Summary: A successful Hollywood director disguises himself as a bum and sets off to see America from the bottom up. In the midst of the brutality and despair, he makes a valuable discovery-- that what the downtrodden need most is laughter.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2001
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SULSummary: A charming drifter becomes sheriff in a rough and tumble mining town where lawmen don't last a month.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Support 2001Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD SUPCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN SUPPower, Tyrone
Summary: The lives and adventures of members of a surreal and disturbing travelling carnival.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA NIGSummary: Told by 11-year-old Christy, a child wise beyond her years. An Irish couple bring their two young daughters to America in search of a better life. Christy and her sister, Ariel find New York's Hell Kitchen a place of magic where anything is possible. To their parents, it represents a place to begin anew. Carried by the girls' youthful hope and faith, the family finds the heart to live and love...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA INCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie InSummary: Follows the legendary adventures of a shipwrecked sailor among the tiny people of Lilliput. In this strange land, Gulliver brings peace to two feuding kingdoms and reunites a prince with his princess before returning to the sea.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Timeless Media Group 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV GULSummary: 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 WALSummary: Santa Claus's incompetent assistants accidentally make some giant wooden soldiers, which come in useful when a villain tries to take over Toyland.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY BABSummary: A medical school dropout named Wallace who has been repeatedly burned by bad relationships. So Wallace decides to put his love life on hold. It is then that he meets Chantry an animator who lives with her longtime boyfriend Ben. Wallace and Chantry form an instant connection, striking up a close friendship. Still, there is no denying the chemistry between them, leading the pair to wonder, what...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY WHACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE WHAScott, Seann William
Summary: Doug Glatt wants a more rewarding job and his father's respect, so he jumps at the chance when an on-ice brawl leads to a position on a hockey team, even though he cannot skate.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Magnet 2012
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY GOOSummary: 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
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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: Sleeping Beauty, Rapunzel, and Jack from the Beanstalk are all about to live happily ever after when the balance between good and evil gets thrown out of whack. It's up to Cinderella (a.k.a. Ella) to save the day by taking on her power-hungry stepmother. This time Ella will have to do all the work without her Prince Charming. She joins forces with an unlikely army of dwarves, fairies, and the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV HAPSummary: Apple dumpling gang: A roving bachelor inherits three young orphans and a wealth of problems. When the kids discover a gold nugget they must fend off the greedy townspeople, so they join forces with bumbling outlaws to stage a robbery of the gold.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ApSummary: A high-powered consultant in love with her upscale Miami lifestyle is sent to a small Minnesota town, in the middle of nowhere, to oversee the restructuring of a blue collar manufacturing plant. She endures a frosty reception from the locals, along with the icy roads and freezing weather. She warms up to the small town's charm, and eventually finds herself being accepted by the community. When...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2009
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY NEWCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD NEWSummary: The coach of a third-rate hockey team signs up some rough and tough players to help his team win.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Home Video 2002
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SLACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SLA RATED RSummary: Count Dracula has until midnight to retrieve an ancient amulet that will give him final control over the delicate balance between good and evil in the world. To help him, the creepy County calls on some old friends; the weird Wolfman, grotesque Gill-Man, mildewed Mummy and freaky Frankenstein. As the ghoulish group gets closer to the amultet, it becomes up to the Monster Squad, headquartered in...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MONSummary: Two friends on vacation at their dilapidated mountain house are mistaken for murderous backwoods hillbillies by a group of obnoxious, preppy college kids. When one of the students is separated from the group, the boys try to lend a hand, but as the misunderstanding grows, so does the body count and the laughs.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Magnet Releasing 2011
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY TUC1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TUC
Summary: A young man offends an entire town by declaring their mountain--a prized local landmark--to be a "hill." The eccentric and funny townspeople rally around their "mountain" and a fiery young woman charms the puzzled out-of-town cartographer into seeing things their way.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 1995
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ENGSummary: With his wedding a week away, Claudio can't wait to marry the beautiful young Hero. To distract him, his best friend Don Pedro devises mischief: a romantic trap for the sharp-tongued Beatrice and the man she loves to hate, Benedick. Their amusement is almost spoiled by the jealous scheming of Don John, but love and laughter prevail when the local constable unwittingly exposes the plot--and all...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2003
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MUCCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Much 2003Summary: A professional thief is caught between Chicago organized crime families and corrupt police.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 1998
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Brings the world of Gilbert and Sullivan to life as a dramatization of the staging of the duo's legendary 1885 comic opera, The Mikado. The world-famous Victorian librettist and composer, along with their troupe of temperamental actors, must battle personal and professional demons while mounting this major production becomes an epic about the harsh realities of creative expression.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2011
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS TOPSummary: Ben Singer is a failed folk singer, newly unemployed proofreader, and every-other-weekend dad to his young daughter. The only thing he takes comfort in is smoking marijuana and chess games with Ibou, his Senegalese roommate. When Ibou becomes ill, a municipal employee exacerbates the emergency situation, and Ben pours his energy into a lawsuit against the city. Meanwhile, Ibou's beautiful...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Wonderful 2010Summary: A naive student freshly arrived in New York City accepts a delivery job involving a shady businessman and a large lizard, eventually running afoul of an eccentric chef and the FBI.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Tristar Home Video 1998