
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD NUTSummary: Your basic Cinderella makeover story with a fresh and affectionate twist. Mia is a frizzy-haired, glasses-wearing 15-year-old girl whose two highest ambitions are to become invisible and to get a few kisses from an attractive school heartthrob. She is stunned and horrified when her coolly continental grandmother shows up and informs her that she's the crown princess of the European principality...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY PRISummary: 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 Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Sisterhood 2008Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SISSummary: Amateur philosopher Dex and his friends live by a code which virtually guarantees scoring with the ladies; but when Dex meets up with old college fling Syd, the rules he lived by no longer apply.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Classics 2000
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY TAOSummary: The lone survivors of a ship wrecked in the Mediterranean, our heroes find themselves in the company of Princess Shalimar (Lamour), who has purchased Bob and plans to make him her husband. This is the third "Road" picture.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2002
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ROASummary: When Chief Dreyfuss escapes from an insane asylum he captures a scientist to help him build an ultimate weapon as a means of killing Clouseau.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY PINSummary: All Alex's life he has worked for his father in the family's murder-for-hire business. Now his life is out of control. In the throws of a mid-life crisis, he wants out of the business and he wants change in his life. Unfortunately, his father won't let him quit.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PANSummary: Joe is searching for the family that left him behind at the Grand Canyon when he was a boy. Along the way he meets up with a shock jock DJ, who targets Joe as the butt of his show. But his plucky spirit and ability to keep it real, has the listeners cheering him on and helps him find a better family than the one he thought he wanted.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY JOESummary: A dark comedy set in Winnipeg during the Great Depression, where a beer baroness organizes a contest to find the saddest music in the world. Musicians from around the world descend on the city to try and win first place--a $25,000 prize.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by MGM Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Avant-Garde DVDs, Call number: DVD AVANT-GARDE SADSummary: Larry Daley is a divorced father who can't seem to keep a job for more than a week. As a last resort, Larry applies for a job as a night shift security guard at the American Museum of Natural History. However, a seemingly easy job turns out to be an adventure when he finds that an ancient curse causes the "inhabitants" of the museum to come to life at night.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE NIGSummary: George Stevens' stunning adaptation of Theodore Dreiser's An American tragedy garnered six Academy Awards and guaranteed immortality for screen lovers Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor. Clift is a poor young man determined to win a place in respectable society and the heart of beautiful socialite Elizabeth Taylor. Shelley Winters plays the factory girl whose dark secret threatens Clift's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Video 2001
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PLASummary: Based on a true story about 73-year-old Alvin Straight who embarks on a dangerous and emotional journey to make amends with his 75-year-old brother Lyle before his brother dies. Alvin can no longer drive a car because of his eyesight and has to walk with 2 canes, but he climbs aboard his 1966 John Deere lawnmower and drives the 260-mile course from Laurens, Iowa to Mt. Zion, Wis.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Video 1999
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: 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
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FAMSummary: Truman's life is a fake. He lives in a big studio with hidden cameras everywhere. His friends and co-workers are actors who play their roles in the most popular television series in the world: The Truman show. He thinks he is an ordinary man and has no idea about how he is being exploited. What will he do when he finds out?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 1999
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY TRUCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Family Truman 1999Summary: With his loving and supportive mother, 13-year-old Kevin moves in next door to another teen, Max. Though both have problems that label them as outcasts, Kevin and Max discover that by proudly combining their strengths on uniting as one, they can overcome their individual limitations and triumph over any adversity. As the two set out on a series of courageous adventures, they find the mightiest...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MIGSummary: A docu-comedy about three folk groups from the 60's who reunite for a memorial concert in New York City following the death of a legendary folk manager.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2003
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MIGSummary: The bumbling Inspector Clouseau's attempt to prove the innocence of a voluptuous French maid, the prime suspect in a series of bizarre murders, leads him to a nudist colony and the Parisian mansion of a French millionaire.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 1999
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A pseudo-documentary exploring an alternative history of the United States beginning with the Civil war being won by the South, having an alliance with Germany against Japan, and a cold war with Canada.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2006