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Administrative assistants Drama Dating (Social customs) New York (State) New York Drama Fashion editors New York (State) New York Drama Feature films Man-woman relationships Drama Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) Drama Periodical editors New York (State) New York Drama Single women New York (State) New York Social life and customs Drama Video recordings World War, 1939-1945 DramaSummary: Miranda is the editor of "Runway" magazine. She is a terror to everyone who is around. Her first assistant strives to please her, but can't quite pull it off. Enter Andy, a young woman who knows nothing of the fashion industry and has never read the magazine. Nonetheless, Miranda, hires her as a second assistant. When Miranda demands that she obtain the next unpublished Harry Potter manuscript,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DEV RATED PG-13Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Devil 2006Summary: Miranda, editor of "Runway" magazine, is a terror to everyone around her. Her first assistant strives to please her, but can't quite pull it off. Enter Andy, a young woman who knows nothing of the fashion industry and has never read the magazine. Nonetheless, Miranda, hires her as second assistant. When Miranda demands that she obtain the next unpublished Harry Potter manuscript, it forces Andy...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY DEVSummary: Live-action and animation are used in this sparkling film about a sad-sack Brooklyn bookkeeper who tumbles from a Coney Island pier and is transformed into a fish.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY INCSummary: Nora Wilder is a thirty-something Manhattanite plugging away at her job, but her quest for love consistently results in falling flat on her face. After a series of disastrous first dates, she meets Julien, a quirky Frenchman with an unabashed passion for living. Inevitably, Nora discovers she must look inward before finding a new outlook on life and love.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BROCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Broken 2007Summary: "For a young girl living a 'hard-knock life' in a children's orphanage, things may seem pretty bad -- especially at Christmas. But feisty Annie carries a song in her heart and hope in her locket -- the only thing she has from her parents. One day, fed up with the dastardly Miss Hannigan, Annie escapes the run-down orphanage determined to find her mom and dad. Her adventure takes her from the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Video 2002
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS ANNSummary: Sixteen years after the ousting of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, two residents of a small town share their moments of glory at a local television station.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tartan Video 2007
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TWESummary: All Allyson and her friends want is a peaceful, grown-up evening of dinner and conversation, a long-needed moms' night out. But in order to enjoy high heels, adult conversation, and food not served in a paper bag, they need their husbands to watch the kids for three hours - what could go wrong?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Family Mom's 2014Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOMSummary: After Peter gets engaged to the woman of his dreams, he realizes he has not one friend to serve as his best man. To rectify the situation, he goes on a series of man-dates before he meets Sydney Fife, with whom he instantly bonds. While Peter and Sydney become closer, his relationship with his fiancee begins to suffer, forcing him to choose between her or his new B.F.F.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Pictures 2009
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ISummary: Pierre Peders is no stranger to violence and inhumanity, he made his name as a war reporter. He is sent on a clearly beneath-him assignment to meet a soap star. After making a mess of the interview he later winds up at her Manhattan loft apartment.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA INTSummary: "From the playground to the pro leagues, Monica and Quijncy taught each other how to play the game. Now, their commitment to the sport will force them to make a choice between each other and the game ... between family and team ... between Love and Basketball"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Video 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LOVCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LOVSummary: A psychedelic precursor to music videos, in which The Mothers of Invention, a touring musical group, wreak havoc in Centerville, a stereotypical American town. The first color movie made on videotape and then transferred to film, it includes many visual effects.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Avant-Garde DVDs, Call number: DVD AVANT-GARDE TWOSummary: Three middle-aged men disenchanted with their lives, try to relive their youth by moving into a house on a college campus and start hanging out with a group of misfit college students, losers, and retirees.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Home Entertainment 2003
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3 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY OLDCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD OLD RATED RSummary: In order to save money on production costs, a movie production crew moves into a small town in Vermont. The crew soon discovers that their much needed "prop" has burned down, the star can't keep his pants zipped, the starlet won't take off her top and the locals want a piece of the action.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2001
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY STASummary: Presents the tale of the mean-spirited Grinch and his attempts to steal the Christmas celebration of Who-ville. Also included is "Horton hears a Who!" in which a big-eared elephant named Horton protects the tiny inhabitants of Who-ville.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2000
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY HOW1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV HOW
Summary: Nicknamed by their grandmother, "Smiling Fish" Tony is an actor with a freewheeling spirit, while "Goat on Fire" Chris is a starchy buttoned-down accountant. Both are in seemingly perfect relationships, that is until they fall in love with women who are wildly different than themselves.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Studio Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SMISummary: Nick, a career salesman who loses his wife and his job in the worst day of his life. Faced with his life imploding, Nick puts it all on the line, or, rather, on the lawn, as he moves himself and all his possessions to his front yard.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Home Entertainment 2011
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Everything 2011Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF EVECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TCFF EvSummary: 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: 1970s, Flint, Michigan. Jackie Moon is a former pop sensation who somehow made enough money from a couple of hit records to buy Flint's semi-pro basketball team, the Tropics. The team consists of a bunch of disorganized losers with one genuine talent named Coffee Black. Despite knowing little about the game, Jackie is the Tropics' coach as well as a player. His greater love involves coming up...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SEMSummary: A Spanish coming of age story focusing on the antics of two 17 year olds, who have a posh beach house almost all to themselves one summer. This is also a summer of sexual awakenings.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN NICSummary: A kindly grandfather sits down with his grandson and reads him a bedtime story. As the grandfather reads the story, the action comes alive in a classic tale of love and adventure. The beautiful Buttercup is kidnapped and held against her will in order to marry the nasty Prince Humperdinck, while Westley (her childhood beau, now returned as the Dread Pirate Roberts) attempts to save her. Along...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2001
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV PRISummary: Maggie, a single mother, moves into a new home in Brooklyn with her twelve-year old son, Oliver. Forced to work long hours, she has no choice but to leave Oliver in the care of their new neighbor, Vincent, a retired curmudgeon with a desire for alcohol and gambling. An odd friendship soon blossoms between the improbable pair. Together with a pregnant stripper, named Daka, Vincent brings Oliver...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ST.Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie St. Vincent 2015Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD StSummary: "A group of hedonistic middle-aged friends gather eatch night on a luxurious houseboat for dancing, love-making and smoking hashish. When a young news reporter visits the houseboat to write a story on the group, she is outraged to learn the tragic depths of their social alienation"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arab Film Distribution 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ADRSummary: Bruce Nolan is a discontented TV reporter who believes the entire universe is stacked against him. After a bad day, Bruce flies into a rage and blames God for making his life so miserable. God responds by endowing Bruce with all of His divine powers and challenges him to take on "The Big Job" to see if he can do it any better.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2003
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD BRU1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: J DVD FRE